Overhaul of GnuTLS code.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.78
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6
7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
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48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage no indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
69 diagnostics.
70 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
71
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72PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
73 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
74 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
75
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76PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
77 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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78 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
79 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
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81PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
82 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
83
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84PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
85 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
86 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
87 resolver implementation change.
88
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89PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
90 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
91
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92PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
93
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94PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
95
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96PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
97 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
98
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99PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
100 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
101
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102JH/02 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
103 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
104
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105PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
106 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
107 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
108 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
109
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111Exim version 4.77
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113
114PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
115 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
116
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117TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
118
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119TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
120 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 121
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122TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
123 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
124
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125TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
126 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
127 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
128
129 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
130 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
131 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
132 not safe for signals.
133
134 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
135 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
136 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
137 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
138 exiwhat.
139
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140TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
141
142 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
143 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
144 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
145 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
146 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
147
148 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
149 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
150 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
151 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
152 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
153 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
154
155 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
156 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
157 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
158 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
159
160 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
161 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
162 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
163 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
164
165 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
166 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
167 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
168 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
169 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
170 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
171 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
172 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
173 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
174
175 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
176 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
177 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
178 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
179
180 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
181 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
182 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
183 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
184 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
185 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
186 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
187 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
188 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
189 details in the main documentation.
190
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191TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
192
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193TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
194
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195TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
196 repository when doing development or release builds.
197
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198PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
199 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 200
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201PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
202 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
203 Bugzilla 97.
204
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205PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
206
9e949f00 207PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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208 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
209
210PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
211 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 212
555ae6af 213PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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214 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
215
216PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
217 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 218
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219PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
220 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
221
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222PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
223 Bugzilla 1156.
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224 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
225 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 226
d6cc7c78 227PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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228 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
229 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
230
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231PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
232
3399bb60 233PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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234
235PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
236 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
237
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239Exim version 4.76
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241
242PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
243
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244PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
245 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
246
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247PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
248
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249PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
250
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251PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
252 Bugzilla 1098.
253
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254PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
255 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 256
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257TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
258 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
259
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260PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
261 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
262
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263PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
264 Bugzilla 1104.
265
c8d52a00 266TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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267 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
268
269TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
270 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
271 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
272 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
273
274PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
275 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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278Exim version 4.75
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280
4c9ef03a 281NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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282 Bugzilla 1073
283
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284TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
285 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
286 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
287
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288TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
289 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
290
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291PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
292 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
293 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
294
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295PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
296 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
297
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298PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
299 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
300
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301NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
302 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
303
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304NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
305 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
306
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307PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
308 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 309
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310NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
311 Fixes bug 943.
312
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313PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
314 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
315
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316PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
317 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
318
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319PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
320 SQL string expansion failure details.
321 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
322
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323PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
324 Patch from Simon Arlott.
325
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326PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
327 extern declarations in function scope.
328 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
329
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330PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
331 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
332 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
333 a kernel bug).
334
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335PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
336 Patch from Mark Zealey.
337
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338PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
339 Patch from Mark Zealey.
340
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341PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
342 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
343
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344PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
345 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
346
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347NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
348 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
349 Dennis Davis.
350
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351PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
352
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353PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
354
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355NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
356 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 357
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358TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
359 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
360
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364
365TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
366 consequences so log it to the panic log.
367
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368TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
369 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
370
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371TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
372
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373DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
374 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
375 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
376
377PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
378 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
379 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
380
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381PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
382 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
383 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
384 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
385
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386PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
387 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
388 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
389 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
390
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391PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
392 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
393 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
394 arbitrary files.
395
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396PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
397 (Wolfgang Breyha)
398
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399PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
400 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
401 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
402 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
403 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
404
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408
409PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
410 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
411 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
412
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413PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
414 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
415
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416JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
417
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418PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
419
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420PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
421
ec5a0394 422PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 423
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424PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
425
453a6645 426PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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427 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
428 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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429 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
430
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431PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
432 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
433 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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434 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
435 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 436
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437PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
438
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439PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
440
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441PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
442
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443PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
444
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445PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
446
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447PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
448
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449PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
450
6a8de854 451PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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452 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
453 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 454
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455JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
456
457JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
458 "exim" to be used
55c75993 459
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460PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
461 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
462
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463PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
464 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
465 Notification from John Horne.
466
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467PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
468 compatible.
469
470PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
471 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
472 it normally works.
473
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474DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
475 access.
476
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477DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
478 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
479 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
480
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481DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
482 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
483 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
484 configuration file.
485
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486DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
487 option (effectively making it always true).
488
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489DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
490 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
491
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492DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
493 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
494
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495PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
496 run-time user, instead of root.
497
43236f35 498PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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499 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
500
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501DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
502 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
503 arguments.
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505DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
506 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
507 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
508
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509DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
510
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511NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
512
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517JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
518 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
519 typos
465e92cf 520
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521JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
522 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
523 (Finput)
edae0343 524
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525NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
526 Patch from Alain Williams
527
bb576ff7
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528NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
529
5a1a5845
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530NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
531 Patch from Andreas Metzler
532
981a9fad
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533NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
534 Patch from Kirill Miazine
535
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536NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
537
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538JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
539
a466095c 540NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 541 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 542
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543TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
544
545TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
546
547MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
548 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
549 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
550
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551NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
552 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 553
b26eacf1 554NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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555 Patch by Simon Arlott
556
179c5980 557PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 558 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 559
9bd3e22c 560
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561Exim version 4.71
562-----------------
563
7d9f747b 564TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 565
f013fb92
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566NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
567
0eb8eedd
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568NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
569
663ee6d9
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570NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
571
177ebd9b
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572NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
573
7c6d71af 574
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575Exim version 4.70
576-----------------
577
cdd3bb85 578TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 579 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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580
581TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
582 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 583 Hirsch).
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584
585TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
586 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 587 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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588
589TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
590 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
591
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592NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
593 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
594 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
595 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
596
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597NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
598 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 599 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 600
089793a4
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601TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
602
5f16ca82
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603TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
604
dae9d94e 605NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 606 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 607
7d9f747b 608NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 609
06864c44
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610TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
611 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
612 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
613 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
614
65a7d8c3 615NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 616 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 617
23510047 618TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 619
7d9f747b 620NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 621
7d8eec3a 622NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 623 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 624
89dec7b6
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625TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
626 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 627
a99de90c
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628TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
629 that they are available at delivery time.
630
e2803e40
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631TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
632
7199e1ee
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633TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
634 incoming_port log selectors.
635
e276e04b
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636TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
637 setting expands to an empty string.
638
ce552449 639NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 640 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 641
e765a0f1 642NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 643 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 644
4f054c63 645NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 646 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 647
7d9f747b
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648NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
649 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 650
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651NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
652 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 653
b52bc06e 654NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 655 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 656
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657NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
658
4c69d561 659NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 660 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 661
d5c39246 662NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 663 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 664
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665TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
666
8f3414a1 667NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 668 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 669
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670NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
671
672NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 673
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674NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
675 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 676
7d9f747b
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677NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
678 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 679
7d9f747b
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680NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
681 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 682
7d9f747b
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683NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
684 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 685
7d9f747b
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686NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
687 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 688
7d9f747b
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689NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
690 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 691
7d9f747b
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692NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
693 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 694
7d9f747b 695NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 696 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 697
7d9f747b 698NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 699
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700NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
701 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 702
7d9f747b 703NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 704
7d9f747b 705NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 706
7d9f747b 707NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 708
7d9f747b 709NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 710
17792b53 711NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 712 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 713
7d9f747b
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714NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
715 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 716
7d9f747b
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717NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
718 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 719
7d9f747b
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720NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
721 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 722
7d9f747b 723NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 724
7d9f747b 725NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 726
7d9f747b 727NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 728
7d9f747b 729NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 730
deafd5b3 731
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733-----------------
734
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735TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
736 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
737 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
738
739 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
740 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
741 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
742 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
743 build errors in sieve.c.
744
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745NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
746 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
747 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
748
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749SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
750
7d9f747b 751NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 752
7d9f747b 753NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 754
7d9f747b 755NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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756
757
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758Exim version 4.68
759-----------------
760
761PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
762
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763PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
764 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
765 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
766 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
767 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
768 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
769 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
770 for iplsearch lookups.
771
772 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
773 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
774 previously such lookups could never work.
775
776 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
777 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
778 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
779
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780TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
781 version.
782
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783MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
784 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
785 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
786 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
787 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
788 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
789
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790TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
791 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
792
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793MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
794 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
795 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
796 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
797 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
798 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
799
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800PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
801 local_scan API.
802
93655c46
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803PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
804
6c512171
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805PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
806 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
807 encrypted.
808
809PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
810 by clients under certain conditions.
811
aa6dc513
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812PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
813 "_responses" off the end of the name.
