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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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2c422e6f 4Exim version 4.82
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
48
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49JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
50
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51PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
52
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53NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 55
585121e2 56JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 57
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58PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
59
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60PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
62
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63JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
65 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 66
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67JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
68
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69JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
70
ea722490 71JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
73
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74JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
75 Bugzilla 884.
76
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77JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
79
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80JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
82
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83PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
84 CVE-2012-5671
85
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86JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
87 authenticators.
88
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89JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
90 for control.
91
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92PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
93
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94PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
98
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99TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
100
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
105 the retry rules.
106
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
110
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
115
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116 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
117 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
118 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
119 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
120 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
121 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
122 delivery, as in LMTP.
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124 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
125 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
126
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127TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
128
129 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
130
131 Resent-From: f
132
133 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
134 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
135 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
136 username as equal to the username.
137
138 This change corrects that bug.
139
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140GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
141 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
142 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
143
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144TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
145
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146PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
147 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
148 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
149 NULL dereference and crash.
150
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151JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
152
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153PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
154 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
155 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
156
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157SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
158
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159JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
160 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
161 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
162 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
163 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
164 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
165 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
166 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
167 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
168 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
169 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
170
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171PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
172 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
173
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175Exim version 4.80.1
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177
178PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
179 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 180 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 181
ea722490 182
b1770b6e 183Exim version 4.80
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185
186PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
187 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
188 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
189
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190NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
191
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192NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
193 improved.
194
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195NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
196
c1e794ba 197PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 198
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199PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
200
201PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
202 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
203
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204PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
205 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
206
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207PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
208 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
209
f1e05cc7 210PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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211 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
212 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 213
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214PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
215
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216PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
217 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
218
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219PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
220
c45dd180 221PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 222
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223PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
224 non-compliant senders.
225 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
226
eae0036b 227NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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228 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
229 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
230
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231PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
232 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
233 in spool file corruption.
234
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235PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
236 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
237 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
238 "Got SSL error 2".
239
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240TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
241 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
242 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
243
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244JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
245 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
246
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247JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
248
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249PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
250 diagnostics.
251 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
252
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253PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
254 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
255 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
256
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257PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
258 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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259 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
260 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 261
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262PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
263 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
264
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265PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
266 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
267 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
268 resolver implementation change.
269
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270PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
271 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
272
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273PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
274
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275PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
276
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277PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
278 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
279
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280PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
281 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
282
9e45c72b 283JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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284 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
285
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286PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
287 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
288 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
289 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 290 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 291
53947857 292PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 293
eae0036b 294PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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295 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
296 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
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9e45c72b 298JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 299
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300PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
301 read-only, out of scope).
302 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
303
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304PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
305 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
306 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
307 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
308
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309PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
310
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311PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
312 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
313 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
314 real issues in debug logging.
315
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316PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
317 assignment on my part. Fixed.
318
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319PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
320 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
321 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
322
323PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
324 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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325 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
326 problems.
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328PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
329 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
330
57eb9e91 331PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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332 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
333 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
334 needs to override this, it can.
335
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336PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
337 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
338 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
339
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340PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
341 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
342 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
343 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
344
3ecab157 345PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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348Exim version 4.77
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350
351PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
352 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
353
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354TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
355
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356TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
357 whitespace trailer
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359TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
360 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
361
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362TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
363 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
364 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
365
366 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
367 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
368 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
369 not safe for signals.
370
371 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
372 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
373 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
374 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
375 exiwhat.
376
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377TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
378
379 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
380 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
381 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
382 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
383 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
384
385 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
386 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
387 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
388 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
389 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
390 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
391
392 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
393 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
394 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
395 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
396
397 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
398 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
399 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
400 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
401
402 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
403 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
404 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
405 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
406 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
407 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
408 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
409 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
410 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
411
412 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
413 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
414 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
415 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
416
417 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
418 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
419 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
420 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
421 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
422 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
423 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
424 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
425 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
426 details in the main documentation.
427
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428TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
429
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430TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
431
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432TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
433 repository when doing development or release builds.
434
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435PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
436 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 437
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438PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
439 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
440 Bugzilla 97.
441
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442PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
443
9e949f00 444PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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445 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
446
447PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
448 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 449
555ae6af 450PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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451 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
452
453PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
454 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 455
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456PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
457 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
458
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459PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
460 Bugzilla 1156.
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461 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
462 Bugzilla 1095.
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d6cc7c78 464PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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465 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
466 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
467
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468PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
469
3399bb60 470PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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472PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
473 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
474
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476Exim version 4.76
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478
479PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
480
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481PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
482 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
483
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484PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
485
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486PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
487
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488PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
489 Bugzilla 1098.
490
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491PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
492 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 493
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494TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
495 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
496
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497PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
498 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
499
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500PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
501 Bugzilla 1104.
502
c8d52a00 503TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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504 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
505
506TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
507 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
508 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
509 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
510
511PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
512 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 513
10906672 514
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515Exim version 4.75
516-----------------
517
4c9ef03a 518NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
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519 Bugzilla 1073
520
7f3d9eff
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521TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
522 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
523 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
524
159f52d2
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525TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
526 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
527
0cc9542a
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528PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
529 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
530 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
531
f7274286
PP
532PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
533 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
534
7b797365
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535PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
536 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
537
caacae52
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538NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
539 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
540
09dcaba9
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541NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
542 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
543
bc19a55b
PP
544PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
545 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 546
bd4c9759
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547NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
548 Fixes bug 943.
549
b72aab72
PP
550PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
551 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
552
2fe76745
PP
553PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
554 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
555
76aa570c
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556PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
557 SQL string expansion failure details.
558 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
559
f1e5fef5
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560PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
561 Patch from Simon Arlott.
562
4d805ee9
PP
563PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
564 extern declarations in function scope.
565 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
566
cd59ab18
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567PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
568 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
569 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
570 a kernel bug).
571
332f5cf3
PP
572PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
573 Patch from Mark Zealey.
574
29cfeb94
PP
575PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
576 Patch from Mark Zealey.
577
660242ad
PP
578PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
579 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
580
bc4bc4c5
PP
581PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
582 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
583
2e64baa9
NM
584NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
585 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
586 Dennis Davis.
587
bddd7526
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588PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
589
6bac1a9a
PP
590PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
591
552193f0
NM
592NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
593 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 594
1b587e48
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595TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
596 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
597
aa097c4c 598
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599Exim version 4.74
600-----------------
601
602TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
603 consequences so log it to the panic log.
604
c0ea85ab
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605TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
606 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
607
0761d44e
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608TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
609
0a349494
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610DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
611 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
612 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
613
614PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
615 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
616 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
617
fea24b2e
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618PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
619 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
620 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
621 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
622
6545de78
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623PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
624 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
625 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
626 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
627
1670ef10
PP
628PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
629 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
630 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
631 arbitrary files.
632
c0886197
PP
633PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
634 (Wolfgang Breyha)
635
b7487bce
PP
636PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
637 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
638 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
639 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
640 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
641
8c07b69f 642
97fd1e48 643Exim version 4.73
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97fd1e48
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645
646PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
647 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
648 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
649
6901c596
PP
650PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
651 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
652
a8c8d6b5
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653JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
654
77bb000f
PP
655PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
656
a29e5231
PP
657PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
658
ec5a0394 659PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 660
55c75993
PP
661PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
662
453a6645 663PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
664 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
665 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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666 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
667
8544e77a
PP
668PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
669 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
670 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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671 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
672 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 673
83e029d5
PP
674PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
675
ed7f7860
PP
676PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
677
7d9f747b
PP
678PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
679
4b2241d2
PP
680PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
681
10385c15
PP
682PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
683
dbc4b90d
PP
684PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
685
532be449
PP
686PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
687
6a8de854 688PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
689 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
690 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 691
5dc43717
JJ
692JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
693
694JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
695 "exim" to be used
55c75993 696
3346ab01
PP
697PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
698 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
699
491fab4c
PP
700PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
701 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
702 Notification from John Horne.
703
13eb9497
PP
704PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
705 compatible.
706
707PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
708 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
709 it normally works.
710
7f36d675
DW
711DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
712 access.
713
c1d94452
DW
714DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
715 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
716 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
717
e2f5dc15
DW
718DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
719 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
720 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
721 configuration file.
722
cd25e41d
DW
723DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
724 option (effectively making it always true).
725
261dc43e
DW
726DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
727 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
728
fa32850b
DW
729DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
730 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
731
79d4bc3d
PP
732PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
733 run-time user, instead of root.
734
43236f35 735PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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736 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
737
fb08281f
DW
738DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
739 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
740 arguments.
