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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
12 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
13 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
14
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15JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
16
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17JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
18 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 option.
20
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21JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
22 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
23 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
24
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25JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
26
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27JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
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32
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33JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
34 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 36JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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37 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
38 its own TCP segment.
39
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40JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
41 each verb.
42
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43JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
44
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45JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
46
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47JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
48 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
49
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50JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
51 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
52 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
53 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
54 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
55 suitably configured).
56
c05bdbd6 57JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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58 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
59
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60JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
61 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
62 crash could result.
63
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64JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
65 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
66
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67JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
68 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
69 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
70 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
71 to this system.
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73JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
74 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
75 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
76
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77JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
78 output.
79
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80JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
81 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
82
3c55eef2 83JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 84 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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85 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
86 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
87 input).
88
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89HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
90 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
91 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
92 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
93 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
94
7d8d08c4 95HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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96 shared (NFS) environment.
97
7d8d08c4 98HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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99 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
100 affected.
101
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102JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
103 on some platforms for bit 31.
104
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105JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
106 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
107 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
108 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
109 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
110 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
111 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
112 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
113
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114JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
115
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116JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
117 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
118
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119JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
120 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
121 facility.
122
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123JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
124 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
125 documentation.
126
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127JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
128 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
129 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
130 not do so.
131
59c0959a 132JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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133 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
134 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
135
136JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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137 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
138 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
139 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
140 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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142JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
143 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 145JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 146 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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147 be requested on all coneections.
148
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149JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
150 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
151
6ee11061 152PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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154JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
155 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
156 one for these; the option was ignored.
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158JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
159 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
160 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
161 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
162
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163JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
164 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
165 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
166 standards.
167
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168JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
169 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
170 error ignored was made.
171
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172JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
173
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174JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
175 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
176 values, to catch one form of exploit.
177
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178JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
179 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
180 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
181
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182JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
183 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
184 causing a segfault.
185
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186JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
187 them in our smtp response.
188
9c6881f8 189JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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190 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
191 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
192 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
193 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
194
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195JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
196 link count into consideration.
197
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198HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
199 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
200
201JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
202 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
203 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
204 surprise.
205
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207
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208JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
209
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210JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
211
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212JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
213 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
214 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
215 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
216
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217JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
218 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
219 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
220
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224
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225JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
226 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
227
228JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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229 non-signal-safe functions being used.
230
231JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
232 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
233 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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235JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
236 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
237 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
238
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239JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
240 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
241 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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242 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
243 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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244 messed with.
245
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246PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
247 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
248
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249JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
250 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
251 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
252 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
253 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
254 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
255 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
256
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257JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
258 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
259
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260JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
261 legitimate.
262
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263JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
264 Previously this would segfault.
265
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266JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
267 segfault.
268
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269JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
270 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
271 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
272 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
273 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
274 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
275
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276JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
277
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278JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
279 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
280 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
281 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
282
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283JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
284
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285JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
286 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
287 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
288 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
289
5054c4fd 290JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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292JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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294JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
295 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
296 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
297
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298JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
299 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
300 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
301
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302PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
303
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304JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
305 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
306 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
307 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
308
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309PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
310 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
311 promised '?' replacement.
312
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313PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
314
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315JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
316 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
317 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
318 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
319 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
320
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321JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
322 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
323 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
324
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325JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
326 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
327 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
328
7ea1237c 329JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 330 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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331 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
332
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333JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
334 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
335 hope that is portable enough.
336
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337JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
338 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
339 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
340 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
341
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342JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
343 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
344 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
345
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346JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
347 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
348 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
349 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
350
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351JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
352 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
353
75c121f0 354JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 355 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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356 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
357 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
358
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359JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
360 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
361 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
362
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363JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
364 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
365 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
366 the previous G, M, k.
367
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368JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
369 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
370 it was unset.
371
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372JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
373 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
374 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
375 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
376
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377JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
378 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
379
de6f74f2 380JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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381 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
382 off past the nul-terimation.
383
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384JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
385 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
386 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
387 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
388 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
389
aa6e77af 390JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 391
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392JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
393 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
394 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
395 actually does fail.
396
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397AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
398 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
399
400JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
401 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
402 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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404JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
405 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
406 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
407
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408JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
409 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
410
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c39c8870 415GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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416 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
417 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
418 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
419 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
420 be defined in redis_servers.
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422GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
423 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
424
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425JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
426 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
427 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
428 extant use locations.
429
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430JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
431 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
432
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433JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
434 Previously only the last row was returned.
435
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436JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
437 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
438 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
439 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
440 input.
441
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442JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
443 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
444 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
445 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
446 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
447 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
448 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
449 Main pool for expansions.
450 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
451 active in the testsuite.
452 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
453
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454JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
455 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
456 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
457 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
458 round-robin DNS.
459
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460JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
461 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
462 failure response.
463
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464JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
465 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
466 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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467
468JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
469 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
470 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 471
ba0e37b1
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472JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
473 rows affected is given instead).
474
96508de1
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475JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
476 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
477
06fdb9f7
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478JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
479 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
480 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
481 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
482 for all multi-message initiating connections.
483
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484JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
485 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
486 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
487
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488JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
489 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
490 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
491 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
492 separate.
493
051d5efa
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494JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
495 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
496 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
497 fake-reject.
498
cf3cd306
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499HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
500
744976d4
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501JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
502 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
503
aab9a843 504PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 505 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 506 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 507
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508JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
509 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
510 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
511 and send a quit.
512
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513JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
514 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
515
85e03244
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516JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
517 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
518 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
519
c0635b6d
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520JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
521 for the build is renamed.
522
b808677c
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523JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
524 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
525 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
526
6678c382
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527JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
528 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
529 result replacing the original.
530
dec766a1
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531JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
532 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
533 and the resources needed to be freed.
534
15ae19f9
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535JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
536
e6532c4a
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537JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
538 was not propagated.
539
2556b3c6
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540JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
541 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
542 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
543 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
544
fc8cd529
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545JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
546 length value. Previously this would segfault.
547
71bb51e0
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548HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
549 newer versions of the scanner.
550
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551JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
552 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
553 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
554 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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555 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
556 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
557 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 558
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559JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
560 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
561 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
562 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
563 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
564 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
565 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
566 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
567 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
568 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
569
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570JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
571 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
572
b3b37076
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573JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
574
830832c9
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575HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
576 allows proper process termination in container environments.
577
f64e8b5f
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578JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
579 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
580
8f0776b5
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581JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
582 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
583 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
584
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585JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
586 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
587 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 588 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 589
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590JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
591 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
592 would be spooled.
593
405074ad
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594PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
595 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
596
eb445b04
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597HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
598 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
599 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
600 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
601 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 602
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603JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
604 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
605 lines.
606
a28050f8
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607JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
608 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
609
ddd16464
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610PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
611 suffix list.
612
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613JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
614 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
615 "bare" representation.
616
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617JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
618 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
619 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
620 corrupted the output.
621
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625
626JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
627 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
628 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
629 pairs of long lines into single ones.
630
856d1e16
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631PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
632 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
633
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634JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
635 This permits better logging.
636
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637JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
638 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
639 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
640 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
641 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 642 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 643
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644JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
645 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
646 "exiwhat" output.
647
98913c8e
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648PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
649 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
650 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
651
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652JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
653 than 255 are no longer allowed.
654
7006ee24
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655JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
656 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
657 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
658 client, there is no benefit for these.
659 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
660 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
661 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
662 is used (3.2.4 +).
663
6e411084
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664PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
665 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
666
4c2471ca
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667JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
668 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
669 erroneously found still-pending ones.
670
4e910c01
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671JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
672 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
673
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674JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
675 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
676 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
677 signature and again for transmission.
678
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679JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
680 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 681 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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683JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
684 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
685 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
686 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
687 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
688 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
689 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
690
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691JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
692 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
693 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 694 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 695
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696PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
697 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
698 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
699 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
700 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
701 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
702 processing options.
703
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704JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
705 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
706 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
707 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
708 connections.
925ac8e4 709
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710PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
711 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
712 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
713 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
714 versions.
715
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716JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
717 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
718 inaccessible.
719
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720JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
721 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
722 banner-time rejection.
723
a843a57e
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724JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
725 callout/hold.
726
8e041ae0
PP
727PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
728 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
PP
729 Fixes bug 2140.
730
35a04365
HSHR
731HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
732
4226691b
JH
733JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
734 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
735
d185889f
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736JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
737 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
738 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
739 during compilation.
740
0a6c178c
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741JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
742 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
743 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 744 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 745
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746JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
747 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
748 initial verify call returned a defer.
749
ad1a76fe 750JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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751 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
752
ad1a76fe
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753JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
754 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
755
135e9496
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756JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
757 if present. Previously it was ignored.
758
f2ed27cf
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759JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
760 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
761
7eb0e5d2
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762JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
763 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
764 extensible.
765
4f9f4be4
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766PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
767 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
768
dc4de9cc
PP
769PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
770 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
771 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
772
ea18931d
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773JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
774 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
775 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
776 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
777
0768462d 778HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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779 and confused the parent.
780
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781JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
782 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
783
9e0ed81f
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784JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
785 for log purposes.
786
2540f2f8
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787JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
788 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
789 out-of-order delivery.
790
e5ab0ba9
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791JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
792 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
793 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
794 error for the HELO.
795
e99a3a6c
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796JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
797 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
798 desynchronisation.
799
18067c75
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800JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
801 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
802 one run was done. Bug 2189.
803
72934ba7
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804JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
805 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
806 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
807 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
808 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
809 message is still "Temporary local problem".
810
625667b6
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811JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
812 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
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813 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
814
815HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
816 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
817 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 818
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819JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
820 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
821 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
822 though a different problem.
823
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9427e879 828JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 829 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 830
7b283890
JH
831JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
832
4c57a40e
PP
833PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
834 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
835
5d036699
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836JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
837 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
838
f4630439
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839JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
840 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
841 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
842 before acknowledging the chunk.
843
f988ce57
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844PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
845 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
846 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
847
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848JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
849 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
850 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
851 should.
852
853JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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854 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
855 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 856
bd8fbe36 857JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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858 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
859
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860JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
861 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
862 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
863 body hash calculated value.
864
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865JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
866 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
867 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
868
44e6651b
JH
869JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
870
871JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
872 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
873
874JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
875 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
876 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
877
878JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
879 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
880 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
881 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
882 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
883 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
884
885JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
886 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
887 past that check, despite the cost.
888
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889JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
890 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
891 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
892
f700ea4d
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893PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
894 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
895 TLS library to consume.
896
da88acae
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897PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
898
f6ef9370
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899PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
900
90341c71
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901JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
902 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
903 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
904 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
905 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
906 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
907 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
908
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909PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
910
911PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
912
913PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
914 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
915 should be warning-free.
916
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917JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
918
919HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
920 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
921
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922HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
923 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
924 general solution here.
925
7dc5f827
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926PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
927 already-broken messages in the queue.
928
4bb432cb
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929JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
930
3b1a84c8
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931JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
932
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937JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
938 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 939
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940JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
941 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
942 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
943
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944JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
945 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
946 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
947 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
948 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
949 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
950 if one fails this test.
951 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
952 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
953
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954JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
955 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
956
23bb6982 957JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 958 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 959
0bd1b1ed 960JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 961 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 962
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963JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
964 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
965
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966JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
967 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
968
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969JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
970
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971JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
972 certificate).
973
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974JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
975 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
976 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
977 connection after a verify cache hit.
978 Do not update it with the verify result either.
979
980JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
981 when routing results in more than one destination address.
982
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983JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
984 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
985 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
986 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
987 when the cutthrough connection is made).
988
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989JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
990 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
991
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992JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
993 Previously they were not counted.
994
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995JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
996 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
997 that needed the lookup.
998
4c04137d 999JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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1000 distinguished as "(=".
1001
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1002JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1003 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1004
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1005JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1006
1007JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1008 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1009
4c04137d 1010JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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1011 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1012
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1013JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1014 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1015 compatible.
1016
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1017JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1018 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1019 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1020 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1021
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1022JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1023
f59aaaaa 1024JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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1025 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1026 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1027
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1028JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1029 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1030 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1031 be lost.
1032
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1033JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1034 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1035 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1036 itself :(
1037
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1038JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1039 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1040 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1041
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1042JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1043 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1044 options.
1045
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1046JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1047
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1048PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1049 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1050
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1051PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1052 are not in the system include path.
1053
ad7fc6eb 1054JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1055 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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1056 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1057 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1058
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1059JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1060 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1061 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1062
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1063JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1064
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1065HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1066 an incoming connection.
1067
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1068HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1069 to rspamd.
1070
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1071HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1072 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1073
87cb4a16 1074JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1075 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1076
1077
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1081JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1082 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1083 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1084 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1085
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1086TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1087 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1088
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1089TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1090 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1091 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1092 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1093 outgoing I= field.