814
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815PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
816
8f240103
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817PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
818 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
819
820PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
821
d677b2f2
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822PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
823
d52120f2
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824PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
825
64f2600a
PH
826PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
827 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
828
8669f003
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829PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
830
a4dc33a8
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831PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
832 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
833
d6a60c0f
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834PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
835
8f128379
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836PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
837
8932dffe
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838PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
839 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
840 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
841 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 842
ddea74fa 843PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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844 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
845 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
846
ddea74fa 847PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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848 and InterBase are left for another time.)
849
ddea74fa
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850PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
851
ce9f225c
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852PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
853
19897d52
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854PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
855
bc64a74d
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856PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
857 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
858 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
859
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863
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864MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
865 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
866 Jan Srzednicki.
867
b4ed4da0
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868PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
869 issue a MAIL command.
870
431b7361
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871PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
872
873 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
874
875 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
876 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
877 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
878 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
879 item. This has been fixed.
880
881PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
882 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
883
83da1223
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884PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
885 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
886
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887PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
888 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
889 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
890
34c5e8dd
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891SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
892
bbe15da8
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893PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
894 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
895 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
896 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
897 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
898
0e8a9471
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899MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
900 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
901 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
902
f0872424
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903PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
904 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
905 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
906 the server_setid option was incorrect.
907
b01dd148
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908PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
909
6bf342e1
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910PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
911
273f34d0
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912PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
913 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
914 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
915 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
916 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
917
cf8b11a5
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918PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
919
41c7c167
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920PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
921 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
922 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
923 values).
924
9c57cbc0
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925PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
926
f3f065bb
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927PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
928
047bdd8c
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929PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
930
0ce9abe6
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931PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
932
0e22dfd1
PH
933PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
934
4c590bd1
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935PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
936 no_callout_flush is set.
937
09945f1e
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938PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
939 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
940 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
941 fixed.
942
c51b8e75
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943PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
944
e28326d8
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945PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
946 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
947 other ACL rejections are.
948
75b1493f
PH
949PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
950 with slight modification.
951
7c5214ec
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952PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
953 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
954
4311097e
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955PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
956 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
957 connection.
958
29f89cad
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959PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
960 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
961
5e687460
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962SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
963
c3611384
PH
964PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
965 expansion side effects.
966
5a11a7b4
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967PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
968 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
969 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
970 be the same.
971
0e20aff9
MH
972MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
973 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
974 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
975
ca86f471
PH
976PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
977 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
978 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
979 were accidentally chopped off.
980
a14e5636
PH
981PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
982 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
983 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
984 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
985 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
986 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
987 pipelining has not been advertised.
988
ec95d1a6
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989PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
990
42855d71
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991PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
992 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
993 This has been fixed.
994
57c2c631
PH
995PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
996 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
997 reported on Solaris.
998
58c01c94
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999PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1000 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1001 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1002 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1003 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1004 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1005 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1006
dee5a20a
PH
1007PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1008 cpus.
1009
d2ee6114
PH
1010PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1011
b2d5182b
PH
1012PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1013
79749a79
PH
1014PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1015 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1016 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1017 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1018 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1019 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1020
c456d9bb
PH
1021PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1022 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1023 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1024 host_all_ignored option.
1025
cd9868ec
PH
1026PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1027 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1028 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1029 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1030 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1031 is what is supposed to happen).
1032
ebeaf996
PH
1033PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1034 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1035 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1036 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1037 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1038 uses the Exim user.
1039
2679d413
PH
1040PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1041 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1042 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1043 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1044 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1045 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1046 users.
1047
84024b72
PH
1048PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1049
8005d38e
SC
1050SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1051 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1052 (Jez Hancock).
1053 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1054 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1055
3298c6c6
SC
1056SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1057
a43a27c5
PH
1058PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1059
58eb016e 1060PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1061 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1062 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1063 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1064 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1065 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1066 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1067 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1068 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1069 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1070 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1071
b43a74ea
PH
1072PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1073 advertised in response to EHLO.
1074
b4ed4da0 1075
5dd1517f
PH
1076Exim version 4.66
1077-----------------
1078
1079PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1080 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1081
1082 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1083 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1084
1085 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1086 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1087 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1088
1089 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1090 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1091 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1092 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1093 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1094
1095
93cfa765
TK
1096Exim version 4.65
1097-----------------
1098
1099TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1100 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1101 versions. (#438)
1102
d6066548
MH
1103MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1104 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1105 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1106
4362ff0d
PH
1107PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1108 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1109 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1110 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1111 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1112 rather than extend the field.
1113
93cfa765 1114
944e9e9c
TF
1115Exim version 4.64
1116-----------------
aa41d2de 1117
21d74bd9
TK
1118TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1119 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1120 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1121 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1122 these files.
1123
1124TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1125 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1126 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1127
1128TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1129 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1130 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1131
1132TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1133 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1134 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1135 in the field name.
1136
2b1c6e3a
PH
1137PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1138 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1139 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1140 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1141 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1142 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1143 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1144 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1145 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1146 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1147 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1148
1f872c80
PH
1149PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1150 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1151
1152PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1153 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1154 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1155 ignores EPIPE as well.
1156
d203e649
PH
1157PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1158 (quoted-printable decoding).
1159
cc2ed8f7 1160PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1161 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1162
ddfcd446
PH
1163PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1164
d45b1de8
PH
1165PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1166
1167PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1168
38a0a95f 1169PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1170 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1171
a2405d83
JJ
1172JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1173 in 4.64-PH/09.
1174
1175JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1176 miscellaneous code fixes
1177
6ea85e9a
PH
1178PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1179 rejections.
1180
26da7e20
PH
1181PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1182 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1183 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1184 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1185 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1186 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1187 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1188 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1189
14aa5a05 1190PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1191 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1192 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1193 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1194 function.
1195 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1196 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1197 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1198 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1199 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1200 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1201 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1202 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1203 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1204
ff75a1f7
PH
1205PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1206 decoding.
1207
e6f6568e
PH
1208PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1209 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1210 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1211 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1212 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1213 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1214 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1215 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1216
d6f6e0dc
PH
1217PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1218 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1219 list.
1220
322050c2
PH
1221PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1222 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1223 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1224 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1225 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1226 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1227 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1228 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1229 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1230 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1231 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1232 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1233 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1234
08955dd3
PH
1235PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1236 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1237 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1238 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1239 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1240 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1241 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1242
1eccaa59
PH
1243PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1244 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1245 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1246 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1247 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1248 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1249 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1250 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1251 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1252 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1253
602e59e5
PH
1254PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1255 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1256 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1257 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1258 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1259
411ef850
PH
1260PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1261 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1262 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1263 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1264 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1265 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1266 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1267
7befa435
PH
1268PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1269 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1270 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1271 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1272 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1273 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1274 been verified.
1275
48da4259 1276PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1277 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1278 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1279 and authorization.)
1280
48da4259
PH
1281PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1282 if any retry times were supplied.
1283
d1d5595c
PH
1284PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1285 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1286 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1287
0ef732d9
PH
1288PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1289
328895cc
PH
1290PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1291
fd700877
PH
1292PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1293 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1294 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1295 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1296 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1297 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1298
8dce1a6f
PH
1299PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1300 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1301
17af4a17
PH
1302PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1303 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1304 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1305
1306PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1307 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1308 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1309 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1310 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1311 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1312 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1313 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1314 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1315
1316 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1317 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1318 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1319 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1320 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1321 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1322 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1323 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1324 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1325
1326 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1327 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1328 hammering the server.
1329
c1114884
PH
1330PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1331 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1332
7a0743eb
PH
1333PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1334
0d85fa3f
PH
1335PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1336 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1337 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1338
1bf43b78
PH
1339PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1340 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1341 one case where this was not true.
1342
520de300
PH
1343PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1344 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1345 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1346 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1347 fails.
1348
48c7f9e2
PH
1349PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1350 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1351 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1352 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1353 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1354 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1355 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1356 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1357 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1358 smtp transport.
1359
99ea1c86
PH
1360PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1361 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1362 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1363 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1364
a2042e78
PH
1365PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1366 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1367
4fbcfc2e
PH
1368PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1369 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1370 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1371
aa41d2de
PH
1372PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1373
af561417
PH
1374PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1375
3cc66b45
PH
1376PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1377
194cc0e4
PH
1378PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1379 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1380 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1381 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1382
a401ddaa
PH
1383PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1384 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1385
4e88a19f
PH
1386PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1387 be meaningful with "accept".
1388
d7d7b289
SC
1389SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1390 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1391
1392SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1393 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1394 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1395
1396SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1397 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1398 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1399 there is data to show.
1400 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1401
1402SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1403 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1404 as well as the number of messages.
1405
1406SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1407 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1408 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1409
1410SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1411 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1412 have a flag are now skipped.
1413
1414SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1415 Added the -emptyok flag.
1416
1417SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1418 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1419
0ea2a468
JJ
1420JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1421 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1422 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1423
1424JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1425 match 4.64-PH/13
1426
1427JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1428 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1429
1430JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1431
1432JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1433 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1434
8a10f5a4
PH
1435PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1436
30e18802
PH
1437PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1438 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1439 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1440 contravention of the specifications.
