Cutthrough: silently ignore ACL control when the message cannot be cutthrough-routed
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
23 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
24 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
25 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
26 input.
27
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28JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
29 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
30 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
31 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
32 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
33 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
34 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
35 Main pool for expansions.
36 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
37 active in the testsuite.
38 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
39
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40JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
41 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
42 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
43 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
44 round-robin DNS.
45
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46JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
47 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
48 failure response.
49
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50JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
51 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
52 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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54JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
55 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
56 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 57
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58JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
59 rows affected is given instead).
60
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61JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
62 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
63
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64JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
65 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
66 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
67 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
68 for all multi-message initiating connections.
69
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70JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
71 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
72 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
73
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74JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
75 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
76 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
77 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
78 separate.
79
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80JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
81 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
82 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
83 fake-reject.
84
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88
89JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
90 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
91 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
92 pairs of long lines into single ones.
93
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94PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
95 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
96
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97JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
98 This permits better logging.
99
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100JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
101 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
102 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
103 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
104 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 105 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 106
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107JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
108 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
109 "exiwhat" output.
110
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111PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
112 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
113 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
114
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115JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
116 than 255 are no longer allowed.
117
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118JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
119 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
120 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
121 client, there is no benefit for these.
122 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
123 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
124 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
125 is used (3.2.4 +).
126
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127PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
128 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
129
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130JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
131 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
132 erroneously found still-pending ones.
133
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134JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
135 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
136
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137JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
138 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
139 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
140 signature and again for transmission.
141
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142JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
143 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 144 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 145
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146JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
147 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
148 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
149 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
150 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
151 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
152 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
153
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154JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
155 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
156 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 157 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 158
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159PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
160 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
161 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
162 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
163 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
164 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
165 processing options.
166
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167JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
168 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
169 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
170 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
171 connections.
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173PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
174 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
175 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
176 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
177 versions.
178
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179JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
180 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
181 inaccessible.
182
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183JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
184 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
185 banner-time rejection.
186
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187JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
188 callout/hold.
189
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190PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
191 is the name of a transport.
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192 Fixes bug 2140.
193
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194HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
195
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196JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
197 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
198
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199JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
200 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
201 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
202 during compilation.
203
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204JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
205 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
206 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 207 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 208
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209JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
210 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
211 initial verify call returned a defer.
212
ad1a76fe 213JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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214 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
215
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216JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
217 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
218
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219JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
220 if present. Previously it was ignored.
221
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222JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
223 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
224
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225JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
226 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
227 extensible.
228
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229PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
230 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
231
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232PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
233 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
234 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
235
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236JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
237 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
238 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
239 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
240
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241HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
242 and confused the parent.
243
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244JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
245 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
246
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247JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
248 for log purposes.
249
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250JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
251 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
252 out-of-order delivery.
253
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254JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
255 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
256 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
257 error for the HELO.
258
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259JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
260 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
261 desynchronisation.
262
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263JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
264 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
265 one run was done. Bug 2189.
266
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267JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
268 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
269 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
270 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
271 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
272 message is still "Temporary local problem".
273
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274JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
275 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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276 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
277
278HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
279 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
280 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 281
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282JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
283 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
284 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
285 though a different problem.
286
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9427e879 291JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 292 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 293
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294JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
295
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296PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
297 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
298
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299JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
300 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
301
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302JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
303 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
304 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
305 before acknowledging the chunk.
306
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307PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
308 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
309 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
310
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311JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
312 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
313 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
314 should.
315
316JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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317 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
318 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 319
bd8fbe36 320JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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321 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
322
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323JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
324 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
325 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
326 body hash calculated value.
327
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328JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
329 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
330 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
331
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332JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
333
334JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
335 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
336
337JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
338 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
339 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
340
341JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
342 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
343 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
344 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
345 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
346 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
347
348JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
349 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
350 past that check, despite the cost.
351
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352JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
353 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
354 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
355
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356PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
357 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
358 TLS library to consume.
359
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360PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
361
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362PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
363
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364JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
365 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
366 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
367 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
368 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
369 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
370 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
371
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372PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
373
374PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
375
376PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
377 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
378 should be warning-free.
379
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380JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
381
382HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
383 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
384
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385HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
386 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
387 general solution here.
388
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389PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
390 already-broken messages in the queue.
391
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392JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
393
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394JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
395
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400JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
401 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 402
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403JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
404 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
405 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
406
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407JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
408 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
409 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
410 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
411 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
412 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
413 if one fails this test.
414 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
415 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
416
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417JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
418 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
419
23bb6982 420JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 421 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 422
0bd1b1ed 423JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 424 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 425
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426JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
427 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
428
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429JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
430 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
431
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432JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
433
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434JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
435 certificate).
436
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437JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
438 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
439 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
440 connection after a verify cache hit.
441 Do not update it with the verify result either.
442
443JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
444 when routing results in more than one destination address.
445
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446JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
447 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
448 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
449 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
450 when the cutthrough connection is made).
451
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452JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
453 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
454
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455JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
456 Previously they were not counted.
457
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458JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
459 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
460 that needed the lookup.
461
4c04137d 462JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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463 distinguished as "(=".
464
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465JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
466 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
467
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468JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
469
470JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
471 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 472
4c04137d 473JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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474 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
475
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476JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
477 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
478 compatible.
479
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480JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
481 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
482 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
483 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
484
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485JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
486
f59aaaaa 487JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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488 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
489 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 490
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491JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
492 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
493 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
494 be lost.
495
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496JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
497 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
498 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
499 itself :(
500
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501JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
502 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
503 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
504
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505JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
506 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
507 options.
508
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509JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
510
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511PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
512 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
513
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514PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
515 are not in the system include path.
516
ad7fc6eb 517JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 518 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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519 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
520 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 521
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522JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
523 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
524 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
525
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526JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
527
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528HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
529 an incoming connection.
530
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531HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
532 to rspamd.
533
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534HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
535 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 536
87cb4a16 537JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 538 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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539
540
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544JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
545 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
546 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
547 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 548
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549TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
550 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
551
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552TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
553 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
554 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
555 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
556 outgoing I= field.
557
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558JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
559 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
560 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
561 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
562 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
563 check on the next write.