1094
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1095JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1096 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1097 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1098 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1099 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1100 check on the next write.
1101
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1102HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1103 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1104 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1105 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1106 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1107
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1108JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1109 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1110
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1111JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1112 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1113 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1114
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1115JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1116 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1117 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1118 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1119
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1120HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1121 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1122
4c04137d 1123JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1124 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1125
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1126JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1127 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1128 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1129 distinct.
1130
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1131JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1132
1133JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1134
ec0eb1a3
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1135JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1136
41e93589
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1137JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1138 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1139
98b98887 1140JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1141 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1142
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1143JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1144
858e91c2
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1145JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1146 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1147
1148JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1149
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1150JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1151 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1152
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1153JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1154
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1155JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1156 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1157 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1158 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1159 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1160 they will retry in-clear.
1161 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1162 at installation time.
1163
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1164HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1165 with the $config_file variable.
1166
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1167JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1168 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1169 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1170 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1171 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1172
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1173GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1174 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1175 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1176 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1177 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1178
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1179JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1180
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1181JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1182 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1183 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1184 list order is no longer honoured.
1185
4c04137d 1186JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1187 for DKIM processing.
1188
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1189JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1190 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1191
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1192JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1193 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1194 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1195 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1196
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1197JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1198 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1199
2d8d625b
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1200JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1201 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1202
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1203JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1204 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1205
f2f2c91b
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1206JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1207
ce325893
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1208JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1209 cached by the daemon.
1210
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1211JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1212 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1213
379ba7d0
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1214JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1215 keys are given for lookup.
1216
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1217JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1218 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1219 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1220 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1221
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1222JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1223 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1224 server-side so match that on older versions.
1225
07c73177 1226JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1227 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1228 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1229
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1230JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1231 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1232
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1233JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1234 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1235 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1236 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1237 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1238 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1239 initial truncated version.
1240
ab9152ff 1241JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1242
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1243JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1244
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1245JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1246 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1247
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1248JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1249
bc3c7bb7 1250HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1251
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1252JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1253 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1254 induced overflows.
1255
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1256JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1257 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1258 stage.
1259
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1260JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1261 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1262
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1263JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1264 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1265 former class.
1266
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1267JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1268 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1269 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1270
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1271JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1272 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1273 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1274 extraction. Accept either.
1275
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1280JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1281 expanded.
1282
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1283JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1284
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1285JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1286 it.
1287
01a4a5c5 1288JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1289 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1290 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1291 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1292
cb1d7830 1293JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1294 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1295 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1296
610ff438 1297JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1298 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1299 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1300 TLS connections
610ff438 1301
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1302JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1303 sites use this now.
1304
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1305JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1306 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1307 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1308 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1309 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1310
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1311JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1312 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1313 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1314
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1315JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1316
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1317JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1318 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1319
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1320JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1321 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1322
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1323JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1324 /defer_ok option.
1325
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1326JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1327 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1328
fd4d8871 1329JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1330 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1331 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1332
1333JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1334 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1335 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1336
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1337JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1338 timeout value per server.
1339
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1340JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1341 now have the list separator specified.
1342
8a512ed5 1343JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1344 option values.
8a512ed5 1345
82c0c8ea 1346JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1347 under OpenSSL.
1348
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1349JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1350
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1351JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1352 rather than the verbs used.
1353
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1354JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1355 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1356
6c9ed72e
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1357JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1358
cfab9d68 1359HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1360 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1361
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1362JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1363 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1364
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1365HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1366 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1367
4c04137d 1368JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1369
d2a2c69b
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1370JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1371
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1372JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1373 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1374 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1375 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1376
1f12df4d
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1377JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1378
1f155f8e
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1379JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1380 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1381
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1382JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1383 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1384
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1385JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1386
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1387JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1388
7137ca4b
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1389JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1390
dcb1095c
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1391JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1392 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1393
2f460950
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1394JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1395 added for tls authenticator.
1396
2f680c0c
HSHR
1397HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1398
9c695f6d 1399
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1400Exim version 4.85
1401-----------------
4c57a40e 1402
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1403TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1404 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1405 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1406 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1407 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1408 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1409 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1410
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1411TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1412 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1413 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1414 function when detected.
1415
a9b8ec8b
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1416JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1417 cause callback expansion.
1418
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TL
1419TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1420 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1421 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1422 instead of bool when processing it.
1423
0f06b4f2 1424JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1425 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1426
be36e572
JH
1427JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1428
ac4ef9bd
JH
1429JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1430
0eb51736
TL
1431TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1432
c713ca4b
TL
1433TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1434 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1435
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1436JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1437 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1438 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1439 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1440 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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WB
1441 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1442
8bc732e8
JH
1443JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1444 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1445 exceeded it.
1446
a7fec7a7
JH
1447JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1448 version 3.3.6 or later.
1449
4c04137d 1450JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1451 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1452 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1453 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1454 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1455 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1456 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1457
eca4debb
TL
1458TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1459 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1460
8d692470
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1461JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1462 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1463 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1464 matches.
1465
e9477a08
JH
1466JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1467 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1468 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1469
ad4c5ff9
JH
1470JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1471 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1472
1473JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1474 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1475 syntax errors.
1476
3394b36a 1477JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1478
1479JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1480 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1481
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1482TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1483 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1484 tarball.
1485
ad4c5ff9
JH
1486JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1487
4c04137d 1488JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1489 Bug 1561.
1490
1491JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1492 output list separator was used.
1493
8bc732e8 1494
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1495Exim version 4.84
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1497TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1498 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1499 return.
1f0ebb98 1500
a612424f 1501JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1502 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1503
1504JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1505
1506TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1507 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1508
1f0ebb98 1509
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1511-----------------
1512
1513TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1514
1515 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1516 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1517 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1518 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1519 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1520 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1521
7245734e
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1522TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1523 utilities have not been installed.
1524
fd5dad68
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1525JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1526 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1527
5428a946
TL
1528TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1529 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1530
a3c86431
TL
1531TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1532 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1533 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1534 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1535
aa26e137
JH
1536JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1537
5a1b8443
WB
1538TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1539 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1540
72c9e342
PP
1541PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1542 not dns_use_dnssec.
1543
76f44207
WB
1544JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1545
770747fd
MFM
1546TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1547 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1548 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1549
8ddef691 1550TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1551 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1552 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1553 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1554 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1555 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1556
b9c2e32f
AR
1557JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1558
e45a1c37
JH
1559JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1560 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1561
67d81c10
JH
1562JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1563 failed delivery.
1564
b1f8e4f8
JH
1565JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1566
511a6c14 1567JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1568
1569JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1570 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1571
51c7471d
JH
1572JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1573 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1574
3695be34
TL
1575TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1576
1e06383a
TL
1577JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1578
76146973
JH
1579JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1580 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1581
1582 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1583 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1584 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1585
8c8b8274
TL
1586TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1587 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1588 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1589 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1590
35aba663
JH
1591JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1592
8c51eead 1593JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1594 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1595 lookup).
8c51eead 1596
deae092e
HS
1597TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1598 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1599 Schlichting.
35aba663 1600
fd3b6a4a 1601JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1602 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1603
8d91c6dc
LT
1604TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1605 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1606
2b4a568d
JH
1607JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1608
d2af03f4
HS
1609TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1610 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1611 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1612
9d1c15ef
JH
1613JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1614 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1615
44662487
JH
1616JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1617 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1618 hosts_request_ocsp.
1619
ed3bba5f 1620JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1621 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1622 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1623
8ccd00b1
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1624JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1625
8ded8589
TL
1626TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1627 Christian Aistleitner.
1628
f2de3a33
JH
1629JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1630
6eb02f88
TL
1631TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1632 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1633
00bff6f6
JH
1634JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1635 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1636
071c51f7
JH
1637JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1638 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1639
a6d4c44e
TF
1640TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1641 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1642
3ae173e7
ACK
1643TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1644 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1645
c13d09b8
TL
1646TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1647 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1648 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1649
0df4ab80
JH
1650JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1651
66be95e0
PP
1652PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1653 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1654 Jasper Wallace.
1655
1bd0d12b
JH
1656JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1657
0de7239e
TL
1658TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1659 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1660 CVE-2014-2972
1661
fd3b6a4a 1662
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1664-----------------
1665
1666PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1667
12f69989
PP
1668PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1669 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1670
54c90be1
PP
1671PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1672 by GnuTLS.
1673
1f4a55da
PP
1674PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1675 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1676 routines.
1677
13363eba 1678PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1679
66645890 1680PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1681 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1682 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1683 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1684 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1685
a3fb9793 1686PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1687 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1688 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1689 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1690 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1691 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1692
d27f98fe 1693TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1694
6822b909
TL
1695TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1696
e7568d51
TL
1697TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1698 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1699
ae0e32ee 1700TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1701 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1702 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1703
1704TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1705
e2658fff
TL
1706TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1707
83712b39
TL
1708TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1709 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1710
976b7e9f
JH
1711JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1712
be4a1376
JH
1713JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1714
ec4b68e5
PP
1715PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1716
d7148a07
NM
1717NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1718 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1719
585121e2 1720JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1721
2519e60d
TL
1722PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1723 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1724 function.
a5f239e4 1725
13d08c90
PP
1726PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1727 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1728
bef3ea7f
JH
1729JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1730 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1731 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1732
846726c5
JH
1733JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1734
3a796370
JH
1735JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1736
ea722490 1737JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1738 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1739
b1b05573
JH
1740JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1741 Bugzilla 884.
1742
362145b5
JH
1743JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1744 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1745
3c0a92dc
JH
1746JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1747 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1748
6d7c6175
PP
1749PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1750 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1751 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1752
6f123593
JH
1753JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1754 authenticators.
1755
c8e2fc1e
JH
1756JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1757 for control.
1758
005ac57f
PP
1759PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1760
3f1df0e3
PP
1761PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1762 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1763 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1764 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1765
67bd1ab3
TF
1766TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1767
1768 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1769 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1770 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1771 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1772 the retry rules.
1773
1774 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1775 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1776 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1777
1778 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1779 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1780 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1781 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1782
1ddeb334
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1783 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1784 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1785 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1786 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1787 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1788 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1789 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1790
1791 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1792 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1793
326cdc37
TF
1794TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1795
1796 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1797
1798 Resent-From: f
1799
1800 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1801 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1802 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1803 username as equal to the username.
1804
1805 This change corrects that bug.
1806
f62514b3
GF
1807GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1808 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1809 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1810
eb505532
TF
1811TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1812
14c7b357
PP
1813PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1814 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1815 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1816 NULL dereference and crash.
1817
94eaf700
PP
1818JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1819
6f5a440a
PP
1820PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1821 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1822 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1823
514ee161
SC
1824SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1825
fd98a5c6
JH
1826JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1827 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1828 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1829 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1830 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1831 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1832 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1833 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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JH
1834 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1835 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1836 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1837
035c7f1e
PP
1838PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1839 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1840
ff284120
PP
1841PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1842 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1843 Bugzilla 880.
1844
26e72755
PP
1845PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1846 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1847 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1848 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1849 an empty string is now equivalent.
1850
0fbd9bff
PP
1851PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1852 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1853 not performing validation itself.
1854
700d22f3
PP
1855PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1856 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1857
fcc8e047
JH
1858JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1859 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1860
4c04137d 1861TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1862
8c020188
PP
1863PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1864 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1865 other false fix of the same issue.
1866 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1867 Bugzilla 1363.
1868
d13cdd30
PP
1869PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1870 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1871
e2fbf4a2
PP
1872PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1873 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1874 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1875
f4c1088b
PP
1876PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1877 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1878 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1879
c5c2182f
PP
1880TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1881
73431ca9
JH
1882JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1883
2d07a215
TL
1884TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1885 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1886
a30a8861
TL
1887TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1888 Alexander Miroch.
1889
33382dd9
TL
1890TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1891 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1892 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1893 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1894 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1895
046172e6
TL
1896TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1897 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1898
581d7bee 1899TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1900 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1901 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1902
1903TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1904 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1905 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1906 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1907
237b2cf2
TL
1908TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1909
9fc5a352
TL
1910TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1911 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1912 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1913
b10e4ec2
TL
1914TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1915
e2cebd74
TL
1916TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1917 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1918 interaction.
1919
1920TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1921 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1922
2519e60d
TL
1923TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1924 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1925
e78e6ecf 1926
4263f395
PP
1927Exim version 4.80.1
1928-------------------
1929
1930PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1931 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1932 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1933
ea722490 1934
b1770b6e 1935Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1936-----------------
1937
1938PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1939 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1940 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1941
23c7e742
NM
1942NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1943
b322aac8
NM
1944NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1945 improved.