3346ab01 741
74935b98
DW
742DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
743 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
744 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
745
90b6341f
DW
746DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
747
57730b52
ML
748NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
749
66581d1e 750
465e92cf
JJ
751Exim version 4.72
752-----------------
753
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754JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
755 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
756 typos
465e92cf 757
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758JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
759 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
760 (Finput)
edae0343 761
9bd3e22c
NM
762NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
763 Patch from Alain Williams
764
bb576ff7
NM
765NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
766
5a1a5845
NM
767NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
768 Patch from Andreas Metzler
769
981a9fad
NM
770NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
771 Patch from Kirill Miazine
772
7fc497ee
NM
773NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
774
1a41defa
JJ
775JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
776
a466095c 777NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 778 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 779
94a6bd0b
NM
780TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
781
782TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
783
784MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
785 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
786 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
787
c1b141a8
NM
788NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
789 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 790
b26eacf1 791NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
792 Patch by Simon Arlott
793
179c5980 794PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 795 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 796
9bd3e22c 797
7c6d71af
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798Exim version 4.71
799-----------------
800
7d9f747b 801TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 802
f013fb92
NM
803NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
804
0eb8eedd
NM
805NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
806
663ee6d9
NM
807NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
808
177ebd9b
NM
809NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
810
7c6d71af 811
210f147e
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812Exim version 4.70
813-----------------
814
cdd3bb85 815TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 816 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
817
818TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
819 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 820 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
821
822TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
823 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 824 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
825
826TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
827 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
828
210f147e
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829NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
830 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
831 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
832 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
833
deafd5b3
NM
834NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
835 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 836 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 837
089793a4
TF
838TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
839
5f16ca82
TF
840TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
841
dae9d94e 842NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 843 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 844
7d9f747b 845NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 846
06864c44
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847TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
848 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
849 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
850 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
851
65a7d8c3 852NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 853 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 854
23510047 855TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 856
7d9f747b 857NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 858
7d8eec3a 859NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 860 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 861
89dec7b6
TF
862TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
863 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 864
a99de90c
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865TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
866 that they are available at delivery time.
867
e2803e40
TF
868TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
869
7199e1ee
TF
870TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
871 incoming_port log selectors.
872
e276e04b
TF
873TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
874 setting expands to an empty string.
875
ce552449 876NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 877 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 878
e765a0f1 879NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 880 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 881
4f054c63 882NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 883 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 884
7d9f747b
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885NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
886 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 887
7d9f747b
PP
888NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
889 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 890
b52bc06e 891NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 892 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 893
447de4b0
NM
894NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
895
4c69d561 896NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 897 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 898
d5c39246 899NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 900 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 901
0b23848a
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902TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
903
8f3414a1 904NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 905 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 906
fb6f955d
NM
907NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
908
909NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 910
7d9f747b
PP
911NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
912 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 913
7d9f747b
PP
914NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
915 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 916
7d9f747b
PP
917NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
918 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 919
7d9f747b
PP
920NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
921 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 922
7d9f747b
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923NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
924 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 925
7d9f747b
PP
926NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
927 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 928
7d9f747b
PP
929NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
930 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 931
7d9f747b 932NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 933 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 934
7d9f747b 935NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 936
7d9f747b
PP
937NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
938 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 939
7d9f747b 940NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 941
7d9f747b 942NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 943
7d9f747b 944NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 945
7d9f747b 946NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 947
17792b53 948NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 949 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 950
7d9f747b
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951NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
952 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 953
91576cec 954NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 955 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 956
7d9f747b
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957NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
958 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 959
7d9f747b 960NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 961
7d9f747b 962NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 963
7d9f747b 964NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 965
7d9f747b 966NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 967
deafd5b3 968
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969Exim version 4.69
970-----------------
971
4b3504d0
TK
972TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
973 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
974 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
975
976 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
977 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
978 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
979 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
980 build errors in sieve.c.
981
81ea09ca
NM
982NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
983 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
984 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
985
f13cddcb
SC
986SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
987
7d9f747b 988NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 989
7d9f747b 990NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 991
7d9f747b 992NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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994
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995Exim version 4.68
996-----------------
997
998PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
999
6a3bceb1
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1000PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1001 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1002 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1003 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1004 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1005 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1006 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1007 for iplsearch lookups.
1008
1009 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1010 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1011 previously such lookups could never work.
1012
1013 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1014 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1015 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1016
2e30fa9d
TK
1017TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1018 version.
1019
0806a9c5
MH
1020MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1021 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1022 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1023 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1024 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1025 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1026
ae276964
TK
1027TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1028 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1029
0f2cbd1b
MH
1030MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1031 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1032 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1033 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1034 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1035 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1036
2b85bce7
PH
1037PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1038 local_scan API.
1039
93655c46
PH
1040PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1041
6c512171
PH
1042PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1043 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1044 encrypted.
1045
1046PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1047 by clients under certain conditions.
1048
aa6dc513
PH
1049PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1050 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1051
a96603a0
PH
1052PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1053
8f240103
PH
1054PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1055 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1056
1057PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1058
d677b2f2
PH
1059PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1060
d52120f2
PH
1061PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1062
64f2600a
PH
1063PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1064 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1065
8669f003
PH
1066PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1067
a4dc33a8
PH
1068PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1069 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1070
d6a60c0f
PH
1071PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1072
8f128379
PH
1073PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1074
8932dffe
PH
1075PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1076 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1077 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1078 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1079
ddea74fa 1080PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1081 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1082 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1083
ddea74fa 1084PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1085 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1086
ddea74fa
PH
1087PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1088
ce9f225c
PH
1089PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1090
19897d52
PH
1091PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1092
bc64a74d
PH
1093PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1094 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1095 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1096
eb4c0de6 1097
b4ed4da0
PH
1098Exim version 4.67
1099-----------------
1100
22ad45c9
MH
1101MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1102 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1103 Jan Srzednicki.
1104
b4ed4da0
PH
1105PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1106 issue a MAIL command.
1107
431b7361
PH
1108PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1109
1110 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1111
1112 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1113 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1114 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1115 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1116 item. This has been fixed.
1117
1118PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1119 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1120
83da1223
PH
1121PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1122 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1123
54fc8428
PH
1124PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1125 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1126 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1127
34c5e8dd
SC
1128SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1129
bbe15da8
PH
1130PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1131 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1132 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1133 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1134 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1135
0e8a9471
MH
1136MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1137 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1138 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1139
f0872424
PH
1140PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1141 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1142 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1143 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1144
b01dd148
PH
1145PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1146
6bf342e1
PH
1147PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1148
273f34d0
PH
1149PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1150 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1151 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1152 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1153 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1154
cf8b11a5
PH
1155PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1156
41c7c167
PH
1157PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1158 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1159 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1160 values).
1161
9c57cbc0
PH
1162PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1163
f3f065bb
PH
1164PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1165
047bdd8c
PH
1166PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1167
0ce9abe6
PH
1168PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1169
0e22dfd1
PH
1170PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1171
4c590bd1
PH
1172PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1173 no_callout_flush is set.
1174
09945f1e
PH
1175PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1176 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1177 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1178 fixed.
1179
c51b8e75
PH
1180PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1181
e28326d8
PH
1182PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1183 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1184 other ACL rejections are.
1185
75b1493f
PH
1186PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1187 with slight modification.
1188
7c5214ec
PH
1189PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1190 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1191
4311097e
PH
1192PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1193 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1194 connection.
1195
29f89cad
PH
1196PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1197 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1198
5e687460
SC
1199SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1200
c3611384
PH
1201PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1202 expansion side effects.
1203
5a11a7b4
PH
1204PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1205 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1206 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1207 be the same.
1208
0e20aff9
MH
1209MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1210 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1211 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1212
ca86f471
PH
1213PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1214 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1215 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1216 were accidentally chopped off.
1217
a14e5636
PH
1218PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1219 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1220 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1221 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1222 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1223 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1224 pipelining has not been advertised.
1225
ec95d1a6
PH
1226PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1227
42855d71
PH
1228PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1229 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1230 This has been fixed.
1231
57c2c631
PH
1232PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1233 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1234 reported on Solaris.
1235
58c01c94
PH
1236PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1237 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1238 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1239 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1240 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1241 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1242 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1243
dee5a20a
PH
1244PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1245 cpus.
1246
d2ee6114
PH
1247PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1248
b2d5182b
PH
1249PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1250
79749a79
PH
1251PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1252 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1253 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1254 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1255 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1256 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1257
c456d9bb
PH
1258PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1259 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1260 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1261 host_all_ignored option.
1262
cd9868ec
PH
1263PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1264 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1265 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1266 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1267 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1268 is what is supposed to happen).
1269
ebeaf996
PH
1270PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1271 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1272 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1273 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1274 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1275 uses the Exim user.
1276
2679d413
PH
1277PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1278 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1279 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1280 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1281 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1282 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1283 users.
1284
84024b72
PH
1285PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1286
8005d38e
SC
1287SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1288 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1289 (Jez Hancock).
1290 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1291 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1292
3298c6c6
SC
1293SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1294
a43a27c5
PH
1295PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1296
58eb016e 1297PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1298 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1299 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1300 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1301 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1302 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1303 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1304 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1305 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1306 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1307 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1308
b43a74ea
PH
1309PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1310 advertised in response to EHLO.
1311
b4ed4da0 1312
5dd1517f
PH
1313Exim version 4.66
1314-----------------
1315
1316PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1317 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1318
1319 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1320 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1321
1322 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1323 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1324 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1325
1326 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1327 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1328 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1329 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1330 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1331
1332
93cfa765
TK
1333Exim version 4.65
1334-----------------
1335
1336TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1337 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1338 versions. (#438)
1339
d6066548
MH
1340MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1341 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1342 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1343
4362ff0d
PH
1344PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1345 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1346 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1347 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1348 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1349 rather than extend the field.
1350
93cfa765 1351
944e9e9c
TF
1352Exim version 4.64
1353-----------------
aa41d2de 1354
21d74bd9
TK
1355TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1356 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1357 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1358 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1359 these files.
1360
1361TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1362 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1363 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1364
1365TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1366 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1367 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1368
1369TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1370 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1371 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1372 in the field name.
1373
2b1c6e3a
PH
1374PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1375 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1376 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1377 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1378 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1379 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1380 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1381 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1382 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1383 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1384 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1385
1f872c80
PH
1386PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1387 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1388
1389PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1390 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1391 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1392 ignores EPIPE as well.