564
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565HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
566 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
567 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
568 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
569 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
570
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571JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
572 mime_regex ACL conditions.
573
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574JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
575 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
576 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
577
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578JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
579 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
580 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
581 an authenticate fail is not an error.
582
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583HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
584 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
585
4c04137d 586JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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587 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
588
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589JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
590 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
591 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
592 distinct.
593
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594JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
595
596JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
597
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598JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
599
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600JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
601 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
602
98b98887 603JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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604 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
605
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606JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
607
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608JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
609 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
610
611JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
612
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613JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
614 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
615
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616JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
617
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618JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
619 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 620 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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621 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
622 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
623 they will retry in-clear.
624 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
625 at installation time.
626
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627HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
628 with the $config_file variable.
629
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630JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
631 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
632 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
633 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 634 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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636GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
637 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
638 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
639 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
640 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
641
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642JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
643
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644JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
645 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
646 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
647 list order is no longer honoured.
648
4c04137d 649JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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650 for DKIM processing.
651
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652JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
653 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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655JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
656 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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657 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
658 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 659
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660JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
661 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
662
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663JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
664 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
665
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666JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
667 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
668
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669JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
670
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671JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
672 cached by the daemon.
673
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674JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
675 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
676
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677JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
678 keys are given for lookup.
679
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680JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
681 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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682 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
683 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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685JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
686 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
687 server-side so match that on older versions.
688
07c73177 689JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 690 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 691 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 692
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693JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
694 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
695
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696JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
697 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
698 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 699 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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700 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
701 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
702 initial truncated version.
703
ab9152ff 704JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 705
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706JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
707
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708JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
709 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
710
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711JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
712
bc3c7bb7 713HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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715JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
716 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
717 induced overflows.
718
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719JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
720 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
721 stage.
722
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723JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
724 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
725
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726JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
727 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
728 former class.
729
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730JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
731 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
732 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
733
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734JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
735 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
736 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
737 extraction. Accept either.
738
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743JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
744 expanded.
745
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746JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
747
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748JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
749 it.
750
01a4a5c5 751JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 752 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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753 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
754 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
755
cb1d7830 756JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 757 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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758 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
759
610ff438 760JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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761 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
762 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
763 TLS connections
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765JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
766 sites use this now.
767
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768JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
769 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
770 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
771 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
772 have a dsn_lasthop option.
773
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774JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
775 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 776 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 777
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778JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
779
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780JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
781 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
782
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783JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
784 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
785
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786JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
787 /defer_ok option.
788
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789JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
790 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
791
fd4d8871 792JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 793 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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794 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
795
796JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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797 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
798 specify a port-range.
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800JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
801 timeout value per server.
802
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803JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
804 now have the list separator specified.
805
8a512ed5 806JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 807 option values.
8a512ed5 808
82c0c8ea 809JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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810 under OpenSSL.
811
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812JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
813
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814JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
815 rather than the verbs used.
816
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817JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
818 from 255 to 1024 chars.
819
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820JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
821
cfab9d68 822HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 823 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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825JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
826 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
827
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828HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
829 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
830
4c04137d 831JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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833JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
834
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835JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
836 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 837 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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838 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
839
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840JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
841
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842JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
843 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
844
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845JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
846 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
847
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848JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
849
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850JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
851
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852JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
853
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854JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
855 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
856
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857JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
858 added for tls authenticator.
859
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860HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
861
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866TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
867 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
868 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
869 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
870 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
871 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
872 the script parsing/test process like normal.
873
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874TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
875 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
876 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
877 function when detected.
878
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879JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
880 cause callback expansion.
881
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882TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
883 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
884 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
885 instead of bool when processing it.
886
0f06b4f2 887JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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888 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
889
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890JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
891
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892JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
893
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894TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
895
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896TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
897 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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899JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
900 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
901 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
902 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 903 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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904 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
905
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906JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
907 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
908 exceeded it.
909
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910JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
911 version 3.3.6 or later.
912
4c04137d 913JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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914 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
915 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 916 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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917 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
918 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
919 option is defined.
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922 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
923
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924JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
925 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
926 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
927 matches.
928
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929JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
930 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
931 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
932
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933JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
934 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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935
936JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
937 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
938 syntax errors.
939
3394b36a 940JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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941
942JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
943 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
944
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945TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
946 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
947 tarball.
948
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949JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
950
4c04137d 951JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
952 Bug 1561.
953
954JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
955 output list separator was used.
956
8bc732e8 957
1f0ebb98
TL
958Exim version 4.84
959-----------------
09728d20
TL
960TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
961 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
962 return.
1f0ebb98 963
a612424f 964JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 965 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
966
967JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
968
969TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 970 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 971
1f0ebb98 972
c0e56233
TF
973Exim version 4.83
974-----------------
975
976TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
977
978 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
979 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
980 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
981 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
982 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
983 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
984
7245734e
TF
985TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
986 utilities have not been installed.
987
fd5dad68
JH
988JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
989 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
990
5428a946
TL
991TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
992 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
993
a3c86431
TL
994TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
995 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
996 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
997 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 998
aa26e137
JH
999JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1000
5a1b8443
WB
1001TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1002 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1003
72c9e342
PP
1004PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1005 not dns_use_dnssec.
1006
76f44207
WB
1007JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1008
770747fd
MFM
1009TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1010 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1011 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1012
8ddef691 1013TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1014 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1015 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1016 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1017 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1018 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1019
b9c2e32f
AR
1020JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1021
e45a1c37
JH
1022JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1023 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1024
67d81c10
JH
1025JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1026 failed delivery.
1027
b1f8e4f8
JH
1028JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1029
511a6c14 1030JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1031
1032JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1033 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1034
51c7471d
JH
1035JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1036 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1037
3695be34
TL
1038TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1039
1e06383a
TL
1040JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1041
76146973
JH
1042JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1043 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1044
1045 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1046 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1047 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1048
8c8b8274
TL
1049TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1050 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1051 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1052 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1053
35aba663
JH
1054JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1055
8c51eead 1056JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1057 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1058 lookup).
8c51eead 1059
deae092e
HS
1060TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1061 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1062 Schlichting.
