Make smtp_receive_timeout main option expanded. Bug 564
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
8c408560 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
31a4354e 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
0509be35 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
40 the options can now be changed in the usual way.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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48TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
49 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
50 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
51 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
52 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
53 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
54 the script parsing/test process like normal.
55
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56TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
57 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
58 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
59 function when detected.
60
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61JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
62 cause callback expansion.
63
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64TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
65 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
66 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
67 instead of bool when processing it.
68
0f06b4f2 69JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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70 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
71
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72JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
73
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74JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
75
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76TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
77
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78TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
79 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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81JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
82 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
83 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
84 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
85 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
86 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
87
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88JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
89 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
90 exceeded it.
91
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92JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
93 version 3.3.6 or later.
94
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95JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
96 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
97 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 98 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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99 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
100 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
101 option is defined.
774ef2d7 102
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103TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
104 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
105
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106JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
107 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
108 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
109 matches.
110
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111JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
112 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
113 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
114
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115JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length parameter in the
116 incoming message.
117
118JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
119 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
120 syntax errors.
121
122JH/13 Buf 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
123
124JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
125 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
126
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130TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
131 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
132 return.
1f0ebb98 133
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134JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
135 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
136
137JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
138
139TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 140 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 141
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145
146TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
147
148 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
149 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
150 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
151 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
152 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
153 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
154
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155TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
156 utilities have not been installed.
157
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158JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
159 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
160
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161TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
162 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
163
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164TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
165 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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166 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
167 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 168
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169JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
170
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171TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
172 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
173
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174PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
175 not dns_use_dnssec.
176
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177JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
178
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179TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
180 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
181 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
182
8ddef691 183TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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184 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
185 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
186 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
187 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 188 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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190JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
191
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192JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
193 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
194
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195JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
196 failed delivery.
197
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198JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
199
511a6c14 200JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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201
202JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
203 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 204
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205JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
206 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
207
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208TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
209
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210JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
211
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212JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
213 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
214
215 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
216 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
217 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
218
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219TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
220 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
221 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
222 analysis.
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224JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
225
8c51eead 226JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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227 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
228 lookup).
8c51eead 229
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230TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
231 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
232 Schlichting.
35aba663 233
fd3b6a4a 234JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 235 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 236
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237TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
238 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
239
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240JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
241
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242TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
243 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
244 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
245
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246JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
247 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
248
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249JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
250 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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251 hosts_request_ocsp.
252
ed3bba5f 253JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 254 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 255 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 256
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257JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
258
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259TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
260 Christian Aistleitner.
261
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262JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
263
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264TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
265 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
266
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267JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
268 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
269
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270JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
271 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
272
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273TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
274 support and error reporting did not work properly.
275
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276TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
277 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
278
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279TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
280 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
281 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
282
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283JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
284
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285PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
286 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
287 Jasper Wallace.
288
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289JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
290
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291TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
292 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
293 CVE-2014-2972
294
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298
299PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
300
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301PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
302 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
303
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304PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
305 by GnuTLS.
306
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307PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
308 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
309 routines.
310
13363eba 311PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 312
66645890 313PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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314 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
315 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
316 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
317 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 318
a3fb9793 319PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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320 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
321 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
322 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 323 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 324 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 325
d27f98fe 326TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 327
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328TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
329
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330TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
331 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
332
ae0e32ee 333TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 334 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 335 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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337TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 338
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339TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
340
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341TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
342 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
343
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344JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
345
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346JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
347
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348PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
349
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350NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
351 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 352
585121e2 353JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 354
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355PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
356 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
357 function.
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359PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
360 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
361
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362JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
363 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
364 "acl = name arg..."
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366JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
367
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368JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
369
ea722490 370JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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371 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
372
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373JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
374 Bugzilla 884.
375
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376JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
377 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
378
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379JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
380 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
381
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382PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
383 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 384 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 385
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386JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
387 authenticators.
388
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389JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
390 for control.
391
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392PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
393
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394PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
395 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
396 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
397 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
398
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399TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
400
401 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
402 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
403 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
404 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
405 the retry rules.
406
407 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
408 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
409 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
410
411 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
412 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
413 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
414 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
415
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416 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
417 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
418 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
419 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
420 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
421 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
422 delivery, as in LMTP.
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423
424 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
425 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
426
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427TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
428
429 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
430
431 Resent-From: f
432
433 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
434 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
435 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
436 username as equal to the username.
437
438 This change corrects that bug.
439
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440GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
441 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
442 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
443
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444TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
445
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446PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
447 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
448 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
449 NULL dereference and crash.
450
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451JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
452
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453PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
454 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
455 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
456
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457SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
458
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459JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
460 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
461 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
462 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
463 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
464 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
465 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
466 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
467 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
468 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
469 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
470
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471PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
472 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
473
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474PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
475 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
476 Bugzilla 880.
477
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478PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
479 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
480 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
481 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
482 an empty string is now equivalent.
483
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484PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
485 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
486 not performing validation itself.
487
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488PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
489 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
490
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491JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
492 Bugzilla 321, 823.
493
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494TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
495
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496PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
497 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
498 other false fix of the same issue.
499 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
500 Bugzilla 1363.
501
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502PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
503 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
504
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PP
505PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
506 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
507 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
508
f4c1088b
PP
509PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
510 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
511 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
512
c5c2182f
PP
513TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
514
73431ca9
JH
515JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
516
2d07a215
TL
517TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
518 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
519
a30a8861
TL
520TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
521 Alexander Miroch.
522
33382dd9
TL
523TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
524 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
525 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
526 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
527 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 528
046172e6
TL
529TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
530 the src/util/ subdirectory.
531
581d7bee 532TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 533 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
534 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
535
536TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
537 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
538 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
539 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
540
237b2cf2
TL
541TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
542
9fc5a352
TL
543TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
544 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
545 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 546
b10e4ec2
TL
547TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
548
e2cebd74
TL
549TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
550 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
551 interaction.
552
553TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
554 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
555
2519e60d
TL
556TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
557 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
558
e78e6ecf 559
4263f395
PP
560Exim version 4.80.1
561-------------------
562
563PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
564 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 565 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 566
ea722490 567
b1770b6e 568Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
569-----------------
570
571PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
572 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
573 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
574
23c7e742
NM
575NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
576
b322aac8
NM
577NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
578 improved.
579
4a891427
NM
580NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
581
c1e794ba 582PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 583
97753960
PP
584PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
585
586PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
587 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
588
df6303fa
PP
589PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
590 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
591
7e6a8985
PP
592PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
593 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
594
f1e05cc7 595PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
596 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
597 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 598
4c287009
PP
599PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
600
b98bb9ac
PP
601PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
602 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
603
4a6a987a
PP
604PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
605
c45dd180 606PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 607
7db8d074
PP
608PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
609 non-compliant senders.
610 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
611
eae0036b 612NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
613 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
614 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
615
dec5017e
PP
616PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
617 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
618 in spool file corruption.
619
c80c5570
PP
620PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
621 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
622 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
623 "Got SSL error 2".
624
076b11e2
PP
625TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
626 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
627 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
628
5407bfff
JH
629JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
630 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
631
9e45c72b
PP
632JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
633
e74376d8
PP
634PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
635 diagnostics.
636 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
637
da3ad30d
PP
638PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
639 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
640 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
641
7be682ca
PP
642PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
643 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
644 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
645 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 646
ef840681
PP
647PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
648 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
649
5bfb4cdf
PP
650PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
651 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
652 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
653 resolver implementation change.
654
c6e95d22
PP
655PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
656 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
657
9cbad13b
PP
658PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
659
9ee44efb
PP
660PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
661
6a6084f8
PP
662PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
663 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
664
12dd53c7
PP
665PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
666 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
667
9e45c72b 668JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
669 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
670
17c76198
PP
671PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
672 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
673 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
674 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 675 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 676
53947857 677PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 678
eae0036b 679PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
680 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
681 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 682
9e45c72b 683JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 684
7390e768
PP
685PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
686 read-only, out of scope).
687 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
688
08488c86
PP
689PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
690 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
691 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
692 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
693
6475bd82
PP
694PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
695
81f91683
PP
696PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
697 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
698 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
699 real issues in debug logging.
700
5779e6aa
PP
701PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
702 assignment on my part. Fixed.
703
3375e053
PP
704PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
705 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
706 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
707
708PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
709 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
710 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
711 problems.
3375e053 712
9d26b8c0
PP
713PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
714 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
715
57eb9e91 716PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
717 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
718 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
719 needs to override this, it can.
720
16880d1a
PP
721PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
722 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
723 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
724
a799883d
PP
725PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
726 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
727 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
728 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
729
3ecab157 730PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 731
0599f9cf 732
867fcbf5
PP
733Exim version 4.77
734-----------------
735
736PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
737 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
738
f1a29782
TF
739TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
740
ab42bd23
TK
741TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
742 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 743
0ca0cf52
TF
744TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
745 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
746
921b12ca
TF
747TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
748 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
749 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
750
751 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
752 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
753 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
754 not safe for signals.
755
756 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
757 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
758 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
759 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
760 exiwhat.
761
c99ce5c9
TF
762TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
763
764 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
765 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
766 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
767 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
768 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
769
770 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
771 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
772 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
773 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
774 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
775 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
776
777 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
778 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
779 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
780 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
781
782 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
783 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
784 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
785 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
786
787 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
788 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
789 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
790 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
791 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
792 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
793 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
794 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
795 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
796
797 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
798 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
799 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
800 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
801
802 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
803 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
804 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
805 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
806 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
807 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
808 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
809 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
810 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
811 details in the main documentation.
812
3634fc25
TF
813TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
814
792e8a19
TF
815TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
816
5901f0ab
TF
817TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
818 repository when doing development or release builds.