1946
4a891427
NM
1947NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1948
c1e794ba 1949PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1950
97753960
PP
1951PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1952
1953PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1954 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1955
df6303fa
PP
1956PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1957 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1958
7e6a8985
PP
1959PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1960 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1961
f1e05cc7 1962PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1963 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1964 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1965
4c287009
PP
1966PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1967
b98bb9ac
PP
1968PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1969 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1970
4a6a987a
PP
1971PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1972
c45dd180 1973PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1974
7db8d074
PP
1975PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1976 non-compliant senders.
1977 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1978
eae0036b 1979NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1980 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1981 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1982
dec5017e
PP
1983PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1984 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1985 in spool file corruption.
1986
c80c5570
PP
1987PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1988 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1989 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1990 "Got SSL error 2".
1991
076b11e2
PP
1992TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1993 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1994 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1995
5407bfff
JH
1996JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1997 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1998
9e45c72b
PP
1999JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2000
e74376d8
PP
2001PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2002 diagnostics.
2003 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2004
4c04137d 2005PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2006 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2007 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2008
7be682ca
PP
2009PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2010 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2011 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2012 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2013
ef840681
PP
2014PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2015 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2016
5bfb4cdf
PP
2017PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2018 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2019 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2020 resolver implementation change.
2021
c6e95d22
PP
2022PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2023 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2024
9cbad13b
PP
2025PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2026
9ee44efb
PP
2027PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2028
6a6084f8
PP
2029PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2030 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2031
12dd53c7
PP
2032PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2033 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2034
9e45c72b 2035JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2036 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2037
17c76198
PP
2038PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2039 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2040 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2041 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2042 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2043
53947857 2044PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2045
eae0036b 2046PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2047 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2048 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2049
9e45c72b 2050JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2051
7390e768
PP
2052PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2053 read-only, out of scope).
2054 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2055
08488c86
PP
2056PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2057 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2058 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2059 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2060
6475bd82
PP
2061PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2062
81f91683
PP
2063PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2064 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2065 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2066 real issues in debug logging.
2067
5779e6aa
PP
2068PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2069 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2070
3375e053
PP
2071PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2072 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2073 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2074
2075PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2076 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2077 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2078 problems.
3375e053 2079
9d26b8c0
PP
2080PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2081 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2082
57eb9e91 2083PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2084 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2085 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2086 needs to override this, it can.
2087
16880d1a
PP
2088PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2089 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2090 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2091
a799883d
PP
2092PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2093 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2094 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2095 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2096
3ecab157 2097PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2098
0599f9cf 2099
867fcbf5
PP
2100Exim version 4.77
2101-----------------
2102
2103PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2104 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2105
f1a29782
TF
2106TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2107
ab42bd23
TK
2108TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2109 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2110
0ca0cf52
TF
2111TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2112 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2113
921b12ca
TF
2114TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2115 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2116 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2117
2118 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2119 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2120 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2121 not safe for signals.
2122
2123 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2124 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2125 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2126 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2127 exiwhat.
2128
c99ce5c9
TF
2129TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2130
2131 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2132 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2133 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2134 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2135 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2136
2137 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2138 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2139 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2140 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2141 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2142 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2143
2144 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2145 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2146 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2147 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2148
2149 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2150 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2151 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2152 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2153
2154 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2155 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2156 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2157 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2158 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2159 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2160 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2161 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2162 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2163
2164 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2165 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2166 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2167 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2168
2169 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2170 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2171 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2172 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2173 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2174 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2175 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2176 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2177 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2178 details in the main documentation.
2179
3634fc25
TF
2180TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2181
792e8a19
TF
2182TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2183
5901f0ab
TF
2184TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2185 repository when doing development or release builds.
2186
7f2a2a43
PP
2187PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2188 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2189
061b7ebd
PP
2190PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2191 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2192 Bugzilla 97.
2193
e12f8c32
PP
2194PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2195
9e949f00 2196PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2197 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2198
2199PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2200 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2201
555ae6af 2202PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2203 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2204
2205PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2206 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2207
6f7fe114
PP
2208PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2209 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2210
c566dd90
PP
2211PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2212 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2213 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2214 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2215
d6cc7c78 2216PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2217 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2218 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2219
0d0e4455
PP
2220PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2221
3399bb60 2222PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2223
2224PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2225 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2226
0ca0cf52 2227
10906672
PP
2228Exim version 4.76
2229-----------------
2230
2231PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2232
754a0503
PP
2233PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2234 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2235
c0c7b2da
PP
2236PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2237
e97d1f08
PP
2238PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2239
084c1d8c
PP
2240PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2241 Bugzilla 1098.
2242
4e7ee012
PP
2243PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2244 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2245
c8d52a00
PP
2246TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2247 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2248
54e7ce4a
PP
2249PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2250 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2251
5ee6f336
PP
2252PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2253 Bugzilla 1104.
2254
c8d52a00 2255TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2256 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2257
2258TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2259 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2260 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2261 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2262
2263PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2264 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2265
10906672 2266
aa097c4c
NM
2267Exim version 4.75
2268-----------------
2269
4c04137d 2270NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2271 Bugzilla 1073
2272
7f3d9eff
TF
2273TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2274 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2275 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2276
159f52d2
TF
2277TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2278 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2279
0cc9542a
PP
2280PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2281 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2282 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2283
f7274286
PP
2284PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2285 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2286
7b797365
PP
2287PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2288 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2289
caacae52
NM
2290NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2291 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2292
09dcaba9
NM
2293NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2294 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2295
bc19a55b
PP
2296PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2297 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2298
bd4c9759
NM
2299NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2300 Fixes bug 943.
2301
b72aab72
PP
2302PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2303 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2304
2fe76745
PP
2305PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2306 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2307
76aa570c
PP
2308PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2309 SQL string expansion failure details.
2310 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2311
f1e5fef5
PP
2312PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2313 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2314
4d805ee9
PP
2315PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2316 extern declarations in function scope.
2317 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2318
cd59ab18
PP
2319PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2320 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2321 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2322 a kernel bug).
2323
332f5cf3
PP
2324PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2325 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2326
29cfeb94
PP
2327PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2328 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2329
660242ad
PP
2330PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2331 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2332
bc4bc4c5
PP
2333PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2334 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2335
2e64baa9
NM
2336NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2337 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2338 Dennis Davis.
2339
4c04137d 2340PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2341
6bac1a9a
PP
2342PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2343
552193f0
NM
2344NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2345 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2346
1b587e48
TF
2347TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2348 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2349
aa097c4c 2350
8c07b69f
TF
2351Exim version 4.74
2352-----------------
2353
2354TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2355 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2356
c0ea85ab
TF
2357TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2358 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2359
0761d44e
TF
2360TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2361
0a349494
PP
2362DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2363 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2364 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2365
2366PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2367 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2368 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2369
fea24b2e
PP
2370PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2371 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2372 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2373 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2374
6545de78
PP
2375PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2376 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2377 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2378 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2379
1670ef10
PP
2380PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2381 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2382 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2383 arbitrary files.
2384
c0886197
PP
2385PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2386 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2387
b7487bce
PP
2388PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2389 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2390 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2391 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2392 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2393
8c07b69f 2394
97fd1e48 2395Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2396-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2397
2398PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2399 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2400 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2401
6901c596
PP
2402PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2403 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2404
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2405JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2406
77bb000f
PP
2407PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2408
a29e5231
PP
2409PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2410
ec5a0394 2411PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2412
55c75993
PP
2413PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2414
453a6645 2415PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2416 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2417 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2418 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2419
8544e77a
PP
2420PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2421 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2422 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2423 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2424 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2425
83e029d5
PP
2426PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2427
ed7f7860
PP
2428PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2429
7d9f747b
PP
2430PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2431
4b2241d2
PP
2432PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2433
10385c15
PP
2434PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2435
dbc4b90d
PP
2436PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2437
532be449
PP
2438PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2439
6a8de854 2440PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2441 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2442 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2443
5dc43717
JJ
2444JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2445
2446JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2447 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2448
3346ab01
PP
2449PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2450 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2451
491fab4c
PP
2452PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2453 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2454 Notification from John Horne.
2455
13eb9497
PP
2456PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2457 compatible.
2458
2459PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2460 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2461 it normally works.
2462
7f36d675
DW
2463DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2464 access.
2465
c1d94452
DW
2466DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2467 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2468 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2469
e2f5dc15
DW
2470DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2471 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2472 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2473 configuration file.
2474
cd25e41d
DW
2475DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2476 option (effectively making it always true).
2477
261dc43e
DW
2478DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2479 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2480
fa32850b
DW
2481DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2482 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2483
79d4bc3d
PP
2484PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2485 run-time user, instead of root.
2486
43236f35 2487PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2488 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2489
fb08281f
DW
2490DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2491 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2492 arguments.
3346ab01 2493
74935b98
DW
2494DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2495 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2496 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2497
90b6341f
DW
2498DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2499
57730b52
ML
2500NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2501
66581d1e 2502
465e92cf
JJ
2503Exim version 4.72
2504-----------------
2505
453a6645
PP
2506JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2507 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2508 typos
465e92cf 2509
453a6645
PP
2510JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2511 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2512 (Finput)
edae0343 2513
9bd3e22c
NM
2514NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2515 Patch from Alain Williams
2516
bb576ff7
NM
2517NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2518
5a1a5845
NM
2519NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2520 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2521
981a9fad
NM
2522NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2523 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2524
7fc497ee
NM
2525NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2526
1a41defa
JJ
2527JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2528
a466095c 2529NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2530 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2531
94a6bd0b
NM
2532TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2533
2534TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2535
2536MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2537 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2538 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2539
c1b141a8
NM
2540NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2541 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2542
b26eacf1 2543NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2544 Patch by Simon Arlott
2545
179c5980 2546PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2547 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2548
9bd3e22c 2549
7c6d71af
NM
2550Exim version 4.71
2551-----------------
2552
7d9f747b 2553TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2554
f013fb92
NM
2555NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2556
0eb8eedd
NM
2557NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2558
663ee6d9
NM
2559NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2560
177ebd9b
NM
2561NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2562
7c6d71af 2563
210f147e
NM
2564Exim version 4.70
2565-----------------
2566
cdd3bb85 2567TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2568 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2569
2570TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2571 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2572 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2573
2574TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2575 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2576 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2577
2578TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2579 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2580
210f147e
NM
2581NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2582 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2583 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2584 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2585
deafd5b3
NM
2586NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2587 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2588 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2589
089793a4
TF
2590TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2591
5f16ca82
TF
2592TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2593
dae9d94e 2594NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2595 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2596
7d9f747b 2597NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2598
06864c44
TF
2599TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2600 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2601 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2602 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2603
65a7d8c3 2604NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2605 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2606
23510047 2607TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2608
7d9f747b 2609NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2610
7d8eec3a 2611NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2612 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2613
89dec7b6
TF
2614TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2615 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2616
a99de90c
TF
2617TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2618 that they are available at delivery time.
2619
e2803e40
TF
2620TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2621
7199e1ee
TF
2622TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2623 incoming_port log selectors.
2624
e276e04b
TF
2625TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2626 setting expands to an empty string.
2627
ce552449 2628NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2629 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2630
e765a0f1 2631NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2632 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2633
4f054c63 2634NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2635 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2636
7d9f747b
PP
2637NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2638 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2639
7d9f747b
PP
2640NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2641 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2642
b52bc06e 2643NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2644 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2645
447de4b0
NM
2646NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2647
4c69d561 2648NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2649 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2650
d5c39246 2651NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2652 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2653
0b23848a
TK
2654TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2655
8f3414a1 2656NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2657 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2658
fb6f955d
NM
2659NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2660
2661NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2662
7d9f747b
PP
2663NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2664 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2665
7d9f747b
PP
2666NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2667 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2668
7d9f747b
PP
2669NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2670 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2671
7d9f747b
PP
2672NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2673 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2674
7d9f747b
PP
2675NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2676 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2677
7d9f747b
PP
2678NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2679 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2680
7d9f747b
PP
2681NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2682 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2683
7d9f747b 2684NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2685 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2686
7d9f747b 2687NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2688
7d9f747b
PP
2689NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2690 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2691
7d9f747b 2692NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2693
7d9f747b 2694NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2695
7d9f747b 2696NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2697
7d9f747b 2698NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2699
17792b53 2700NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2701 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2702
7d9f747b
PP
2703NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2704 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2705
91576cec 2706NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2707 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2708
7d9f747b
PP
2709NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2710 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2711
7d9f747b 2712NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2713
7d9f747b 2714NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2715
7d9f747b 2716NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2717
7d9f747b 2718NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2719
deafd5b3 2720
47db1125
NM
2721Exim version 4.69
2722-----------------
2723
4b3504d0
TK
2724TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2725 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2726 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2727
2728 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2729 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2730 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2731 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2732 build errors in sieve.c.