1441
55728a4f
PH
1442PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1443 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1444 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1445
d7837193
PH
1446PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1447 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1448 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1449
87054a31
PH
1450PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1451
ea2c01d2
MH
1452MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1453 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1454 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1455 some point in the past.
1456
e4fa6968
PH
1457PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1458 transport during callout processing was broken.
1459
56f5d9bd
PH
1460PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1461 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1462
922e1c28
PH
1463PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1464 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1465
21eb6e72
PH
1466PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1467 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1468
a0540757
PH
1469PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1470
944e9e9c 1471
478be7b0
SC
1472Exim version 4.63
1473-----------------
1474
1475SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1476 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1477
1478SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1479 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1480 there is data to show.
1481 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1482
1483SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1484 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1485
2b965a65
TF
1486TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1487 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1488
45b91596
PH
1489TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1490 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1491
c59f5781
TF
1492TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1493 submissions from trusted users.
1494
90fc3069
TF
1495TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1496 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1497
6083aca0
TF
1498TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1499 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1500 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1501 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1502 there is now a framework to start from.
1503
765b530f
PH
1504PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1505 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1506 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1507
4e167a8c
PH
1508PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1509
4608d683
PH
1510PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1511
b8dc3e4a
PH
1512PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1513
5418e93b
PH
1514PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1515 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1516 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1517
b4a9bda2
PH
1518PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1519 libradius.
1520
45b91596
PH
1521PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1522 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1523 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1524
5547e2c5
PH
1525PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1526 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1527 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1528 its arguments.
1529
dbcef0ea
PH
1530PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1531 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1532 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1533 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1534 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1535
25257489
PH
1536PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1537 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1538
c816d124
PH
1539PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1540
a9ccd69a
PH
1541PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1542 operations in malware.c.
1543
75fa1910
PH
1544PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1545 signatures.
1546
a7d7aa58
PH
1547PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1548 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1549 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1550 all.
1551
42119b09
PH
1552PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1553 statements to "add_header".
1554
41609df5
PH
1555PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1556 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1557
a5bd321b
PH
1558PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1559 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1560 latter.
1561
e85a7ad5 1562PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1563 so that it is now:
1564
e85a7ad5
PH
1565 ${if or { \
1566 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1567 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1568 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1569 }{no}{yes}}
1570
e85a7ad5
PH
1571 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1572 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1573
d8fe1c03
PH
1574PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1575 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1576
16282d2b
PH
1577PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1578 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1579 any possible encoding problems.
1580
35d40a98
PH
1581PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1582 but not after initializing Perl.
1583
034d99ab
PH
1584PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1585 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1586 apparently, which is not desirable.
1587
6ec97b1b
PH
1588PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1589 queries.
1590
e22ca4ac
JJ
1591JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1592 --not options
1593
1594JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1595
33d73e3b
PH
1596PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1597 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1598 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1599 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1600
9ecb03f3
PH
1601PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1602 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1603 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1604
084efe8d
PH
1605PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1606 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1607 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1608 0.12.
1609
366fc9f0
PH
1610PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1611 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1612 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1613 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1614 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1615
c59f5781 1616
c887c79e
TF
1617Exim version 4.62
1618-----------------
1619
1620TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1621 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1622
1cce3af8
PH
1623PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1624 patch).
1625
afb3eaaf
PH
1626PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1627 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1628 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1629 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1630 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1631 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1632 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1633 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1634 451 error is used.
1635
e173618b
PH
1636PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1637
dd16e114
PH
1638PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1639 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1640 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1641
f7fd3850
PH
1642PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1643 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1644 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1645 odd errors.
1646
d87df92c
PH
1647PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1648 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1649
7e9f683d
PH
1650PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1651 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1652 option (which defaults to 0600).
1653
bfad5236
PH
1654PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1655
01c490df
PH
1656PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1657 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1658 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1659 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1660 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1661 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1662 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1663
d6629cdc
PH
1664PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1665
1cce3af8 1666
214e2000
PH
1667Exim version 4.61
1668-----------------
1669
1670PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1671 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1672 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1673 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1674 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1675 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1676 addresses as local.
1677
f9daeae0
PH
1678PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1679 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1680
7e66e54d
PH
1681PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1682
c8ea1597
PH
1683PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1684 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1685 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1686 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1687 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1688 grumble.
1689
911f6fde
PH
1690PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1691 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1692
47ca6d6c
PH
1693PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1694 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1695 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1696 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1697 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1698
ed0e9820
PH
1699PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1700 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1701 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1702 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1703
eff37e47
PH
1704PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1705 be the same on different OS.
1706
1921d2ea
PH
1707PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1708 testing.
1709
b3f69ca8
JJ
1710JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1711 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1712
1713JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1714 in 4.61-PH/06
1715
424a1c63
PH
1716PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1717 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1718 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1719 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1720 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1721 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1722 bounce message.
1723
7a100415
PH
1724PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1725 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1726 when Exim was called.
1727
19b9dc85
PH
1728PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1729 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1730
309bd837
PH
1731PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1732 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1733 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1734 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1735
59e82a2a
PH
1736PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1737 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1738 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1739 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1740 changes:
1741
1742 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1743 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1744 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1745
1746 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1747 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1748 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1749
9edc04ce
PH
1750PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1751 feature).
1752
1349e1e5
PH
1753PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1754 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1755 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1756 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1757 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1758 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1759 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1760 values from the SRV records were lost.
1761
ea49d0e1
PH
1762PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1763 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1764 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1765
064a94c9
PH
1766PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1767 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1768 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1769
727071f8
PH
1770PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1771 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1772 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1773 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1774 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1775 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1776 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1777 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1778 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1779 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1780
f78eb7c6
PH
1781PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1782 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1783 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1784
21c28500
PH
1785PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1786 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1787
1788PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1789 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1790 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1791 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1792 is given.
1793
1688f43b
PH
1794PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1795 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1796 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1797
1798PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1799 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1800 PH/23 above applies.
1801
9675b384
PH
1802PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1803 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1804 (for which there is an explicit test).
1805
6a3f1455
PH
1806PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1807
dac79d3e
PH
1808PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1809 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1810 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1811 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1812 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1813
5977a0b3
PH
1814PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1815 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1816 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1817 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1818
c91535f3
PH
1819PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1820 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1821 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1822
0d46a8c8
PH
1823PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1824
278c6e6c
PH
1825PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1826
2cbb4081
PH
1827PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1828 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1829 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1830
3eef829e
PH
1831PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1832 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1833 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1834 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1835 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1836
1ab95fa6
PH
1837PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1838 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1839 the message gets confusing).
1840
230205fc
PH
1841PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1842 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1843 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1844 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1845
75e0e026
PH
1846PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1847 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1848 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1849 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1850 same order.
1851
1852PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1853 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1854 the different processes.
1855
145396a6
PH
1856PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1857
3cd34f13
PH
1858PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1859
11121d3d
JJ
1860JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1861 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1862
1863JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1864 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1865
1866JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1867 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1868 messages matching specified criteria.
1869
8def5aaf
PH
1870PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1871
929ba01c
PH
1872PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1873 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1874
2632889e
PH
1875PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1876 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1877 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1878 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1879 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1880 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1881 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1882 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1883 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1884 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1885
944a9c55
PH
1886PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1887 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1888 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1889
4a23603b
PH
1890PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1891
4730f942
PH
1892PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1893 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1894 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1895 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1896 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1897 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1898 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1899 the variable.
1900
30dba1e6
PH
1901PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1902 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1903
382afc6b
PH
1904PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1905
a86229cf
PH
1906PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1907
50c99ba6
PH
1908PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1909
d35e429d
PH
1910PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1911 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1912 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1913 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1914 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1915 size of the count of files.
1916
f90d018c
PH
1917PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1918
75def545
PH
1919PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1920 used in LMTP mode:
1921
1922 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1923 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1924 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1925 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1926
1927 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1928 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1929 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1930
1931PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1932 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1933 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1934 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1935 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1936
c46782ef
PH
1937PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1938 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1939
71fafd95
PH
1940PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1941 will now be deprecated.
1942
2c5db4fd
PH
1943PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1944
9cf6b11a
JJ
1945JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1946 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1947 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1948
1949JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1950 with very large, slow to parse queues
1951
1952JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1953
1954JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1955
898d150f
PH
1956PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1957 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1958 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1959 SMTP output lines.
1960
46218253
PH
1961PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1962 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1963 Sieve code now uses this.
1964
e97957bc
PH
1965PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1966 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1967
81e509d7
PH
1968PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1969 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1970
3d240ff7
PH
1971PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1972
b37c4101
PH
1973PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1974 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1975 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1976 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1977 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1978
79378e0f
PH
1979PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1980 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1981 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1982 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1983
e49c7bb4
PH
1984PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1985
d114ec46
PH
1986PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1987
f3d7df6c
PH
1988PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1989 is preferred over IPv4.