819
7f2a2a43
PP
820PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
821 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 822
061b7ebd
PP
823PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
824 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
825 Bugzilla 97.
826
e12f8c32
PP
827PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
828
9e949f00 829PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
830 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
831
832PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
833 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 834
555ae6af 835PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
836 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
837
838PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
839 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 840
6f7fe114
PP
841PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
842 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
843
c566dd90
PP
844PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
845 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
846 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
847 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 848
d6cc7c78 849PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
850 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
851 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
852
0d0e4455
PP
853PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
854
3399bb60 855PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
856
857PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
858 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
859
0ca0cf52 860
10906672
PP
861Exim version 4.76
862-----------------
863
864PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
865
754a0503
PP
866PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
867 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
868
c0c7b2da
PP
869PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
870
e97d1f08
PP
871PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
872
084c1d8c
PP
873PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
874 Bugzilla 1098.
875
4e7ee012
PP
876PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
877 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 878
c8d52a00
PP
879TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
880 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
881
54e7ce4a
PP
882PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
883 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
884
5ee6f336
PP
885PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
886 Bugzilla 1104.
887
c8d52a00 888TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
889 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
890
891TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
892 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
893 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
894 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
895
896PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
897 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 898
10906672 899
aa097c4c
NM
900Exim version 4.75
901-----------------
902
4c9ef03a 903NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
904 Bugzilla 1073
905
7f3d9eff
TF
906TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
907 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
908 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
909
159f52d2
TF
910TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
911 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
912
0cc9542a
PP
913PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
914 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
915 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
916
f7274286
PP
917PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
918 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
919
7b797365
PP
920PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
921 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
922
caacae52
NM
923NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
924 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
925
09dcaba9
NM
926NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
927 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
928
bc19a55b
PP
929PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
930 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 931
bd4c9759
NM
932NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
933 Fixes bug 943.
934
b72aab72
PP
935PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
936 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
937
2fe76745
PP
938PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
939 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
940
76aa570c
PP
941PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
942 SQL string expansion failure details.
943 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
944
f1e5fef5
PP
945PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
946 Patch from Simon Arlott.
947
4d805ee9
PP
948PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
949 extern declarations in function scope.
950 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
951
cd59ab18
PP
952PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
953 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
954 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
955 a kernel bug).
956
332f5cf3
PP
957PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
958 Patch from Mark Zealey.
959
29cfeb94
PP
960PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
961 Patch from Mark Zealey.
962
660242ad
PP
963PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
964 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
965
bc4bc4c5
PP
966PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
967 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
968
2e64baa9
NM
969NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
970 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
971 Dennis Davis.
972
bddd7526
PP
973PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
974
6bac1a9a
PP
975PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
976
552193f0
NM
977NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
978 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 979
1b587e48
TF
980TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
981 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
982
aa097c4c 983
8c07b69f
TF
984Exim version 4.74
985-----------------
986
987TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
988 consequences so log it to the panic log.
989
c0ea85ab
TF
990TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
991 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
992
0761d44e
TF
993TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
994
0a349494
PP
995DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
996 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
997 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
998
999PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1000 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1001 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1002
fea24b2e
PP
1003PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1004 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1005 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1006 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1007
6545de78
PP
1008PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1009 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1010 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1011 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1012
1670ef10
PP
1013PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1014 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1015 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1016 arbitrary files.
1017
c0886197
PP
1018PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1019 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1020
b7487bce
PP
1021PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1022 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1023 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1024 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1025 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1026
8c07b69f 1027
97fd1e48 1028Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1029-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1030
1031PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1032 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1033 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1034
6901c596
PP
1035PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1036 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1037
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1038JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1039
77bb000f
PP
1040PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1041
a29e5231
PP
1042PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1043
ec5a0394 1044PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1045
55c75993
PP
1046PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1047
453a6645 1048PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1049 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1050 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1051 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1052
8544e77a
PP
1053PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1054 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1055 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1056 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1057 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1058
83e029d5
PP
1059PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1060
ed7f7860
PP
1061PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1062
7d9f747b
PP
1063PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1064
4b2241d2
PP
1065PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1066
10385c15
PP
1067PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1068
dbc4b90d
PP
1069PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1070
532be449
PP
1071PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1072
6a8de854 1073PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1074 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1075 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1076
5dc43717
JJ
1077JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1078
1079JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1080 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1081
3346ab01
PP
1082PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1083 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1084
491fab4c
PP
1085PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1086 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1087 Notification from John Horne.
1088
13eb9497
PP
1089PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1090 compatible.
1091
1092PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1093 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1094 it normally works.
1095
7f36d675
DW
1096DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1097 access.
1098
c1d94452
DW
1099DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1100 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1101 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1102
e2f5dc15
DW
1103DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1104 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1105 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1106 configuration file.
1107
cd25e41d
DW
1108DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1109 option (effectively making it always true).
1110
261dc43e
DW
1111DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1112 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1113
fa32850b
DW
1114DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1115 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1116
79d4bc3d
PP
1117PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1118 run-time user, instead of root.
1119
43236f35 1120PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1121 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1122
fb08281f
DW
1123DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1124 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1125 arguments.
3346ab01 1126
74935b98
DW
1127DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1128 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1129 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1130
90b6341f
DW
1131DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1132
57730b52
ML
1133NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1134
66581d1e 1135
465e92cf
JJ
1136Exim version 4.72
1137-----------------
1138
453a6645
PP
1139JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1140 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1141 typos
465e92cf 1142
453a6645
PP
1143JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1144 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1145 (Finput)
edae0343 1146
9bd3e22c
NM
1147NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1148 Patch from Alain Williams
1149
bb576ff7
NM
1150NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1151
5a1a5845
NM
1152NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1153 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1154
981a9fad
NM
1155NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1156 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1157
7fc497ee
NM
1158NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1159
1a41defa
JJ
1160JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1161
a466095c 1162NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1163 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1164
94a6bd0b
NM
1165TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1166
1167TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1168
1169MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1170 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1171 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1172
c1b141a8
NM
1173NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1174 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1175
b26eacf1 1176NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1177 Patch by Simon Arlott
1178
179c5980 1179PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1180 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1181
9bd3e22c 1182
7c6d71af
NM
1183Exim version 4.71
1184-----------------
1185
7d9f747b 1186TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1187
f013fb92
NM
1188NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1189
0eb8eedd
NM
1190NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1191
663ee6d9
NM
1192NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1193
177ebd9b
NM
1194NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1195
7c6d71af 1196
210f147e
NM
1197Exim version 4.70
1198-----------------
1199
cdd3bb85 1200TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1201 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1202
1203TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1204 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1205 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1206
1207TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1208 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1209 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1210
1211TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1212 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1213
210f147e
NM
1214NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1215 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1216 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1217 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1218
deafd5b3
NM
1219NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1220 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1221 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1222
089793a4
TF
1223TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1224
5f16ca82
TF
1225TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1226
dae9d94e 1227NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1228 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1229
7d9f747b 1230NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1231
06864c44
TF
1232TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1233 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1234 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1235 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1236
65a7d8c3 1237NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1238 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1239
23510047 1240TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1241
7d9f747b 1242NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1243
7d8eec3a 1244NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1245 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1246
89dec7b6
TF
1247TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1248 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1249
a99de90c
TF
1250TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1251 that they are available at delivery time.
1252
e2803e40
TF
1253TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1254
7199e1ee
TF
1255TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1256 incoming_port log selectors.
1257
e276e04b
TF
1258TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1259 setting expands to an empty string.
1260
ce552449 1261NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1262 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1263
e765a0f1 1264NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1265 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1266
4f054c63 1267NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1268 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1269
7d9f747b
PP
1270NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1271 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1272
7d9f747b
PP
1273NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1274 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1275
b52bc06e 1276NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1277 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1278
447de4b0
NM
1279NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1280
4c69d561 1281NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1282 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1283
d5c39246 1284NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1285 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1286
0b23848a
TK
1287TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1288
8f3414a1 1289NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1290 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1291
fb6f955d
NM
1292NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1293
1294NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1295
7d9f747b
PP
1296NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1297 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1298
7d9f747b
PP
1299NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1300 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1301
7d9f747b
PP
1302NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1303 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1304
7d9f747b
PP
1305NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1306 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1307
7d9f747b
PP
1308NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1309 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1310
7d9f747b
PP
1311NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1312 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1313
7d9f747b
PP
1314NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1315 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1316
7d9f747b 1317NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1318 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1319
7d9f747b 1320NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1321
7d9f747b
PP
1322NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1323 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1324
7d9f747b 1325NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1326
7d9f747b 1327NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1328
7d9f747b 1329NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1330
7d9f747b 1331NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1332
17792b53 1333NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1334 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1335
7d9f747b
PP
1336NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1337 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1338
91576cec 1339NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1340 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1341
7d9f747b
PP
1342NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1343 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1344
7d9f747b 1345NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1346
7d9f747b 1347NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1348
7d9f747b 1349NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1350
7d9f747b 1351NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1352
deafd5b3 1353
47db1125
NM
1354Exim version 4.69
1355-----------------
1356
4b3504d0
TK
1357TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1358 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1359 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1360
1361 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1362 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1363 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1364 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1365 build errors in sieve.c.
1366
81ea09ca
NM
1367NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1368 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1369 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1370
f13cddcb
SC
1371SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1372
7d9f747b 1373NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1374
7d9f747b 1375NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1376
7d9f747b 1377NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1378
1379
eb4c0de6
PH
1380Exim version 4.68
1381-----------------
1382
1383PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1384
6a3bceb1
PH
1385PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1386 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1387 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1388 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1389 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1390 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1391 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1392 for iplsearch lookups.
1393
1394 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1395 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1396 previously such lookups could never work.
1397
1398 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1399 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1400 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1401
2e30fa9d
TK
1402TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1403 version.
1404
0806a9c5
MH
1405MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1406 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1407 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1408 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1409 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1410 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1411
ae276964
TK
1412TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1413 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1414
0f2cbd1b
MH
1415MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1416 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1417 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1418 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1419 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1420 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1421
2b85bce7
PH
1422PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1423 local_scan API.
1424
93655c46
PH
1425PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1426
6c512171
PH
1427PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1428 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1429 encrypted.
1430
1431PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1432 by clients under certain conditions.
1433
aa6dc513
PH
1434PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1435 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1436
a96603a0
PH
1437PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1438
8f240103
PH
1439PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1440 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1441
1442PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1443
d677b2f2
PH
1444PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1445
d52120f2
PH
1446PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1447
64f2600a
PH
1448PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1449 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1450
8669f003
PH
1451PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1452
a4dc33a8
PH
1453PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1454 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1455
d6a60c0f
PH
1456PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1457
8f128379
PH
1458PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1459
8932dffe
PH
1460PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1461 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1462 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1463 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1464
ddea74fa 1465PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1466 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1467 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1468
ddea74fa 1469PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1470 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1471
ddea74fa
PH
1472PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1473
ce9f225c
PH
1474PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1475
19897d52
PH
1476PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1477
bc64a74d
PH
1478PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1479 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1480 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1481
eb4c0de6 1482
b4ed4da0
PH
1483Exim version 4.67
1484-----------------
1485
22ad45c9
MH
1486MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1487 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1488 Jan Srzednicki.