1393
d203e649
PH
1394PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1395 (quoted-printable decoding).
1396
cc2ed8f7 1397PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1398 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1399
ddfcd446
PH
1400PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1401
d45b1de8
PH
1402PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1403
1404PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1405
38a0a95f 1406PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1407 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1408
a2405d83
JJ
1409JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1410 in 4.64-PH/09.
1411
1412JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1413 miscellaneous code fixes
1414
6ea85e9a
PH
1415PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1416 rejections.
1417
26da7e20
PH
1418PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1419 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1420 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1421 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1422 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1423 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1424 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1425 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1426
14aa5a05 1427PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1428 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1429 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1430 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1431 function.
1432 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1433 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1434 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1435 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1436 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1437 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1438 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1439 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1440 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1441
ff75a1f7
PH
1442PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1443 decoding.
1444
e6f6568e
PH
1445PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1446 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1447 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1448 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1449 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1450 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1451 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1452 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1453
d6f6e0dc
PH
1454PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1455 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1456 list.
1457
322050c2
PH
1458PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1459 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1460 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1461 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1462 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1463 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1464 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1465 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1466 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1467 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1468 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1469 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1470 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1471
08955dd3
PH
1472PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1473 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1474 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1475 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1476 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1477 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1478 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1479
1eccaa59
PH
1480PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1481 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1482 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1483 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1484 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1485 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1486 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1487 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1488 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1489 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1490
602e59e5
PH
1491PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1492 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1493 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1494 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1495 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1496
411ef850
PH
1497PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1498 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1499 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1500 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1501 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1502 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1503 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1504
7befa435
PH
1505PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1506 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1507 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1508 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1509 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1510 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1511 been verified.
1512
48da4259 1513PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1514 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1515 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1516 and authorization.)
1517
48da4259
PH
1518PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1519 if any retry times were supplied.
1520
d1d5595c
PH
1521PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1522 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1523 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1524
0ef732d9
PH
1525PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1526
328895cc
PH
1527PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1528
fd700877
PH
1529PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1530 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1531 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1532 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1533 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1534 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1535
8dce1a6f
PH
1536PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1537 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1538
17af4a17
PH
1539PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1540 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1541 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1542
1543PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1544 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1545 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1546 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1547 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1548 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1549 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1550 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1551 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1552
1553 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1554 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1555 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1556 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1557 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1558 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1559 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1560 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1561 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1562
1563 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1564 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1565 hammering the server.
1566
c1114884
PH
1567PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1568 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1569
7a0743eb
PH
1570PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1571
0d85fa3f
PH
1572PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1573 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1574 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1575
1bf43b78
PH
1576PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1577 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1578 one case where this was not true.
1579
520de300
PH
1580PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1581 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1582 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1583 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1584 fails.
1585
48c7f9e2
PH
1586PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1587 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1588 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1589 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1590 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1591 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1592 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1593 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1594 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1595 smtp transport.
1596
99ea1c86
PH
1597PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1598 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1599 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1600 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1601
a2042e78
PH
1602PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1603 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1604
4fbcfc2e
PH
1605PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1606 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1607 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1608
aa41d2de
PH
1609PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1610
af561417
PH
1611PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1612
3cc66b45
PH
1613PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1614
194cc0e4
PH
1615PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1616 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1617 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1618 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1619
a401ddaa
PH
1620PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1621 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1622
4e88a19f
PH
1623PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1624 be meaningful with "accept".
1625
d7d7b289
SC
1626SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1627 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1628
1629SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1630 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1631 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1632
1633SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1634 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1635 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1636 there is data to show.
1637 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1638
1639SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1640 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1641 as well as the number of messages.
1642
1643SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1644 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1645 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1646
1647SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1648 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1649 have a flag are now skipped.
1650
1651SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1652 Added the -emptyok flag.
1653
1654SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1655 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1656
0ea2a468
JJ
1657JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1658 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1659 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1660
1661JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1662 match 4.64-PH/13
1663
1664JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1665 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1666
1667JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1668
1669JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1670 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1671
8a10f5a4
PH
1672PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1673
30e18802
PH
1674PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1675 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1676 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1677 contravention of the specifications.
1678
55728a4f
PH
1679PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1680 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1681 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1682
d7837193
PH
1683PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1684 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1685 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1686
87054a31
PH
1687PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1688
ea2c01d2
MH
1689MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1690 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1691 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1692 some point in the past.
1693
e4fa6968
PH
1694PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1695 transport during callout processing was broken.
1696
56f5d9bd
PH
1697PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1698 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1699
922e1c28
PH
1700PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1701 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1702
21eb6e72
PH
1703PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1704 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1705
a0540757
PH
1706PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1707
944e9e9c 1708
478be7b0
SC
1709Exim version 4.63
1710-----------------
1711
1712SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1713 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1714
1715SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1716 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1717 there is data to show.
1718 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1719
1720SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1721 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1722
2b965a65
TF
1723TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1724 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1725
45b91596
PH
1726TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1727 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1728
c59f5781
TF
1729TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1730 submissions from trusted users.
1731
90fc3069
TF
1732TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1733 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1734
6083aca0
TF
1735TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1736 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1737 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1738 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1739 there is now a framework to start from.
1740
765b530f
PH
1741PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1742 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1743 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1744
4e167a8c
PH
1745PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1746
4608d683
PH
1747PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1748
b8dc3e4a
PH
1749PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1750
5418e93b
PH
1751PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1752 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1753 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1754
b4a9bda2
PH
1755PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1756 libradius.
1757
45b91596
PH
1758PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1759 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1760 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1761
5547e2c5
PH
1762PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1763 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1764 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1765 its arguments.
1766
dbcef0ea
PH
1767PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1768 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1769 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1770 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1771 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1772
25257489
PH
1773PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1774 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1775
c816d124
PH
1776PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1777
a9ccd69a
PH
1778PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1779 operations in malware.c.
1780
75fa1910
PH
1781PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1782 signatures.
1783
a7d7aa58
PH
1784PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1785 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1786 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1787 all.
1788
42119b09
PH
1789PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1790 statements to "add_header".
1791
41609df5
PH
1792PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1793 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1794
a5bd321b
PH
1795PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1796 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1797 latter.
1798
e85a7ad5 1799PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1800 so that it is now:
1801
e85a7ad5
PH
1802 ${if or { \
1803 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1804 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1805 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1806 }{no}{yes}}
1807
e85a7ad5
PH
1808 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1809 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1810
d8fe1c03
PH
1811PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1812 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1813
16282d2b
PH
1814PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1815 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1816 any possible encoding problems.
1817
35d40a98
PH
1818PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1819 but not after initializing Perl.
1820
034d99ab
PH
1821PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1822 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1823 apparently, which is not desirable.
1824
6ec97b1b
PH
1825PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1826 queries.
1827
e22ca4ac
JJ
1828JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1829 --not options
1830
1831JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1832
33d73e3b
PH
1833PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1834 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1835 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1836 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1837
9ecb03f3
PH
1838PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1839 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1840 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1841
084efe8d
PH
1842PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1843 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1844 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1845 0.12.
1846
366fc9f0
PH
1847PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1848 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1849 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1850 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1851 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1852
c59f5781 1853
c887c79e
TF
1854Exim version 4.62
1855-----------------
1856
1857TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1858 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1859
1cce3af8
PH
1860PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1861 patch).
1862
afb3eaaf
PH
1863PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1864 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1865 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1866 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1867 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1868 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1869 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1870 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1871 451 error is used.
1872
e173618b
PH
1873PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1874
dd16e114
PH
1875PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1876 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1877 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1878
f7fd3850
PH
1879PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1880 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1881 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1882 odd errors.
1883
d87df92c
PH
1884PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1885 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1886
7e9f683d
PH
1887PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1888 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1889 option (which defaults to 0600).
1890
bfad5236
PH
1891PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1892
01c490df
PH
1893PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1894 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1895 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1896 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1897 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1898 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1899 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1900
d6629cdc
PH
1901PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1902
1cce3af8 1903
214e2000
PH
1904Exim version 4.61
1905-----------------
1906
1907PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1908 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1909 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1910 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1911 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1912 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1913 addresses as local.
1914
f9daeae0
PH
1915PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1916 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1917
7e66e54d
PH
1918PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1919
c8ea1597
PH
1920PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1921 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1922 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1923 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1924 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1925 grumble.
1926
911f6fde
PH
1927PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1928 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1929
47ca6d6c
PH
1930PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1931 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1932 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1933 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1934 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1935
ed0e9820
PH
1936PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1937 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1938 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1939 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1940
eff37e47
PH
1941PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1942 be the same on different OS.
1943
1921d2ea
PH
1944PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1945 testing.
1946
b3f69ca8
JJ
1947JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1948 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1949
1950JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1951 in 4.61-PH/06
1952
424a1c63
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1953PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1954 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1955 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1956 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1957 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1958 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1959 bounce message.
1960
7a100415
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1961PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1962 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1963 when Exim was called.
1964
19b9dc85
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1965PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1966 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1967
309bd837
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1968PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1969 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1970 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1971 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1972
59e82a2a
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1973PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1974 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1975 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1976 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1977 changes:
1978
1979 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1980 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1981 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1982
1983 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1984 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1985 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1986
9edc04ce
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1987PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1988 feature).