35aba663 1063
fd3b6a4a 1064JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1065 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1066
8d91c6dc
LT
1067TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1068 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1069
2b4a568d
JH
1070JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1071
d2af03f4
HS
1072TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1073 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1074 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1075
9d1c15ef
JH
1076JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1077 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1078
44662487
JH
1079JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1080 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1081 hosts_request_ocsp.
1082
ed3bba5f 1083JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1084 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1085 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1086
8ccd00b1
JH
1087JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1088
8ded8589
TL
1089TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1090 Christian Aistleitner.
1091
f2de3a33
JH
1092JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1093
6eb02f88
TL
1094TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1095 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1096
00bff6f6
JH
1097JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1098 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1099
071c51f7
JH
1100JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1101 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1102
a6d4c44e
TF
1103TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1104 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1105
3ae173e7
ACK
1106TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1107 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1108
c13d09b8
TL
1109TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1110 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1111 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1112
0df4ab80
JH
1113JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1114
66be95e0
PP
1115PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1116 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1117 Jasper Wallace.
1118
1bd0d12b
JH
1119JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1120
0de7239e
TL
1121TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1122 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1123 CVE-2014-2972
1124
fd3b6a4a 1125
2c422e6f 1126Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1127-----------------
1128
1129PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1130
12f69989
PP
1131PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1132 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1133
54c90be1
PP
1134PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1135 by GnuTLS.
1136
1f4a55da
PP
1137PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1138 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1139 routines.
1140
13363eba 1141PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1142
66645890 1143PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1144 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1145 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1146 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1147 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1148
a3fb9793 1149PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1150 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1151 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1152 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1153 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1154 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1155
d27f98fe 1156TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1157
6822b909
TL
1158TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1159
e7568d51
TL
1160TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1161 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1162
ae0e32ee 1163TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1164 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1165 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1166
1167TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1168
e2658fff
TL
1169TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1170
83712b39
TL
1171TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1172 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1173
976b7e9f
JH
1174JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1175
be4a1376
JH
1176JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1177
ec4b68e5
PP
1178PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1179
d7148a07
NM
1180NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1181 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1182
585121e2 1183JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1184
2519e60d
TL
1185PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1186 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1187 function.
a5f239e4 1188
13d08c90
PP
1189PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1190 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1191
bef3ea7f
JH
1192JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1193 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1194 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1195
846726c5
JH
1196JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1197
3a796370
JH
1198JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1199
ea722490 1200JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1201 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1202
b1b05573
JH
1203JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1204 Bugzilla 884.
1205
362145b5
JH
1206JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1207 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1208
3c0a92dc
JH
1209JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1210 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1211
6d7c6175
PP
1212PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1213 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1214 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1215
6f123593
JH
1216JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1217 authenticators.
1218
c8e2fc1e
JH
1219JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1220 for control.
1221
005ac57f
PP
1222PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1223
3f1df0e3
PP
1224PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1225 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1226 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1227 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1228
67bd1ab3
TF
1229TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1230
1231 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1232 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1233 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1234 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1235 the retry rules.
1236
1237 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1238 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1239 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1240
1241 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1242 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1243 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1244 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1245
1ddeb334
TF
1246 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1247 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1248 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1249 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1250 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1251 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1252 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1253
1254 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1255 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1256
326cdc37
TF
1257TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1258
1259 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1260
1261 Resent-From: f
1262
1263 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1264 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1265 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1266 username as equal to the username.
1267
1268 This change corrects that bug.
1269
f62514b3
GF
1270GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1271 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1272 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1273
eb505532
TF
1274TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1275
14c7b357
PP
1276PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1277 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1278 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1279 NULL dereference and crash.
1280
94eaf700
PP
1281JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1282
6f5a440a
PP
1283PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1284 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1285 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1286
514ee161
SC
1287SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1288
fd98a5c6
JH
1289JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1290 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1291 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1292 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1293 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1294 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1295 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1296 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1297 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1298 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1299 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1300
035c7f1e
PP
1301PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1302 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1303
ff284120
PP
1304PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1305 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1306 Bugzilla 880.
1307
26e72755
PP
1308PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1309 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1310 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1311 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1312 an empty string is now equivalent.
1313
0fbd9bff
PP
1314PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1315 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1316 not performing validation itself.
1317
700d22f3
PP
1318PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1319 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1320
fcc8e047
JH
1321JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1322 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1323
4c04137d 1324TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1325
8c020188
PP
1326PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1327 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1328 other false fix of the same issue.
1329 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1330 Bugzilla 1363.
1331
d13cdd30
PP
1332PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1333 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1334
e2fbf4a2
PP
1335PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1336 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1337 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1338
f4c1088b
PP
1339PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1340 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1341 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1342
c5c2182f
PP
1343TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1344
73431ca9
JH
1345JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1346
2d07a215
TL
1347TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1348 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1349
a30a8861
TL
1350TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1351 Alexander Miroch.
1352
33382dd9
TL
1353TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1354 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1355 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1356 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1357 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1358
046172e6
TL
1359TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1360 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1361
581d7bee 1362TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1363 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1364 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1365
1366TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1367 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1368 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1369 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1370
237b2cf2
TL
1371TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1372
9fc5a352
TL
1373TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1374 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1375 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1376
b10e4ec2
TL
1377TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1378
e2cebd74
TL
1379TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1380 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1381 interaction.
1382
1383TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1384 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1385
2519e60d
TL
1386TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1387 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1388
e78e6ecf 1389
4263f395
PP
1390Exim version 4.80.1
1391-------------------
1392
1393PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1394 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1395 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1396
ea722490 1397
b1770b6e 1398Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1399-----------------
1400
1401PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1402 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1403 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1404
23c7e742
NM
1405NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1406
b322aac8
NM
1407NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1408 improved.
1409
4a891427
NM
1410NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1411
c1e794ba 1412PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1413
97753960
PP
1414PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1415
1416PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1417 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1418
df6303fa
PP
1419PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1420 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1421
7e6a8985
PP
1422PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1423 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1424
f1e05cc7 1425PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1426 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1427 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1428
4c287009
PP
1429PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1430
b98bb9ac
PP
1431PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1432 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1433
4a6a987a
PP
1434PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1435
c45dd180 1436PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1437
7db8d074
PP
1438PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1439 non-compliant senders.