1489
b4ed4da0
PH
1490PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1491 issue a MAIL command.
1492
431b7361
PH
1493PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1494
1495 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1496
1497 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1498 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1499 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1500 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1501 item. This has been fixed.
1502
1503PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1504 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1505
83da1223
PH
1506PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1507 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1508
54fc8428
PH
1509PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1510 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1511 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1512
34c5e8dd
SC
1513SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1514
bbe15da8
PH
1515PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1516 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1517 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1518 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1519 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1520
0e8a9471
MH
1521MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1522 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1523 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1524
f0872424
PH
1525PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1526 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1527 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1528 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1529
b01dd148
PH
1530PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1531
6bf342e1
PH
1532PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1533
273f34d0
PH
1534PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1535 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1536 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1537 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1538 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1539
cf8b11a5
PH
1540PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1541
41c7c167
PH
1542PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1543 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1544 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1545 values).
1546
9c57cbc0
PH
1547PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1548
f3f065bb
PH
1549PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1550
047bdd8c
PH
1551PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1552
0ce9abe6
PH
1553PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1554
0e22dfd1
PH
1555PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1556
4c590bd1
PH
1557PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1558 no_callout_flush is set.
1559
09945f1e
PH
1560PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1561 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1562 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1563 fixed.
1564
c51b8e75
PH
1565PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1566
e28326d8
PH
1567PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1568 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1569 other ACL rejections are.
1570
75b1493f
PH
1571PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1572 with slight modification.
1573
7c5214ec
PH
1574PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1575 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1576
4311097e
PH
1577PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1578 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1579 connection.
1580
29f89cad
PH
1581PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1582 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1583
5e687460
SC
1584SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1585
c3611384
PH
1586PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1587 expansion side effects.
1588
5a11a7b4
PH
1589PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1590 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1591 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1592 be the same.
1593
0e20aff9
MH
1594MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1595 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1596 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1597
ca86f471
PH
1598PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1599 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1600 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1601 were accidentally chopped off.
1602
a14e5636
PH
1603PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1604 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1605 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1606 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1607 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1608 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1609 pipelining has not been advertised.
1610
ec95d1a6
PH
1611PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1612
42855d71
PH
1613PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1614 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1615 This has been fixed.
1616
57c2c631
PH
1617PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1618 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1619 reported on Solaris.
1620
58c01c94
PH
1621PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1622 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1623 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1624 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1625 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1626 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1627 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1628
dee5a20a
PH
1629PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1630 cpus.
1631
d2ee6114
PH
1632PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1633
b2d5182b
PH
1634PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1635
79749a79
PH
1636PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1637 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1638 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1639 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1640 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1641 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1642
c456d9bb
PH
1643PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1644 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1645 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1646 host_all_ignored option.
1647
cd9868ec
PH
1648PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1649 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1650 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1651 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1652 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1653 is what is supposed to happen).
1654
ebeaf996
PH
1655PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1656 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1657 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1658 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1659 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1660 uses the Exim user.
1661
2679d413
PH
1662PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1663 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1664 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1665 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1666 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1667 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1668 users.
1669
84024b72
PH
1670PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1671
8005d38e
SC
1672SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1673 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1674 (Jez Hancock).
1675 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1676 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1677
3298c6c6
SC
1678SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1679
a43a27c5
PH
1680PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1681
58eb016e 1682PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1683 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1684 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1685 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1686 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1687 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1688 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1689 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1690 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1691 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1692 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1693
b43a74ea
PH
1694PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1695 advertised in response to EHLO.
1696
b4ed4da0 1697
5dd1517f
PH
1698Exim version 4.66
1699-----------------
1700
1701PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1702 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1703
1704 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1705 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1706
1707 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1708 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1709 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1710
1711 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1712 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1713 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1714 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1715 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1716
1717
93cfa765
TK
1718Exim version 4.65
1719-----------------
1720
1721TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1722 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1723 versions. (#438)
1724
d6066548
MH
1725MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1726 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1727 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1728
4362ff0d
PH
1729PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1730 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1731 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1732 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1733 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1734 rather than extend the field.
1735
93cfa765 1736
944e9e9c
TF
1737Exim version 4.64
1738-----------------
aa41d2de 1739
21d74bd9
TK
1740TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1741 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1742 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1743 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1744 these files.
1745
1746TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1747 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1748 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1749
1750TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1751 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1752 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1753
1754TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1755 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1756 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1757 in the field name.
1758
2b1c6e3a
PH
1759PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1760 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1761 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1762 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1763 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1764 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1765 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1766 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1767 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1768 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1769 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1770
1f872c80
PH
1771PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1772 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1773
1774PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1775 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1776 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1777 ignores EPIPE as well.
1778
d203e649
PH
1779PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1780 (quoted-printable decoding).
1781
cc2ed8f7 1782PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1783 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1784
ddfcd446
PH
1785PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1786
d45b1de8
PH
1787PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1788
1789PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1790
38a0a95f 1791PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1792 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1793
a2405d83
JJ
1794JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1795 in 4.64-PH/09.
1796
1797JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1798 miscellaneous code fixes
1799
6ea85e9a
PH
1800PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1801 rejections.
1802
26da7e20
PH
1803PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1804 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1805 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1806 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1807 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1808 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1809 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1810 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1811
14aa5a05 1812PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1813 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1814 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1815 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1816 function.
1817 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1818 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1819 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1820 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1821 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1822 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1823 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1824 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1825 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1826
ff75a1f7
PH
1827PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1828 decoding.
1829
e6f6568e
PH
1830PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1831 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1832 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1833 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1834 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1835 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1836 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1837 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1838
d6f6e0dc
PH
1839PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1840 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1841 list.
1842
322050c2
PH
1843PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1844 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1845 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1846 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1847 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1848 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1849 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1850 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1851 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1852 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1853 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1854 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1855 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1856
08955dd3
PH
1857PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1858 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1859 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1860 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1861 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1862 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1863 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1864
1eccaa59
PH
1865PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1866 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1867 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1868 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1869 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1870 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1871 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1872 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1873 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1874 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1875
602e59e5
PH
1876PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1877 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1878 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1879 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1880 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1881
411ef850
PH
1882PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1883 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1884 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1885 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1886 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1887 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1888 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1889
7befa435
PH
1890PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1891 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1892 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1893 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1894 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1895 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1896 been verified.
1897
48da4259 1898PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1899 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1900 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1901 and authorization.)
1902
48da4259
PH
1903PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1904 if any retry times were supplied.
1905
d1d5595c
PH
1906PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1907 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1908 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1909
0ef732d9
PH
1910PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1911
328895cc
PH
1912PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1913
fd700877
PH
1914PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1915 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1916 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1917 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1918 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1919 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1920
8dce1a6f
PH
1921PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1922 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1923
17af4a17
PH
1924PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1925 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1926 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1927
1928PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1929 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1930 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1931 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1932 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1933 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1934 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1935 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1936 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1937
1938 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1939 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1940 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1941 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1942 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1943 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1944 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1945 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1946 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1947
1948 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1949 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1950 hammering the server.
1951
c1114884
PH
1952PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1953 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1954
7a0743eb
PH
1955PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1956
0d85fa3f
PH
1957PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1958 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1959 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1960
1bf43b78
PH
1961PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1962 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1963 one case where this was not true.
1964
520de300
PH
1965PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1966 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1967 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1968 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1969 fails.
1970
48c7f9e2
PH
1971PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1972 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1973 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1974 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1975 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1976 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1977 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1978 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1979 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1980 smtp transport.
1981
99ea1c86
PH
1982PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1983 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1984 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1985 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1986
a2042e78
PH
1987PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1988 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1989
4fbcfc2e
PH
1990PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1991 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1992 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1993
aa41d2de
PH
1994PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1995
af561417
PH
1996PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1997
3cc66b45
PH
1998PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1999
194cc0e4
PH
2000PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2001 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2002 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2003 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2004
a401ddaa
PH
2005PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2006 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2007
4e88a19f
PH
2008PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2009 be meaningful with "accept".
2010
d7d7b289
SC
2011SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2012 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2013
2014SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2015 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2016 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2017
2018SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2019 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2020 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2021 there is data to show.
2022 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2023
2024SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2025 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2026 as well as the number of messages.
2027
2028SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2029 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2030 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2031
2032SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2033 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2034 have a flag are now skipped.
2035
2036SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2037 Added the -emptyok flag.
2038
2039SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2040 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2041
0ea2a468
JJ
2042JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2043 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2044 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2045
2046JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2047 match 4.64-PH/13
2048
2049JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2050 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2051
2052JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2053
2054JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2055 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2056
8a10f5a4
PH
2057PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2058
30e18802
PH
2059PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2060 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2061 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2062 contravention of the specifications.
2063
55728a4f
PH
2064PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2065 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2066 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2067
d7837193
PH
2068PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2069 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2070 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2071
87054a31
PH
2072PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2073
ea2c01d2
MH
2074MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2075 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2076 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2077 some point in the past.
2078
e4fa6968
PH
2079PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2080 transport during callout processing was broken.
2081
56f5d9bd
PH
2082PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2083 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2084
922e1c28
PH
2085PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2086 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2087
21eb6e72
PH
2088PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2089 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2090
a0540757
PH
2091PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2092
944e9e9c 2093
478be7b0
SC
2094Exim version 4.63
2095-----------------
2096
2097SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2098 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2099
2100SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2101 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2102 there is data to show.
2103 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2104
2105SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2106 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2107
2b965a65
TF
2108TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2109 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2110
45b91596
PH
2111TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2112 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2113
c59f5781
TF
2114TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2115 submissions from trusted users.
2116
90fc3069
TF
2117TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2118 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2119
6083aca0
TF
2120TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2121 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2122 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2123 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2124 there is now a framework to start from.
2125
765b530f
PH
2126PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2127 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2128 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2129
4e167a8c
PH
2130PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2131
4608d683
PH
2132PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2133
b8dc3e4a
PH
2134PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2135
5418e93b
PH
2136PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2137 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2138 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2139
b4a9bda2
PH
2140PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2141 libradius.
2142
45b91596
PH
2143PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2144 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2145 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2146
5547e2c5
PH
2147PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2148 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2149 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2150 its arguments.
2151
dbcef0ea
PH
2152PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2153 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2154 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2155 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2156 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2157
25257489
PH
2158PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2159 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2160
c816d124
PH
2161PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2162
a9ccd69a
PH
2163PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2164 operations in malware.c.