1989
1349e1e5
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1990PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1991 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1992 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1993 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1994 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1995 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1996 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1997 values from the SRV records were lost.
1998
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1999PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2000 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2001 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2002
064a94c9
PH
2003PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2004 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2005 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2006
727071f8
PH
2007PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2008 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2009 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2010 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2011 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2012 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2013 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2014 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2015 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2016 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2017
f78eb7c6
PH
2018PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2019 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2020 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2021
21c28500
PH
2022PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2023 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2024
2025PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2026 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2027 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2028 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2029 is given.
2030
1688f43b
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2031PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2032 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2033 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2034
2035PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2036 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2037 PH/23 above applies.
2038
9675b384
PH
2039PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2040 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2041 (for which there is an explicit test).
2042
6a3f1455
PH
2043PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2044
dac79d3e
PH
2045PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2046 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2047 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2048 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2049 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2050
5977a0b3
PH
2051PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2052 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2053 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2054 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2055
c91535f3
PH
2056PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2057 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2058 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2059
0d46a8c8
PH
2060PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2061
278c6e6c
PH
2062PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2063
2cbb4081
PH
2064PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2065 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2066 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2067
3eef829e
PH
2068PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2069 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2070 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2071 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2072 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2073
1ab95fa6
PH
2074PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2075 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2076 the message gets confusing).
2077
230205fc
PH
2078PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2079 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2080 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2081 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2082
75e0e026
PH
2083PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2084 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2085 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2086 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2087 same order.
2088
2089PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2090 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2091 the different processes.
2092
145396a6
PH
2093PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2094
3cd34f13
PH
2095PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2096
11121d3d
JJ
2097JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2098 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2099
2100JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2101 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2102
2103JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2104 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2105 messages matching specified criteria.
2106
8def5aaf
PH
2107PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2108
929ba01c
PH
2109PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2110 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2111
2632889e
PH
2112PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2113 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2114 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2115 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2116 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2117 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2118 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2119 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2120 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2121 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2122
944a9c55
PH
2123PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2124 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2125 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2126
4a23603b
PH
2127PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2128
4730f942
PH
2129PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2130 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2131 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2132 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2133 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2134 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2135 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2136 the variable.
2137
30dba1e6
PH
2138PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2139 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2140
382afc6b
PH
2141PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2142
a86229cf
PH
2143PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2144
50c99ba6
PH
2145PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2146
d35e429d
PH
2147PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2148 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2149 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2150 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2151 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2152 size of the count of files.
2153
f90d018c
PH
2154PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2155
75def545
PH
2156PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2157 used in LMTP mode:
2158
2159 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2160 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2161 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2162 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2163
2164 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2165 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2166 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2167
2168PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2169 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2170 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2171 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2172 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2173
c46782ef
PH
2174PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2175 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2176
71fafd95
PH
2177PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2178 will now be deprecated.
2179
2c5db4fd
PH
2180PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2181
9cf6b11a
JJ
2182JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2183 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2184 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2185
2186JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2187 with very large, slow to parse queues
2188
2189JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2190
2191JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2192
898d150f
PH
2193PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2194 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2195 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2196 SMTP output lines.
2197
46218253
PH
2198PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2199 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2200 Sieve code now uses this.
2201
e97957bc
PH
2202PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2203 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2204
81e509d7
PH
2205PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2206 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2207
3d240ff7
PH
2208PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2209
b37c4101
PH
2210PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2211 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2212 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2213 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2214 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2215
79378e0f
PH
2216PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2217 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2218 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2219 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2220
e49c7bb4
PH
2221PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2222
d114ec46
PH
2223PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2224
f3d7df6c
PH
2225PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2226 is preferred over IPv4.
2227
715ab376
PH
2228PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2229 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2230 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2231 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2232 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2233 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2234 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2235
6b31b150
PH
2236PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2237 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2238 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2239
2240PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2241
d515a917
PH
2242PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2243 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2244 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2245 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2246 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2247 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2248 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2249 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2250 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2251 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2252 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2253
9b8fadde
PH
2254PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2255 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2256 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2257
214e2000 2258
5de37277
PH
2259Exim version 4.60
2260-----------------
2261
cc38ddbf
PH
2262PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2263
2264 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2265 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2266
2267 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2268 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2269 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2270
72fdd6ae
PH
2271PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2272
2273 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2274 not a single digit.
2275
2276 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2277 string.
2278
2279 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2280 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2281 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2282 silly things.
2283
2284 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2285 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2286
2287 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2288 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2289
cb741023
PH
2290PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2291 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2292 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2293
f174f16e
PH
2294PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2295 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2296
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PH
2297PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2298 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2299
2300 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2301
2302 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2303 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2304 this:
2305
2306 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2307
82c19f95
PH
2308PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2309 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2310 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2311 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2312 identical. For example:
2313
2314 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2315
2316 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2317 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2318 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2319
d7ffbc12
PH
2320PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2321 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2322 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2323 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2324
9f526266
PH
2325PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2326 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2327 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2328 message.
2329
87fcc8b9
PH
2330PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2331
2332 o fixes some comments
2333 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2334 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2335 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2336 and documents the missing references header update
2337
2338 and most important:
2339
2340 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2341 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2342 result)
2343
456682f5
PH
2344PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2345 Electronic Mail") by including:
2346
2347 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2348
2349 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2350 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2351 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2352 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2353 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2354
2355 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2356
2357 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2358
2359 The auto-replied keyword:
2360
2361 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2362 message by an automatic process,
2363
2364 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2365
2366 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2367 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2368
2369 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2370 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2371 other messages.
2372
3e46c1aa
PH
2373PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2374 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2375
49826d12
PH
2376PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2377
eba0c039
PH
2378PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2379 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2380 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2381
a0d6ba8a
PH
2382PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2383 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2384 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2385
f0917727
PH
2386PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2387 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2388 and treats the condition as false.
2389
096fee00
PH
2390PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2391
024bd3c2
PH
2392PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2393 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2394 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2395 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2396 not changing the active code.
2397
2398 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2399 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2400
2401 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2402 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2403
df199fec
PH
2404PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2405 (Bugzilla #53).
2406
d27f1df3
PH
2407PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2408 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2409 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2410 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2411 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2412 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2413 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2414 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2415 the text comparison.
2416
96776534
PH
2417PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2418 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2419 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2420 The same fix has been applied.
2421
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9a799bc0
PH
2423Exim version 4.54
2424-----------------
2425
2426PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2427 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2428 It now does.
2429
99a4b039
PH
2430PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2431 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2432
2433PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2434
4b233853
PH
2435PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2436 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2437 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2438 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2439 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2440
8857ccfd
PH
2441TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2442 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2443 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2444 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2445 or /domain=).
2446
433a2980
PH
2447PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2448 testing suite.
2449
3e46c1aa 2450
9a799bc0 2451
e3a311ba
TK
2452Exim version 4.53
2453-----------------
2454
2455TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2456 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2457
13b685f9
PH
2458PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2459
395ff96d
PH
2460PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2461
5b68f6e4
PH
2462PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2463 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2464 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2465
1ab52c69
PH
2466PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2467 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2468 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2469
b07e6aa3
PH
2470PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2471 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2472 operating systems.
2473
254e032f
PH
2474PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2475 ${stat: expansion item.
2476
3af76a81
PH
2477PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2478 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2479
2548ba04
PH
2480PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2481 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2482 file for comments.
2483
b6c6011d
PH
2484PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2485
cf39cf57
PH
2486PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2487 setting.
2488
f1513293
PH
2489PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2490 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2491
727549a4
PH
2492TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2493
af46795e
PH
2494PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2495 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2496 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2497 the end of the subprocess.
2498
d7b47fd0
PH
2499PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2500 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2501 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2502 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2503 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2504
ee744174
JJ
2505JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2506
b582ab87
PH
2507TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2508
41a13e0a
PH
2509PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2510 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2511
f625cc5a
PH
2512PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2513
2514PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2515
21f7af35
PH
2516PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2517 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2518 HP-UX compiler.
2519
31480e42
PH
2520PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2521
2d280592
PH
2522PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2523 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2524 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2525
7cd1141b
PH
2526PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2527 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2528
2529PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2530 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2531
750af86e
PH
2532PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2533 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2534
2535 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2536 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2537
2538 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2539 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2540 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2541 contributed by a Radius user.
2542
2543PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2544 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2545
4304270b
TK
2546TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2547 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2548
750af86e
PH
2549PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2550 available.
2551
64ffc24f
PH
2552PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2553 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2554 received.
2555
5dd9625b
PH
2556PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2557 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2558 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2559 header lines when this was not necessary.
2560
5591031b
PH
2561PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2562
ba18e66a
PH
2563PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2564 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2565 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2566 exists".
2567
9cec981f
PH
2568PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2569 -bV or -d is used.
2570
aa2b5c79
PH
2571PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2572 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2573 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2574 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2575
48a53b7f
PH
2576PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2577
1c59d63b
PH
2578PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2579
671012da
TK
2580TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2581
1509d3a8
PH
2582PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2583
2584PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2585 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2586 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2587 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2588 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2589 settings.
2590
2591PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2592
2fe1a124
PH
2593PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2594 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2595 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2596 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2597 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2598 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2599 which is clearly wrong.
2600
8800895a
PH
2601PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2602
ccfdb010
PH
2603PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2604 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2605 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2606 subsequently added.
2607
1130bfb0
PH
2608PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2609 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2610
ebcb507f
PH
2611PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2612
c35e155c
PH
2613PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2614 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2615
95d1f782
PH
2616PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2617 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2618
fd6de02e
PH
2619PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2620 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2621
58de37c5
PH
2622PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2623 recipients, not senders.