1440 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1441
eae0036b 1442NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1443 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1444 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1445
dec5017e
PP
1446PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1447 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1448 in spool file corruption.
1449
c80c5570
PP
1450PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1451 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1452 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1453 "Got SSL error 2".
1454
076b11e2
PP
1455TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1456 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1457 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1458
5407bfff
JH
1459JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1460 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1461
9e45c72b
PP
1462JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1463
e74376d8
PP
1464PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1465 diagnostics.
1466 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1467
4c04137d 1468PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1469 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1470 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1471
7be682ca
PP
1472PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1473 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1474 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1475 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1476
ef840681
PP
1477PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1478 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1479
5bfb4cdf
PP
1480PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1481 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1482 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1483 resolver implementation change.
1484
c6e95d22
PP
1485PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1486 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1487
9cbad13b
PP
1488PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1489
9ee44efb
PP
1490PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1491
6a6084f8
PP
1492PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1493 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1494
12dd53c7
PP
1495PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1496 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1497
9e45c72b 1498JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1499 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1500
17c76198
PP
1501PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1502 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1503 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1504 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1505 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1506
53947857 1507PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1508
eae0036b 1509PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1510 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1511 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1512
9e45c72b 1513JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1514
7390e768
PP
1515PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1516 read-only, out of scope).
1517 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1518
08488c86
PP
1519PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1520 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1521 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1522 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1523
6475bd82
PP
1524PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1525
81f91683
PP
1526PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1527 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1528 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1529 real issues in debug logging.
1530
5779e6aa
PP
1531PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1532 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1533
3375e053
PP
1534PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1535 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1536 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1537
1538PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1539 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1540 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1541 problems.
3375e053 1542
9d26b8c0
PP
1543PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1544 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1545
57eb9e91 1546PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1547 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1548 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1549 needs to override this, it can.
1550
16880d1a
PP
1551PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1552 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1553 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1554
a799883d
PP
1555PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1556 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1557 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1558 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1559
3ecab157 1560PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1561
0599f9cf 1562
867fcbf5
PP
1563Exim version 4.77
1564-----------------
1565
1566PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1567 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1568
f1a29782
TF
1569TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1570
ab42bd23
TK
1571TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1572 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1573
0ca0cf52
TF
1574TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1575 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1576
921b12ca
TF
1577TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1578 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1579 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1580
1581 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1582 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1583 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1584 not safe for signals.
1585
1586 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1587 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1588 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1589 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1590 exiwhat.
1591
c99ce5c9
TF
1592TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1593
1594 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1595 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1596 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1597 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1598 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1599
1600 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1601 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1602 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1603 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1604 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1605 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1606
1607 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1608 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1609 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1610 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1611
1612 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1613 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1614 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1615 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1616
1617 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1618 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1619 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1620 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1621 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1622 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1623 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1624 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1625 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1626
1627 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1628 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1629 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1630 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1631
1632 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1633 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1634 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1635 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1636 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1637 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1638 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1639 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1640 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1641 details in the main documentation.
1642
3634fc25
TF
1643TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1644
792e8a19
TF
1645TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1646
5901f0ab
TF
1647TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1648 repository when doing development or release builds.
1649
7f2a2a43
PP
1650PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1651 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1652
061b7ebd
PP
1653PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1654 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1655 Bugzilla 97.
1656
e12f8c32
PP
1657PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1658
9e949f00 1659PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1660 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1661
1662PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1663 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1664
555ae6af 1665PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1666 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1667
1668PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1669 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1670
6f7fe114
PP
1671PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1672 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1673
c566dd90
PP
1674PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1675 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1676 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1677 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1678
d6cc7c78 1679PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1680 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1681 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1682
0d0e4455
PP
1683PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1684
3399bb60 1685PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1686
1687PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1688 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1689
0ca0cf52 1690
10906672
PP
1691Exim version 4.76
1692-----------------
1693
1694PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1695
754a0503
PP
1696PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1697 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1698
c0c7b2da
PP
1699PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1700
e97d1f08
PP
1701PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1702
084c1d8c
PP
1703PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1704 Bugzilla 1098.
1705
4e7ee012
PP
1706PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1707 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1708
c8d52a00
PP
1709TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1710 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1711
54e7ce4a
PP
1712PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1713 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1714
5ee6f336
PP
1715PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1716 Bugzilla 1104.
1717
c8d52a00 1718TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1719 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1720
1721TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1722 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1723 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1724 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1725
1726PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1727 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1728
10906672 1729
aa097c4c
NM
1730Exim version 4.75
1731-----------------
1732
4c04137d 1733NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1734 Bugzilla 1073
1735
7f3d9eff
TF
1736TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1737 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1738 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1739
159f52d2
TF
1740TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1741 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1742
0cc9542a
PP
1743PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1744 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1745 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1746
f7274286
PP
1747PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1748 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1749
7b797365
PP
1750PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1751 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1752
caacae52
NM
1753NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1754 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1755
09dcaba9
NM
1756NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1757 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1758
bc19a55b
PP
1759PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1760 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1761
bd4c9759
NM
1762NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1763 Fixes bug 943.
1764
b72aab72
PP
1765PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1766 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1767
2fe76745
PP
1768PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1769 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1770
76aa570c
PP
1771PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1772 SQL string expansion failure details.
1773 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1774
f1e5fef5
PP
1775PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1776 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1777
4d805ee9
PP
1778PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1779 extern declarations in function scope.
1780 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1781
cd59ab18
PP
1782PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1783 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1784 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1785 a kernel bug).
1786
332f5cf3
PP
1787PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1788 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1789
29cfeb94
PP
1790PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1791 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1792
660242ad
PP
1793PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1794 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1795
bc4bc4c5
PP
1796PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1797 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1798
2e64baa9
NM
1799NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1800 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1801 Dennis Davis.
1802
4c04137d 1803PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1804
6bac1a9a
PP
1805PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1806
552193f0
NM
1807NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1808 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1809
1b587e48
TF
1810TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1811 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1812
aa097c4c 1813
8c07b69f
TF
1814Exim version 4.74
1815-----------------
1816
1817TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1818 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1819
c0ea85ab
TF
1820TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1821 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1822
0761d44e
TF
1823TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1824
0a349494
PP
1825DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1826 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1827 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1828
1829PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1830 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1831 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1832
fea24b2e
PP
1833PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1834 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1835 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1836 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1837
6545de78
PP
1838PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1839 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1840 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1841 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1842
1670ef10
PP
1843PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1844 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1845 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1846 arbitrary files.