1990
715ab376
PH
1991PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1992 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1993 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1994 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1995 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1996 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1997 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1998
6b31b150
PH
1999PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2000 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2001 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2002
2003PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2004
d515a917
PH
2005PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2006 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2007 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2008 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2009 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2010 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2011 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2012 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2013 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2014 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2015 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2016
9b8fadde
PH
2017PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2018 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2019 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2020
214e2000 2021
5de37277
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2022Exim version 4.60
2023-----------------
2024
cc38ddbf
PH
2025PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2026
2027 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2028 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2029
2030 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2031 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2032 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2033
72fdd6ae
PH
2034PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2035
2036 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2037 not a single digit.
2038
2039 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2040 string.
2041
2042 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2043 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2044 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2045 silly things.
2046
2047 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2048 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2049
2050 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2051 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2052
cb741023
PH
2053PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2054 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2055 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2056
f174f16e
PH
2057PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2058 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2059
c25242d7
PH
2060PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2061 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2062
2063 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2064
2065 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2066 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2067 this:
2068
2069 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2070
82c19f95
PH
2071PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2072 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2073 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2074 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2075 identical. For example:
2076
2077 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2078
2079 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2080 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2081 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2082
d7ffbc12
PH
2083PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2084 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2085 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2086 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2087
9f526266
PH
2088PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2089 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2090 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2091 message.
2092
87fcc8b9
PH
2093PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2094
2095 o fixes some comments
2096 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2097 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2098 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2099 and documents the missing references header update
2100
2101 and most important:
2102
2103 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2104 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2105 result)
2106
456682f5
PH
2107PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2108 Electronic Mail") by including:
2109
2110 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2111
2112 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2113 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2114 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2115 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2116 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2117
2118 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2119
2120 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2121
2122 The auto-replied keyword:
2123
2124 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2125 message by an automatic process,
2126
2127 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2128
2129 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2130 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2131
2132 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2133 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2134 other messages.
2135
3e46c1aa
PH
2136PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2137 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2138
49826d12
PH
2139PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2140
eba0c039
PH
2141PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2142 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2143 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2144
a0d6ba8a
PH
2145PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2146 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2147 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2148
f0917727
PH
2149PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2150 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2151 and treats the condition as false.
2152
096fee00
PH
2153PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2154
024bd3c2
PH
2155PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2156 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2157 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2158 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2159 not changing the active code.
2160
2161 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2162 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2163
2164 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2165 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2166
df199fec
PH
2167PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2168 (Bugzilla #53).
2169
d27f1df3
PH
2170PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2171 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2172 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2173 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2174 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2175 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2176 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2177 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2178 the text comparison.
2179
96776534
PH
2180PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2181 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2182 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2183 The same fix has been applied.
2184
5de37277 2185
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2186Exim version 4.54
2187-----------------
2188
2189PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2190 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2191 It now does.
2192
99a4b039
PH
2193PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2194 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2195
2196PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2197
4b233853
PH
2198PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2199 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2200 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2201 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2202 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2203
8857ccfd
PH
2204TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2205 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2206 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2207 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2208 or /domain=).
2209
433a2980
PH
2210PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2211 testing suite.
2212
3e46c1aa 2213
9a799bc0 2214
e3a311ba
TK
2215Exim version 4.53
2216-----------------
2217
2218TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2219 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2220
13b685f9
PH
2221PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2222
395ff96d
PH
2223PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2224
5b68f6e4
PH
2225PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2226 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2227 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2228
1ab52c69
PH
2229PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2230 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2231 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2232
b07e6aa3
PH
2233PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2234 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2235 operating systems.
2236
254e032f
PH
2237PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2238 ${stat: expansion item.
2239
3af76a81
PH
2240PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2241 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2242
2548ba04
PH
2243PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2244 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2245 file for comments.
2246
b6c6011d
PH
2247PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2248
cf39cf57
PH
2249PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2250 setting.
2251
f1513293
PH
2252PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2253 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2254
727549a4
PH
2255TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2256
af46795e
PH
2257PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2258 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2259 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2260 the end of the subprocess.
2261
d7b47fd0
PH
2262PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2263 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2264 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2265 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2266 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2267
ee744174
JJ
2268JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2269
b582ab87
PH
2270TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2271
41a13e0a
PH
2272PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2273 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2274
f625cc5a
PH
2275PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2276
2277PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2278
21f7af35
PH
2279PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2280 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2281 HP-UX compiler.
2282
31480e42
PH
2283PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2284
2d280592
PH
2285PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2286 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2287 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2288
7cd1141b
PH
2289PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2290 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2291
2292PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2293 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2294
750af86e
PH
2295PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2296 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2297
2298 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2299 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2300
2301 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2302 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2303 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2304 contributed by a Radius user.
2305
2306PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2307 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2308
4304270b
TK
2309TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2310 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2311
750af86e
PH
2312PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2313 available.
2314
64ffc24f
PH
2315PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2316 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2317 received.
2318
5dd9625b
PH
2319PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2320 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2321 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2322 header lines when this was not necessary.
2323
5591031b
PH
2324PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2325
ba18e66a
PH
2326PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2327 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2328 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2329 exists".
2330
9cec981f
PH
2331PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2332 -bV or -d is used.
2333
aa2b5c79
PH
2334PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2335 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2336 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2337 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2338
48a53b7f
PH
2339PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2340
1c59d63b
PH
2341PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2342
671012da
TK
2343TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2344
1509d3a8
PH
2345PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2346
2347PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2348 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2349 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2350 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2351 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2352 settings.
2353
2354PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2355
2fe1a124
PH
2356PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2357 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2358 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2359 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2360 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2361 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2362 which is clearly wrong.
2363
8800895a
PH
2364PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2365
ccfdb010
PH
2366PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2367 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2368 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2369 subsequently added.
2370
1130bfb0
PH
2371PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2372 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2373
ebcb507f
PH
2374PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2375
c35e155c
PH
2376PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2377 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2378
95d1f782
PH
2379PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2380 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2381
fd6de02e
PH
2382PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2383 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2384
58de37c5
PH
2385PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2386 recipients, not senders.
2387
261cf466
TF
2388TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2389 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2390
3ee512ff
PH
2391PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2392
e08c430f
PH
2393PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2394
bef5a11f
PH
2395PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2396 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2397 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2398 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2399
7546de58
TF
2400TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2401
e5d5a95f
TF
2402TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2403 clock is set back in time.
2404
2e88a017
TF
2405TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2406 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2407
a5f65aa4
TF
2408TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2409 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2410
e7726cbf
PH
2411PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2412 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2413 (see PH/47 above).
2414
a7fdad5b
TF
2415TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2416 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2417 header rewrites.
2418
6af56900
PH
2419PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2420 type ("H").
2421
0925ede6
PH
2422PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2423
66afa403
TF
2424TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2425 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2426 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2427
0154e85a
TF
2428TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2429 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2430 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2431 helo verification defer as a failure.
2432
16f12c76
PH
2433PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2434 actual error message.
2435
bbe902f0 2436
e5a9dba6
PH
2437Exim version 4.52
2438-----------------
2439
2440TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2441
22c3b60b
PH
2442PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2443 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2444 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2445 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2446
06a9b4b5
PH
2447TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2448
c1ac6996
PH
2449PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2450 can still be requested.
2451
9c7a242c
PH
2452PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2453 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2454 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2455 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2456
87ba3f5f
PH
2457TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2458 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2459 circumstances, but probably never did.
2460
2461PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2462 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2463 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2464 in the header line.
2465
29aba418
TF
2466TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2467
fe0dab11
TF
2468TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2469 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2470
11d337a4
TK
2471TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2472
2473TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2474
415c8f3b
PH
2475PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2476 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2477 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2478 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2479 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2480 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2481
958541e9
PH
2482PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2483 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2484 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2485 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2486 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2487 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2488
c206415f
TK
2489TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2490 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2491
2a4be8f9
PH
2492PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2493 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2494
1cba11c5
SC
2495SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2496 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2497
2498SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2499
2500SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2501
2502SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2503
2504SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2505
2506SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2507
2508SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2509
1005d00e
TK
2510TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2511
2512TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2513 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2514 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2515
2516TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2517 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2518 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2519 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2520
9b4768fa
PH
2521PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2522 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2523 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2524
2525PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2526 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2527 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2528 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2529
0d7eb84a
PH
2530PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2531 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2532 to be made).
2533
2534PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2535 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2536 should work with maildirs and everything.
2537
40727bee
TK
2538TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2539 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2540
554d2369
TF
2541TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2542 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2543
1f922db1
PH
2544PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2545 function for BDB 4.3.
2546
ef213c3b
PH
2547PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2548
8ac170f3
PH
2549PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2550 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2551 involved.
2552
b1c749bb
PH
2553PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2554 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2555 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2556 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2557 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2558 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2559
4aac9b49
PH
2560PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2561 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2562 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2563 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2564 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2565 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2566 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2567 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2568
294520c8
TK
2569TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2570 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2571 details.
2572
5bd022fe
PH
2573PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2574 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2575
90e9ce59
PH
2576PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2577 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2578 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2579 test. It is now used for both.