2624
261cf466
TF
2625TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2626 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2627
3ee512ff
PH
2628PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2629
e08c430f
PH
2630PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2631
bef5a11f
PH
2632PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2633 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2634 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2635 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2636
7546de58
TF
2637TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2638
e5d5a95f
TF
2639TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2640 clock is set back in time.
2641
2e88a017
TF
2642TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2643 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2644
a5f65aa4
TF
2645TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2646 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2647
e7726cbf
PH
2648PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2649 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2650 (see PH/47 above).
2651
a7fdad5b
TF
2652TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2653 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2654 header rewrites.
2655
6af56900
PH
2656PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2657 type ("H").
2658
0925ede6
PH
2659PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2660
66afa403
TF
2661TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2662 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2663 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2664
0154e85a
TF
2665TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2666 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2667 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2668 helo verification defer as a failure.
2669
16f12c76
PH
2670PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2671 actual error message.
2672
bbe902f0 2673
e5a9dba6
PH
2674Exim version 4.52
2675-----------------
2676
2677TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2678
22c3b60b
PH
2679PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2680 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2681 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2682 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2683
06a9b4b5
PH
2684TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2685
c1ac6996
PH
2686PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2687 can still be requested.
2688
9c7a242c
PH
2689PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2690 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2691 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2692 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2693
87ba3f5f
PH
2694TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2695 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2696 circumstances, but probably never did.
2697
2698PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2699 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2700 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2701 in the header line.
2702
29aba418
TF
2703TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2704
fe0dab11
TF
2705TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2706 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2707
11d337a4
TK
2708TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2709
2710TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2711
415c8f3b
PH
2712PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2713 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2714 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2715 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2716 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2717 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2718
958541e9
PH
2719PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2720 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2721 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2722 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2723 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2724 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2725
c206415f
TK
2726TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2727 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2728
2a4be8f9
PH
2729PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2730 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2731
1cba11c5
SC
2732SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2733 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2734
2735SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2736
2737SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2738
2739SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2740
2741SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2742
2743SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2744
2745SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2746
1005d00e
TK
2747TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2748
2749TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2750 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2751 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2752
2753TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2754 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2755 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2756 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2757
9b4768fa
PH
2758PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2759 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2760 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2761
2762PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2763 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2764 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2765 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2766
0d7eb84a
PH
2767PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2768 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2769 to be made).
2770
2771PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2772 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2773 should work with maildirs and everything.
2774
40727bee
TK
2775TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2776 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2777
554d2369
TF
2778TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2779 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2780
1f922db1
PH
2781PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2782 function for BDB 4.3.
2783
ef213c3b
PH
2784PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2785
8ac170f3
PH
2786PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2787 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2788 involved.
2789
b1c749bb
PH
2790PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2791 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2792 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2793 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2794 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2795 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2796
4aac9b49
PH
2797PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2798 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2799 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2800 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2801 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2802 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2803 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2804 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2805
294520c8
TK
2806TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2807 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2808 details.
2809
5bd022fe
PH
2810PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2811 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2812
90e9ce59
PH
2813PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2814 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2815 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2816 test. It is now used for both.
2817
5ea81592
PH
2818PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2819 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2820 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2821 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2822 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2823 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2824
c6c2dc1d
PH
2825PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2826 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2827 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2828 string_vformat().
2829
fffffe4c
PH
2830PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2831 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2832 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2833
9a26b6b2
PH
2834PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2835 experimental DomainKeys support:
2836
2837 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2838 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2839 the control was given.
2840
2841 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2842
4aee0225
PH
2843PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2844
32d668a5
PH
2845PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2846
8187c3f3
PH
2847PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2848 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2849 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2850 db.h files).
2851
ff790e47 2852PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2853 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2854 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2855 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2856 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2857 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2858 course.
ff790e47 2859
5417f6d1
PH
2860PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2861 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2862 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2863 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2864 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2865 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2866
59cf8544
PH
2867PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2868 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2869 do -d+all out of habit.
2870
e7ad8a65
PH
2871PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2872 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2873 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2874
ade42478
PH
2875PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2876 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2877 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2878 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2879 record types that Exim uses.
2880
182ad5cf
PH
2881PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2882 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2883 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2884 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2885 non-existent file that was broken.
2886
b0d9fc80
TK
2887TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2888 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2889
2890TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2891 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2892 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2893
2894TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2895
47c7a64a
PH
2896PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2897 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2898 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2899 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2900 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2901 same time.
2902
a388bce4
SC
2903SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2904 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2905 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2906 at a slight CPU cost.
2907
2908SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2909 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2910
2911SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2912 by Marc Sherman.
2913
0793e4ed
SC
2914SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2915
c58b88df
PH
2916PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2917 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2918
e7ad8a65 2919
7982096b
PH
2920Exim version 4.51
2921-----------------
2922
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2923TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2924 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2925
2f079f46 2926TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
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2927
2928TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2929
2930PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2931 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2932
2933PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2934 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2935 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2936 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2937 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2938 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2939 file.
2940
2941PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2942 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2943 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2944 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2945 these two options.
2946
2947PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2948 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2949 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2950 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2951 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2952 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2953 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2954 address.
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2955
2956PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2957 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2958
2959PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2960 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2961 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2962 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2963 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2964 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2965
2966PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2967 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2968 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2969 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2970
2971PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2972 Finch).
2973
2974PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2975 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2976
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2977PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2978 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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2979 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2980 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2981 message.
49c2d5ea 2982
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2983PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2984
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2985PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2986 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2987
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2988PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2989 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2990 to what was transported.)
2991
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2992TF/01 Added $received_time.
2993
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2994PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2995 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2996 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2997 spamd_address settings.
2998
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2999PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3000 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3001 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3002 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3003 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3004
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3005PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3006
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3007PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3008 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3009 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3010 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3011 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3012
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3013PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3014 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3015
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3016PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3017 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3018 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3019 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3020 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3021 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3022 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3023 for failure.
3024
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3025PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3026 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3027 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3028 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3029 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3030 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3031 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3032 "input=".
3033
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3034PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3035
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3036PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3037 driver and ACL definitions.
3038
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3039PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3040 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3041
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3042PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3043 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3044 understands it better than I do:
3045
3046 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3047 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3048
3049 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3050 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3051 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3052 => three warnings about OTP not working
3053 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3054
3055 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3056 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3057 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3058 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3059 for each call.)
3060 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3061 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3062
3063 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3064 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3065 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3066
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3067PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3068 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3069 specified.
3070
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3071PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3072 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3073 "Linux".
3074
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3075PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3076 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3077 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3078
3079 warn !verify = sender
3080 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3081
3082 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3083 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3084
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3085PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3086
3087 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3088 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3089
3090 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3091 nomenclature these days.)
3092
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3093PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3094 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3095
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3096PH/30 In these circumstances:
3097 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3098 . First host does not offer TLS;
3099 . First host accepts first address;
3100 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3101 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3102 . Second host accepts second address.
3103 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3104 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3105 address.
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3107PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3108 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3109 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3110 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3111 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3112
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3113PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3114 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3115
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3116PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3117 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
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3119PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3120 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3121 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3122
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3123PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3124 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3125 overlooked.
3126
3127PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3128
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3129PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3130 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3131 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3132 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3133 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3134 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3135 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3136
3137 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3138 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3139 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3140 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3141 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3142
3143 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3144 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3145 routed further.
3146
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3147PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3148 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3149 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3150 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3151 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3152 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3153
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3154PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3155
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3156PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3157 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3158 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3159 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3160 printable escape sequences.
3161
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3162PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3163 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3164 body only.
3165
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3166PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3167 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3168 are as follows:
3169
3170 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3171 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3172 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3173 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3174 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3175
3176 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3177 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3178 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3179
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3180PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3181
f656d135
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3182PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3183 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3184 play with."
3185
2e2a30b4
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3186PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3187 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3188 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3189 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3190 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3191 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3192 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3193 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3194 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3195 the log output.
3196
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3197PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3198 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3199 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3200 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3201 "make".
3202
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3204A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3205----------------------------------------
3206
3207Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3208changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3209needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3210in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3211that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3212release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3213from 4.43.
3214
3215I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
32164.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3217those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3218historical information.
3219
3220
f7b63901 3221Exim version 4.50
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3222-----------------
3223
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3224 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3225
139059f6 3226 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3227 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3228
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3229 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3230 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3231 place.
3232
35af9f61
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3233 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3234 filter fails to execute.
3235
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3236 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3237 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3238 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3239 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3240 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3241
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3242 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3243
3244 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3245 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3246 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3247 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
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3249 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3250 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3251 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3252 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3253 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3254
69358f02
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3255 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3256
5be20824
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325710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3258
eb2c0248
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325911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3260 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3261 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3262 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3263
2a3eea10
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326412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3265 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3266 sender verification.
3267
326813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3269 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3270
23c7ff99
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327114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3272
4deaf07d
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327315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3274 connection timeout.
3275
926e1192
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327616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3277 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3278
650edc6f
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327917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3280 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3281
2c7db3f5
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328218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3283 information about exactly what failed.
3284
3d235903
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328519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3286
7c7ad977
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328720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3288 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3289 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3290
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329121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3292 It is now set to "smtps".
3293
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329422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3295 ignore_target_hosts.
3296
329723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3298 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3299 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3300 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3301 "[x.x.x.x]".