1847
c0886197
PP
1848PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1849 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1850
b7487bce
PP
1851PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1852 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1853 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1854 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1855 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1856
8c07b69f 1857
97fd1e48 1858Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1859-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1860
1861PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1862 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1863 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1864
6901c596
PP
1865PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1866 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1867
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1868JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1869
77bb000f
PP
1870PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1871
a29e5231
PP
1872PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1873
ec5a0394 1874PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1875
55c75993
PP
1876PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1877
453a6645 1878PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1879 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1880 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1881 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1882
8544e77a
PP
1883PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1884 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1885 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1886 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1887 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1888
83e029d5
PP
1889PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1890
ed7f7860
PP
1891PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1892
7d9f747b
PP
1893PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1894
4b2241d2
PP
1895PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1896
10385c15
PP
1897PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1898
dbc4b90d
PP
1899PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1900
532be449
PP
1901PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1902
6a8de854 1903PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1904 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1905 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1906
5dc43717
JJ
1907JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1908
1909JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1910 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1911
3346ab01
PP
1912PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1913 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1914
491fab4c
PP
1915PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1916 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1917 Notification from John Horne.
1918
13eb9497
PP
1919PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1920 compatible.
1921
1922PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1923 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1924 it normally works.
1925
7f36d675
DW
1926DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1927 access.
1928
c1d94452
DW
1929DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1930 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1931 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1932
e2f5dc15
DW
1933DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1934 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1935 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1936 configuration file.
1937
cd25e41d
DW
1938DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1939 option (effectively making it always true).
1940
261dc43e
DW
1941DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1942 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1943
fa32850b
DW
1944DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1945 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1946
79d4bc3d
PP
1947PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1948 run-time user, instead of root.
1949
43236f35 1950PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1951 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1952
fb08281f
DW
1953DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1954 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1955 arguments.
3346ab01 1956
74935b98
DW
1957DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1958 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1959 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1960
90b6341f
DW
1961DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1962
57730b52
ML
1963NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1964
66581d1e 1965
465e92cf
JJ
1966Exim version 4.72
1967-----------------
1968
453a6645
PP
1969JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1970 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1971 typos
465e92cf 1972
453a6645
PP
1973JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1974 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1975 (Finput)
edae0343 1976
9bd3e22c
NM
1977NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1978 Patch from Alain Williams
1979
bb576ff7
NM
1980NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1981
5a1a5845
NM
1982NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1983 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1984
981a9fad
NM
1985NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1986 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1987
7fc497ee
NM
1988NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1989
1a41defa
JJ
1990JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1991
a466095c 1992NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1993 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1994
94a6bd0b
NM
1995TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1996
1997TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1998
1999MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2000 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2001 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2002
c1b141a8
NM
2003NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2004 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2005
b26eacf1 2006NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2007 Patch by Simon Arlott
2008
179c5980 2009PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2010 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2011
9bd3e22c 2012
7c6d71af
NM
2013Exim version 4.71
2014-----------------
2015
7d9f747b 2016TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2017
f013fb92
NM
2018NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2019
0eb8eedd
NM
2020NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2021
663ee6d9
NM
2022NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2023
177ebd9b
NM
2024NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2025
7c6d71af 2026
210f147e
NM
2027Exim version 4.70
2028-----------------
2029
cdd3bb85 2030TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2031 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2032
2033TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2034 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2035 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2036
2037TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2038 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2039 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2040
2041TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2042 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2043
210f147e
NM
2044NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2045 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2046 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2047 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2048
deafd5b3
NM
2049NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2050 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2051 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2052
089793a4
TF
2053TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2054
5f16ca82
TF
2055TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2056
dae9d94e 2057NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2058 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2059
7d9f747b 2060NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2061
06864c44
TF
2062TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2063 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2064 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2065 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2066
65a7d8c3 2067NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2068 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2069
23510047 2070TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2071
7d9f747b 2072NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2073
7d8eec3a 2074NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2075 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2076
89dec7b6
TF
2077TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2078 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2079
a99de90c
TF
2080TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2081 that they are available at delivery time.
2082
e2803e40
TF
2083TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2084
7199e1ee
TF
2085TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2086 incoming_port log selectors.
2087
e276e04b
TF
2088TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2089 setting expands to an empty string.
2090
ce552449 2091NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2092 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2093
e765a0f1 2094NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2095 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2096
4f054c63 2097NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2098 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2099
7d9f747b
PP
2100NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2101 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2102
7d9f747b
PP
2103NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2104 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2105
b52bc06e 2106NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2107 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2108
447de4b0
NM
2109NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2110
4c69d561 2111NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2112 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2113
d5c39246 2114NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2115 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2116
0b23848a
TK
2117TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2118
8f3414a1 2119NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2120 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2121
fb6f955d
NM
2122NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2123
2124NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2125
7d9f747b
PP
2126NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2127 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2128
7d9f747b
PP
2129NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2130 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2131
7d9f747b
PP
2132NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2133 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2134
7d9f747b
PP
2135NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2136 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2137
7d9f747b
PP
2138NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2139 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2140
7d9f747b
PP
2141NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2142 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2143
7d9f747b
PP
2144NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2145 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2146
7d9f747b 2147NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2148 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2149
7d9f747b 2150NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2151
7d9f747b
PP
2152NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2153 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2154
7d9f747b 2155NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2156
7d9f747b 2157NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2158
7d9f747b 2159NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2160
7d9f747b 2161NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2162
17792b53 2163NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2164 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2165
7d9f747b
PP
2166NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2167 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2168
91576cec 2169NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2170 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2171
7d9f747b
PP
2172NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2173 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2174
7d9f747b 2175NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2176
7d9f747b 2177NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2178
7d9f747b 2179NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2180
7d9f747b 2181NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2182
deafd5b3 2183
47db1125
NM
2184Exim version 4.69
2185-----------------
2186
4b3504d0
TK
2187TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2188 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2189 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2190
2191 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2192 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2193 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2194 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2195 build errors in sieve.c.