2165
75fa1910
PH
2166PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2167 signatures.
2168
a7d7aa58
PH
2169PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2170 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2171 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2172 all.
2173
42119b09
PH
2174PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2175 statements to "add_header".
2176
41609df5
PH
2177PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2178 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2179
a5bd321b
PH
2180PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2181 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2182 latter.
2183
e85a7ad5 2184PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2185 so that it is now:
2186
e85a7ad5
PH
2187 ${if or { \
2188 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2189 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2190 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2191 }{no}{yes}}
2192
e85a7ad5
PH
2193 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2194 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2195
d8fe1c03
PH
2196PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2197 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2198
16282d2b
PH
2199PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2200 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2201 any possible encoding problems.
2202
35d40a98
PH
2203PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2204 but not after initializing Perl.
2205
034d99ab
PH
2206PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2207 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2208 apparently, which is not desirable.
2209
6ec97b1b
PH
2210PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2211 queries.
2212
e22ca4ac
JJ
2213JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2214 --not options
2215
2216JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2217
33d73e3b
PH
2218PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2219 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2220 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2221 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2222
9ecb03f3
PH
2223PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2224 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2225 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2226
084efe8d
PH
2227PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2228 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2229 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2230 0.12.
2231
366fc9f0
PH
2232PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2233 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2234 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2235 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2236 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2237
c59f5781 2238
c887c79e
TF
2239Exim version 4.62
2240-----------------
2241
2242TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2243 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2244
1cce3af8
PH
2245PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2246 patch).
2247
afb3eaaf
PH
2248PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2249 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2250 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2251 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2252 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2253 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2254 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2255 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2256 451 error is used.
2257
e173618b
PH
2258PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2259
dd16e114
PH
2260PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2261 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2262 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2263
f7fd3850
PH
2264PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2265 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2266 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2267 odd errors.
2268
d87df92c
PH
2269PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2270 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2271
7e9f683d
PH
2272PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2273 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2274 option (which defaults to 0600).
2275
bfad5236
PH
2276PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2277
01c490df
PH
2278PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2279 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2280 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2281 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2282 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2283 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2284 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2285
d6629cdc
PH
2286PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2287
1cce3af8 2288
214e2000
PH
2289Exim version 4.61
2290-----------------
2291
2292PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2293 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2294 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2295 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2296 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2297 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2298 addresses as local.
2299
f9daeae0
PH
2300PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2301 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2302
7e66e54d
PH
2303PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2304
c8ea1597
PH
2305PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2306 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2307 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2308 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2309 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2310 grumble.
2311
911f6fde
PH
2312PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2313 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2314
47ca6d6c
PH
2315PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2316 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2317 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2318 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2319 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2320
ed0e9820
PH
2321PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2322 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2323 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2324 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2325
eff37e47
PH
2326PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2327 be the same on different OS.
2328
1921d2ea
PH
2329PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2330 testing.
2331
b3f69ca8
JJ
2332JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2333 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2334
2335JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2336 in 4.61-PH/06
2337
424a1c63
PH
2338PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2339 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2340 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2341 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2342 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2343 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2344 bounce message.
2345
7a100415
PH
2346PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2347 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2348 when Exim was called.
2349
19b9dc85
PH
2350PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2351 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2352
309bd837
PH
2353PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2354 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2355 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2356 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2357
59e82a2a
PH
2358PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2359 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2360 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2361 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2362 changes:
2363
2364 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2365 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2366 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2367
2368 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2369 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2370 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2371
9edc04ce
PH
2372PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2373 feature).
2374
1349e1e5
PH
2375PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2376 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2377 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2378 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2379 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2380 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2381 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2382 values from the SRV records were lost.
2383
ea49d0e1
PH
2384PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2385 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2386 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2387
064a94c9
PH
2388PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2389 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2390 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2391
727071f8
PH
2392PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2393 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2394 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2395 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2396 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2397 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2398 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2399 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2400 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2401 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2402
f78eb7c6
PH
2403PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2404 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2405 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2406
21c28500
PH
2407PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2408 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2409
2410PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2411 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2412 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2413 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2414 is given.
2415
1688f43b
PH
2416PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2417 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2418 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2419
2420PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2421 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2422 PH/23 above applies.
2423
9675b384
PH
2424PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2425 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2426 (for which there is an explicit test).
2427
6a3f1455
PH
2428PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2429
dac79d3e
PH
2430PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2431 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2432 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2433 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2434 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2435
5977a0b3
PH
2436PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2437 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2438 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2439 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2440
c91535f3
PH
2441PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2442 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2443 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2444
0d46a8c8
PH
2445PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2446
278c6e6c
PH
2447PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2448
2cbb4081
PH
2449PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2450 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2451 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2452
3eef829e
PH
2453PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2454 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2455 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2456 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2457 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2458
1ab95fa6
PH
2459PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2460 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2461 the message gets confusing).
2462
230205fc
PH
2463PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2464 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2465 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2466 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2467
75e0e026
PH
2468PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2469 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2470 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2471 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2472 same order.
2473
2474PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2475 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2476 the different processes.
2477
145396a6
PH
2478PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2479
3cd34f13
PH
2480PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2481
11121d3d
JJ
2482JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2483 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2484
2485JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2486 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2487
2488JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2489 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2490 messages matching specified criteria.
2491
8def5aaf
PH
2492PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2493
929ba01c
PH
2494PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2495 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2496
2632889e
PH
2497PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2498 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2499 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2500 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2501 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2502 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2503 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2504 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2505 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2506 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2507
944a9c55
PH
2508PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2509 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2510 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2511
4a23603b
PH
2512PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2513
4730f942
PH
2514PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2515 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2516 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2517 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2518 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2519 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2520 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2521 the variable.
2522
30dba1e6
PH
2523PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2524 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2525
382afc6b
PH
2526PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2527
a86229cf
PH
2528PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2529
50c99ba6
PH
2530PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2531
d35e429d
PH
2532PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2533 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2534 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2535 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2536 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2537 size of the count of files.
2538
f90d018c
PH
2539PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2540
75def545
PH
2541PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2542 used in LMTP mode:
2543
2544 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2545 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2546 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2547 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2548
2549 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2550 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2551 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2552
2553PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2554 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2555 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2556 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2557 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2558
c46782ef
PH
2559PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2560 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2561
71fafd95
PH
2562PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2563 will now be deprecated.
2564
2c5db4fd
PH
2565PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2566
9cf6b11a
JJ
2567JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2568 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2569 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2570
2571JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2572 with very large, slow to parse queues
2573
2574JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2575
2576JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2577
898d150f
PH
2578PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2579 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2580 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2581 SMTP output lines.
2582
46218253
PH
2583PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2584 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2585 Sieve code now uses this.
2586
e97957bc
PH
2587PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2588 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2589
81e509d7
PH
2590PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2591 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2592
3d240ff7
PH
2593PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2594
b37c4101
PH
2595PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2596 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2597 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2598 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2599 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2600
79378e0f
PH
2601PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2602 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2603 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2604 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2605
e49c7bb4
PH
2606PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2607
d114ec46
PH
2608PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2609
f3d7df6c
PH
2610PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2611 is preferred over IPv4.
2612
715ab376
PH
2613PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2614 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2615 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2616 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2617 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2618 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2619 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2620
6b31b150
PH
2621PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2622 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2623 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2624
2625PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2626
d515a917
PH
2627PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2628 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2629 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2630 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2631 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2632 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2633 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2634 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2635 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2636 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2637 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2638
9b8fadde
PH
2639PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2640 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2641 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2642
214e2000 2643
5de37277
PH
2644Exim version 4.60
2645-----------------
2646
cc38ddbf
PH
2647PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2648
2649 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2650 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2651
2652 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2653 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2654 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2655
72fdd6ae
PH
2656PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2657
2658 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2659 not a single digit.
2660
2661 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2662 string.
2663
2664 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2665 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2666 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2667 silly things.
2668
2669 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2670 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2671
2672 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2673 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2674
cb741023
PH
2675PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2676 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2677 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2678
f174f16e
PH
2679PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2680 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2681
c25242d7
PH
2682PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2683 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2684
2685 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2686
2687 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2688 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2689 this:
2690
2691 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2692
82c19f95
PH
2693PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2694 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2695 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2696 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2697 identical. For example:
2698
2699 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2700
2701 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2702 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2703 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2704
d7ffbc12
PH
2705PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2706 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2707 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2708 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2709
9f526266
PH
2710PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2711 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2712 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2713 message.
2714
87fcc8b9
PH
2715PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2716
2717 o fixes some comments
2718 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2719 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2720 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2721 and documents the missing references header update
2722
2723 and most important:
2724
2725 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2726 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2727 result)
2728
456682f5
PH
2729PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2730 Electronic Mail") by including:
2731
2732 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2733
2734 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2735 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2736 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2737 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2738 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2739
2740 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2741
2742 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2743
2744 The auto-replied keyword:
2745
2746 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2747 message by an automatic process,
2748
2749 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2750
2751 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2752 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2753
2754 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2755 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2756 other messages.
2757
3e46c1aa
PH
2758PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2759 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2760
49826d12
PH
2761PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2762
eba0c039
PH
2763PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2764 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2765 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2766
a0d6ba8a
PH
2767PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2768 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2769 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2770
f0917727
PH
2771PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2772 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2773 and treats the condition as false.
2774
096fee00
PH
2775PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2776
024bd3c2
PH
2777PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2778 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2779 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2780 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2781 not changing the active code.
2782
2783 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2784 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2785
2786 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2787 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2788
df199fec
PH
2789PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2790 (Bugzilla #53).
2791
d27f1df3
PH
2792PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2793 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2794 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2795 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2796 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2797 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2798 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2799 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2800 the text comparison.
2801
96776534
PH
2802PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2803 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2804 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2805 The same fix has been applied.
2806
5de37277 2807
9a799bc0
PH
2808Exim version 4.54
2809-----------------
2810
2811PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2812 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2813 It now does.
2814
99a4b039
PH
2815PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2816 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2817
2818PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2819
4b233853
PH
2820PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2821 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2822 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2823 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2824 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2825
8857ccfd
PH
2826TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2827 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2828 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2829 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2830 or /domain=).
2831
433a2980
PH
2832PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2833 testing suite.