3302
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330324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3304 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3305 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3306
330725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3308 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3309 wake it up if nothing else does.
3310
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331126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3312 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3313 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3314 end up negative.
3315
26034054
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331627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3317 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3318
af66f652
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331928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3320
90af77f4
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332129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3322 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3323 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3324 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3325 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3326 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3327 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3328 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3329
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333030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3331 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3332 than one IP address.
3333
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333431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3335 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3336 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3337 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3338
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333932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3340 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3341 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3342 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3343 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3344 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3345
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334633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3347 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3348 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3349 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3350
652e1b65
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335134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3352 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3353 respected.
3354
6f0c9a4f
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335535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3356 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3357 $sender_host_address.
3358
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335936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3360 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3361 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3362 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3363 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3364 very small.
3365
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336637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3367
3368 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3369 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3370
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3371 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3372 just the host names, not the priorities.
3373
3374 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
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3375 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3376 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3377
ea3bc19b 3378 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3379 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3380
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338138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3382 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3383 domain.
3384
2ac0e484
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338539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3386
4e1fde53
PH
338740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3388 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3389
de365ded
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339041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3391 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3392 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3393
f05da2e8
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339442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3395
d6453af2
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339643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3397
f7b63901
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339844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3399
340045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3401 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3402 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3403 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3404 because the tests only now provoked it.
3405
a444213a
PH
340646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3407 (this can affect the format of dates).
3408
0ec020ea
PH
340947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3410 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3411 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3412 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3413
b1206957
PH
341448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3415
341649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3417 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3418 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3419 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3420
26dd5a95
PH
342150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3422 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3423 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3424
343b2385
PH
342551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3426 autoreply.
3427
1c5466b9
PH
342852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3429 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3430 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3431 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3432 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3433 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3434 is going on).
3435
55ee9ee3
PH
343653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3437 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3438 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3439 the line.
3440
d38f8232
PH
344154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3442 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3443 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3444
3445 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3446 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3447 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3448 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3449 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3450 so I produce this patch..."
3451
3295e65b
PH
3452 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3453 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3454 is not defined.
3455
7102e136
PH
345655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3457 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3458 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3459 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3460 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3461
3ca0ba97
PH
346256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3463
c2bcbe20
PH
346457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3465 long debug lines gets shown.
3466
18ce445d
PH
346758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3468 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3469
1f5b4c3d
PH
347059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3471
3472 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3473 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3474 of $primary_hostname.
3475
b975ba52
PH
347660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3477 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3478 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3479 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3480 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3481 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3482 by change 4.50/55 above.
3483
3484 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3485 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3486 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3487 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3488 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3489 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3490 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3491
349261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3493 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3494 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3495 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3496
17ffcae7
PH
349762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3498 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3499
d95f9fdb
PH
350063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3501 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3502 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3503 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3504 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3505
86b8287f
PH
350664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3507 This has been fixed.
3508
60dc5e56
PH
350965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3510 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3511 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3512 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3513 the caching.)
3514
533244af
PH
351566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3516
a5a28604
PH
351767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3518 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3519 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3520 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3521
7e634d24
PH
352268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3523 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3524
3e11c26b
PH
352569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3526 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3527 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3528
6729cf78
PH
352970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3530 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3531 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3532 message there.
3533
00f00ca5
PH
353471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3535 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3536 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3537
c9bdd01c
PH
353872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3539 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3540 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3541 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3542
d43194df
PH
354373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3544 during host lookups.
3545
fe5b5d0b
PH
354674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3547 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3548
3549 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3550
76a2d7ba
PH
355175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3552 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3553 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3554 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3555 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3556 background.
3557
355876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3559 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3560
04f7d5b9
PH
356177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3562 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3563 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3564
bc60667e
PH
356578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3566
bb6e88ff
PH
356779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3568 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3569 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3570 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3571 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3572 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3573 process earlier.
3574
1e70f85b
PH
357580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3576 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3577 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3578 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3579 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3580
358181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3582 tables).
3583
4e01f9d6
PH
358482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3585
1ee1cef2
PH
358683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3587 "vacation" handling.
3588
6e2b4ccc
PH
358984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3590 OS variants using glibc.
3591
8e669ac1
PH
359285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3593
495ae4b0 3594
bbe902f0
PH
3595----------------------------------------------------
3596See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3597----------------------------------------------------
3598
3599
3600Exim version 4.44
3601-----------------
3602
3603 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3604 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3605 transport
3606
3607 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3608 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3609 place.
3610
3611 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3612 filter fails to execute.
3613
3614 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3615 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3616 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3617 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3618 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3619
3620 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3621 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3622 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3623 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3624
3625 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3626 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3627 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3628 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3629 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3630
3631 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3632
3633 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3634 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3635 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3636 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3637
3638 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3639 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3640 sender verification.
3641
364210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3643 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3644
364511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3646 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3647
364812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3649 ignore_target_hosts.
3650
365113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3652 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3653 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3654 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3655 "[x.x.x.x]".
3656
365714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3658 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3659 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3660
366115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3662 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3663 wake it up if nothing else does.
3664
366516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3666 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3667 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3668 end up negative.
3669
367017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3671 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3672
ea3a6f44 367318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3674
367519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3676 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3677 empty pattern.
3678
367920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3680 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3681 one IP address.
3682
ea3a6f44
NM
368321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3684 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3685 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3686 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3687 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3688 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3689
ea3a6f44
NM
369022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3691 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3692 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3693
369423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3695 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3696 $sender_host_address.
3697
369824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3699
ea3a6f44
NM
370025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3701 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3702 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3703
370426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3705 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3706
ea3a6f44
NM
370727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3708 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3709
ea3a6f44
NM
371028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3711 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3712 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3713 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3714
371529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3716 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3717 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3718
ea3a6f44
NM
371930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3720 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3721 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3722 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3723
ea3a6f44
NM
372431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3725 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3726 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3727
ea3a6f44
NM
372831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3729 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3730
ea3a6f44
NM
373132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3732 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3733 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3734 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3735 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3736 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3737 is going on).
bbe902f0 3738
ea3a6f44
NM
373933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3740 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3741 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3742 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3743 CAN-2005-0021
3744
ea3a6f44
NM
374534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3746 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3747 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3748 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3749 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3750 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3751 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3752
3753 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3754 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3755 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3756 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3757 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3758 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3759 CAN-2005-0021
3760
ea3a6f44
NM
376135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3762 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3763 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3764 CAN-2005-0022
3765
ea3a6f44
NM
376636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3767 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3768 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3769 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3770 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3771
ea3a6f44
NM
377237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3773 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3774 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3775 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3776 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3777
ea3a6f44
NM
377838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3779 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3780 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3781 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3782 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3783
3784
495ae4b0
PH
3785Exim version 4.43
3786-----------------
3787
3788 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3789 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3790 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3791 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3792 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3793 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3794 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3795
3796 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3797 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3798 the delivery.
3799
3800 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3801
3802 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3803
3804 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3805 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3806 to local_scan().
3807
3808 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3809 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3810 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3811 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3812 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3813
3814 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3815 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3816
3817 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3818
3819 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3820
382110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3822 header_sender only.
3823
382411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3825 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3826
382712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3828 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3829 affecting debugging statements).
3830
383113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3832
383314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3834 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3835 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3836 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3837 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3838 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3839 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3840 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3841 after the received time, and all would be well.
3842
384315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3844 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3845 condition in an expansion string.
3846
384716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3848
384917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3850 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3851 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3852 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3853 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3854 job under whatever limits there are.
3855
385618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3857
385819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3859 space).
3860
386120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3862 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3863 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3864 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3865 return path is set.
3866
386721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3868 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3869 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3870 binary data in such strings.
3871
387222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3873
387423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3875 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3876 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3877 failure, which is pointless.
3878
387924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3880
388125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3882
388326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3884 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3885 Sender: header lines.
3886
388727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3888 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3889 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3890
389128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3892 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3893 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3894 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3895 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3896 happens.
3897
389829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3899 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3900 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3901 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3902 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3903
390430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3905 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3906 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3907 1024.
3908
390931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3910 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3911
391232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3913 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3914
391533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3916
391732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3918
391933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3920
392134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3922 syntax error.
3923
392435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3925
392636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3927
392837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3929 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3930 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3931 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3932
393338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3934 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3935
3936
3937Exim version 4.42
3938-----------------
3939
3940 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3941 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3942 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3943 it was not quoted.
3944 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3945 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3946 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3947 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3948 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3949 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3950
3951 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3952 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3953 verification failure".
3954
3955 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3956 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3957 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3958 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3959
3960 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3961 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3962 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3963 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3964 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3965 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3966 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3967 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3968 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3969 treated as a timeout.
3970
3971 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3972 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3973 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3974 not set for Exim filters).
3975
3976 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3977 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3978 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3979
3980 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3981
3982 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3983 try to make them clearer.
3984
3985 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3986 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3987
3988 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3989
3990 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3991
399210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3993 only the Cygwin environment.
3994
399511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3996 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3997 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3998 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3999 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4000
400112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4002 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4003 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4004 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4005 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4006 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4007 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4008
400913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4010 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4011
401214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4013
4014 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4015 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4016 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4017
4018 To: susanne@some.where
4019
4020 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4021 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4022 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4023 of addresses in From: header lines).
4024
4025 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4026 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4027 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4028
4029 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4030 treated as non-personal.