2733
81ea09ca
NM
2734NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2735 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2736 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2737
f13cddcb
SC
2738SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2739
7d9f747b 2740NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2741
7d9f747b 2742NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2743
7d9f747b 2744NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2745
2746
eb4c0de6
PH
2747Exim version 4.68
2748-----------------
2749
2750PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2751
6a3bceb1
PH
2752PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2753 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2754 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2755 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2756 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2757 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2758 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2759 for iplsearch lookups.
2760
2761 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2762 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2763 previously such lookups could never work.
2764
4c04137d 2765 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2766 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2767 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2768
2e30fa9d
TK
2769TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2770 version.
2771
0806a9c5
MH
2772MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2773 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2774 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2775 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2776 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2777 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2778
ae276964
TK
2779TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2780 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2781
0f2cbd1b
MH
2782MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2783 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2784 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2785 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2786 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2787 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2788
2b85bce7
PH
2789PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2790 local_scan API.
2791
93655c46
PH
2792PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2793
6c512171
PH
2794PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2795 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2796 encrypted.
2797
2798PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2799 by clients under certain conditions.
2800
aa6dc513
PH
2801PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2802 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2803
a96603a0
PH
2804PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2805
8f240103
PH
2806PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2807 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2808
2809PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2810
d677b2f2
PH
2811PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2812
d52120f2
PH
2813PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2814
64f2600a
PH
2815PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2816 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2817
8669f003
PH
2818PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2819
a4dc33a8
PH
2820PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2821 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2822
d6a60c0f
PH
2823PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2824
8f128379
PH
2825PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2826
8932dffe
PH
2827PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2828 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2829 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2830 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2831
ddea74fa 2832PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2833 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2834 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2835
ddea74fa 2836PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2837 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2838
ddea74fa
PH
2839PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2840
ce9f225c
PH
2841PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2842
19897d52
PH
2843PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2844
bc64a74d
PH
2845PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2846 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2847 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2848
eb4c0de6 2849
b4ed4da0
PH
2850Exim version 4.67
2851-----------------
2852
22ad45c9
MH
2853MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2854 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2855 Jan Srzednicki.
2856
b4ed4da0
PH
2857PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2858 issue a MAIL command.
2859
431b7361
PH
2860PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2861
2862 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2863
2864 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2865 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2866 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2867 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2868 item. This has been fixed.
2869
2870PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2871 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2872
83da1223
PH
2873PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2874 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2875
54fc8428
PH
2876PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2877 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2878 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2879
34c5e8dd
SC
2880SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2881
bbe15da8
PH
2882PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2883 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2884 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2885 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2886 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2887
0e8a9471
MH
2888MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2889 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2890 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2891
f0872424
PH
2892PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2893 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2894 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2895 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2896
b01dd148
PH
2897PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2898
6bf342e1
PH
2899PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2900
273f34d0
PH
2901PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2902 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2903 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2904 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2905 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2906
cf8b11a5
PH
2907PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2908
41c7c167
PH
2909PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2910 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2911 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2912 values).
2913
9c57cbc0
PH
2914PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2915
f3f065bb
PH
2916PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2917
047bdd8c
PH
2918PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2919
0ce9abe6
PH
2920PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2921
0e22dfd1
PH
2922PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2923
4c590bd1
PH
2924PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2925 no_callout_flush is set.
2926
09945f1e
PH
2927PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2928 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2929 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2930 fixed.
2931
c51b8e75
PH
2932PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2933
e28326d8 2934PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2935 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2936 other ACL rejections are.
2937
75b1493f
PH
2938PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2939 with slight modification.
2940
7c5214ec
PH
2941PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2942 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2943
4311097e
PH
2944PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2945 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2946 connection.
2947
29f89cad
PH
2948PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2949 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2950
5e687460
SC
2951SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2952
c3611384
PH
2953PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2954 expansion side effects.
2955
5a11a7b4
PH
2956PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2957 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2958 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2959 be the same.
2960
0e20aff9
MH
2961MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2962 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2963 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2964
ca86f471
PH
2965PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2966 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2967 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2968 were accidentally chopped off.
2969
a14e5636
PH
2970PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2971 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2972 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2973 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2974 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2975 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2976 pipelining has not been advertised.
2977
ec95d1a6
PH
2978PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2979
42855d71
PH
2980PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2981 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2982 This has been fixed.
2983
57c2c631
PH
2984PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2985 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2986 reported on Solaris.
2987
58c01c94
PH
2988PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2989 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2990 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2991 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2992 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2993 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2994 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2995
dee5a20a
PH
2996PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2997 cpus.
2998
d2ee6114
PH
2999PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3000
b2d5182b
PH
3001PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3002
79749a79
PH
3003PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3004 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3005 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3006 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3007 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3008 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3009
c456d9bb
PH
3010PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3011 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3012 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3013 host_all_ignored option.
3014
cd9868ec
PH
3015PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3016 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3017 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3018 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3019 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3020 is what is supposed to happen).
3021
ebeaf996
PH
3022PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3023 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3024 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3025 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3026 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3027 uses the Exim user.
3028
2679d413
PH
3029PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3030 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3031 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3032 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3033 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3034 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3035 users.
3036
84024b72
PH
3037PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3038
8005d38e
SC
3039SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3040 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3041 (Jez Hancock).
3042 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3043 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3044
3298c6c6
SC
3045SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3046
a43a27c5
PH
3047PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3048
58eb016e 3049PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3050 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3051 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3052 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3053 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3054 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3055 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3056 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3057 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3058 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3059 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3060
b43a74ea
PH
3061PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3062 advertised in response to EHLO.
3063
b4ed4da0 3064
5dd1517f
PH
3065Exim version 4.66
3066-----------------
3067
3068PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3069 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3070
3071 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3072 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3073
3074 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3075 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3076 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3077
3078 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3079 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3080 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3081 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3082 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3083
3084
93cfa765
TK
3085Exim version 4.65
3086-----------------
3087
3088TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3089 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3090 versions. (#438)
3091
d6066548
MH
3092MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3093 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3094 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3095
4362ff0d
PH
3096PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3097 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3098 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3099 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3100 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3101 rather than extend the field.
3102
93cfa765 3103
944e9e9c
TF
3104Exim version 4.64
3105-----------------
aa41d2de 3106
21d74bd9
TK
3107TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3108 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3109 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3110 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3111 these files.
3112
3113TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3114 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3115 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3116
3117TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3118 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3119 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3120
3121TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3122 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3123 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3124 in the field name.
3125
2b1c6e3a
PH
3126PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3127 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3128 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3129 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3130 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3131 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3132 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3133 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3134 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3135 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3136 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3137
1f872c80
PH
3138PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3139 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3140
3141PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3142 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3143 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3144 ignores EPIPE as well.
3145
d203e649
PH
3146PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3147 (quoted-printable decoding).
3148
cc2ed8f7 3149PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3150 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3151
ddfcd446
PH
3152PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3153
d45b1de8
PH
3154PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3155
3156PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3157
38a0a95f 3158PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3159 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3160
a2405d83
JJ
3161JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3162 in 4.64-PH/09.
3163
3164JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3165 miscellaneous code fixes
3166
6ea85e9a
PH
3167PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3168 rejections.
3169
26da7e20
PH
3170PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3171 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3172 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3173 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3174 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3175 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3176 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3177 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3178
14aa5a05 3179PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3180 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3181 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3182 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3183 function.
3184 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3185 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3186 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3187 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3188 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3189 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3190 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3191 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3192 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3193
ff75a1f7
PH
3194PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3195 decoding.
3196
e6f6568e
PH
3197PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3198 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3199 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3200 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3201 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3202 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3203 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3204 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3205
d6f6e0dc
PH
3206PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3207 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3208 list.
3209
322050c2
PH
3210PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3211 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3212 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3213 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3214 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3215 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3216 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3217 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3218 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3219 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3220 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3221 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3222 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3223
08955dd3
PH
3224PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3225 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3226 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3227 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3228 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3229 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3230 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3231
1eccaa59
PH
3232PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3233 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3234 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3235 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3236 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3237 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3238 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3239 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3240 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3241 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3242
602e59e5
PH
3243PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3244 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3245 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3246 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3247 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3248
411ef850
PH
3249PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3250 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3251 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3252 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3253 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3254 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3255 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3256
7befa435
PH
3257PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3258 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3259 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3260 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3261 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3262 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3263 been verified.
3264
48da4259 3265PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3266 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3267 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3268 and authorization.)
3269
48da4259
PH
3270PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3271 if any retry times were supplied.
3272
d1d5595c
PH
3273PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3274 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3275 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3276
0ef732d9
PH
3277PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3278
328895cc
PH
3279PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3280
fd700877
PH
3281PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3282 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3283 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3284 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3285 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3286 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3287
8dce1a6f
PH
3288PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3289 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3290
17af4a17
PH
3291PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3292 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3293 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3294
3295PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3296 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3297 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3298 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3299 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3300 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3301 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3302 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3303 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3304
3305 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3306 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3307 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3308 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3309 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3310 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3311 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3312 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3313 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3314
3315 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3316 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3317 hammering the server.
3318
c1114884
PH
3319PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3320 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3321
7a0743eb
PH
3322PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3323
0d85fa3f
PH
3324PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3325 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3326 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3327
1bf43b78
PH
3328PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3329 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3330 one case where this was not true.
3331
520de300
PH
3332PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3333 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3334 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3335 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3336 fails.
3337
48c7f9e2
PH
3338PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3339 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3340 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3341 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3342 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3343 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3344 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3345 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3346 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3347 smtp transport.
3348
99ea1c86
PH
3349PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3350 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3351 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3352 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3353
a2042e78
PH
3354PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3355 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3356
4fbcfc2e
PH
3357PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3358 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3359 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3360
aa41d2de
PH
3361PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3362
af561417
PH
3363PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3364
3cc66b45
PH
3365PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3366
194cc0e4
PH
3367PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3368 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3369 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3370 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3371
a401ddaa
PH
3372PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3373 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3374
4e88a19f
PH
3375PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3376 be meaningful with "accept".
3377
d7d7b289
SC
3378SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3379 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3380
3381SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3382 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3383 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3384
3385SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3386 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3387 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3388 there is data to show.
3389 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3390
3391SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3392 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3393 as well as the number of messages.
3394
3395SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3396 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3397 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3398
3399SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3400 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3401 have a flag are now skipped.
3402
3403SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3404 Added the -emptyok flag.
3405
3406SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3407 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3408
0ea2a468
JJ
3409JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3410 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3411 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3412
3413JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3414 match 4.64-PH/13
3415
3416JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3417 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3418
3419JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3420
3421JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3422 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3423
8a10f5a4
PH
3424PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3425
30e18802
PH
3426PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3427 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3428 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3429 contravention of the specifications.
3430
55728a4f
PH
3431PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3432 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3433 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3434
d7837193
PH
3435PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3436 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3437 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3438
87054a31
PH
3439PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3440
ea2c01d2
MH
3441MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3442 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3443 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3444 some point in the past.
3445
e4fa6968
PH
3446PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3447 transport during callout processing was broken.
3448
56f5d9bd
PH
3449PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3450 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3451
922e1c28
PH
3452PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3453 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3454
21eb6e72
PH
3455PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3456 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3457
a0540757
PH
3458PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3459
944e9e9c 3460
478be7b0
SC
3461Exim version 4.63
3462-----------------
3463
3464SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3465 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3466
3467SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3468 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3469 there is data to show.
3470 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3471
3472SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3473 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3474
2b965a65
TF
3475TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3476 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3477
45b91596
PH
3478TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3479 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3480
c59f5781
TF
3481TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3482 submissions from trusted users.
3483
90fc3069
TF
3484TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3485 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3486
6083aca0
TF
3487TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3488 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3489 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3490 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3491 there is now a framework to start from.
3492
765b530f
PH
3493PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3494 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3495 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3496
4e167a8c
PH
3497PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3498
4608d683
PH
3499PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3500
b8dc3e4a
PH
3501PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3502
5418e93b
PH
3503PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3504 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3505 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3506
b4a9bda2
PH
3507PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3508 libradius.
3509
45b91596
PH
3510PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3511 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3512 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3513
5547e2c5
PH
3514PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3515 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3516 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3517 its arguments.
3518
dbcef0ea
PH
3519PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3520 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3521 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3522 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3523 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3524
25257489
PH
3525PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3526 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3527
c816d124
PH
3528PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3529
a9ccd69a
PH
3530PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3531 operations in malware.c.
3532
75fa1910
PH
3533PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3534 signatures.
3535
a7d7aa58
PH
3536PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3537 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3538 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3539 all.
3540
42119b09
PH
3541PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3542 statements to "add_header".
3543
41609df5
PH
3544PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3545 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3546
a5bd321b
PH
3547PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3548 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3549 latter.
3550
e85a7ad5 3551PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3552 so that it is now:
3553
e85a7ad5
PH
3554 ${if or { \
3555 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3556 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3557 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3558 }{no}{yes}}
3559
e85a7ad5
PH
3560 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3561 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3562
d8fe1c03
PH
3563PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3564 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3565
16282d2b
PH
3566PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3567 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3568 any possible encoding problems.