2580
5ea81592
PH
2581PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2582 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2583 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2584 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2585 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2586 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2587
c6c2dc1d
PH
2588PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2589 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2590 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2591 string_vformat().
2592
fffffe4c
PH
2593PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2594 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2595 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2596
9a26b6b2
PH
2597PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2598 experimental DomainKeys support:
2599
2600 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2601 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2602 the control was given.
2603
2604 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2605
4aee0225
PH
2606PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2607
32d668a5
PH
2608PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2609
8187c3f3
PH
2610PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2611 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2612 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2613 db.h files).
2614
ff790e47 2615PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2616 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2617 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2618 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2619 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2620 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2621 course.
ff790e47 2622
5417f6d1
PH
2623PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2624 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2625 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2626 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2627 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2628 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2629
59cf8544
PH
2630PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2631 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2632 do -d+all out of habit.
2633
e7ad8a65
PH
2634PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2635 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2636 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2637
ade42478
PH
2638PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2639 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2640 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2641 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2642 record types that Exim uses.
2643
182ad5cf
PH
2644PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2645 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2646 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2647 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2648 non-existent file that was broken.
2649
b0d9fc80
TK
2650TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2651 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2652
2653TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2654 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2655 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2656
2657TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2658
47c7a64a
PH
2659PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2660 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2661 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2662 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2663 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2664 same time.
2665
a388bce4
SC
2666SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2667 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2668 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2669 at a slight CPU cost.
2670
2671SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2672 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2673
2674SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2675 by Marc Sherman.
2676
0793e4ed
SC
2677SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2678
c58b88df
PH
2679PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2680 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2681
e7ad8a65 2682
7982096b
PH
2683Exim version 4.51
2684-----------------
2685
1a46a8c5
PH
2686TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2687 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2688
2f079f46 2689TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2690
2691TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2692
2693PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2694 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2695
2696PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2697 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2698 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2699 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2700 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2701 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2702 file.
2703
2704PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2705 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2706 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2707 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2708 these two options.
2709
2710PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2711 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2712 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2713 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2714 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2715 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2716 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2717 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2718
2719PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2720 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2721
2722PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2723 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2724 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2725 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2726 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2727 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2728
2729PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2730 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2731 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2732 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2733
2734PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2735 Finch).
2736
2737PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2738 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2739
49c2d5ea
PH
2740PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2741 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2742 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2743 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2744 message.
49c2d5ea 2745
bf759a8b
PH
2746PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2747
83364d30
PH
2748PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2749 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2750
7999bbd7
PH
2751PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2752 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2753 to what was transported.)
2754
7dbf77c9
PH
2755TF/01 Added $received_time.
2756
74e0617f
PH
2757PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2758 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2759 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2760 spamd_address settings.
2761
2f079f46
PH
2762PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2763 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2764 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2765 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2766 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2767
8c841523
PH
2768PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2769
7766a4f0
PH
2770PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2771 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2772 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2773 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2774 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2775
8b417f2c
PH
2776PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2777 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2778
901f42cb
PH
2779PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2780 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2781 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2782 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2783 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2784 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2785 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2786 for failure.
2787
f9b9210e
PH
2788PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2789 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2790 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2791 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2792 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2793 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2794 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2795 "input=".
2796
54cdb463
PH
2797PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2798
cf00dad6
PH
2799PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2800 driver and ACL definitions.
2801
acb1b346
PH
2802PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2803 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2804
c5ddb310
PH
2805PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2806 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2807 understands it better than I do:
2808
2809 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2810 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2811
2812 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2813 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2814 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2815 => three warnings about OTP not working
2816 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2817
2818 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2819 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2820 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2821 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2822 for each call.)
2823 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2824 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2825
2826 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2827 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2828 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2829
31619da6
PH
2830PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2831 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2832 specified.
2833
bebaf0fc
PH
2834PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2835 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2836 "Linux".
2837
475fe28a
PH
2838PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2839 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2840 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2841
2842 warn !verify = sender
2843 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2844
2845 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2846 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2847
7e8bec7a
PH
2848PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2849
2850 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2851 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2852
2853 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2854 nomenclature these days.)
2855
e4a89c47
PH
2856PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2857 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2858
5ca2a9a1
PH
2859PH/30 In these circumstances:
2860 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2861 . First host does not offer TLS;
2862 . First host accepts first address;
2863 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2864 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2865 . Second host accepts second address.
2866 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2867 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2868 address.
7e8bec7a 2869
c688b954
PH
2870PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2871 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2872 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2873 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2874 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2875
fed77020
PH
2876PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2877 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2878
7fe1560f
PH
2879PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2880 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2881
ebb6e6d5
PH
2882PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2883 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2884 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2885
9c4e8f60
PH
2886PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2887 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2888 overlooked.
2889
2890PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2891
d7174846
PH
2892PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2893 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2894 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2895 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2896 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2897 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2898 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2899
2900 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2901 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2902 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2903 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2904 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2905
2906 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2907 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2908 routed further.
2909
cfe75fc3
PH
2910PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2911 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2912 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2913 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2914 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2915 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2916
be22d70e
PH
2917PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2918
0612b098
PH
2919PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2920 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2921 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2922 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2923 printable escape sequences.
2924
2e0c1448
PH
2925PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2926 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2927 body only.
2928
447d236c
PH
2929PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2930 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2931 are as follows:
2932
2933 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2934 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2935 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2936 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2937 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2938
2939 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2940 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2941 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2942
d20976dc
PH
2943PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2944
f656d135
PH
2945PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2946 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2947 play with."
2948
2e2a30b4
PH
2949PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2950 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2951 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2952 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2953 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2954 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2955 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2956 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2957 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2958 the log output.
2959
9176e9f0
PH
2960PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2961 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2962 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2963 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2964 "make".
2965
7982096b 2966
bbe902f0
PH
2967A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2968----------------------------------------
2969
2970Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2971changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2972needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2973in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2974that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2975release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2976from 4.43.
2977
2978I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
29794.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2980those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2981historical information.
2982
2983
f7b63901 2984Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2985-----------------
2986
5fe762f6
PH
2987 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2988
139059f6 2989 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2990 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2991
7086e875
PH
2992 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2993 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2994 place.
2995
35af9f61
PH
2996 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2997 filter fails to execute.
2998
b668c215
PH
2999 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3000 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3001 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3002 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3003 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3004
a494b1e1
PH
3005 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3006
3007 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3008 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3009 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3010 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3011
c5fcb476
PH
3012 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3013 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3014 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3015 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3016 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3017
69358f02
PH
3018 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3019
5be20824
PH
302010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3021
eb2c0248
PH
302211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3023 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3024 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3025 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3026
2a3eea10
PH
302712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3028 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3029 sender verification.
3030
303113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3032 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3033
23c7ff99
PH
303414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3035
4deaf07d
PH
303615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3037 connection timeout.
3038
926e1192
PH
303916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3040 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3041
650edc6f
PH
304217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3043 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3044
2c7db3f5
PH
304518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3046 information about exactly what failed.
3047
3d235903
PH
304819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3049
7c7ad977
PH
305020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3051 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3052 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3053
981756db
PH
305421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3055 It is now set to "smtps".
3056
d4eb88df
PH
305722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3058 ignore_target_hosts.
3059
306023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3061 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3062 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3063 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3064 "[x.x.x.x]".
3065
7d468ab8
PH
306624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3067 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3068 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3069
307025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3071 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3072 wake it up if nothing else does.
3073
62c0818f
PH
307426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3075 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3076 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3077 end up negative.
3078
26034054
PH
307927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3080 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3081
af66f652
PH
308228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3083
90af77f4
PH
308429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3085 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3086 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3087 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3088 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3089 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3090 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3091 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3092
d8ef3577
PH
309330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3094 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3095 than one IP address.
3096
5cb8cbc6
PH
309731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3098 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3099 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3100 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3101
14702f5b
PH
310232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3103 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3104 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3105 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3106 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3107 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3108
063b1e99
PH
310933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3110 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3111 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3112 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3113
652e1b65
PH
311434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3115 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3116 respected.
3117
6f0c9a4f
PH
311835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3119 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3120 $sender_host_address.
3121
33397d19
PH
312236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3123 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3124 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3125 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3126 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3127 very small.
3128
7bb56e1f
PH
312937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3130
3131 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3132 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3133
ea3bc19b
PH
3134 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3135 just the host names, not the priorities.
3136
3137 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3138 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3139 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3140
ea3bc19b 3141 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3142 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3143
0bcb2a0e
PH
314438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3145 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3146 domain.
3147
2ac0e484
PH
314839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3149
4e1fde53
PH
315040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3151 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3152
de365ded
PH
315341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3154 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3155 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3156
f05da2e8
PH
315742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3158
d6453af2
PH
315943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3160
f7b63901
PH
316144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3162
316345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3164 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3165 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3166 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3167 because the tests only now provoked it.
3168
a444213a
PH
316946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3170 (this can affect the format of dates).