4031
4032 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4033 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4034
403515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4036
403716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4038
403917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4040 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4041 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4042
404318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4044 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4045
404619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4047 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4048 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4049 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4050 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4051 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4052
405320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4054 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4055 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4056 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4057 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4058 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4059 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4060 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4061
4062 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4063
406421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4065 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4066
406722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4068 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4069 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4070
407123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4072 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4073
407424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4075 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4076 rather than long int.
4077
407825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4079
408026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4081
4082
4083Exim version 4.41
4084-----------------
4085
4086 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4087 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4088 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4089 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4090 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4091 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4092
4093
4094Exim version 4.40
4095-----------------
4096
4097 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4098 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4099
4100 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4101 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4102 socklen_t is defined.
4103
4104 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4105 always exist.
4106
4107 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4108 configured.
4109
4110 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4111 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4112 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4113 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4114 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4115
4116 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4117 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4118 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4119 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4120
4121 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4122 of flapping under certain conditions.
4123
4124 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4125 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4126 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4127
4128 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4129
413010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4131
413211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4133 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4134 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4135 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4136
413712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4138 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4139 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4140 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4141 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4142 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4143 preserved with the message after it was received.
4144
414513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4146 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4147 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4148 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4149 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4150 test suite worked just fine.
4151
415214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4153 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4154 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4155
415615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4157 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4158 string.
4159
416016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4161 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4162 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4163 does not fully solve it.
4164
416517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4166 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4167 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4168 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4169 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4170
417118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4172 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4173 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4174
417519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4176 string, for example:
4177
4178 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4179
4180 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4181 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4182 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4183 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4184 the routers could not see them.
4185
418620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4187 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4188
418921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4190 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4191 output).
4192
419322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4194 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4195 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4196 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4197 that needed quoting.
4198
419923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4200 was not being matched caselessly.
4201
420224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4203 backslashes.
4204
420525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4206 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4207 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4208 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4209 when use_sender is false.
4210
421126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4212
421327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4214
421528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4216
421729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4218 the configuration file.
4219
422030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4221 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4222
422331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4224
422532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4226 bytes in the message body.
4227
422833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4229 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4230 delivery.
4231
423234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4233
423435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4235
423636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4237 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4238 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4239 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4240 another IP address.
4241
4242
4243Exim version 4.34
4244-----------------
4245
4246 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4247 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4248
4249 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4250 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4251 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4252 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4253 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4254
4255 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4256 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4257
4258 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4259 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4260 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4261
4262 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4263 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4264 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4265
4266 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4267 for routers.
4268
4269 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4270 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4271 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4272 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4273 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4274 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4275 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4276
4277
4278Exim version 4.33
4279-----------------
4280
4281 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4282 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4283 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4284 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4285 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4286 default (and expected) setting.
4287
4288 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4289 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4290 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4291 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4292
4293 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4294 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4295
4296 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4297 in domain lists.
4298
4299 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4300 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4301 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4302 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4303 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4304 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4305
4306 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4307 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4308 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4309
4310 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4311 part (NOT match_host).
4312
4313 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4314
4315 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4316 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4317 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4318 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4319 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4320 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4321 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4322 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4323 the same named file.
4324
432510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4326 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4327 when Exim is built.
4328
432911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4330 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4331 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4332 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4333 a host name.
4334
433512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4336 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4337 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4338
433913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4340
434114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4342
434315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4344
434516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4346 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4347
434817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4349 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4350 before starting the TLS session.
4351
435218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4353
435419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4355 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4356
435720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4358 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4359 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4360 colon in the middle).
4361
4362
4363Exim version 4.32
4364-----------------
4365
4366 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4367 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4368 multiple configurations are in use.
4369
4370 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4371 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4372 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4373 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4374 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4375 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4376
4377 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4378 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4379
4380 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4381 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4382 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4383
4384 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4385 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4386 occurs.
4387
4388 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4389 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4390
4391 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4392
4393 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4394 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4395
4396 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4397
4398 -prval:sval
4399
4400 is equivalent to
4401
4402 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4403
4404 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4405 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4406 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4407 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4408 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4409
441010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4411 Exim's behaviour:
4412
4413 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4414 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4415 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4416 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4417 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4418 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4419
4420 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4421 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4422 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4423 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4424 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4425 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4426 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4427 string.
4428
4429 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4430 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4431 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4432 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4433 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4434
443511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4436
443712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4438 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4439 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4440
444113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4442
444314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4444 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4445 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4446 information.
4447
444815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4449 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4450
445116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4452 Three changes have been made:
4453
4454 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4455 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4456 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4457 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4458 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4459
4460 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4461 been restored.
4462
4463 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4464 the modified behaviour.
4465
4466
4467Exim version 4.31
4468-----------------
4469
4470 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4471 Larry Rosenman.
4472
4473 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4474 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4475
4476 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4477 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4478 try to track down a specific problem.
4479
4480 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4481 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4482 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4483
4484 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4485 warning.
4486
4487 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4488 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4489 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4490 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4491 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4492 some earlier ones do not.
4493
4494 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4495
4496 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4497 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4498 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4499 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4500 address literals are enabled, of course).
4501
4502 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4503
450410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4505 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4506 by a command such as
4507
4508 exim -f "" ...
4509
4510 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4511
451211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4513
451412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4515 remained set. It is now erased.
4516
451713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4518 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4519
452014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4521 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4522 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4523 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4524 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4525 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4526 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4527 appropriate error code.
4528
452915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4530 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4531 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4532 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4533 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4534 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4535
453616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4537 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4538 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4539
454017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4541 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4542 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4543 terminate the header.
4544
454518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4546 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4547 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4548
454919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4550 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4551 (4.30/29). In particular:
4552
4553 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4554 imposed.
4555
4556 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4557 to write a maildirsize file.
4558
4559 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4560 the transport, the new value overrides.
4561
4562 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4563 count.
4564
456520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4566 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4567 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4568 space or a tab.
4569
457021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4571 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4572 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4573 the fallback hosts.
4574
457522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4576 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4577 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4578
457923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4580 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4581 using a union.
4582
458324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4584 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4585 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4586
458725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4588
458926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4590
459127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4592
459328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4594 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4595 become corrupted.
4596
459729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4598 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4599 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4600 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4601 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4602 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4603 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4604 too great.
4605
460630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4607 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4608 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4609 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4610 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4611 incorrectly.
4612
461331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4614 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4615 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4616 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4617 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4618 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4619 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4620 cached value only when the same options are set.
4621
462232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4623
462433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4625 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4626 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4627 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4628 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4629
463034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4631 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4632 it is clearly obsolete.
4633
463435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4635 transport.
4636
463736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4638 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4639 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4640 times.
4641
464237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4643 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4644 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4645 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4646 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4647
464838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4649 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4650 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4651 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4652
465339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4654
4655 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4656
4657 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4658 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4659 2^31.
4660
466140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4662 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4663 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4664 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4665 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4666 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4667 $localpart_data.
4668
466941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4670 with the -f command-line option.
4671
467242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4673 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4674 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4675 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4676 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4677 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4678
467943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4680 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4681 line.
4682
468344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4684 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4685 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4686 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4687 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4688 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4689 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4690 buffer is too small.
4691
469245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4693 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4694
469546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4696 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4697 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4698 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4699 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4700 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4701 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4702 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4703 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4704
470547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4706 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4707 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4708
470948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4710 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4711 ACL").
4712
471349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4714 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4715 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4716 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4717 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4718
471950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4720 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4721 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4722 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4723 is set.
4724
472551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4726
472752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4728
472953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4730 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4731
473254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4733 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4734 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4735
473655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4737 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4738 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4739 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4740 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4741
474256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4743 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4744 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4745 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4746 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4747 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4748 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4749
475057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4751 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4752 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4753 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4754 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4755 the test of how many are available.
4756
475758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4758 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4759 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4760 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4761 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4762 new message is started.
4763
476459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4765 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4766
476760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4768 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4769
477061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4771 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4772 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4773 is no long logged.
4774
477562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4776 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4777 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4778 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4779 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4780 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4781 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4782
478363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4784 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4785 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4786 interpreted as octal.
4787
478864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4789 setting.
4790
479165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4792 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4793 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4794 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4795 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4796 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4797
479866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4799 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4800 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4801 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4802
4803 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4804 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4805 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4806 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4807
4808 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4809 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4810 is a bug fix.
4811
4812 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4813 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4814
481567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4816
481768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4818 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4819 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4820 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4821
482269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4823 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4824 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4825 supplied", which is not helpful.
4826
482770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4828 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4829 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4830
483171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4832 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4833 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4834 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4835 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4836 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4837 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4838 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4839
484072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4841 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4842 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4843 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4844 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4845
484673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4847 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4848 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4849 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4850 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4851 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4852
485374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4854 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4855 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4856
485775. Added write_rejectlog option.
4858
485976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4860 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4861 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4862 variables.
4863
486477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4865
486678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4867 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4868 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4869 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4870 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4871 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4872 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4873 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4874
487579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4876 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4877 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4878 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4879 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4880
488180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4882 Haardt.
4883
488481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4885 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4886 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4887 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4888 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4889 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4890 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4891 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4892 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4893
4894
4895Exim version 4.30
4896-----------------
4897
4898 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4899 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4900 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4901
4902 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4903 fixed.
4904
4905 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4906 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4907 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4908
4909 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4910 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4911 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4912 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4913 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4914 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4915
4916 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4917 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4918 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4919 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4920 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4921 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4922 the Exim test suite.
4923
4924 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4925 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4926 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4927 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4928
4929 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4930 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4931 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4932 specify it in this variable.