3569
35d40a98
PH
3570PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3571 but not after initializing Perl.
3572
034d99ab
PH
3573PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3574 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3575 apparently, which is not desirable.
3576
6ec97b1b
PH
3577PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3578 queries.
3579
e22ca4ac
JJ
3580JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3581 --not options
3582
3583JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3584
33d73e3b
PH
3585PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3586 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3587 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3588 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3589
9ecb03f3
PH
3590PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3591 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3592 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3593
084efe8d
PH
3594PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3595 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3596 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3597 0.12.
3598
366fc9f0
PH
3599PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3600 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3601 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3602 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3603 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3604
c59f5781 3605
c887c79e
TF
3606Exim version 4.62
3607-----------------
3608
3609TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3610 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3611
1cce3af8
PH
3612PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3613 patch).
3614
afb3eaaf
PH
3615PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3616 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3617 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3618 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3619 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3620 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3621 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3622 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3623 451 error is used.
3624
e173618b
PH
3625PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3626
dd16e114
PH
3627PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3628 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3629 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3630
f7fd3850
PH
3631PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3632 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3633 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3634 odd errors.
3635
d87df92c
PH
3636PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3637 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3638
7e9f683d
PH
3639PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3640 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3641 option (which defaults to 0600).
3642
bfad5236
PH
3643PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3644
01c490df
PH
3645PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3646 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3647 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3648 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3649 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3650 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3651 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3652
d6629cdc
PH
3653PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3654
1cce3af8 3655
214e2000
PH
3656Exim version 4.61
3657-----------------
3658
3659PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3660 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3661 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3662 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3663 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3664 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3665 addresses as local.
3666
f9daeae0
PH
3667PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3668 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3669
7e66e54d
PH
3670PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3671
c8ea1597
PH
3672PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3673 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3674 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3675 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3676 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3677 grumble.
3678
911f6fde
PH
3679PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3680 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3681
47ca6d6c
PH
3682PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3683 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3684 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3685 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3686 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3687
ed0e9820
PH
3688PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3689 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3690 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3691 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3692
eff37e47
PH
3693PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3694 be the same on different OS.
3695
1921d2ea
PH
3696PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3697 testing.
3698
b3f69ca8
JJ
3699JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3700 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3701
3702JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3703 in 4.61-PH/06
3704
424a1c63
PH
3705PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3706 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3707 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3708 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3709 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3710 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3711 bounce message.
3712
7a100415
PH
3713PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3714 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3715 when Exim was called.
3716
19b9dc85
PH
3717PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3718 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3719
309bd837
PH
3720PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3721 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3722 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3723 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3724
59e82a2a
PH
3725PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3726 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3727 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3728 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3729 changes:
3730
3731 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3732 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3733 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3734
3735 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3736 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3737 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3738
9edc04ce
PH
3739PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3740 feature).
3741
1349e1e5
PH
3742PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3743 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3744 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3745 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3746 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3747 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3748 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3749 values from the SRV records were lost.
3750
ea49d0e1
PH
3751PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3752 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3753 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3754
064a94c9
PH
3755PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3756 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3757 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3758
727071f8
PH
3759PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3760 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3761 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3762 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3763 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3764 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3765 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3766 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3767 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3768 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3769
f78eb7c6
PH
3770PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3771 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3772 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3773
21c28500
PH
3774PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3775 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3776
3777PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3778 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3779 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3780 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3781 is given.
3782
1688f43b
PH
3783PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3784 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3785 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3786
3787PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3788 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3789 PH/23 above applies.
3790
9675b384
PH
3791PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3792 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3793 (for which there is an explicit test).
3794
6a3f1455
PH
3795PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3796
dac79d3e
PH
3797PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3798 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3799 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3800 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3801 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3802
5977a0b3
PH
3803PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3804 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3805 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3806 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3807
c91535f3
PH
3808PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3809 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3810 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3811
0d46a8c8
PH
3812PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3813
278c6e6c
PH
3814PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3815
2cbb4081
PH
3816PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3817 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3818 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3819
3eef829e
PH
3820PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3821 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3822 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3823 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3824 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3825
1ab95fa6
PH
3826PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3827 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3828 the message gets confusing).
3829
230205fc
PH
3830PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3831 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3832 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3833 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3834
75e0e026
PH
3835PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3836 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3837 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3838 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3839 same order.
3840
3841PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3842 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3843 the different processes.
3844
145396a6
PH
3845PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3846
3cd34f13
PH
3847PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3848
11121d3d
JJ
3849JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3850 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3851
3852JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3853 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3854
3855JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3856 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3857 messages matching specified criteria.
3858
8def5aaf
PH
3859PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3860
929ba01c
PH
3861PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3862 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3863
2632889e
PH
3864PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3865 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3866 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3867 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3868 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3869 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3870 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3871 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3872 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3873 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3874
944a9c55
PH
3875PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3876 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3877 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3878
4a23603b
PH
3879PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3880
4730f942
PH
3881PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3882 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3883 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3884 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3885 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3886 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3887 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3888 the variable.
3889
30dba1e6
PH
3890PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3891 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3892
382afc6b
PH
3893PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3894
a86229cf
PH
3895PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3896
50c99ba6
PH
3897PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3898
d35e429d
PH
3899PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3900 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3901 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3902 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3903 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3904 size of the count of files.
3905
f90d018c
PH
3906PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3907
75def545
PH
3908PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3909 used in LMTP mode:
3910
3911 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3912 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3913 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3914 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3915
3916 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3917 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3918 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3919
3920PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3921 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3922 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3923 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3924 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3925
c46782ef
PH
3926PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3927 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3928
71fafd95
PH
3929PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3930 will now be deprecated.
3931
2c5db4fd
PH
3932PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3933
9cf6b11a
JJ
3934JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3935 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3936 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3937
3938JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3939 with very large, slow to parse queues
3940
3941JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3942
3943JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3944
898d150f
PH
3945PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3946 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3947 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3948 SMTP output lines.
3949
46218253
PH
3950PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3951 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3952 Sieve code now uses this.
3953
e97957bc
PH
3954PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3955 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3956
81e509d7
PH
3957PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3958 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3959
3d240ff7
PH
3960PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3961
b37c4101
PH
3962PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3963 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3964 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3965 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3966 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3967
79378e0f
PH
3968PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3969 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3970 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3971 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3972
e49c7bb4
PH
3973PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3974
d114ec46
PH
3975PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3976
f3d7df6c
PH
3977PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3978 is preferred over IPv4.
3979
715ab376
PH
3980PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3981 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3982 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3983 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3984 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3985 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3986 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3987
6b31b150
PH
3988PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3989 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3990 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3991
3992PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3993
d515a917
PH
3994PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3995 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3996 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3997 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3998 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3999 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4000 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4001 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4002 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4003 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4004 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4005
9b8fadde
PH
4006PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4007 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4008 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4009
214e2000 4010
5de37277
PH
4011Exim version 4.60
4012-----------------
4013
cc38ddbf
PH
4014PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4015
4016 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4017 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4018
4019 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4020 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4021 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4022
72fdd6ae
PH
4023PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4024
4025 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4026 not a single digit.
4027
4028 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4029 string.
4030
4031 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4032 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4033 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4034 silly things.
4035
4036 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4037 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4038
4039 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4040 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4041
cb741023
PH
4042PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4043 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4044 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4045
f174f16e
PH
4046PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4047 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4048
c25242d7
PH
4049PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4050 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4051
4052 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4053
4054 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4055 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4056 this:
4057
4058 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4059
82c19f95
PH
4060PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4061 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4062 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4063 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4064 identical. For example:
4065
4066 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4067
4068 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4069 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4070 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4071
d7ffbc12
PH
4072PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4073 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4074 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4075 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4076
9f526266
PH
4077PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4078 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4079 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4080 message.
4081
87fcc8b9
PH
4082PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4083
4084 o fixes some comments
4085 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4086 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4087 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4088 and documents the missing references header update
4089
4090 and most important:
4091
4092 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4093 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4094 result)
4095
456682f5
PH
4096PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4097 Electronic Mail") by including:
4098
4099 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4100
4101 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4102 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4103 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4104 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4105 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4106
4107 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4108
4109 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4110
4111 The auto-replied keyword:
4112
4113 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4114 message by an automatic process,
4115
4116 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4117
4118 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4119 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4120
4121 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4122 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4123 other messages.
4124
3e46c1aa
PH
4125PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4126 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4127
49826d12
PH
4128PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4129
eba0c039
PH
4130PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4131 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4132 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4133
a0d6ba8a
PH
4134PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4135 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4136 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4137
f0917727
PH
4138PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4139 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4140 and treats the condition as false.
4141
096fee00
PH
4142PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4143
024bd3c2
PH
4144PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4145 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4146 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4147 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4148 not changing the active code.
4149
4150 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4151 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4152
4153 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4154 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4155
df199fec
PH
4156PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4157 (Bugzilla #53).
4158
d27f1df3
PH
4159PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4160 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4161 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4162 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4163 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4164 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4165 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4166 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4167 the text comparison.
4168
96776534
PH
4169PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4170 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4171 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4172 The same fix has been applied.
4173
5de37277 4174
9a799bc0
PH
4175Exim version 4.54
4176-----------------
4177
4178PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4179 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4180 It now does.
4181
99a4b039
PH
4182PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4183 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4184
4185PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4186
4b233853
PH
4187PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4188 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4189 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4190 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4191 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4192
8857ccfd
PH
4193TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4194 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4195 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4196 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4197 or /domain=).
4198
433a2980
PH
4199PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4200 testing suite.
4201
3e46c1aa 4202
9a799bc0 4203
e3a311ba
TK
4204Exim version 4.53
4205-----------------
4206
4207TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4208 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4209
13b685f9
PH
4210PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4211
395ff96d
PH
4212PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4213
5b68f6e4
PH
4214PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4215 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4216 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4217
1ab52c69
PH
4218PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4219 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4220 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4221
b07e6aa3
PH
4222PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4223 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4224 operating systems.
4225
254e032f
PH
4226PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4227 ${stat: expansion item.
4228
3af76a81
PH
4229PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4230 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4231
2548ba04
PH
4232PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4233 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4234 file for comments.
4235
b6c6011d
PH
4236PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4237
cf39cf57
PH
4238PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4239 setting.
4240
f1513293
PH
4241PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4242 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4243
727549a4
PH
4244TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4245
af46795e
PH
4246PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4247 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4248 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4249 the end of the subprocess.
4250
d7b47fd0
PH
4251PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4252 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4253 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4254 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4255 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4256
ee744174
JJ
4257JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4258
b582ab87
PH
4259TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4260
41a13e0a
PH
4261PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4262 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4263
f625cc5a
PH
4264PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4265
4266PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4267
21f7af35
PH
4268PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4269 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4270 HP-UX compiler.
4271
31480e42
PH
4272PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4273
2d280592
PH
4274PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4275 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4276 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4277
7cd1141b
PH
4278PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4279 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4280
4281PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4282 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4283
750af86e
PH
4284PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4285 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4286
4287 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4288 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4289
4290 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4291 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4292 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4293 contributed by a Radius user.
4294
4295PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4296 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4297
4304270b
TK
4298TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4299 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4300
750af86e
PH
4301PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4302 available.
4303
64ffc24f
PH
4304PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4305 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4306 received.
4307
5dd9625b
PH
4308PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4309 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4310 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4311 header lines when this was not necessary.
4312
5591031b
PH
4313PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4314
ba18e66a
PH
4315PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4316 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4317 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4318 exists".
4319
9cec981f
PH
4320PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4321 -bV or -d is used.
4322
aa2b5c79
PH
4323PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4324 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4325 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4326 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4327
48a53b7f
PH
4328PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4329
1c59d63b
PH
4330PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4331
671012da
TK
4332TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4333
1509d3a8
PH
4334PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4335
4336PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4337 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4338 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4339 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4340 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4341 settings.
4342
4343PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4344
2fe1a124
PH
4345PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4346 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4347 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4348 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4349 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4350 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4351 which is clearly wrong.
4352
8800895a
PH
4353PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4354
ccfdb010
PH
4355PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4356 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4357 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4358 subsequently added.
4359
1130bfb0
PH
4360PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4361 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4362
ebcb507f
PH
4363PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4364
c35e155c
PH
4365PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4366 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4367
95d1f782
PH
4368PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4369 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4370
fd6de02e
PH
4371PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4372 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4373
58de37c5
PH
4374PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4375 recipients, not senders.
4376
261cf466
TF
4377TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4378 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4379
3ee512ff
PH
4380PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4381
e08c430f
PH
4382PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4383
bef5a11f
PH
4384PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4385 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4386 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4387 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4388
7546de58
TF
4389TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4390
e5d5a95f
TF
4391TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4392 clock is set back in time.