3171
0ec020ea
PH
317247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3173 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3174 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3175 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3176
b1206957
PH
317748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3178
317949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3180 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3181 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3182 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3183
26dd5a95
PH
318450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3185 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3186 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3187
343b2385
PH
318851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3189 autoreply.
3190
1c5466b9
PH
319152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3192 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3193 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3194 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3195 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3196 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3197 is going on).
3198
55ee9ee3
PH
319953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3200 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3201 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3202 the line.
3203
d38f8232
PH
320454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3205 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3206 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3207
3208 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3209 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3210 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3211 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3212 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3213 so I produce this patch..."
3214
3295e65b
PH
3215 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3216 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3217 is not defined.
3218
7102e136
PH
321955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3220 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3221 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3222 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3223 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3224
3ca0ba97
PH
322556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3226
c2bcbe20
PH
322757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3228 long debug lines gets shown.
3229
18ce445d
PH
323058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3231 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3232
1f5b4c3d
PH
323359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3234
3235 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3236 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3237 of $primary_hostname.
3238
b975ba52
PH
323960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3240 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3241 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3242 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3243 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3244 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3245 by change 4.50/55 above.
3246
3247 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3248 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3249 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3250 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3251 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3252 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3253 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3254
325561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3256 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3257 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3258 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3259
17ffcae7
PH
326062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3261 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3262
d95f9fdb
PH
326363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3264 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3265 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3266 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3267 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3268
86b8287f
PH
326964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3270 This has been fixed.
3271
60dc5e56
PH
327265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3273 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3274 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3275 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3276 the caching.)
3277
533244af
PH
327866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3279
a5a28604
PH
328067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3281 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3282 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3283 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3284
7e634d24
PH
328568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3286 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3287
3e11c26b
PH
328869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3289 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3290 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3291
6729cf78
PH
329270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3293 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3294 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3295 message there.
3296
00f00ca5
PH
329771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3298 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3299 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3300
c9bdd01c
PH
330172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3302 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3303 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3304 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3305
d43194df
PH
330673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3307 during host lookups.
3308
fe5b5d0b
PH
330974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3310 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3311
3312 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3313
76a2d7ba
PH
331475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3315 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3316 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3317 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3318 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3319 background.
3320
332176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3322 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3323
04f7d5b9
PH
332477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3325 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3326 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3327
bc60667e
PH
332878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3329
bb6e88ff
PH
333079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3331 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3332 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3333 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3334 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3335 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3336 process earlier.
3337
1e70f85b
PH
333880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3339 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3340 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3341 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3342 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3343
334481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3345 tables).
3346
4e01f9d6
PH
334782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3348
1ee1cef2
PH
334983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3350 "vacation" handling.
3351
6e2b4ccc
PH
335284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3353 OS variants using glibc.
3354
8e669ac1
PH
335585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3356
495ae4b0 3357
bbe902f0
PH
3358----------------------------------------------------
3359See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3360----------------------------------------------------
3361
3362
3363Exim version 4.44
3364-----------------
3365
3366 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3367 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3368 transport
3369
3370 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3371 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3372 place.
3373
3374 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3375 filter fails to execute.
3376
3377 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3378 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3379 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3380 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3381 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3382
3383 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3384 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3385 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3386 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3387
3388 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3389 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3390 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3391 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3392 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3393
3394 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3395
3396 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3397 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3398 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3399 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3400
3401 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3402 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3403 sender verification.
3404
340510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3406 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3407
340811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3409 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3410
341112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3412 ignore_target_hosts.
3413
341413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3415 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3416 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3417 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3418 "[x.x.x.x]".
3419
342014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3421 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3422 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3423
342415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3425 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3426 wake it up if nothing else does.
3427
342816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3429 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3430 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3431 end up negative.
3432
343317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3434 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3435
ea3a6f44 343618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3437
343819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3439 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3440 empty pattern.
3441
344220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3443 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3444 one IP address.
3445
ea3a6f44
NM
344621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3447 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3448 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3449 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3450 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3451 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3452
ea3a6f44
NM
345322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3454 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3455 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3456
345723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3458 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3459 $sender_host_address.
3460
346124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3462
ea3a6f44
NM
346325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3464 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3465 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3466
346726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3468 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3469
ea3a6f44
NM
347027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3471 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3472
ea3a6f44
NM
347328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3474 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3475 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3476 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3477
347829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3479 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3480 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3481
ea3a6f44
NM
348230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3483 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3484 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3485 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3486
ea3a6f44
NM
348731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3488 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3489 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3490
ea3a6f44
NM
349131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3492 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3493
ea3a6f44
NM
349432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3495 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3496 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3497 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3498 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3499 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3500 is going on).
bbe902f0 3501
ea3a6f44
NM
350233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3503 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3504 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3505 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3506 CAN-2005-0021
3507
ea3a6f44
NM
350834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3509 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3510 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3511 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3512 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3513 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3514 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3515
3516 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3517 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3518 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3519 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3520 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3521 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3522 CAN-2005-0021
3523
ea3a6f44
NM
352435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3525 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3526 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3527 CAN-2005-0022
3528
ea3a6f44
NM
352936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3530 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3531 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3532 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3533 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3534
ea3a6f44
NM
353537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3536 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3537 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3538 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3539 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3540
ea3a6f44
NM
354138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3542 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3543 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3544 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3545 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3546
3547
495ae4b0
PH
3548Exim version 4.43
3549-----------------
3550
3551 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3552 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3553 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3554 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3555 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3556 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3557 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3558
3559 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3560 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3561 the delivery.
3562
3563 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3564
3565 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3566
3567 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3568 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3569 to local_scan().
3570
3571 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3572 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3573 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3574 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3575 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3576
3577 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3578 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3579
3580 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3581
3582 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3583
358410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3585 header_sender only.
3586
358711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3588 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3589
359012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3591 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3592 affecting debugging statements).
3593
359413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3595
359614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3597 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3598 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3599 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3600 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3601 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3602 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3603 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3604 after the received time, and all would be well.
3605
360615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3607 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3608 condition in an expansion string.
3609
361016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3611
361217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3613 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3614 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3615 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3616 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3617 job under whatever limits there are.
3618
361918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3620
362119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3622 space).
3623
362420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3625 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3626 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3627 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3628 return path is set.
3629
363021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3631 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3632 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3633 binary data in such strings.
3634
363522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3636
363723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3638 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3639 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3640 failure, which is pointless.
3641
364224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3643
364425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3645
364626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3647 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3648 Sender: header lines.
3649
365027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3651 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3652 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3653
365428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3655 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3656 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3657 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3658 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3659 happens.
3660
366129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3662 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3663 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3664 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3665 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3666
366730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3668 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3669 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3670 1024.
3671
367231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3673 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3674
367532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3676 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3677
367833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3679
368032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3681
368233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3683
368434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3685 syntax error.
3686
368735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3688
368936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3690
369137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3692 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3693 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3694 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3695
369638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3697 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3698
3699
3700Exim version 4.42
3701-----------------
3702
3703 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3704 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3705 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3706 it was not quoted.
3707 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3708 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3709 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3710 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3711 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3712 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3713
3714 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3715 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3716 verification failure".
3717
3718 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3719 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3720 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3721 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3722
3723 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3724 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3725 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3726 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3727 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3728 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3729 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3730 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3731 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3732 treated as a timeout.
3733
3734 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3735 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3736 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3737 not set for Exim filters).
3738
3739 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3740 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3741 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3742
3743 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3744
3745 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3746 try to make them clearer.
3747
3748 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3749 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3750
3751 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3752
3753 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3754
375510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3756 only the Cygwin environment.
3757
375811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3759 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3760 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3761 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3762 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3763
376412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3765 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3766 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3767 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3768 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3769 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3770 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3771
377213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3773 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3774
377514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3776
3777 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3778 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3779 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3780
3781 To: susanne@some.where
3782
3783 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3784 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3785 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3786 of addresses in From: header lines).
3787
3788 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3789 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3790 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3791
3792 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3793 treated as non-personal.
3794
3795 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3796 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3797
379815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3799
380016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3801
380217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3803 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3804 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3805
380618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3807 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3808
380919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3810 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3811 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3812 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3813 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3814 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3815
381620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3817 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3818 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3819 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3820 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3821 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3822 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3823 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3824
3825 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3826
382721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3828 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3829
383022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3831 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3832 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3833
383423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3835 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3836
383724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3838 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3839 rather than long int.
3840
384125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3842
384326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3844
3845
3846Exim version 4.41
3847-----------------
3848
3849 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3850 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3851 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3852 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3853 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3854 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3855
3856
3857Exim version 4.40
3858-----------------
3859
3860 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3861 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3862
3863 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3864 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3865 socklen_t is defined.
3866
3867 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3868 always exist.
3869
3870 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3871 configured.
3872
3873 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3874 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3875 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3876 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3877 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3878
3879 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3880 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3881 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3882 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3883
3884 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3885 of flapping under certain conditions.