2196
81ea09ca
NM
2197NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2198 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2199 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2200
f13cddcb
SC
2201SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2202
7d9f747b 2203NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2204
7d9f747b 2205NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2206
7d9f747b 2207NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2208
2209
eb4c0de6
PH
2210Exim version 4.68
2211-----------------
2212
2213PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2214
6a3bceb1
PH
2215PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2216 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2217 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2218 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2219 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2220 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2221 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2222 for iplsearch lookups.
2223
2224 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2225 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2226 previously such lookups could never work.
2227
4c04137d 2228 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2229 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2230 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2231
2e30fa9d
TK
2232TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2233 version.
2234
0806a9c5
MH
2235MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2236 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2237 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2238 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2239 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2240 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2241
ae276964
TK
2242TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2243 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2244
0f2cbd1b
MH
2245MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2246 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2247 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2248 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2249 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2250 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2251
2b85bce7
PH
2252PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2253 local_scan API.
2254
93655c46
PH
2255PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2256
6c512171
PH
2257PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2258 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2259 encrypted.
2260
2261PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2262 by clients under certain conditions.
2263
aa6dc513
PH
2264PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2265 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2266
a96603a0
PH
2267PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2268
8f240103
PH
2269PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2270 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2271
2272PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2273
d677b2f2
PH
2274PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2275
d52120f2
PH
2276PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2277
64f2600a
PH
2278PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2279 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2280
8669f003
PH
2281PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2282
a4dc33a8
PH
2283PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2284 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2285
d6a60c0f
PH
2286PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2287
8f128379
PH
2288PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2289
8932dffe
PH
2290PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2291 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2292 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2293 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2294
ddea74fa 2295PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2296 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2297 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2298
ddea74fa 2299PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2300 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2301
ddea74fa
PH
2302PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2303
ce9f225c
PH
2304PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2305
19897d52
PH
2306PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2307
bc64a74d
PH
2308PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2309 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2310 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2311
eb4c0de6 2312
b4ed4da0
PH
2313Exim version 4.67
2314-----------------
2315
22ad45c9
MH
2316MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2317 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2318 Jan Srzednicki.
2319
b4ed4da0
PH
2320PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2321 issue a MAIL command.
2322
431b7361
PH
2323PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2324
2325 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2326
2327 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2328 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2329 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2330 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2331 item. This has been fixed.
2332
2333PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2334 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2335
83da1223
PH
2336PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2337 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2338
54fc8428
PH
2339PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2340 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2341 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2342
34c5e8dd
SC
2343SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2344
bbe15da8
PH
2345PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2346 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2347 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2348 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2349 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2350
0e8a9471
MH
2351MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2352 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2353 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2354
f0872424
PH
2355PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2356 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2357 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2358 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2359
b01dd148
PH
2360PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2361
6bf342e1
PH
2362PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2363
273f34d0
PH
2364PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2365 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2366 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2367 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2368 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2369
cf8b11a5
PH
2370PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2371
41c7c167
PH
2372PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2373 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2374 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2375 values).
2376
9c57cbc0
PH
2377PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2378
f3f065bb
PH
2379PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2380
047bdd8c
PH
2381PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2382
0ce9abe6
PH
2383PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2384
0e22dfd1
PH
2385PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2386
4c590bd1
PH
2387PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2388 no_callout_flush is set.
2389
09945f1e
PH
2390PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2391 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2392 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2393 fixed.
2394
c51b8e75
PH
2395PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2396
e28326d8 2397PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2398 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2399 other ACL rejections are.
2400
75b1493f
PH
2401PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2402 with slight modification.
2403
7c5214ec
PH
2404PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2405 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2406
4311097e
PH
2407PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2408 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2409 connection.
2410
29f89cad
PH
2411PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2412 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2413
5e687460
SC
2414SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2415
c3611384
PH
2416PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2417 expansion side effects.
2418
5a11a7b4
PH
2419PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2420 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2421 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2422 be the same.
2423
0e20aff9
MH
2424MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2425 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2426 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2427
ca86f471
PH
2428PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2429 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2430 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2431 were accidentally chopped off.
2432
a14e5636
PH
2433PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2434 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2435 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2436 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2437 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2438 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2439 pipelining has not been advertised.
2440
ec95d1a6
PH
2441PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2442
42855d71
PH
2443PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2444 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2445 This has been fixed.
2446
57c2c631
PH
2447PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2448 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2449 reported on Solaris.
2450
58c01c94
PH
2451PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2452 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2453 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2454 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2455 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2456 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2457 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2458
dee5a20a
PH
2459PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2460 cpus.
2461
d2ee6114
PH
2462PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2463
b2d5182b
PH
2464PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2465
79749a79
PH
2466PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2467 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2468 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2469 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2470 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2471 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2472
c456d9bb
PH
2473PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2474 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2475 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2476 host_all_ignored option.
2477
cd9868ec
PH
2478PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2479 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2480 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2481 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2482 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2483 is what is supposed to happen).
2484
ebeaf996
PH
2485PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2486 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2487 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2488 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2489 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2490 uses the Exim user.
2491
2679d413
PH
2492PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2493 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2494 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2495 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2496 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2497 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2498 users.
2499
84024b72
PH
2500PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2501
8005d38e
SC
2502SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2503 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2504 (Jez Hancock).
2505 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2506 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2507
3298c6c6
SC
2508SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2509
a43a27c5
PH
2510PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2511
58eb016e 2512PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2513 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2514 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2515 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2516 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2517 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2518 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2519 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2520 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2521 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2522 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2523
b43a74ea
PH
2524PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2525 advertised in response to EHLO.
2526
b4ed4da0 2527
5dd1517f
PH
2528Exim version 4.66
2529-----------------
2530
2531PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2532 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2533
2534 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2535 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2536
2537 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2538 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2539 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2540
2541 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2542 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2543 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2544 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2545 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2546
2547
93cfa765
TK
2548Exim version 4.65
2549-----------------
2550
2551TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2552 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2553 versions. (#438)
2554
d6066548
MH
2555MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2556 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2557 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2558
4362ff0d
PH
2559PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2560 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2561 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2562 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2563 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2564 rather than extend the field.