4393
2e88a017
TF
4394TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4395 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4396
a5f65aa4
TF
4397TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4398 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4399
e7726cbf
PH
4400PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4401 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4402 (see PH/47 above).
4403
a7fdad5b
TF
4404TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4405 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4406 header rewrites.
4407
6af56900
PH
4408PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4409 type ("H").
4410
0925ede6
PH
4411PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4412
66afa403
TF
4413TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4414 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4415 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4416
0154e85a
TF
4417TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4418 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4419 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4420 helo verification defer as a failure.
4421
16f12c76
PH
4422PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4423 actual error message.
4424
bbe902f0 4425
e5a9dba6
PH
4426Exim version 4.52
4427-----------------
4428
4429TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4430
22c3b60b
PH
4431PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4432 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4433 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4434 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4435
06a9b4b5
PH
4436TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4437
c1ac6996
PH
4438PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4439 can still be requested.
4440
9c7a242c
PH
4441PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4442 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4443 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4444 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4445
87ba3f5f
PH
4446TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4447 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4448 circumstances, but probably never did.
4449
4450PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4451 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4452 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4453 in the header line.
4454
29aba418
TF
4455TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4456
fe0dab11
TF
4457TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4458 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4459
11d337a4
TK
4460TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4461
4462TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4463
415c8f3b
PH
4464PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4465 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4466 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4467 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4468 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4469 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4470
958541e9
PH
4471PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4472 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4473 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4474 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4475 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4476 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4477
c206415f
TK
4478TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4479 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4480
2a4be8f9
PH
4481PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4482 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4483
1cba11c5
SC
4484SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4485 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4486
4c04137d 4487SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4488
4489SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4490
4491SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4492
4493SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4494
4495SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4496
4497SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4498
1005d00e
TK
4499TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4500
4501TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4502 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4503 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4504
4505TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4506 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4507 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4508 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4509
9b4768fa
PH
4510PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4511 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4512 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4513
4514PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4515 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4516 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4517 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4518
0d7eb84a
PH
4519PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4520 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4521 to be made).
4522
4523PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4524 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4525 should work with maildirs and everything.
4526
40727bee
TK
4527TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4528 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4529
554d2369
TF
4530TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4531 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4532
1f922db1
PH
4533PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4534 function for BDB 4.3.
4535
ef213c3b
PH
4536PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4537
8ac170f3
PH
4538PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4539 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4540 involved.
4541
b1c749bb
PH
4542PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4543 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4544 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4545 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4546 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4547 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4548
4aac9b49
PH
4549PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4550 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4551 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4552 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4553 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4554 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4555 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4556 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4557
294520c8
TK
4558TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4559 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4560 details.
4561
5bd022fe
PH
4562PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4563 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4564
90e9ce59
PH
4565PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4566 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4567 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4568 test. It is now used for both.
4569
5ea81592
PH
4570PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4571 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4572 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4573 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4574 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4575 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4576
c6c2dc1d
PH
4577PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4578 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4579 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4580 string_vformat().
4581
fffffe4c
PH
4582PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4583 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4584 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4585
9a26b6b2
PH
4586PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4587 experimental DomainKeys support:
4588
4589 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4590 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4591 the control was given.
4592
4593 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4594
4aee0225
PH
4595PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4596
32d668a5
PH
4597PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4598
8187c3f3
PH
4599PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4600 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4601 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4602 db.h files).
4603
ff790e47 4604PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4605 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4606 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4607 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4608 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4609 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4610 course.
ff790e47 4611
5417f6d1
PH
4612PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4613 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4614 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4615 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4616 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4617 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4618
59cf8544
PH
4619PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4620 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4621 do -d+all out of habit.
4622
e7ad8a65
PH
4623PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4624 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4625 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4626
ade42478
PH
4627PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4628 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4629 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4630 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4631 record types that Exim uses.
4632
182ad5cf
PH
4633PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4634 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4635 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4636 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4637 non-existent file that was broken.
4638
b0d9fc80
TK
4639TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4640 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4641
4642TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4643 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4644 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4645
4646TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4647
47c7a64a
PH
4648PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4649 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4650 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4651 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4652 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4653 same time.
4654
a388bce4
SC
4655SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4656 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4657 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4658 at a slight CPU cost.
4659
4660SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4661 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4662
4663SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4664 by Marc Sherman.
4665
0793e4ed
SC
4666SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4667
c58b88df
PH
4668PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4669 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4670
e7ad8a65 4671
7982096b
PH
4672Exim version 4.51
4673-----------------
4674
1a46a8c5
PH
4675TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4676 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4677
2f079f46 4678TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4679
4680TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4681
4682PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4683 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4684
4685PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4686 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4687 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4688 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4689 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4690 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4691 file.
4692
4693PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4694 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4695 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4696 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4697 these two options.
4698
4699PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4700 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4701 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4702 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4703 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4704 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4705 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4706 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4707
4708PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4709 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4710
4711PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4712 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4713 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4714 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4715 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4716 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4717
4718PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4719 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4720 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4721 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4722
4723PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4724 Finch).
4725
4726PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4727 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4728
49c2d5ea
PH
4729PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4730 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4731 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4732 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4733 message.
49c2d5ea 4734
bf759a8b
PH
4735PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4736
83364d30
PH
4737PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4738 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4739
7999bbd7
PH
4740PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4741 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4742 to what was transported.)
4743
7dbf77c9
PH
4744TF/01 Added $received_time.
4745
74e0617f
PH
4746PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4747 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4748 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4749 spamd_address settings.
4750
2f079f46
PH
4751PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4752 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4753 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4754 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4755 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4756
8c841523
PH
4757PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4758
7766a4f0
PH
4759PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4760 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4761 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4762 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4763 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4764
8b417f2c
PH
4765PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4766 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4767
901f42cb
PH
4768PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4769 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4770 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4771 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4772 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4773 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4774 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4775 for failure.
4776
f9b9210e
PH
4777PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4778 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4779 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4780 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4781 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4782 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4783 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4784 "input=".
4785
54cdb463
PH
4786PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4787
cf00dad6
PH
4788PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4789 driver and ACL definitions.
4790
acb1b346
PH
4791PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4792 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4793
c5ddb310
PH
4794PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4795 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4796 understands it better than I do:
4797
4798 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4799 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4800
4801 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4802 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4803 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4804 => three warnings about OTP not working
4805 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4806
4807 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4808 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4809 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4810 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4811 for each call.)
4812 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4813 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4814
4815 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4816 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4817 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4818
31619da6
PH
4819PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4820 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4821 specified.
4822
bebaf0fc
PH
4823PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4824 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4825 "Linux".
4826
475fe28a
PH
4827PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4828 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4829 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4830
4831 warn !verify = sender
4832 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4833
4834 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4835 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4836
7e8bec7a
PH
4837PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4838
4839 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4840 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4841
4842 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4843 nomenclature these days.)
4844
e4a89c47
PH
4845PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4846 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4847
5ca2a9a1
PH
4848PH/30 In these circumstances:
4849 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4850 . First host does not offer TLS;
4851 . First host accepts first address;
4852 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4853 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4854 . Second host accepts second address.
4855 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4856 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4857 address.
7e8bec7a 4858
c688b954
PH
4859PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4860 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4861 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4862 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4863 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4864
fed77020
PH
4865PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4866 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4867
7fe1560f
PH
4868PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4869 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4870
ebb6e6d5
PH
4871PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4872 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4873 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4874
9c4e8f60
PH
4875PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4876 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4877 overlooked.
4878
4879PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4880
d7174846
PH
4881PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4882 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4883 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4884 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4885 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4886 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4887 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4888
4889 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4890 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4891 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4892 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4893 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4894
4895 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4896 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4897 routed further.
4898
cfe75fc3
PH
4899PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4900 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4901 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4902 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4903 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4904 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4905
be22d70e
PH
4906PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4907
0612b098
PH
4908PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4909 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4910 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4911 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4912 printable escape sequences.
4913
2e0c1448
PH
4914PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4915 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4916 body only.
4917
447d236c
PH
4918PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4919 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4920 are as follows:
4921
4922 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4923 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4924 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4925 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4926 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4927
4928 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4929 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4930 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4931
d20976dc
PH
4932PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4933
f656d135
PH
4934PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4935 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4936 play with."
4937
2e2a30b4
PH
4938PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4939 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4940 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4941 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4942 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4943 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4944 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4945 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4946 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4947 the log output.
4948
9176e9f0
PH
4949PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4950 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4951 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4952 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4953 "make".
4954
7982096b 4955
bbe902f0
PH
4956A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4957----------------------------------------
4958
4959Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4960changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4961needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4962in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4963that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4964release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4965from 4.43.
4966
4967I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49684.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4969those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4970historical information.
4971
4972
f7b63901 4973Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4974-----------------
4975
5fe762f6
PH
4976 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4977
139059f6 4978 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4979 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4980
7086e875
PH
4981 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4982 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4983 place.
4984
35af9f61
PH
4985 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4986 filter fails to execute.
4987
b668c215
PH
4988 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4989 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4990 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4991 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4992 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4993
a494b1e1
PH
4994 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4995
4996 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4997 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4998 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4999 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5000
c5fcb476
PH
5001 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5002 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5003 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5004 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5005 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5006
69358f02
PH
5007 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5008
5be20824
PH
500910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5010
eb2c0248
PH
501111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5012 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5013 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5014 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5015
2a3eea10
PH
501612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5017 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5018 sender verification.
5019
502013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5021 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5022
23c7ff99
PH
502314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5024
4deaf07d
PH
502515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5026 connection timeout.
5027
926e1192
PH
502816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5029 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5030
650edc6f
PH
503117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5032 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5033
2c7db3f5
PH
503418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5035 information about exactly what failed.
5036
3d235903
PH
503719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5038
7c7ad977
PH
503920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5040 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5041 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5042
981756db
PH
504321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5044 It is now set to "smtps".
5045
d4eb88df
PH
504622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5047 ignore_target_hosts.
5048
504923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5050 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5051 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5052 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5053 "[x.x.x.x]".
5054
7d468ab8
PH
505524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5056 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5057 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5058
505925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5060 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5061 wake it up if nothing else does.
5062
62c0818f
PH
506326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5064 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5065 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5066 end up negative.
5067
26034054
PH
506827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5069 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5070
af66f652
PH
507128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5072
90af77f4
PH
507329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5074 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5075 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5076 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5077 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5078 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5079 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5080 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5081
d8ef3577
PH
508230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5083 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5084 than one IP address.
5085
5cb8cbc6
PH
508631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5087 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5088 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5089 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5090
14702f5b
PH
509132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5092 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5093 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5094 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5095 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5096 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5097
063b1e99
PH
509833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5099 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5100 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5101 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5102
652e1b65
PH
510334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5104 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5105 respected.
5106
6f0c9a4f
PH
510735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5108 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5109 $sender_host_address.
5110
33397d19
PH
511136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5112 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5113 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5114 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5115 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5116 very small.
5117
7bb56e1f
PH
511837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5119
5120 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5121 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5122
ea3bc19b
PH
5123 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5124 just the host names, not the priorities.
5125
5126 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5127 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5128 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5129
ea3bc19b 5130 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5131 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5132
0bcb2a0e
PH
513338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5134 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5135 domain.
5136
2ac0e484
PH
513739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5138
4e1fde53
PH
513940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5140 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5141
de365ded
PH
514241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5143 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5144 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5145
f05da2e8
PH
514642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5147
d6453af2
PH
514843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5149
f7b63901
PH
515044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5151
515245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5153 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5154 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5155 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5156 because the tests only now provoked it.
5157
a444213a
PH
515846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5159 (this can affect the format of dates).
5160
0ec020ea
PH
516147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5162 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5163 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5164 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5165
b1206957
PH
516648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5167
516849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5169 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5170 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5171 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5172
26dd5a95
PH
517350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5174 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5175 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5176
343b2385
PH
517751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5178 autoreply.
5179
1c5466b9
PH
518052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5181 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5182 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5183 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5184 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5185 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5186 is going on).
5187
55ee9ee3
PH
518853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5189 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5190 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5191 the line.
5192
d38f8232
PH
519354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5194 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5195 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5196
5197 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5198 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5199 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5200 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5201 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5202 so I produce this patch..."
5203
3295e65b
PH
5204 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5205 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5206 is not defined.
5207
7102e136
PH
520855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5209 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5210 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5211 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5212 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5213
3ca0ba97
PH
521456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5215
c2bcbe20
PH
521657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5217 long debug lines gets shown.
5218
18ce445d
PH
521958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5220 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5221
1f5b4c3d
PH
522259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5223
5224 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5225 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5226 of $primary_hostname.
5227
b975ba52
PH
522860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5229 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5230 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5231 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5232 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5233 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5234 by change 4.50/55 above.