3886
3887 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3888 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3889 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3890
3891 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3892
389310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3894
389511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3896 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3897 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3898 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3899
390012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3901 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3902 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3903 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3904 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3905 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3906 preserved with the message after it was received.
3907
390813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3909 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3910 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3911 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3912 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3913 test suite worked just fine.
3914
391514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3916 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3917 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3918
391915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3920 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3921 string.
3922
392316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3924 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3925 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3926 does not fully solve it.
3927
392817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3929 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3930 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3931 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3932 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3933
393418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3935 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3936 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3937
393819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3939 string, for example:
3940
3941 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3942
3943 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3944 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3945 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3946 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3947 the routers could not see them.
3948
394920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3950 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3951
395221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3953 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3954 output).
3955
395622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3957 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3958 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3959 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3960 that needed quoting.
3961
396223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3963 was not being matched caselessly.
3964
396524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3966 backslashes.
3967
396825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3969 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3970 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3971 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3972 when use_sender is false.
3973
397426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3975
397627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3977
397828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3979
398029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3981 the configuration file.
3982
398330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3984 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3985
398631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3987
398832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3989 bytes in the message body.
3990
399133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3992 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3993 delivery.
3994
399534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3996
399735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3998
399936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4000 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4001 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4002 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4003 another IP address.
4004
4005
4006Exim version 4.34
4007-----------------
4008
4009 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4010 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4011
4012 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4013 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4014 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4015 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4016 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4017
4018 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4019 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4020
4021 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4022 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4023 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4024
4025 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4026 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4027 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4028
4029 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4030 for routers.
4031
4032 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4033 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4034 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4035 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4036 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4037 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4038 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4039
4040
4041Exim version 4.33
4042-----------------
4043
4044 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4045 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4046 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4047 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4048 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4049 default (and expected) setting.
4050
4051 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4052 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4053 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4054 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4055
4056 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4057 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4058
4059 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4060 in domain lists.
4061
4062 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4063 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4064 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4065 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4066 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4067 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4068
4069 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4070 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4071 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4072
4073 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4074 part (NOT match_host).
4075
4076 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4077
4078 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4079 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4080 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4081 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4082 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4083 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4084 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4085 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4086 the same named file.
4087
408810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4089 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4090 when Exim is built.
4091
409211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4093 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4094 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4095 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4096 a host name.
4097
409812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4099 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4100 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4101
410213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4103
410414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4105
410615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4107
410816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4109 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4110
411117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4112 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4113 before starting the TLS session.
4114
411518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4116
411719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4118 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4119
412020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4121 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4122 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4123 colon in the middle).
4124
4125
4126Exim version 4.32
4127-----------------
4128
4129 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4130 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4131 multiple configurations are in use.
4132
4133 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4134 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4135 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4136 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4137 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4138 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4139
4140 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4141 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4142
4143 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4144 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4145 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4146
4147 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4148 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4149 occurs.
4150
4151 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4152 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4153
4154 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4155
4156 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4157 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4158
4159 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4160
4161 -prval:sval
4162
4163 is equivalent to
4164
4165 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4166
4167 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4168 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4169 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4170 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4171 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4172
417310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4174 Exim's behaviour:
4175
4176 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4177 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4178 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4179 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4180 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4181 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4182
4183 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4184 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4185 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4186 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4187 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4188 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4189 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4190 string.
4191
4192 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4193 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4194 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4195 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4196 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4197
419811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4199
420012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4201 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4202 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4203
420413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4205
420614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4207 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4208 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4209 information.
4210
421115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4212 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4213
421416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4215 Three changes have been made:
4216
4217 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4218 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4219 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4220 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4221 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4222
4223 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4224 been restored.
4225
4226 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4227 the modified behaviour.
4228
4229
4230Exim version 4.31
4231-----------------
4232
4233 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4234 Larry Rosenman.
4235
4236 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4237 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4238
4239 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4240 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4241 try to track down a specific problem.
4242
4243 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4244 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4245 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4246
4247 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4248 warning.
4249
4250 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4251 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4252 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4253 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4254 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4255 some earlier ones do not.
4256
4257 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4258
4259 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4260 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4261 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4262 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4263 address literals are enabled, of course).
4264
4265 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4266
426710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4268 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4269 by a command such as
4270
4271 exim -f "" ...
4272
4273 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4274
427511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4276
427712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4278 remained set. It is now erased.
4279
428013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4281 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4282
428314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4284 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4285 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4286 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4287 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4288 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4289 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4290 appropriate error code.
4291
429215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4293 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4294 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4295 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4296 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4297 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4298
429916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4300 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4301 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4302
430317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4304 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4305 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4306 terminate the header.
4307
430818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4309 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4310 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4311
431219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4313 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4314 (4.30/29). In particular:
4315
4316 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4317 imposed.
4318
4319 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4320 to write a maildirsize file.
4321
4322 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4323 the transport, the new value overrides.
4324
4325 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4326 count.
4327
432820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4329 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4330 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4331 space or a tab.
4332
433321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4334 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4335 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4336 the fallback hosts.
4337
433822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4339 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4340 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4341
434223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4343 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4344 using a union.
4345
434624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4347 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4348 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4349
435025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4351
435226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4353
435427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4355
435628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4357 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4358 become corrupted.
4359
436029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4361 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4362 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4363 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4364 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4365 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4366 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4367 too great.
4368
436930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4370 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4371 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4372 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4373 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4374 incorrectly.
4375
437631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4377 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4378 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4379 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4380 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4381 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4382 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4383 cached value only when the same options are set.
4384
438532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4386
438733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4388 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4389 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4390 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4391 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4392
439334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4394 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4395 it is clearly obsolete.
4396
439735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4398 transport.
4399
440036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4401 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4402 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4403 times.
4404
440537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4406 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4407 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4408 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4409 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4410
441138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4412 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4413 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4414 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4415
441639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4417
4418 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4419
4420 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4421 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4422 2^31.
4423
442440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4425 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4426 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4427 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4428 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4429 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4430 $localpart_data.
4431
443241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4433 with the -f command-line option.
4434
443542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4436 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4437 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4438 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4439 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4440 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4441
444243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4443 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4444 line.
4445
444644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4447 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4448 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4449 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4450 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4451 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4452 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4453 buffer is too small.
4454
445545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4456 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4457
445846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4459 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4460 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4461 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4462 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4463 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4464 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4465 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4466 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4467
446847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4469 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4470 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4471
447248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4473 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4474 ACL").
4475
447649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4477 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4478 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4479 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4480 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4481
448250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4483 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4484 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4485 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4486 is set.
4487
448851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4489
449052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4491
449253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4493 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4494
449554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4496 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4497 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4498
449955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4500 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4501 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4502 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4503 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4504
450556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4506 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4507 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4508 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4509 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4510 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4511 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4512
451357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4514 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4515 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4516 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4517 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4518 the test of how many are available.
4519
452058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4521 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4522 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4523 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4524 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4525 new message is started.
4526
452759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4528 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4529
453060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4531 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4532
453361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4534 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4535 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4536 is no long logged.
4537
453862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4539 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4540 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4541 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4542 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4543 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4544 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4545
454663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4547 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4548 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4549 interpreted as octal.
4550
455164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4552 setting.
4553
455465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4555 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4556 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4557 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4558 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4559 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4560
456166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4562 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4563 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4564 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4565
4566 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4567 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4568 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4569 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4570
4571 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4572 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4573 is a bug fix.
4574
4575 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4576 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4577
457867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4579
458068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4581 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4582 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4583 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4584
458569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4586 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4587 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4588 supplied", which is not helpful.
4589
459070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4591 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4592 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4593
459471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4595 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4596 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4597 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4598 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4599 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4600 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4601 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4602
460372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4604 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4605 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4606 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4607 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4608
460973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4610 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4611 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4612 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4613 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4614 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4615
461674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4617 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4618 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4619
462075. Added write_rejectlog option.
4621
462276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4623 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4624 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4625 variables.
4626
462777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4628
462978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4630 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4631 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4632 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4633 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4634 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4635 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4636 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4637
463879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4639 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4640 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4641 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4642 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4643
464480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4645 Haardt.
4646
464781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4648 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4649 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4650 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4651 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4652 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4653 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4654 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4655 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4656
4657
4658Exim version 4.30
4659-----------------
4660
4661 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4662 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4663 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4664
4665 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4666 fixed.
4667
4668 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4669 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4670 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4671
4672 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4673 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4674 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4675 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4676 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4677 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4678
4679 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4680 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4681 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4682 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4683 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4684 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4685 the Exim test suite.
4686
4687 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4688 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4689 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4690 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4691
4692 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4693 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4694 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4695 specify it in this variable.
4696
4697 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4698 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4699 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4700 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4701
4702 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4703 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4704 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4705 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4706
4707 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4708 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4709 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4710 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4711 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4712
4713 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4714
471510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4716 they are logged.