2834
3e46c1aa 2835
9a799bc0 2836
e3a311ba
TK
2837Exim version 4.53
2838-----------------
2839
2840TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2841 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2842
13b685f9
PH
2843PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2844
395ff96d
PH
2845PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2846
5b68f6e4
PH
2847PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2848 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2849 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2850
1ab52c69
PH
2851PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2852 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2853 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2854
b07e6aa3
PH
2855PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2856 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2857 operating systems.
2858
254e032f
PH
2859PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2860 ${stat: expansion item.
2861
3af76a81
PH
2862PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2863 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2864
2548ba04
PH
2865PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2866 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2867 file for comments.
2868
b6c6011d
PH
2869PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2870
cf39cf57
PH
2871PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2872 setting.
2873
f1513293
PH
2874PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2875 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2876
727549a4
PH
2877TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2878
af46795e
PH
2879PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2880 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2881 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2882 the end of the subprocess.
2883
d7b47fd0
PH
2884PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2885 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2886 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2887 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2888 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2889
ee744174
JJ
2890JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2891
b582ab87
PH
2892TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2893
41a13e0a
PH
2894PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2895 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2896
f625cc5a
PH
2897PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2898
2899PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2900
21f7af35
PH
2901PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2902 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2903 HP-UX compiler.
2904
31480e42
PH
2905PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2906
2d280592
PH
2907PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2908 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2909 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2910
7cd1141b
PH
2911PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2912 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2913
2914PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2915 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2916
750af86e
PH
2917PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2918 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2919
2920 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2921 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2922
2923 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2924 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2925 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2926 contributed by a Radius user.
2927
2928PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2929 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2930
4304270b
TK
2931TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2932 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2933
750af86e
PH
2934PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2935 available.
2936
64ffc24f
PH
2937PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2938 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2939 received.
2940
5dd9625b
PH
2941PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2942 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2943 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2944 header lines when this was not necessary.
2945
5591031b
PH
2946PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2947
ba18e66a
PH
2948PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2949 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2950 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2951 exists".
2952
9cec981f
PH
2953PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2954 -bV or -d is used.
2955
aa2b5c79
PH
2956PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2957 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2958 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2959 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2960
48a53b7f
PH
2961PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2962
1c59d63b
PH
2963PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2964
671012da
TK
2965TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2966
1509d3a8
PH
2967PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2968
2969PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2970 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2971 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2972 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2973 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2974 settings.
2975
2976PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2977
2fe1a124
PH
2978PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2979 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2980 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2981 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2982 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2983 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2984 which is clearly wrong.
2985
8800895a
PH
2986PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2987
ccfdb010
PH
2988PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2989 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2990 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2991 subsequently added.
2992
1130bfb0
PH
2993PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2994 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2995
ebcb507f
PH
2996PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2997
c35e155c
PH
2998PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2999 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3000
95d1f782
PH
3001PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3002 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3003
fd6de02e
PH
3004PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3005 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3006
58de37c5
PH
3007PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3008 recipients, not senders.
3009
261cf466
TF
3010TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3011 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3012
3ee512ff
PH
3013PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3014
e08c430f
PH
3015PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3016
bef5a11f
PH
3017PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3018 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3019 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3020 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3021
7546de58
TF
3022TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3023
e5d5a95f
TF
3024TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3025 clock is set back in time.
3026
2e88a017
TF
3027TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3028 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3029
a5f65aa4
TF
3030TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3031 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3032
e7726cbf
PH
3033PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3034 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3035 (see PH/47 above).
3036
a7fdad5b
TF
3037TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3038 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3039 header rewrites.
3040
6af56900
PH
3041PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3042 type ("H").
3043
0925ede6
PH
3044PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3045
66afa403
TF
3046TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3047 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3048 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3049
0154e85a
TF
3050TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3051 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3052 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3053 helo verification defer as a failure.
3054
16f12c76
PH
3055PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3056 actual error message.
3057
bbe902f0 3058
e5a9dba6
PH
3059Exim version 4.52
3060-----------------
3061
3062TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3063
22c3b60b
PH
3064PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3065 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3066 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3067 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3068
06a9b4b5
PH
3069TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3070
c1ac6996
PH
3071PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3072 can still be requested.
3073
9c7a242c
PH
3074PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3075 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3076 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3077 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3078
87ba3f5f
PH
3079TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3080 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3081 circumstances, but probably never did.
3082
3083PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3084 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3085 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3086 in the header line.
3087
29aba418
TF
3088TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3089
fe0dab11
TF
3090TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3091 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3092
11d337a4
TK
3093TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3094
3095TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3096
415c8f3b
PH
3097PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3098 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3099 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3100 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3101 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3102 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3103
958541e9
PH
3104PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3105 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3106 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3107 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3108 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3109 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3110
c206415f
TK
3111TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3112 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3113
2a4be8f9
PH
3114PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3115 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3116
1cba11c5
SC
3117SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3118 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3119
3120SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3121
3122SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3123
3124SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3125
3126SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3127
3128SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3129
3130SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3131
1005d00e
TK
3132TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3133
3134TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3135 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3136 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3137
3138TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3139 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3140 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3141 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3142
9b4768fa
PH
3143PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3144 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3145 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3146
3147PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3148 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3149 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3150 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3151
0d7eb84a
PH
3152PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3153 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3154 to be made).
3155
3156PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3157 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3158 should work with maildirs and everything.
3159
40727bee
TK
3160TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3161 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3162
554d2369
TF
3163TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3164 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3165
1f922db1
PH
3166PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3167 function for BDB 4.3.
3168
ef213c3b
PH
3169PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3170
8ac170f3
PH
3171PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3172 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3173 involved.
3174
b1c749bb
PH
3175PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3176 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3177 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3178 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3179 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3180 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3181
4aac9b49
PH
3182PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3183 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3184 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3185 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3186 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3187 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3188 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3189 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3190
294520c8
TK
3191TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3192 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3193 details.
3194
5bd022fe
PH
3195PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3196 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3197
90e9ce59
PH
3198PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3199 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3200 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3201 test. It is now used for both.
3202
5ea81592
PH
3203PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3204 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3205 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3206 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3207 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3208 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3209
c6c2dc1d
PH
3210PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3211 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3212 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3213 string_vformat().
3214
fffffe4c
PH
3215PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3216 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3217 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3218
9a26b6b2
PH
3219PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3220 experimental DomainKeys support:
3221
3222 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3223 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3224 the control was given.
3225
3226 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3227
4aee0225
PH
3228PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3229
32d668a5
PH
3230PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3231
8187c3f3
PH
3232PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3233 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3234 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3235 db.h files).
3236
ff790e47 3237PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3238 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3239 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3240 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3241 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3242 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3243 course.
ff790e47 3244
5417f6d1
PH
3245PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3246 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3247 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3248 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3249 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3250 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3251
59cf8544
PH
3252PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3253 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3254 do -d+all out of habit.
3255
e7ad8a65
PH
3256PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3257 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3258 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3259
ade42478
PH
3260PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3261 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3262 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3263 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3264 record types that Exim uses.
3265
182ad5cf
PH
3266PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3267 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3268 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3269 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3270 non-existent file that was broken.
3271
b0d9fc80
TK
3272TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3273 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3274
3275TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3276 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3277 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3278
3279TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3280
47c7a64a
PH
3281PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3282 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3283 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3284 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3285 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3286 same time.
3287
a388bce4
SC
3288SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3289 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3290 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3291 at a slight CPU cost.
3292
3293SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3294 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3295
3296SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3297 by Marc Sherman.
3298
0793e4ed
SC
3299SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3300
c58b88df
PH
3301PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3302 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3303
e7ad8a65 3304
7982096b
PH
3305Exim version 4.51
3306-----------------
3307
1a46a8c5
PH
3308TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3309 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3310
2f079f46 3311TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3312
3313TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3314
3315PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3316 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3317
3318PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3319 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3320 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3321 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3322 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3323 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3324 file.
3325
3326PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3327 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3328 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3329 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3330 these two options.
3331
3332PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3333 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3334 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3335 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3336 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3337 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3338 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3339 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3340
3341PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3342 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3343
3344PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3345 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3346 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3347 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3348 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3349 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3350
3351PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3352 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3353 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3354 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3355
3356PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3357 Finch).
3358
3359PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3360 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3361
49c2d5ea
PH
3362PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3363 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3364 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3365 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3366 message.
49c2d5ea 3367
bf759a8b
PH
3368PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3369
83364d30
PH
3370PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3371 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3372
7999bbd7
PH
3373PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3374 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3375 to what was transported.)
3376
7dbf77c9
PH
3377TF/01 Added $received_time.
3378
74e0617f
PH
3379PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3380 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3381 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3382 spamd_address settings.
3383
2f079f46
PH
3384PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3385 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3386 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3387 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3388 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3389
8c841523
PH
3390PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3391
7766a4f0
PH
3392PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3393 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3394 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3395 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3396 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3397
8b417f2c
PH
3398PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3399 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3400
901f42cb
PH
3401PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3402 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3403 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3404 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3405 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3406 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3407 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3408 for failure.
3409
f9b9210e
PH
3410PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3411 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3412 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3413 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3414 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3415 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3416 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3417 "input=".
3418
54cdb463
PH
3419PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3420
cf00dad6
PH
3421PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3422 driver and ACL definitions.
3423
acb1b346
PH
3424PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3425 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3426
c5ddb310
PH
3427PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3428 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3429 understands it better than I do:
3430
3431 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3432 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3433
3434 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3435 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3436 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3437 => three warnings about OTP not working
3438 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3439
3440 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3441 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3442 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3443 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3444 for each call.)
3445 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3446 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3447
3448 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3449 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3450 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3451
31619da6
PH
3452PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3453 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3454 specified.
3455
bebaf0fc
PH
3456PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3457 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3458 "Linux".
3459
475fe28a
PH
3460PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3461 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3462 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3463
3464 warn !verify = sender
3465 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3466
3467 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3468 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3469
7e8bec7a
PH
3470PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3471
3472 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3473 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3474
3475 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3476 nomenclature these days.)
3477
e4a89c47
PH
3478PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3479 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3480
5ca2a9a1
PH
3481PH/30 In these circumstances:
3482 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3483 . First host does not offer TLS;
3484 . First host accepts first address;
3485 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3486 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3487 . Second host accepts second address.
3488 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3489 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3490 address.