5235
5236 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5237 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5238 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5239 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5240 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5241 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5242 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5243
524461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5245 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5246 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5247 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5248
17ffcae7
PH
524962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5250 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5251
d95f9fdb
PH
525263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5253 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5254 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5255 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5256 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5257
86b8287f
PH
525864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5259 This has been fixed.
5260
60dc5e56
PH
526165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5262 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5263 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5264 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5265 the caching.)
5266
533244af
PH
526766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5268
a5a28604
PH
526967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5270 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5271 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5272 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5273
7e634d24
PH
527468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5275 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5276
3e11c26b
PH
527769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5278 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5279 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5280
6729cf78
PH
528170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5282 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5283 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5284 message there.
5285
00f00ca5
PH
528671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5287 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5288 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5289
c9bdd01c
PH
529072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5291 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5292 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5293 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5294
d43194df
PH
529573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5296 during host lookups.
5297
fe5b5d0b
PH
529874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5299 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5300
5301 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5302
76a2d7ba
PH
530375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5304 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5305 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5306 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5307 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5308 background.
5309
531076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5311 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5312
04f7d5b9
PH
531377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5314 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5315 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5316
bc60667e
PH
531778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5318
bb6e88ff
PH
531979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5320 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5321 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5322 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5323 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5324 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5325 process earlier.
5326
1e70f85b
PH
532780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5328 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5329 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5330 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5331 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5332
533381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5334 tables).
5335
4e01f9d6
PH
533682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5337
1ee1cef2
PH
533883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5339 "vacation" handling.
5340
6e2b4ccc
PH
534184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5342 OS variants using glibc.
5343
8e669ac1
PH
534485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5345
495ae4b0 5346
bbe902f0
PH
5347----------------------------------------------------
5348See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5349----------------------------------------------------
5350
5351
5352Exim version 4.44
5353-----------------
5354
5355 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5356 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5357 transport
5358
5359 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5360 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5361 place.
5362
5363 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5364 filter fails to execute.
5365
5366 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5367 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5368 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5369 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5370 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5371
5372 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5373 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5374 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5375 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5376
5377 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5378 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5379 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5380 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5381 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5382
5383 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5384
5385 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5386 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5387 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5388 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5389
5390 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5391 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5392 sender verification.
5393
539410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5395 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5396
539711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5398 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5399
540012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5401 ignore_target_hosts.
5402
540313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5404 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5405 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5406 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5407 "[x.x.x.x]".
5408
540914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5410 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5411 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5412
541315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5414 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5415 wake it up if nothing else does.
5416
541716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5418 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5419 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5420 end up negative.
5421
542217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5423 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5424
ea3a6f44 542518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5426
542719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5428 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5429 empty pattern.
5430
543120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5432 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5433 one IP address.
5434
ea3a6f44
NM
543521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5436 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5437 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5438 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5439 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5440 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5441
ea3a6f44
NM
544222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5443 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5444 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5445
544623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5447 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5448 $sender_host_address.
5449
545024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5451
ea3a6f44
NM
545225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5453 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5454 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5455
545626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5457 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5458
ea3a6f44
NM
545927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5460 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5461
ea3a6f44
NM
546228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5463 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5464 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5465 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5466
546729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5468 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5469 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5470
ea3a6f44
NM
547130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5472 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5473 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5474 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5475
ea3a6f44
NM
547631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5477 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5478 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5479
ea3a6f44
NM
548031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5481 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5482
ea3a6f44
NM
548332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5484 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5485 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5486 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5487 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5488 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5489 is going on).
bbe902f0 5490
ea3a6f44
NM
549133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5492 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5493 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5494 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5495 CAN-2005-0021
5496
ea3a6f44
NM
549734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5498 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5499 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5500 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5501 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5502 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5503 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5504
5505 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5506 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5507 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5508 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5509 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5510 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5511 CAN-2005-0021
5512
ea3a6f44
NM
551335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5514 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5515 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5516 CAN-2005-0022
5517
ea3a6f44
NM
551836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5519 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5520 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5521 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5522 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5523
ea3a6f44
NM
552437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5525 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5526 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5527 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5528 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5529
ea3a6f44
NM
553038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5531 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5532 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5533 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5534 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5535
5536
495ae4b0
PH
5537Exim version 4.43
5538-----------------
5539
5540 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5541 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5542 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5543 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5544 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5545 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5546 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5547
5548 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5549 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5550 the delivery.
5551
5552 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5553
5554 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5555
5556 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5557 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5558 to local_scan().
5559
5560 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5561 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5562 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5563 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5564 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5565
5566 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5567 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5568
5569 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5570
5571 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5572
557310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5574 header_sender only.
5575
557611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5577 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5578
557912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5580 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5581 affecting debugging statements).
5582
558313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5584
558514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5586 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5587 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5588 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5589 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5590 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5591 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5592 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5593 after the received time, and all would be well.
5594
559515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5596 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5597 condition in an expansion string.
5598
559916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5600
560117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5602 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5603 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5604 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5605 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5606 job under whatever limits there are.
5607
560818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5609
561019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5611 space).
5612
561320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5614 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5615 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5616 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5617 return path is set.
5618
561921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5620 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5621 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5622 binary data in such strings.
5623
562422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5625
562623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5627 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5628 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5629 failure, which is pointless.
5630
563124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5632
563325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5634
563526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5636 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5637 Sender: header lines.
5638
563927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5640 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5641 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5642
564328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5644 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5645 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5646 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5647 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5648 happens.
5649
565029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5651 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5652 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5653 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5654 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5655
565630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5657 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5658 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5659 1024.
5660
566131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5662 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5663
566432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5665 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5666
566733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5668
566932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5670
567133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5672
567334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5674 syntax error.
5675
567635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5677
567836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5679
568037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5681 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5682 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5683 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5684
568538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5686 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5687
5688
5689Exim version 4.42
5690-----------------
5691
5692 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5693 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5694 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5695 it was not quoted.
5696 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5697 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5698 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5699 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5700 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5701 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5702
5703 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5704 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5705 verification failure".
5706
5707 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5708 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5709 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5710 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5711
5712 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5713 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5714 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5715 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5716 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5717 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5718 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5719 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5720 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5721 treated as a timeout.
5722
5723 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5724 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5725 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5726 not set for Exim filters).
5727
5728 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5729 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5730 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5731
5732 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5733
5734 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5735 try to make them clearer.
5736
5737 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5738 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5739
5740 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5741
5742 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5743
574410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5745 only the Cygwin environment.
5746
574711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5748 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5749 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5750 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5751 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5752
575312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5754 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5755 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5756 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5757 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5758 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5759 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5760
576113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5762 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5763
576414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5765
5766 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5767 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5768 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5769
5770 To: susanne@some.where
5771
5772 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5773 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5774 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5775 of addresses in From: header lines).
5776
5777 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5778 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5779 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5780
5781 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5782 treated as non-personal.
5783
5784 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5785 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5786
578715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5788
578916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5790
579117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5792 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5793 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5794
579518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5796 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5797
579819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5799 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5800 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5801 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5802 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5803 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5804
580520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5806 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5807 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5808 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5809 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5810 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5811 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5812 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5813
5814 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5815
581621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5817 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5818
581922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5820 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5821 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5822
582323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5824 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5825
582624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5827 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5828 rather than long int.
5829
583025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5831
583226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5833
5834
5835Exim version 4.41
5836-----------------
5837
5838 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5839 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5840 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5841 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5842 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5843 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5844
5845
5846Exim version 4.40
5847-----------------
5848
5849 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5850 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5851
5852 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5853 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5854 socklen_t is defined.
5855
5856 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5857 always exist.
5858
5859 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5860 configured.
5861
5862 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5863 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5864 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5865 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5866 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5867
5868 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5869 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5870 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5871 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5872
5873 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5874 of flapping under certain conditions.
5875
5876 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5877 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5878 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5879
5880 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5881
588210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5883
588411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5885 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5886 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5887 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5888
588912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5890 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5891 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5892 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5893 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5894 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5895 preserved with the message after it was received.
5896
589713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5898 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5899 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5900 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5901 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5902 test suite worked just fine.
5903
590414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5905 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5906 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5907
590815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5909 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5910 string.
5911
591216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5913 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5914 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5915 does not fully solve it.
5916
591717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5918 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5919 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5920 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5921 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5922
592318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5924 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5925 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5926
592719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5928 string, for example:
5929
5930 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5931
5932 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5933 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5934 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5935 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5936 the routers could not see them.
5937
593820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5939 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5940
594121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5942 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5943 output).
5944
594522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5946 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5947 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5948 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5949 that needed quoting.
5950
595123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5952 was not being matched caselessly.
5953
595424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5955 backslashes.
5956
595725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5958 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5959 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5960 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5961 when use_sender is false.
5962
596326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5964
596527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5966
596728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5968
596929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5970 the configuration file.
5971
597230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5973 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5974
597531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5976
597732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5978 bytes in the message body.
5979
598033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5981 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5982 delivery.
5983
598434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5985
598635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5987
598836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5989 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5990 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5991 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5992 another IP address.
5993
5994
5995Exim version 4.34
5996-----------------
5997
5998 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5999 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6000
6001 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6002 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6003 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6004 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6005 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6006
6007 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6008 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6009
6010 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6011 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6012 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6013
6014 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6015 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6016 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6017
6018 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6019 for routers.
6020
6021 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6022 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6023 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6024 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6025 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6026 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6027 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6028
6029
6030Exim version 4.33
6031-----------------
6032
6033 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6034 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6035 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6036 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6037 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6038 default (and expected) setting.
6039
6040 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6041 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6042 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6043 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6044
6045 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6046 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6047
6048 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6049 in domain lists.
6050
6051 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6052 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6053 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6054 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6055 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6056 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6057
6058 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6059 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6060 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6061
6062 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6063 part (NOT match_host).
6064
6065 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6066
6067 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6068 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6069 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6070 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6071 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6072 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6073 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6074 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6075 the same named file.
6076
607710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6078 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6079 when Exim is built.
6080
608111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6082 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6083 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6084 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6085 a host name.
6086
608712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6088 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6089 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6090
609113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6092
609314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6094
609515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6096
609716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6098 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6099
610017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6101 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6102 before starting the TLS session.
6103
610418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6105
610619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6107 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6108
610920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6110 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6111 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6112 colon in the middle).
6113
6114
6115Exim version 4.32
6116-----------------
6117
6118 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6119 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6120 multiple configurations are in use.
6121
6122 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6123 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6124 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6125 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6126 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6127 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6128
6129 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6130 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6131
6132 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6133 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6134 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6135
6136 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6137 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6138 occurs.
6139
6140 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6141 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6142
6143 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6144
6145 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6146 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6147
6148 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6149
6150 -prval:sval
6151
6152 is equivalent to
6153
6154 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6155
6156 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6157 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6158 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6159 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6160 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6161
616210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6163 Exim's behaviour:
6164
6165 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6166 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6167 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6168 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6169 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6170 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6171
6172 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6173 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6174 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6175 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6176 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6177 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6178 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6179 string.
6180
6181 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6182 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6183 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6184 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6185 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6186
618711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6188
618912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6190 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6191 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6192
619313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6194
619514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6196 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6197 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6198 information.
6199
620015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6201 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6202
620316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6204 Three changes have been made:
6205
6206 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6207 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6208 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6209 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6210 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6211
6212 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6213 been restored.
6214
6215 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6216 the modified behaviour.
6217
6218
6219Exim version 4.31
6220-----------------
6221
6222 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6223 Larry Rosenman.
6224
6225 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6226 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6227
6228 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6229 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6230 try to track down a specific problem.
6231
6232 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6233 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6234 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6235
6236 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6237 warning.
6238
6239 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6240 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6241 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6242 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6243 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6244 some earlier ones do not.
6245
6246 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6247
6248 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6249 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6250 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6251 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6252 address literals are enabled, of course).
6253
6254 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6255
625610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6257 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6258 by a command such as
6259
6260 exim -f "" ...
6261
6262 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6263
626411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6265
626612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6267 remained set. It is now erased.
6268
626913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6270 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6271
627214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6273 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6274 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6275 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6276 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6277 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6278 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6279 appropriate error code.
6280
628115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6282 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6283 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6284 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6285 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6286 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6287
628816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6289 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6290 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6291
629217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6293 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6294 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6295 terminate the header.
6296
629718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6298 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6299 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6300
630119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6302 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6303 (4.30/29). In particular:
6304
6305 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6306 imposed.
6307
6308 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6309 to write a maildirsize file.
6310
6311 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6312 the transport, the new value overrides.
6313
6314 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6315 count.
6316
631720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6318 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6319 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6320 space or a tab.
6321
632221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6323 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6324 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6325 the fallback hosts.
6326
632722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6328 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6329 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6330
633123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6332 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6333 using a union.