4717
471811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4719 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4720 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4721 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4722 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4723
472412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4725 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4726
472713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4728 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4729 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4730 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4731 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4732
473314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4734 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4735
473615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4737 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4738 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4739
474016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4741 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4742
474317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4744 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4745
474618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4747 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4748 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4749
475019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4751 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4752
475320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4754 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4755 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4756 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4757
475821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4759
476022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4761 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4762 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4763 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4764
476523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4766
476724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4768 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4769
477025. Added .include_if_exists.
4771
477226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4773 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4774 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4775 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4776 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4777 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4778
477927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4780
478128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4782 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4783 this.
4784
478529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4786
478730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4788 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4789
4790 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4791 550 Sender verify failed
4792
4793 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4794 the final line of the response.
4795
479631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4797 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4798 all other user lookups.
4799
480032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4801 delivery time.
4802
480333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4804 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4805 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4806 result into an int without checking.
4807
480834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4809 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4810 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4811
481235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4813 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4814 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4815 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4816
481736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4818 correctly.
4819
482037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4821 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4822
482338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4824 to the empty sender.
4825
482639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4827 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4828 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4829 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4830 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4831 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4832 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4833 panic log.
4834
483540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4836 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4837 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4838 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4839 used.
4840
484141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4842 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4843
484442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4845 timestamps.
4846
484743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4848 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4849
485044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4851
485245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4853 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4854 logs.
4855
485646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4857 as soon as it is encountered.
4858
485947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4860
486148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4862 rewritten to "<>".
4863
486449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4865 recognizes a tab character.
4866
486750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4868 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4869 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4870 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4871
487251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4873
487452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4875 crash.
4876
487753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4878
487954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4880
488155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4882 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4883 2822.
4884
488556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4886 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4887 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4888 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4889 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4890
489157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4892 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4893
489458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4895 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4896 list (.included file names were always shown).
4897
489859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4899 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4900 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4901 root at that time.
4902
490360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4904 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4905
490661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4907
490862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4909
491063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4911
491264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4913 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4914 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4915 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4916 failures to open the logs.
4917
491865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4919 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4920 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4921 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4922 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4923 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4924 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4925
4926
4927Exim version 4.24
4928-----------------
4929
4930 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4931 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4932 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4933 change 4.23/1.
4934
4935 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4936 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4937 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4938
4939 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4940 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4941 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4942
4943 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4944 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4945 causing some misleading effects.
4946
4947 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4948 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4949 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4950
4951 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4952 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4953 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4954 queue-runner function directly.
4955
4956
4957Exim version 4.23
4958-----------------
4959
4960 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4961 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4962
4963 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4964 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4965 was always written to the default place.
4966
4967 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4968 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4969 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4970
4971 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4972
4973 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4974
4975 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4976 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4977 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4978
4979 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4980 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4981 must start.
4982
4983 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4984 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4985 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4986
4987 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4988 command line option is disabled.
4989
4990 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4991 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4992
4993 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4994
4995 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4996
4997 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4998 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4999
500010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5001
500211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5003 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5004 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5005 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5006 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5007 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5008
500912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5010 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5011 timeout.
5012
501313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5014 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5015
501614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5017 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5018
501915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5020 received was valid base64.
5021
502216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5023 name of the variable that was being set.
5024
502517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5026
502718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5028 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5029 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5030 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5031 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5032 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5033
503419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5035
503620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5037 nor realm was specified.
5038
503921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5040 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5041 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5042 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5043
504422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5045 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5046 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5047
504823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5049 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5050 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5051
505224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5053 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5054 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5055 some systems use these upper case variants.
5056
505725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5058 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5059 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5060 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5061
506226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5063
506427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5065 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5066
506728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5068 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5069 expansion variable.
5070
507129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5072
507330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5074 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5075 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5076 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5077
507831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5079 using it.
5080
508132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5082 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5083 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5084
508533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5086 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5087
508834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5089 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5090 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5091 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5092
509335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5094 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5095 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5096
509736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5098
509937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5100 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5101 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5102 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5103 aborted.
5104
510538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5106 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5107 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5108
510939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5110
511140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5112 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5113
511441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5115 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5116
511742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5118 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5119 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5120 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5121 when emails are that large.
5122
5123
5124
5125Exim version 4.22
5126-----------------
5127
5128 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5129 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5130
5131 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5132 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5133 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5134
5135 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5136 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5137 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5138
5139 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5140 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5141 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5142 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5143 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5144
5145 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5146 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5147 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5148 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5149 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5150 ever.
5151
5152 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5153 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5154 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5155 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5156 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5157 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5158 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5159 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5160 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5161 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5162 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5163 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5164 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5165 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5166
5167 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5168 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5169 parameterised it.
5170
5171 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5172 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5173 error should be diagnosed.
5174
5175 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5176 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5177 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5178 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5179 appeared instead of "NULL".
5180
518110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5182 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5183 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5184 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5185 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5186 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5187 proceeds).
5188
5189 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5190 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5191 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5192
5193
5194Exim version 4.21
5195-----------------
5196
5197 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5198 or receiver verification errors.
5199
5200 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5201 name.
5202
5203 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5204 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5205 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5206 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5207
5208 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5209 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5210 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5211 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5212 shouldn't happen again.
5213
5214 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5215 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5216 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5217
5218 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5219 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5220
5221 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5222
5223 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5224 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5225
5226 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5227 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5228 RFC.
5229
523010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5231 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5232 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5233
523411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5235 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5236 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5237 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5238
523912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5240 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5241 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5242 to define what should happen).
5243
524413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5245 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5246 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5247
524814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5249
525015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5251
525216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5253 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5254
525517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5256 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5257 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5258 structure in all cases.
5259
5260 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5261 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5262 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5263 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5264
526518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5266 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5267 domain name.
5268
526919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5270 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5271
527220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5273 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5274
527521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5276 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5277 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5278
527922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5280 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5281 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5282
528323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5284 the book and for uniformity.
5285
528624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5287
528825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5289 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5290 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5291 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5292 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5293 non-existent command as the problem.
5294
529526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5296 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5297 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5298
529927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5300
530128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5302 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5303 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5304
530529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5306 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5307 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5308 timestamps using strftime().
5309
531030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5311 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5312
531332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5314 transport-time rewrites.
5315
531633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5317 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5318 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5319 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5320
532134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5322 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5323
532435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5325 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5326 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5327 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5328 comma and a space.
5329
533036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5331 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5332 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5333 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5334 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5335 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5336 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5337
533837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5339 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5340 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5341 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5342 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5343
534438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5345 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5346 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5347 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5348 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5349 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5350 remaining text gets split now.
5351
535239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5353 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5354 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5355 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5356
535740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5358 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5359 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5360 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5361 $return_path.
5362
536341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5364 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5365 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5366 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5367 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5368 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5369 passed through if needed.
5370
537142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5372 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5373 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5374 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5375 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5376 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5377
537843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5379 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5380 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5381 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5382 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5383
538444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5385 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5386 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5387 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5388 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5389
539045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5391 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5392 noticed.
5393
539446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5395 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5396 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5397 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5398 mayhem of various kinds.
5399
540047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5401 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5402 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5403 the right test for positive values.
5404
540548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5406 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5407 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5408 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5409 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5410 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5411 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5412 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5413 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5414 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5415 envelope.
5416
541749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5418 module.
5419
542050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5421 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5422 forbidding it.
5423
542451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5425 the existing equality matching.
5426
542752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5428 dealing with inode numbers.
5429
543053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5431 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5432 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5433
543454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5435 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5436 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5437 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5438 local_scan().
5439
544055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5441 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5442 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5443 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5444 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5445 relay addresses has also been removed.
5446
544756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5448
544957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5450 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5451 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5452
545358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5454 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5455 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5456 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5457 processing applies to CR:
5458
5459 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5460 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5461
5462 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5463 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5464 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5465 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5466
546759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5468 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5469 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5470
547160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5472 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5473 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5474 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5475 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5476 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5477 arisen.
5478
547961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5480 program routers.
5481
548262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5483 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5484 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5485 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5486 adds:
5487
5488 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5489
5490 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5491
5492 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5493
549463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5495 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5496 not considered personal.
5497
549864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5499
550065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5501
550266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5503
550467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5505 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5506 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5507 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5508 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5509 header lines, and spool format errors.
5510
551168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5512 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5513 for more flexibility.
5514
551569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5516 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5517 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5518
551970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5520 Sabourenkov.
5521
552271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5523 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5524 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5525 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5526 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5527 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5528 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5529 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5530 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5531
553272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5533 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5534 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5535 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5536 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5537 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5538 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5539
554073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5541 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5542 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5543
554474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5545 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5546 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5547 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5548 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5549 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5550 instead of killing the process with assert().
5551
555275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5553 than Unicode encoding.
5554
555576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5556 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5557 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5558 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5559
556077. Added process_log_path.
5561
556278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5563 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5564
556579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5566 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5567
556880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5569 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5570 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5571
557281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5573 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5574 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5575 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5576 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5577 were applied:
5578
5579 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5580 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5581 as invalid.
5582
558382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5584 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5585 they will be used during message reception.
5586
5587
5588Exim version 4.20
5589-----------------
5590
5591The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5592
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