7e8bec7a 3491
c688b954
PH
3492PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3493 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3494 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3495 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3496 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3497
fed77020
PH
3498PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3499 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3500
7fe1560f
PH
3501PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3502 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3503
ebb6e6d5
PH
3504PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3505 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3506 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3507
9c4e8f60
PH
3508PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3509 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3510 overlooked.
3511
3512PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3513
d7174846
PH
3514PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3515 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3516 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3517 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3518 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3519 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3520 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3521
3522 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3523 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3524 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3525 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3526 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3527
3528 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3529 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3530 routed further.
3531
cfe75fc3
PH
3532PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3533 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3534 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3535 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3536 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3537 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3538
be22d70e
PH
3539PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3540
0612b098
PH
3541PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3542 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3543 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3544 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3545 printable escape sequences.
3546
2e0c1448
PH
3547PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3548 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3549 body only.
3550
447d236c
PH
3551PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3552 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3553 are as follows:
3554
3555 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3556 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3557 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3558 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3559 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3560
3561 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3562 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3563 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3564
d20976dc
PH
3565PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3566
f656d135
PH
3567PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3568 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3569 play with."
3570
2e2a30b4
PH
3571PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3572 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3573 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3574 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3575 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3576 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3577 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3578 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3579 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3580 the log output.
3581
9176e9f0
PH
3582PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3583 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3584 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3585 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3586 "make".
3587
7982096b 3588
bbe902f0
PH
3589A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3590----------------------------------------
3591
3592Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3593changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3594needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3595in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3596that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3597release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3598from 4.43.
3599
3600I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36014.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3602those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3603historical information.
3604
3605
f7b63901 3606Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3607-----------------
3608
5fe762f6
PH
3609 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3610
139059f6 3611 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3612 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3613
7086e875
PH
3614 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3615 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3616 place.
3617
35af9f61
PH
3618 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3619 filter fails to execute.
3620
b668c215
PH
3621 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3622 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3623 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3624 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3625 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3626
a494b1e1
PH
3627 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3628
3629 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3630 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3631 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3632 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3633
c5fcb476
PH
3634 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3635 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3636 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3637 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3638 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3639
69358f02
PH
3640 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3641
5be20824
PH
364210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3643
eb2c0248
PH
364411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3645 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3646 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3647 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3648
2a3eea10
PH
364912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3650 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3651 sender verification.
3652
365313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3654 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3655
23c7ff99
PH
365614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3657
4deaf07d
PH
365815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3659 connection timeout.
3660
926e1192
PH
366116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3662 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3663
650edc6f
PH
366417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3665 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3666
2c7db3f5
PH
366718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3668 information about exactly what failed.
3669
3d235903
PH
367019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3671
7c7ad977
PH
367220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3673 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3674 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3675
981756db
PH
367621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3677 It is now set to "smtps".
3678
d4eb88df
PH
367922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3680 ignore_target_hosts.
3681
368223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3683 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3684 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3685 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3686 "[x.x.x.x]".
3687
7d468ab8
PH
368824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3689 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3690 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3691
369225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3693 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3694 wake it up if nothing else does.
3695
62c0818f
PH
369626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3697 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3698 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3699 end up negative.
3700
26034054
PH
370127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3702 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3703
af66f652
PH
370428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3705
90af77f4
PH
370629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3707 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3708 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3709 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3710 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3711 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3712 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3713 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3714
d8ef3577
PH
371530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3716 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3717 than one IP address.
3718
5cb8cbc6
PH
371931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3720 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3721 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3722 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3723
14702f5b
PH
372432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3725 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3726 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3727 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3728 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3729 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3730
063b1e99
PH
373133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3732 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3733 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3734 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3735
652e1b65
PH
373634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3737 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3738 respected.
3739
6f0c9a4f
PH
374035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3741 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3742 $sender_host_address.
3743
33397d19
PH
374436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3745 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3746 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3747 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3748 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3749 very small.
3750
7bb56e1f
PH
375137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3752
3753 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3754 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3755
ea3bc19b
PH
3756 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3757 just the host names, not the priorities.
3758
3759 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3760 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3761 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3762
ea3bc19b 3763 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3764 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3765
0bcb2a0e
PH
376638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3767 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3768 domain.
3769
2ac0e484
PH
377039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3771
4e1fde53
PH
377240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3773 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3774
de365ded
PH
377541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3776 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3777 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3778
f05da2e8
PH
377942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3780
d6453af2
PH
378143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3782
f7b63901
PH
378344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3784
378545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3786 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3787 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3788 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3789 because the tests only now provoked it.
3790
a444213a
PH
379146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3792 (this can affect the format of dates).
3793
0ec020ea
PH
379447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3795 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3796 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3797 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3798
b1206957
PH
379948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3800
380149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3802 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3803 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3804 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3805
26dd5a95
PH
380650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3807 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3808 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3809
343b2385
PH
381051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3811 autoreply.
3812
1c5466b9
PH
381352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3814 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3815 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3816 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3817 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3818 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3819 is going on).
3820
55ee9ee3
PH
382153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3822 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3823 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3824 the line.
3825
d38f8232
PH
382654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3827 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3828 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3829
3830 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3831 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3832 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3833 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3834 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3835 so I produce this patch..."
3836
3295e65b
PH
3837 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3838 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3839 is not defined.
3840
7102e136
PH
384155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3842 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3843 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3844 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3845 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3846
3ca0ba97
PH
384756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3848
c2bcbe20
PH
384957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3850 long debug lines gets shown.
3851
18ce445d
PH
385258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3853 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3854
1f5b4c3d
PH
385559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3856
3857 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3858 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3859 of $primary_hostname.
3860
b975ba52
PH
386160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3862 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3863 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3864 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3865 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3866 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3867 by change 4.50/55 above.
3868
3869 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3870 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3871 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3872 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3873 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3874 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3875 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3876
387761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3878 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3879 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3880 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3881
17ffcae7
PH
388262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3883 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3884
d95f9fdb
PH
388563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3886 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3887 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3888 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3889 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3890
86b8287f
PH
389164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3892 This has been fixed.
3893
60dc5e56
PH
389465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3895 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3896 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3897 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3898 the caching.)
3899
533244af
PH
390066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3901
a5a28604
PH
390267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3903 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3904 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3905 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3906
7e634d24
PH
390768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3908 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3909
3e11c26b
PH
391069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3911 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3912 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3913
6729cf78
PH
391470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3915 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3916 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3917 message there.
3918
00f00ca5
PH
391971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3920 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3921 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3922
c9bdd01c
PH
392372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3924 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3925 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3926 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3927
d43194df
PH
392873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3929 during host lookups.
3930
fe5b5d0b
PH
393174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3932 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3933
3934 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3935
76a2d7ba
PH
393675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3937 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3938 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3939 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3940 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3941 background.
3942
394376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3944 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3945
04f7d5b9
PH
394677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3947 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3948 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3949
bc60667e
PH
395078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3951
bb6e88ff
PH
395279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3953 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3954 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3955 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3956 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3957 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3958 process earlier.
3959
1e70f85b
PH
396080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3961 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3962 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3963 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3964 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3965
396681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3967 tables).
3968
4e01f9d6
PH
396982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3970
1ee1cef2
PH
397183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3972 "vacation" handling.
3973
6e2b4ccc
PH
397484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3975 OS variants using glibc.
3976
8e669ac1
PH
397785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3978
495ae4b0 3979
bbe902f0
PH
3980----------------------------------------------------
3981See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3982----------------------------------------------------
3983
3984
3985Exim version 4.44
3986-----------------
3987
3988 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3989 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3990 transport
3991
3992 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3993 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3994 place.
3995
3996 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3997 filter fails to execute.
3998
3999 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4000 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4001 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4002 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4003 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4004
4005 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4006 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4007 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4008 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4009
4010 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4011 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4012 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4013 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4014 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4015
4016 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4017
4018 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4019 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4020 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4021 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4022
4023 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4024 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4025 sender verification.
4026
402710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4028 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4029
403011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4031 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4032
403312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4034 ignore_target_hosts.
4035
403613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4037 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4038 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4039 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4040 "[x.x.x.x]".
4041
404214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4043 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4044 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4045
404615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4047 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4048 wake it up if nothing else does.
4049
405016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4051 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4052 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4053 end up negative.
4054
405517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4056 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4057
ea3a6f44 405818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4059
406019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4061 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4062 empty pattern.
4063
406420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4065 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4066 one IP address.
4067
ea3a6f44
NM
406821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4069 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4070 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4071 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4072 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4073 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4074
ea3a6f44
NM
407522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4076 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4077 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4078
407923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4080 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4081 $sender_host_address.
4082
408324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4084
ea3a6f44
NM
408525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4086 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4087 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4088
408926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4090 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4091
ea3a6f44
NM
409227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4093 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4094
ea3a6f44
NM
409528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4096 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4097 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4098 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4099
410029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4101 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4102 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4103
ea3a6f44
NM
410430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4105 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4106 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4107 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4108
ea3a6f44
NM
410931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4110 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4111 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4112
ea3a6f44
NM
411331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4114 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4115
ea3a6f44
NM
411632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4117 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4118 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4119 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4120 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4121 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4122 is going on).
bbe902f0 4123
ea3a6f44
NM
412433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4125 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4126 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4127 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4128 CAN-2005-0021
4129
ea3a6f44
NM
413034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4131 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4132 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4133 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4134 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4135 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4136 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4137
4138 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4139 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4140 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4141 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4142 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4143 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4144 CAN-2005-0021
4145
ea3a6f44
NM
414635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4147 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4148 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4149 CAN-2005-0022
4150
ea3a6f44
NM
415136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4152 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4153 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4154 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4155 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4156
ea3a6f44
NM
415737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4158 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4159 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4160 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4161 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4162
ea3a6f44
NM
416338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4164 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4165 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4166 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4167 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4168
4169
495ae4b0
PH
4170Exim version 4.43
4171-----------------
4172
4173 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4174 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4175 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4176 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4177 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4178 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4179 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4180
4181 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4182 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4183 the delivery.
4184
4185 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4186
4187 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4188
4189 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4190 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4191 to local_scan().
4192
4193 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4194 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4195 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4196 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4197 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4198
4199 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4200 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4201
4202 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4203
4204 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4205
420610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4207 header_sender only.
4208
420911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4210 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4211
421212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4213 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4214 affecting debugging statements).
4215
421613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4217
421814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4219 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4220 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4221 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4222 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4223 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4224 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4225 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4226 after the received time, and all would be well.
4227
422815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4229 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4230 condition in an expansion string.