6334
633524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6336 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6337 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6338
633925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6340
634126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6342
634327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6344
634528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6346 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6347 become corrupted.
6348
634929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6350 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6351 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6352 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6353 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6354 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6355 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6356 too great.
6357
635830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6359 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6360 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6361 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6362 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6363 incorrectly.
6364
636531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6366 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6367 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6368 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6369 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6370 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6371 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6372 cached value only when the same options are set.
6373
637432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6375
637633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6377 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6378 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6379 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6380 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6381
638234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6383 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6384 it is clearly obsolete.
6385
638635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6387 transport.
6388
638936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6390 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6391 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6392 times.
6393
639437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6395 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6396 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6397 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6398 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6399
640038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6401 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6402 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6403 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6404
640539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6406
6407 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6408
6409 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6410 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6411 2^31.
6412
641340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6414 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6415 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6416 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6417 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6418 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6419 $localpart_data.
6420
642141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6422 with the -f command-line option.
6423
642442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6425 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6426 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6427 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6428 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6429 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6430
643143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6432 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6433 line.
6434
643544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6436 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6437 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6438 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6439 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6440 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6441 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6442 buffer is too small.
6443
644445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6445 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6446
644746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6448 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6449 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6450 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6451 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6452 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6453 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6454 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6455 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6456
645747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6458 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6459 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6460
646148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6462 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6463 ACL").
6464
646549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6466 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6467 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6468 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6469 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6470
647150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6472 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6473 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6474 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6475 is set.
6476
647751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6478
647952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6480
648153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6482 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6483
648454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6485 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6486 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6487
648855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6489 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6490 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6491 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6492 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6493
649456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6495 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6496 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6497 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6498 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6499 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6500 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6501
650257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6503 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6504 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6505 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6506 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6507 the test of how many are available.
6508
650958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6510 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6511 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6512 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6513 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6514 new message is started.
6515
651659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6517 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6518
651960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6520 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6521
652261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6523 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6524 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6525 is no long logged.
6526
652762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6528 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6529 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6530 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6531 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6532 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6533 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6534
653563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6536 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6537 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6538 interpreted as octal.
6539
654064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6541 setting.
6542
654365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6544 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6545 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6546 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6547 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6548 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6549
655066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6551 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6552 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6553 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6554
6555 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6556 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6557 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6558 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6559
6560 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6561 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6562 is a bug fix.
6563
6564 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6565 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6566
656767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6568
656968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6570 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6571 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6572 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6573
657469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6575 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6576 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6577 supplied", which is not helpful.
6578
657970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6580 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6581 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6582
658371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6584 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6585 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6586 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6587 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6588 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6589 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6590 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6591
659272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6593 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6594 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6595 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6596 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6597
659873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6599 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6600 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6601 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6602 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6603 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6604
660574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6606 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6607 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6608
660975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6610
661176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6612 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6613 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6614 variables.
6615
661677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6617
661878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6619 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6620 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6621 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6622 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6623 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6624 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6625 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6626
662779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6628 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6629 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6630 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6631 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6632
663380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6634 Haardt.
6635
663681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6637 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6638 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6639 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6640 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6641 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6642 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6643 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6644 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6645
6646
6647Exim version 4.30
6648-----------------
6649
6650 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6651 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6652 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6653
6654 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6655 fixed.
6656
6657 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6658 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6659 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6660
6661 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6662 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6663 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6664 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6665 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6666 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6668 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6669 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6670 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6671 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6672 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6673 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6674 the Exim test suite.
6675
6676 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6677 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6678 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6679 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6680
6681 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6682 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6683 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6684 specify it in this variable.
6685
6686 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6687 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6688 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6689 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6690
6691 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6692 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6693 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6694 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6695
6696 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6697 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6698 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6699 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6700 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6701
6702 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6703
670410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6705 they are logged.
6706
670711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6708 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6709 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6710 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6711 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6712
671312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6714 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6715
671613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6717 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6718 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6719 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6720 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6721
672214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6723 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6724
672515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6726 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6727 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6728
672916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6730 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6731
673217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6733 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6734
673518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6736 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6737 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6738
673919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6740 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6741
674220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6743 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6744 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6745 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6746
674721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6748
674922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6750 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6751 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6752 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6753
675423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6755
675624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6757 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6758
675925. Added .include_if_exists.
6760
676126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6762 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6763 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6764 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6765 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6766 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6767
676827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6769
677028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6771 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6772 this.
6773
677429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6775
677630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6777 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6778
6779 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6780 550 Sender verify failed
6781
6782 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6783 the final line of the response.
6784
678531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6786 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6787 all other user lookups.
6788
678932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6790 delivery time.
6791
679233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6793 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6794 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6795 result into an int without checking.
6796
679734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6798 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6799 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6800
680135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6802 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6803 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6804 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6805
680636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6807 correctly.
6808
680937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6810 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6811
681238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6813 to the empty sender.
6814
681539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6816 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6817 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6818 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6819 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6820 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6821 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6822 panic log.
6823
682440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6825 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6826 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6827 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6828 used.
6829
683041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6831 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6832
683342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6834 timestamps.
6835
683643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6837 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6838
683944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6840
684145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6842 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6843 logs.
6844
684546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6846 as soon as it is encountered.
6847
684847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6849
685048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6851 rewritten to "<>".
6852
685349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6854 recognizes a tab character.
6855
685650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6857 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6858 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6859 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6860
686151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6862
686352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6864 crash.
6865
686653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6867
686854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6869
687055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6871 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6872 2822.
6873
687456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6875 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6876 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6877 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6878 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6879
688057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6881 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6882
688358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6884 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6885 list (.included file names were always shown).
6886
688759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6888 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6889 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6890 root at that time.
6891
689260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6893 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6894
689561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6896
689762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6898
689963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6900
690164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6902 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6903 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6904 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6905 failures to open the logs.
6906
690765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6908 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6909 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6910 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6911 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6912 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6913 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6914
6915
6916Exim version 4.24
6917-----------------
6918
6919 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6920 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6921 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6922 change 4.23/1.
6923
6924 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6925 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6926 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6927
6928 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6929 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6930 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6931
6932 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6933 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6934 causing some misleading effects.
6935
6936 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6937 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6938 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6939
6940 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6941 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6942 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6943 queue-runner function directly.
6944
6945
6946Exim version 4.23
6947-----------------
6948
6949 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6950 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6951
6952 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6953 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6954 was always written to the default place.
6955
6956 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6957 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6958 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6959
6960 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6961
6962 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6963
6964 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6965 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6966 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6967
6968 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6969 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6970 must start.
6971
6972 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6973 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6974 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6975
6976 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6977 command line option is disabled.
6978
6979 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6980 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6981
6982 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6983
6984 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6985
6986 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6987 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6988
698910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6990
699111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6992 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6993 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6994 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6995 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6996 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6997
699812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6999 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7000 timeout.
7001
700213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7003 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7004
700514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7006 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7007
700815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7009 received was valid base64.
7010
701116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7012 name of the variable that was being set.
7013
701417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7015
701618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7017 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7018 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7019 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7020 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7021 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7022
702319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7024
702520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7026 nor realm was specified.
7027
702821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7029 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7030 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7031 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7032
703322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7034 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7035 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7036
703723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7038 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7039 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7040
704124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7042 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7043 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7044 some systems use these upper case variants.
7045
704625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7047 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7048 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7049 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7050
705126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7052
705327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7054 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7055
705628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7057 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7058 expansion variable.
7059
706029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7061
706230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7063 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7064 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7065 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7066
706731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7068 using it.
7069
707032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7071 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7072 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7073
707433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7075 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7076
707734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7078 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7079 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7080 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7081
708235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7083 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7084 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7085
708636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7087
708837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7089 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7090 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7091 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7092 aborted.
7093
709438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7095 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7096 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7097
709839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7099
710040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7101 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7102
710341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7104 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7105
710642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7107 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7108 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7109 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7110 when emails are that large.
7111
7112
7113
7114Exim version 4.22
7115-----------------
7116
7117 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7118 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7119
7120 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7121 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7122 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7123
7124 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7125 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7126 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7127
7128 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7129 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7130 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7131 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7132 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7133
7134 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7135 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7136 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7137 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7138 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7139 ever.
7140
7141 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7142 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7143 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7144 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7145 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7146 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7147 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7148 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7149 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7150 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7151 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7152 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7153 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7154 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7155
7156 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7157 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7158 parameterised it.
7159
7160 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7161 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7162 error should be diagnosed.
7163
7164 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7165 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7166 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7167 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7168 appeared instead of "NULL".
7169
717010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7171 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7172 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7173 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7174 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7175 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7176 proceeds).
7177
7178 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7179 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7180 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7181
7182
7183Exim version 4.21
7184-----------------
7185
7186 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7187 or receiver verification errors.
7188
7189 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7190 name.
7191
7192 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7193 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7194 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7195 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7196
7197 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7198 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7199 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7200 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7201 shouldn't happen again.
7202
7203 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7204 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7205 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7206
7207 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7208 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7209
7210 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7211
7212 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7213 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7214
7215 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7216 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7217 RFC.
7218
721910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7220 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7221 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7222
722311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7224 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7225 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7226 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7227
722812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7229 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7230 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7231 to define what should happen).
7232
723313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7234 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7235 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7236
723714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7238
723915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7240
724116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7242 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7243
4c04137d 724417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7245 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7246 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7247 structure in all cases.
7248
7249 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7250 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7251 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7252 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7253
725418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7255 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7256 domain name.
7257
725819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7259 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7260
726120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7262 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7263
726421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7265 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7266 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7267
726822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7269 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7270 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7271
727223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7273 the book and for uniformity.
7274
727524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7276
727725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7278 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7279 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7280 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7281 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7282 non-existent command as the problem.
7283
728426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7285 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7286 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7287
728827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7289
729028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7291 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7292 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7293
729429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7295 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7296 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7297 timestamps using strftime().
7298
729930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7300 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7301
730232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7303 transport-time rewrites.
7304
730533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7306 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7307 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7308 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7309
731034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7311 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7312
731335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7314 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7315 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7316 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7317 comma and a space.
7318
731936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7320 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7321 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7322 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7323 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7324 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7325 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7326
732737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7328 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7329 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7330 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7331 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7332
733338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7334 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7335 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7336 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7337 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7338 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7339 remaining text gets split now.
7340
734139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7342 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7343 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7344 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7345
734640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7347 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7348 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7349 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7350 $return_path.
7351
735241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7353 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7354 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7355 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7356 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7357 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7358 passed through if needed.
7359
736042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7361 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7362 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7363 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7364 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7365 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7366
736743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7368 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7369 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7370 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7371 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7372
737344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7374 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7375 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7376 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7377 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7378
737945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7380 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7381 noticed.
7382
738346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7384 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7385 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7386 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7387 mayhem of various kinds.
7388
738947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7390 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7391 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7392 the right test for positive values.
7393
739448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7395 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7396 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7397 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7398 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7399 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7400 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7401 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7402 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7403 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7404 envelope.
7405
740649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7407 module.
7408
740950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7410 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7411 forbidding it.
7412
741351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7414 the existing equality matching.
7415
741652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7417 dealing with inode numbers.
7418
741953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7420 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7421 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7422
742354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7424 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7425 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7426 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7427 local_scan().
7428
742955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7430 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7431 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7432 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7433 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7434 relay addresses has also been removed.
7435
743656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7437
743857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7439 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7440 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7441
744258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7443 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7444 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7445 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7446 processing applies to CR:
7447
7448 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7449 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7450
7451 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7452 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7453 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7454 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7455
745659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7457 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7458 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7459
746060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7461 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7462 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7463 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7464 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7465 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7466 arisen.
7467
746861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7469 program routers.
7470
747162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7472 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7473 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7474 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7475 adds:
7476
7477 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7478
7479 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7480
7481 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7482
748363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7484 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7485 not considered personal.
7486
748764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7488
748965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7490
749166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7492
749367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7494 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7495 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7496 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7497 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7498 header lines, and spool format errors.
7499
750068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7501 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7502 for more flexibility.
7503
750469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7505 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7506 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7507
750870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7509 Sabourenkov.
7510
751171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7512 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7513 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7514 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7515 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7516 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7517 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7518 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7519 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7520
752172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7522 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7523 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7524 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7525 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7526 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7527 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7528
752973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7530 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7531 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7532
753374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7534 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7535 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7536 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7537 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7538 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7539 instead of killing the process with assert().
7540
754175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7542 than Unicode encoding.
7543
754476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7545 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7546 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7547 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7548
754977. Added process_log_path.
7550
755178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7552 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7553
755479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7555 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7556
755780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7558 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7559 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7560
756181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7562 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7563 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7564 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7565 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7566 were applied:
7567
7568 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7569 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7570 as invalid.
7571
757282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7573 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7574 they will be used during message reception.
7575
7576
7577Exim version 4.20
7578-----------------
7579
7580The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7581
7582****