4933
4934 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4935 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4936 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4937 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4938
4939 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4940 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4941 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4942 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4943
4944 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4945 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4946 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4947 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4948 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4949
4950 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4951
495210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4953 they are logged.
4954
495511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4956 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4957 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4958 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4959 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4960
496112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4962 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4963
496413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4965 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4966 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4967 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4968 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4969
497014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4971 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4972
497315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4974 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4975 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4976
497716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4978 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4979
498017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4981 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4982
498318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4984 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4985 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4986
498719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4988 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4989
499020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4991 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4992 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4993 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4994
499521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4996
499722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4998 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4999 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5000 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5001
500223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5003
500424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5005 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5006
500725. Added .include_if_exists.
5008
500926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5010 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5011 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5012 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5013 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5014 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5015
501627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5017
501828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5019 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5020 this.
5021
502229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5023
502430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5025 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5026
5027 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5028 550 Sender verify failed
5029
5030 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5031 the final line of the response.
5032
503331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5034 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5035 all other user lookups.
5036
503732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5038 delivery time.
5039
504033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5041 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5042 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5043 result into an int without checking.
5044
504534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5046 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5047 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5048
504935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5050 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5051 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5052 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5053
505436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5055 correctly.
5056
505737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5058 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5059
506038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5061 to the empty sender.
5062
506339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5064 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5065 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5066 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5067 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5068 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5069 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5070 panic log.
5071
507240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5073 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5074 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5075 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5076 used.
5077
507841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5079 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5080
508142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5082 timestamps.
5083
508443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5085 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5086
508744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5088
508945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5090 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5091 logs.
5092
509346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5094 as soon as it is encountered.
5095
509647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5097
509848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5099 rewritten to "<>".
5100
510149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5102 recognizes a tab character.
5103
510450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5105 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5106 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5107 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5108
510951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5110
511152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5112 crash.
5113
511453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5115
511654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5117
511855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5119 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5120 2822.
5121
512256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5123 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5124 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5125 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5126 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5127
512857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5129 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5130
513158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5132 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5133 list (.included file names were always shown).
5134
513559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5136 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5137 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5138 root at that time.
5139
514060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5141 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5142
514361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5144
514562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5146
514763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5148
514964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5150 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5151 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5152 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5153 failures to open the logs.
5154
515565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5156 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5157 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5158 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5159 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5160 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5161 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5162
5163
5164Exim version 4.24
5165-----------------
5166
5167 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5168 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5169 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5170 change 4.23/1.
5171
5172 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5173 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5174 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5175
5176 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5177 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5178 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5179
5180 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5181 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5182 causing some misleading effects.
5183
5184 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5185 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5186 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5187
5188 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5189 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5190 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5191 queue-runner function directly.
5192
5193
5194Exim version 4.23
5195-----------------
5196
5197 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5198 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5199
5200 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5201 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5202 was always written to the default place.
5203
5204 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5205 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5206 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5207
5208 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5209
5210 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5211
5212 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5213 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5214 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5215
5216 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5217 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5218 must start.
5219
5220 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5221 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5222 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5223
5224 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5225 command line option is disabled.
5226
5227 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5228 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5229
5230 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5231
5232 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5233
5234 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5235 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5236
523710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5238
523911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5240 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5241 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5242 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5243 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5244 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5245
524612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5247 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5248 timeout.
5249
525013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5251 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5252
525314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5254 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5255
525615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5257 received was valid base64.
5258
525916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5260 name of the variable that was being set.
5261
526217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5263
526418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5265 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5266 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5267 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5268 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5269 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5270
527119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5272
527320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5274 nor realm was specified.
5275
527621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5277 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5278 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5279 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5280
528122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5282 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5283 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5284
528523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5286 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5287 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5288
528924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5290 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5291 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5292 some systems use these upper case variants.
5293
529425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5295 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5296 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5297 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5298
529926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5300
530127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5302 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5303
530428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5305 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5306 expansion variable.
5307
530829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5309
531030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5311 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5312 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5313 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5314
531531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5316 using it.
5317
531832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5319 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5320 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5321
532233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5323 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5324
532534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5326 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5327 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5328 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5329
533035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5331 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5332 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5333
533436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5335
533637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5337 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5338 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5339 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5340 aborted.
5341
534238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5343 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5344 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5345
534639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5347
534840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5349 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5350
535141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5352 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5353
535442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5355 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5356 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5357 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5358 when emails are that large.
5359
5360
5361
5362Exim version 4.22
5363-----------------
5364
5365 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5366 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5367
5368 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5369 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5370 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5371
5372 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5373 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5374 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5375
5376 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5377 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5378 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5379 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5380 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5381
5382 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5383 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5384 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5385 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5386 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5387 ever.
5388
5389 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5390 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5391 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5392 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5393 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5394 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5395 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5396 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5397 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5398 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5399 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5400 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5401 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5402 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5403
5404 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5405 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5406 parameterised it.
5407
5408 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5409 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5410 error should be diagnosed.
5411
5412 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5413 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5414 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5415 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5416 appeared instead of "NULL".
5417
541810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5419 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5420 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5421 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5422 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5423 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5424 proceeds).
5425
5426 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5427 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5428 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5429
5430
5431Exim version 4.21
5432-----------------
5433
5434 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5435 or receiver verification errors.
5436
5437 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5438 name.
5439
5440 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5441 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5442 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5443 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5444
5445 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5446 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5447 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5448 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5449 shouldn't happen again.
5450
5451 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5452 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5453 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5454
5455 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5456 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5457
5458 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5459
5460 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5461 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5462
5463 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5464 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5465 RFC.
5466
546710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5468 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5469 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5470
547111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5472 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5473 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5474 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5475
547612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5477 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5478 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5479 to define what should happen).
5480
548113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5482 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5483 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5484
548514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5486
548715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5488
548916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5490 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5491
549217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5493 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5494 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5495 structure in all cases.
5496
5497 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5498 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5499 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5500 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5501
550218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5503 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5504 domain name.
5505
550619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5507 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5508
550920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5510 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5511
551221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5513 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5514 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5515
551622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5517 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5518 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5519
552023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5521 the book and for uniformity.
5522
552324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5524
552525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5526 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5527 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5528 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5529 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5530 non-existent command as the problem.
5531
553226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5533 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5534 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5535
553627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5537
553828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5539 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5540 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5541
554229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5543 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5544 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5545 timestamps using strftime().
5546
554730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5548 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5549
555032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5551 transport-time rewrites.
5552
555333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5554 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5555 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5556 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5557
555834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5559 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5560
556135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5562 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5563 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5564 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5565 comma and a space.
5566
556736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5568 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5569 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5570 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5571 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5572 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5573 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5574
557537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5576 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5577 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5578 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5579 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5580
558138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5582 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5583 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5584 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5585 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5586 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5587 remaining text gets split now.
5588
558939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5590 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5591 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5592 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5593
559440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5595 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5596 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5597 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5598 $return_path.
5599
560041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5601 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5602 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5603 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5604 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5605 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5606 passed through if needed.
5607
560842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5609 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5610 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5611 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5612 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5613 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5614
561543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5616 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5617 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5618 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5619 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5620
562144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5622 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5623 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5624 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5625 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5626
562745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5628 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5629 noticed.
5630
563146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5632 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5633 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5634 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5635 mayhem of various kinds.
5636
563747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5638 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5639 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5640 the right test for positive values.
5641
564248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5643 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5644 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5645 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5646 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5647 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5648 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5649 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5650 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5651 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5652 envelope.
5653
565449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5655 module.
5656
565750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5658 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5659 forbidding it.
5660
566151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5662 the existing equality matching.
5663
566452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5665 dealing with inode numbers.
5666
566753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5668 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5669 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5670
567154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5672 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5673 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5674 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5675 local_scan().
5676
567755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5678 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5679 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5680 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5681 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5682 relay addresses has also been removed.
5683
568456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5685
568657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5687 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5688 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5689
569058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5691 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5692 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5693 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5694 processing applies to CR:
5695
5696 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5697 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5698
5699 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5700 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5701 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5702 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5703
570459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5705 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5706 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5707
570860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5709 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5710 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5711 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5712 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5713 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5714 arisen.
5715
571661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5717 program routers.
5718
571962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5720 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5721 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5722 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5723 adds:
5724
5725 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5726
5727 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5728
5729 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5730
573163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5732 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5733 not considered personal.
5734
573564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5736
573765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5738
573966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5740
574167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5742 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5743 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5744 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5745 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5746 header lines, and spool format errors.
5747
574868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5749 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5750 for more flexibility.
5751
575269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5753 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5754 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5755
575670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5757 Sabourenkov.
5758
575971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5760 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5761 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5762 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5763 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5764 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5765 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5766 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5767 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5768
576972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5770 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5771 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5772 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5773 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5774 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5775 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5776
577773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5778 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5779 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5780
578174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5782 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5783 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5784 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5785 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5786 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5787 instead of killing the process with assert().
5788
578975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5790 than Unicode encoding.
5791
579276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5793 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5794 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5795 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5796
579777. Added process_log_path.
5798
579978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5800 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5801
580279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5803 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5804
580580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5806 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5807 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5808
580981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5810 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5811 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5812 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5813 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5814 were applied:
5815
5816 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5817 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5818 as invalid.
5819
582082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5821 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5822 they will be used during message reception.
5823
5824
5825Exim version 4.20
5826-----------------
5827
5828The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5829
5830****