4231
423216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4233
423417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4235 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4236 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4237 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4238 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4239 job under whatever limits there are.
4240
424118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4242
424319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4244 space).
4245
424620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4247 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4248 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4249 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4250 return path is set.
4251
425221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4253 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4254 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4255 binary data in such strings.
4256
425722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4258
425923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4260 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4261 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4262 failure, which is pointless.
4263
426424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4265
426625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4267
426826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4269 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4270 Sender: header lines.
4271
427227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4273 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4274 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4275
427628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4277 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4278 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4279 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4280 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4281 happens.
4282
428329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4284 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4285 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4286 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4287 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4288
428930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4290 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4291 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4292 1024.
4293
429431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4295 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4296
429732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4298 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4299
430033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4301
430232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4303
430433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4305
430634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4307 syntax error.
4308
430935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4310
431136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4312
431337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4314 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4315 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4316 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4317
431838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4319 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4320
4321
4322Exim version 4.42
4323-----------------
4324
4325 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4326 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4327 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4328 it was not quoted.
4329 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4330 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4331 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4332 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4333 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4334 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4335
4336 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4337 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4338 verification failure".
4339
4340 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4341 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4342 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4343 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4344
4345 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4346 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4347 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4348 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4349 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4350 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4351 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4352 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4353 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4354 treated as a timeout.
4355
4356 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4357 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4358 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4359 not set for Exim filters).
4360
4361 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4362 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4363 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4364
4365 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4366
4367 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4368 try to make them clearer.
4369
4370 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4371 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4372
4373 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4374
4375 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4376
437710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4378 only the Cygwin environment.
4379
438011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4381 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4382 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4383 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4384 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4385
438612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4387 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4388 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4389 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4390 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4391 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4392 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4393
439413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4395 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4396
439714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4398
4399 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4400 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4401 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4402
4403 To: susanne@some.where
4404
4405 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4406 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4407 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4408 of addresses in From: header lines).
4409
4410 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4411 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4412 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4413
4414 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4415 treated as non-personal.
4416
4417 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4418 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4419
442015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4421
442216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4423
442417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4425 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4426 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4427
442818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4429 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4430
443119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4432 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4433 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4434 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4435 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4436 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4437
443820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4439 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4440 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4441 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4442 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4443 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4444 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4445 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4446
4447 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4448
444921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4450 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4451
445222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4453 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4454 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4455
445623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4457 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4458
445924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4460 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4461 rather than long int.
4462
446325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4464
446526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4466
4467
4468Exim version 4.41
4469-----------------
4470
4471 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4472 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4473 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4474 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4475 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4476 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4477
4478
4479Exim version 4.40
4480-----------------
4481
4482 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4483 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4484
4485 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4486 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4487 socklen_t is defined.
4488
4489 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4490 always exist.
4491
4492 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4493 configured.
4494
4495 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4496 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4497 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4498 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4499 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4500
4501 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4502 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4503 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4504 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4505
4506 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4507 of flapping under certain conditions.
4508
4509 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4510 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4511 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4512
4513 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4514
451510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4516
451711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4518 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4519 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4520 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4521
452212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4523 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4524 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4525 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4526 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4527 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4528 preserved with the message after it was received.
4529
453013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4531 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4532 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4533 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4534 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4535 test suite worked just fine.
4536
453714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4538 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4539 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4540
454115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4542 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4543 string.
4544
454516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4546 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4547 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4548 does not fully solve it.
4549
455017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4551 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4552 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4553 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4554 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4555
455618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4557 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4558 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4559
456019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4561 string, for example:
4562
4563 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4564
4565 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4566 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4567 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4568 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4569 the routers could not see them.
4570
457120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4572 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4573
457421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4575 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4576 output).
4577
457822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4579 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4580 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4581 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4582 that needed quoting.
4583
458423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4585 was not being matched caselessly.
4586
458724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4588 backslashes.
4589
459025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4591 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4592 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4593 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4594 when use_sender is false.
4595
459626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4597
459827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4599
460028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4601
460229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4603 the configuration file.
4604
460530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4606 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4607
460831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4609
461032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4611 bytes in the message body.
4612
461333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4614 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4615 delivery.
4616
461734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4618
461935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4620
462136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4622 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4623 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4624 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4625 another IP address.
4626
4627
4628Exim version 4.34
4629-----------------
4630
4631 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4632 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4633
4634 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4635 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4636 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4637 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4638 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4639
4640 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4641 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4642
4643 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4644 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4645 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4646
4647 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4648 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4649 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4650
4651 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4652 for routers.
4653
4654 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4655 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4656 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4657 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4658 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4659 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4660 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4661
4662
4663Exim version 4.33
4664-----------------
4665
4666 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4667 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4668 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4669 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4670 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4671 default (and expected) setting.
4672
4673 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4674 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4675 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4676 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4677
4678 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4679 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4680
4681 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4682 in domain lists.
4683
4684 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4685 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4686 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4687 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4688 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4689 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4690
4691 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4692 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4693 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4694
4695 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4696 part (NOT match_host).
4697
4698 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4699
4700 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4701 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4702 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4703 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4704 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4705 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4706 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4707 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4708 the same named file.
4709
471010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4711 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4712 when Exim is built.
4713
471411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4715 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4716 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4717 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4718 a host name.
4719
472012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4721 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4722 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4723
472413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4725
472614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4727
472815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4729
473016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4731 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4732
473317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4734 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4735 before starting the TLS session.
4736
473718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4738
473919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4740 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4741
474220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4743 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4744 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4745 colon in the middle).
4746
4747
4748Exim version 4.32
4749-----------------
4750
4751 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4752 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4753 multiple configurations are in use.
4754
4755 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4756 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4757 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4758 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4759 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4760 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4761
4762 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4763 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4764
4765 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4766 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4767 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4768
4769 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4770 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4771 occurs.
4772
4773 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4774 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4775
4776 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4777
4778 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4779 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4780
4781 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4782
4783 -prval:sval
4784
4785 is equivalent to
4786
4787 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4788
4789 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4790 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4791 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4792 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4793 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4794
479510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4796 Exim's behaviour:
4797
4798 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4799 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4800 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4801 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4802 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4803 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4804
4805 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4806 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4807 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4808 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4809 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4810 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4811 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4812 string.
4813
4814 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4815 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4816 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4817 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4818 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4819
482011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4821
482212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4823 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4824 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4825
482613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4827
482814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4829 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4830 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4831 information.
4832
483315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4834 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4835
483616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4837 Three changes have been made:
4838
4839 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4840 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4841 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4842 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4843 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4844
4845 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4846 been restored.
4847
4848 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4849 the modified behaviour.
4850
4851
4852Exim version 4.31
4853-----------------
4854
4855 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4856 Larry Rosenman.
4857
4858 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4859 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4860
4861 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4862 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4863 try to track down a specific problem.
4864
4865 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4866 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4867 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4868
4869 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4870 warning.
4871
4872 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4873 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4874 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4875 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4876 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4877 some earlier ones do not.
4878
4879 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4880
4881 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4882 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4883 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4884 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4885 address literals are enabled, of course).
4886
4887 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4888
488910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4890 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4891 by a command such as
4892
4893 exim -f "" ...
4894
4895 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4896
489711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4898
489912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4900 remained set. It is now erased.
4901
490213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4903 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4904
490514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4906 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4907 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4908 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4909 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4910 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4911 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4912 appropriate error code.
4913
491415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4915 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4916 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4917 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4918 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4919 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4920
492116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4922 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4923 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4924
492517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4926 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4927 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4928 terminate the header.
4929
493018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4931 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4932 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4933
493419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4935 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4936 (4.30/29). In particular:
4937
4938 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4939 imposed.
4940
4941 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4942 to write a maildirsize file.
4943
4944 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4945 the transport, the new value overrides.
4946
4947 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4948 count.
4949
495020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4951 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4952 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4953 space or a tab.
4954
495521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4956 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4957 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4958 the fallback hosts.
4959
496022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4961 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4962 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4963
496423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4965 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4966 using a union.
4967
496824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4969 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4970 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4971
497225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4973
497426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4975
497627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4977
497828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4979 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4980 become corrupted.
4981
498229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4983 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4984 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4985 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4986 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4987 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4988 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4989 too great.
4990
499130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4992 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4993 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4994 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4995 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4996 incorrectly.
4997
499831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4999 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5000 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5001 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5002 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5003 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5004 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5005 cached value only when the same options are set.
5006
500732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5008
500933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5010 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5011 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5012 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5013 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5014
501534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5016 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5017 it is clearly obsolete.
5018
501935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5020 transport.
5021
502236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5023 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5024 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5025 times.
5026
502737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5028 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5029 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5030 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5031 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5032
503338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5034 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5035 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5036 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5037
503839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5039
5040 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5041
5042 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5043 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5044 2^31.
5045
504640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5047 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5048 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5049 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5050 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5051 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5052 $localpart_data.
5053
505441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5055 with the -f command-line option.
5056
505742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5058 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5059 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5060 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5061 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5062 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5063
506443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5065 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5066 line.
5067
506844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5069 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5070 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5071 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5072 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5073 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5074 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5075 buffer is too small.
5076
507745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5078 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5079
508046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5081 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5082 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5083 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5084 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5085 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5086 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5087 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5088 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5089
509047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5091 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5092 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5093
509448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5095 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5096 ACL").
5097
509849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5099 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5100 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5101 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5102 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5103
510450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5105 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5106 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5107 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5108 is set.
5109
511051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5111
511252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5113
511453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5115 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5116
511754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5118 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5119 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5120
512155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5122 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5123 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5124 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5125 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5126
512756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5128 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5129 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5130 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5131 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5132 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5133 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5134
513557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5136 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5137 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5138 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5139 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5140 the test of how many are available.
5141
514258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5143 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5144 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5145 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5146 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5147 new message is started.
5148
514959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5150 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5151
515260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5153 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5154
515561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5156 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5157 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5158 is no long logged.
5159
516062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5161 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5162 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5163 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5164 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5165 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5166 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5167
516863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5169 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5170 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5171 interpreted as octal.
5172
517364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5174 setting.
5175
517665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5177 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5178 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5179 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5180 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5181 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5182
518366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5184 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5185 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5186 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5187
5188 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5189 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5190 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5191 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5192
5193 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5194 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5195 is a bug fix.
5196
5197 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5198 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5199
520067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5201
520268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5203 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5204 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5205 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5206
520769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5208 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5209 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5210 supplied", which is not helpful.