2565
93cfa765 2566
944e9e9c
TF
2567Exim version 4.64
2568-----------------
aa41d2de 2569
21d74bd9
TK
2570TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2571 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2572 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2573 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2574 these files.
2575
2576TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2577 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2578 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2579
2580TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2581 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2582 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2583
2584TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2585 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2586 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2587 in the field name.
2588
2b1c6e3a
PH
2589PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2590 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2591 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2592 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2593 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2594 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2595 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2596 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2597 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2598 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2599 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2600
1f872c80
PH
2601PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2602 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2603
2604PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2605 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2606 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2607 ignores EPIPE as well.
2608
d203e649
PH
2609PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2610 (quoted-printable decoding).
2611
cc2ed8f7 2612PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2613 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2614
ddfcd446
PH
2615PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2616
d45b1de8
PH
2617PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2618
2619PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2620
38a0a95f 2621PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2622 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2623
a2405d83
JJ
2624JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2625 in 4.64-PH/09.
2626
2627JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2628 miscellaneous code fixes
2629
6ea85e9a
PH
2630PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2631 rejections.
2632
26da7e20
PH
2633PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2634 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2635 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2636 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2637 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2638 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2639 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2640 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2641
14aa5a05 2642PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2643 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2644 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2645 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2646 function.
2647 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2648 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2649 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2650 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2651 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2652 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2653 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2654 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2655 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2656
ff75a1f7
PH
2657PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2658 decoding.
2659
e6f6568e
PH
2660PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2661 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2662 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2663 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2664 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2665 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2666 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2667 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2668
d6f6e0dc
PH
2669PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2670 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2671 list.
2672
322050c2
PH
2673PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2674 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2675 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2676 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2677 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2678 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2679 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2680 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2681 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2682 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2683 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2684 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2685 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2686
08955dd3
PH
2687PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2688 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2689 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2690 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2691 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2692 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2693 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2694
1eccaa59
PH
2695PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2696 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2697 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2698 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2699 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2700 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2701 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2702 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2703 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2704 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2705
602e59e5
PH
2706PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2707 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2708 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2709 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2710 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2711
411ef850
PH
2712PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2713 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2714 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2715 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2716 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2717 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2718 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2719
7befa435
PH
2720PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2721 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2722 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2723 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2724 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2725 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2726 been verified.
2727
48da4259 2728PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2729 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2730 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2731 and authorization.)
2732
48da4259
PH
2733PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2734 if any retry times were supplied.
2735
d1d5595c
PH
2736PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2737 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2738 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2739
0ef732d9
PH
2740PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2741
328895cc
PH
2742PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2743
fd700877
PH
2744PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2745 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2746 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2747 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2748 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2749 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2750
8dce1a6f
PH
2751PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2752 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2753
17af4a17
PH
2754PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2755 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2756 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2757
2758PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2759 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2760 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2761 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2762 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2763 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2764 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2765 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2766 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2767
2768 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2769 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2770 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2771 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2772 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2773 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2774 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2775 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2776 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2777
2778 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2779 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2780 hammering the server.
2781
c1114884
PH
2782PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2783 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2784
7a0743eb
PH
2785PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2786
0d85fa3f
PH
2787PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2788 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2789 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2790
1bf43b78
PH
2791PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2792 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2793 one case where this was not true.
2794
520de300
PH
2795PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2796 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2797 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2798 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2799 fails.
2800
48c7f9e2
PH
2801PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2802 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2803 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2804 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2805 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2806 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2807 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2808 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2809 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2810 smtp transport.
2811
99ea1c86
PH
2812PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2813 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2814 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2815 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2816
a2042e78
PH
2817PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2818 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2819
4fbcfc2e
PH
2820PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2821 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2822 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2823
aa41d2de
PH
2824PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2825
af561417
PH
2826PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2827
3cc66b45
PH
2828PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2829
194cc0e4
PH
2830PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2831 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2832 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2833 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2834
a401ddaa
PH
2835PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2836 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2837
4e88a19f
PH
2838PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2839 be meaningful with "accept".
2840
d7d7b289
SC
2841SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2842 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2843
2844SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2845 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2846 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2847
2848SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2849 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2850 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2851 there is data to show.
2852 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2853
2854SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2855 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2856 as well as the number of messages.
2857
2858SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2859 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2860 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2861
2862SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2863 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2864 have a flag are now skipped.
2865
2866SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2867 Added the -emptyok flag.
2868
2869SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2870 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2871
0ea2a468
JJ
2872JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2873 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2874 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2875
2876JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2877 match 4.64-PH/13
2878
2879JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2880 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2881
2882JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2883
2884JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2885 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2886
8a10f5a4
PH
2887PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2888
30e18802
PH
2889PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2890 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2891 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2892 contravention of the specifications.
2893
55728a4f
PH
2894PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2895 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2896 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2897
d7837193
PH
2898PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2899 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2900 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2901
87054a31
PH
2902PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2903
ea2c01d2
MH
2904MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2905 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2906 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2907 some point in the past.
2908
e4fa6968
PH
2909PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2910 transport during callout processing was broken.
2911
56f5d9bd
PH
2912PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2913 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2914
922e1c28
PH
2915PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2916 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2917
21eb6e72
PH
2918PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2919 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2920
a0540757
PH
2921PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2922
944e9e9c 2923
478be7b0
SC
2924Exim version 4.63
2925-----------------
2926
2927SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2928 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2929
2930SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2931 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2932 there is data to show.
2933 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2934
2935SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2936 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2937
2b965a65
TF
2938TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2939 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2940
45b91596
PH
2941TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2942 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2943
c59f5781
TF
2944TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2945 submissions from trusted users.
2946
90fc3069
TF
2947TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2948 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2949
6083aca0
TF
2950TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2951 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2952 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2953 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2954 there is now a framework to start from.
2955
765b530f
PH
2956PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2957 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2958 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2959
4e167a8c
PH
2960PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2961
4608d683
PH
2962PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2963
b8dc3e4a
PH
2964PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2965
5418e93b
PH
2966PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2967 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2968 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2969
b4a9bda2
PH
2970PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2971 libradius.
2972
45b91596
PH
2973PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2974 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2975 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2976
5547e2c5
PH
2977PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2978 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2979 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2980 its arguments.