5211
521270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5213 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5214 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5215
521671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5217 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5218 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5219 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5220 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5221 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5222 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5223 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5224
522572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5226 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5227 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5228 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5229 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5230
523173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5232 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5233 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5234 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5235 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5236 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5237
523874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5239 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5240 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5241
524275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5243
524476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5245 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5246 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5247 variables.
5248
524977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5250
525178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5252 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5253 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5254 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5255 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5256 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5257 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5258 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5259
526079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5261 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5262 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5263 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5264 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5265
526680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5267 Haardt.
5268
526981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5270 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5271 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5272 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5273 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5274 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5275 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5276 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5277 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5278
5279
5280Exim version 4.30
5281-----------------
5282
5283 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5284 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5285 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5286
5287 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5288 fixed.
5289
5290 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5291 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5292 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5293
5294 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5295 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5296 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5297 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5298 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5299 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5300
5301 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5302 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5303 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5304 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5305 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5306 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5307 the Exim test suite.
5308
5309 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5310 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5311 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5312 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5313
5314 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5315 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5316 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5317 specify it in this variable.
5318
5319 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5320 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5321 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5322 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5323
5324 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5325 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5326 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5327 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5328
5329 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5330 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5331 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5332 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5333 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5334
5335 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5336
533710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5338 they are logged.
5339
534011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5341 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5342 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5343 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5344 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5345
534612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5347 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5348
534913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5350 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5351 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5352 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5353 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5354
535514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5356 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5357
535815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5359 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5360 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5361
536216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5363 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5364
536517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5366 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5367
536818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5369 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5370 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5371
537219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5373 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5374
537520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5376 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5377 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5378 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5379
538021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5381
538222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5383 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5384 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5385 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5386
538723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5388
538924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5390 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5391
539225. Added .include_if_exists.
5393
539426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5395 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5396 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5397 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5398 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5399 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5400
540127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5402
540328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5404 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5405 this.
5406
540729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5408
540930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5410 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5411
5412 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5413 550 Sender verify failed
5414
5415 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5416 the final line of the response.
5417
541831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5419 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5420 all other user lookups.
5421
542232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5423 delivery time.
5424
542533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5426 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5427 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5428 result into an int without checking.
5429
543034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5431 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5432 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5433
543435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5435 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5436 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5437 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5438
543936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5440 correctly.
5441
544237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5443 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5444
544538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5446 to the empty sender.
5447
544839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5449 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5450 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5451 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5452 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5453 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5454 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5455 panic log.
5456
545740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5458 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5459 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5460 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5461 used.
5462
546341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5464 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5465
546642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5467 timestamps.
5468
546943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5470 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5471
547244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5473
547445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5475 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5476 logs.
5477
547846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5479 as soon as it is encountered.
5480
548147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5482
548348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5484 rewritten to "<>".
5485
548649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5487 recognizes a tab character.
5488
548950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5490 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5491 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5492 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5493
549451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5495
549652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5497 crash.
5498
549953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5500
550154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5502
550355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5504 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5505 2822.
5506
550756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5508 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5509 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5510 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5511 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5512
551357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5514 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5515
551658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5517 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5518 list (.included file names were always shown).
5519
552059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5521 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5522 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5523 root at that time.
5524
552560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5526 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5527
552861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5529
553062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5531
553263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5533
553464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5535 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5536 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5537 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5538 failures to open the logs.
5539
554065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5541 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5542 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5543 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5544 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5545 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5546 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5547
5548
5549Exim version 4.24
5550-----------------
5551
5552 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5553 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5554 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5555 change 4.23/1.
5556
5557 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5558 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5559 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5560
5561 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5562 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5563 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5564
5565 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5566 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5567 causing some misleading effects.
5568
5569 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5570 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5571 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5572
5573 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5574 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5575 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5576 queue-runner function directly.
5577
5578
5579Exim version 4.23
5580-----------------
5581
5582 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5583 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5584
5585 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5586 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5587 was always written to the default place.
5588
5589 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5590 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5591 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5592
5593 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5594
5595 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5596
5597 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5598 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5599 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5600
5601 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5602 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5603 must start.
5604
5605 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5606 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5607 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5608
5609 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5610 command line option is disabled.
5611
5612 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5613 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5614
5615 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5616
5617 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5618
5619 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5620 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5621
562210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5623
562411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5625 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5626 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5627 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5628 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5629 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5630
563112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5632 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5633 timeout.
5634
563513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5636 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5637
563814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5639 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5640
564115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5642 received was valid base64.
5643
564416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5645 name of the variable that was being set.
5646
564717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5648
564918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5650 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5651 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5652 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5653 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5654 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5655
565619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5657
565820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5659 nor realm was specified.
5660
566121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5662 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5663 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5664 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5665
566622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5667 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5668 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5669
567023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5671 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5672 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5673
567424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5675 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5676 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5677 some systems use these upper case variants.
5678
567925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5680 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5681 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5682 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5683
568426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5685
568627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5687 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5688
568928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5690 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5691 expansion variable.
5692
569329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5694
569530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5696 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5697 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5698 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5699
570031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5701 using it.
5702
570332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5704 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5705 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5706
570733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5708 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5709
571034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5711 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5712 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5713 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5714
571535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5716 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5717 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5718
571936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5720
572137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5722 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5723 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5724 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5725 aborted.
5726
572738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5728 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5729 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5730
573139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5732
573340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5734 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5735
573641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5737 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5738
573942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5740 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5741 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5742 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5743 when emails are that large.
5744
5745
5746
5747Exim version 4.22
5748-----------------
5749
5750 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5751 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5752
5753 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5754 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5755 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5756
5757 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5758 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5759 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5760
5761 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5762 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5763 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5764 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5765 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5766
5767 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5768 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5769 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5770 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5771 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5772 ever.
5773
5774 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5775 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5776 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5777 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5778 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5779 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5780 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5781 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5782 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5783 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5784 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5785 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5786 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5787 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5788
5789 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5790 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5791 parameterised it.
5792
5793 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5794 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5795 error should be diagnosed.
5796
5797 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5798 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5799 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5800 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5801 appeared instead of "NULL".
5802
580310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5804 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5805 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5806 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5807 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5808 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5809 proceeds).
5810
5811 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5812 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5813 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5814
5815
5816Exim version 4.21
5817-----------------
5818
5819 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5820 or receiver verification errors.
5821
5822 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5823 name.
5824
5825 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5826 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5827 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5828 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5829
5830 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5831 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5832 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5833 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5834 shouldn't happen again.
5835
5836 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5837 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5838 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5839
5840 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5841 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5842
5843 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5844
5845 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5846 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5847
5848 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5849 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5850 RFC.
5851
585210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5853 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5854 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5855
585611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5857 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5858 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5859 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5860
586112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5862 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5863 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5864 to define what should happen).
5865
586613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5867 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5868 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5869
587014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5871
587215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5873
587416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5875 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5876
587717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5878 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5879 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5880 structure in all cases.
5881
5882 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5883 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5884 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5885 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5886
588718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5888 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5889 domain name.
5890
589119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5892 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5893
589420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5895 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5896
589721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5898 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5899 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5900
590122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5902 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5903 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5904
590523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5906 the book and for uniformity.
5907
590824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5909
591025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5911 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5912 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5913 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5914 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5915 non-existent command as the problem.
5916
591726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5918 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5919 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5920
592127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5922
592328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5924 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5925 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5926
592729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5928 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5929 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5930 timestamps using strftime().
5931
593230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5933 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5934
593532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5936 transport-time rewrites.
5937
593833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5939 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5940 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5941 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5942
594334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5944 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5945
594635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5947 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5948 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5949 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5950 comma and a space.
5951
595236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5953 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5954 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5955 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5956 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5957 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5958 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5959
596037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5961 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5962 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5963 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5964 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5965
596638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5967 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5968 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5969 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5970 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5971 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5972 remaining text gets split now.
5973
597439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5975 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5976 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5977 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5978
597940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5980 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5981 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5982 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5983 $return_path.
5984
598541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5986 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5987 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5988 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5989 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5990 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5991 passed through if needed.
5992
599342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5994 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5995 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5996 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5997 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5998 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5999
600043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6001 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6002 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6003 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6004 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6005
600644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6007 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6008 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6009 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6010 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6011
601245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6013 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6014 noticed.
6015
601646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6017 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6018 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6019 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6020 mayhem of various kinds.
6021
602247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6023 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6024 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6025 the right test for positive values.
6026
602748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6028 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6029 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6030 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6031 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6032 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6033 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6034 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6035 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6036 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6037 envelope.
6038
603949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6040 module.
6041
604250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6043 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6044 forbidding it.
6045
604651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6047 the existing equality matching.
6048
604952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6050 dealing with inode numbers.
6051
605253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6053 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6054 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6055
605654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6057 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6058 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6059 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6060 local_scan().
6061
606255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6063 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6064 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6065 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6066 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6067 relay addresses has also been removed.
6068
606956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6070
607157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6072 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6073 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6074
607558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6076 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6077 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6078 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6079 processing applies to CR:
6080
6081 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6082 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6083
6084 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6085 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6086 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6087 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6088
608959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6090 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6091 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6092
609360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6094 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6095 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6096 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6097 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6098 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6099 arisen.
6100
610161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6102 program routers.
6103
610462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6105 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6106 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6107 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6108 adds:
6109
6110 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6111
6112 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6113
6114 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6115
611663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6117 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6118 not considered personal.
6119
612064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6121
612265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6123
612466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6125
612667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6127 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6128 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6129 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6130 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6131 header lines, and spool format errors.
6132
613368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6134 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6135 for more flexibility.
6136
613769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6138 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6139 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6140
614170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6142 Sabourenkov.
6143
614471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6145 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6146 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6147 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6148 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6149 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6150 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6151 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6152 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6153
615472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6155 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6156 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6157 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6158 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6159 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6160 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6161
616273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6163 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6164 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6165
616674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6167 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6168 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6169 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6170 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6171 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6172 instead of killing the process with assert().
6173
617475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6175 than Unicode encoding.
6176
617776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6178 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6179 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6180 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6181
618277. Added process_log_path.
6183
618478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6185 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6186
618779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6188 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6189
619080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6191 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6192 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6193
619481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6195 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6196 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6197 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6198 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6199 were applied:
6200
6201 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6202 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6203 as invalid.
6204
620582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6206 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6207 they will be used during message reception.
6208
6209
6210Exim version 4.20
6211-----------------
6212
6213The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6214
6215****