2981
dbcef0ea
PH
2982PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2983 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2984 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2985 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2986 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2987
25257489
PH
2988PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2989 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2990
c816d124
PH
2991PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2992
a9ccd69a
PH
2993PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2994 operations in malware.c.
2995
75fa1910
PH
2996PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2997 signatures.
2998
a7d7aa58
PH
2999PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3000 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3001 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3002 all.
3003
42119b09
PH
3004PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3005 statements to "add_header".
3006
41609df5
PH
3007PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3008 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3009
a5bd321b
PH
3010PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3011 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3012 latter.
3013
e85a7ad5 3014PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3015 so that it is now:
3016
e85a7ad5
PH
3017 ${if or { \
3018 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3019 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3020 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3021 }{no}{yes}}
3022
e85a7ad5
PH
3023 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3024 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3025
d8fe1c03
PH
3026PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3027 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3028
16282d2b
PH
3029PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3030 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3031 any possible encoding problems.
3032
35d40a98
PH
3033PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3034 but not after initializing Perl.
3035
034d99ab
PH
3036PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3037 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3038 apparently, which is not desirable.
3039
6ec97b1b
PH
3040PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3041 queries.
3042
e22ca4ac
JJ
3043JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3044 --not options
3045
3046JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3047
33d73e3b
PH
3048PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3049 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3050 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3051 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3052
9ecb03f3
PH
3053PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3054 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3055 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3056
084efe8d
PH
3057PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3058 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3059 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3060 0.12.
3061
366fc9f0
PH
3062PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3063 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3064 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3065 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3066 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3067
c59f5781 3068
c887c79e
TF
3069Exim version 4.62
3070-----------------
3071
3072TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3073 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3074
1cce3af8
PH
3075PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3076 patch).
3077
afb3eaaf
PH
3078PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3079 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3080 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3081 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3082 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3083 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3084 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3085 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3086 451 error is used.
3087
e173618b
PH
3088PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3089
dd16e114
PH
3090PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3091 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3092 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3093
f7fd3850
PH
3094PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3095 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3096 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3097 odd errors.
3098
d87df92c
PH
3099PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3100 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3101
7e9f683d
PH
3102PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3103 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3104 option (which defaults to 0600).
3105
bfad5236
PH
3106PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3107
01c490df
PH
3108PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3109 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3110 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3111 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3112 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3113 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3114 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3115
d6629cdc
PH
3116PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3117
1cce3af8 3118
214e2000
PH
3119Exim version 4.61
3120-----------------
3121
3122PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3123 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3124 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3125 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3126 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3127 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3128 addresses as local.
3129
f9daeae0
PH
3130PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3131 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3132
7e66e54d
PH
3133PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3134
c8ea1597
PH
3135PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3136 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3137 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3138 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3139 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3140 grumble.
3141
911f6fde
PH
3142PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3143 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3144
47ca6d6c
PH
3145PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3146 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3147 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3148 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3149 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3150
ed0e9820
PH
3151PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3152 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3153 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3154 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3155
eff37e47
PH
3156PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3157 be the same on different OS.
3158
1921d2ea
PH
3159PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3160 testing.
3161
b3f69ca8
JJ
3162JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3163 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3164
3165JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3166 in 4.61-PH/06
3167
424a1c63
PH
3168PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3169 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3170 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3171 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3172 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3173 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3174 bounce message.
3175
7a100415
PH
3176PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3177 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3178 when Exim was called.
3179
19b9dc85
PH
3180PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3181 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3182
309bd837
PH
3183PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3184 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3185 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3186 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3187
59e82a2a
PH
3188PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3189 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3190 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3191 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3192 changes:
3193
3194 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3195 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3196 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3197
3198 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3199 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3200 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3201
9edc04ce
PH
3202PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3203 feature).
3204
1349e1e5
PH
3205PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3206 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3207 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3208 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3209 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3210 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3211 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3212 values from the SRV records were lost.
3213
ea49d0e1
PH
3214PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3215 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3216 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3217
064a94c9
PH
3218PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3219 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3220 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3221
727071f8
PH
3222PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3223 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3224 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3225 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3226 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3227 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3228 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3229 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3230 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3231 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3232
f78eb7c6
PH
3233PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3234 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3235 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3236
21c28500
PH
3237PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3238 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3239
3240PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3241 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3242 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3243 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3244 is given.
3245
1688f43b
PH
3246PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3247 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3248 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3249
3250PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3251 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3252 PH/23 above applies.
3253
9675b384
PH
3254PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3255 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3256 (for which there is an explicit test).
3257
6a3f1455
PH
3258PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3259
dac79d3e
PH
3260PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3261 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3262 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3263 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3264 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3265
5977a0b3
PH
3266PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3267 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3268 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3269 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3270
c91535f3
PH
3271PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3272 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3273 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3274
0d46a8c8
PH
3275PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3276
278c6e6c
PH
3277PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3278
2cbb4081
PH
3279PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3280 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3281 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3282
3eef829e
PH
3283PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3284 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3285 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3286 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3287 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3288
1ab95fa6
PH
3289PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3290 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3291 the message gets confusing).
3292
230205fc
PH
3293PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3294 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3295 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3296 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3297
75e0e026
PH
3298PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3299 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3300 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3301 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3302 same order.
3303
3304PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3305 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3306 the different processes.
3307
145396a6
PH
3308PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3309
3cd34f13
PH
3310PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3311
11121d3d
JJ
3312JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3313 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3314
3315JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3316 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3317
3318JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3319 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3320 messages matching specified criteria.
3321
8def5aaf
PH
3322PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3323
929ba01c
PH
3324PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3325 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3326
2632889e
PH
3327PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3328 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3329 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3330 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3331 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3332 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3333 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3334 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3335 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3336 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3337
944a9c55
PH
3338PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3339 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3340 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3341
4a23603b
PH
3342PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3343
4730f942
PH
3344PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3345 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3346 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3347 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3348 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3349 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3350 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3351 the variable.
3352
30dba1e6
PH
3353PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3354 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3355
382afc6b
PH
3356PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3357
a86229cf
PH
3358PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3359
50c99ba6
PH
3360PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3361
d35e429d
PH
3362PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3363 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3364 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3365 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3366 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3367 size of the count of files.
3368
f90d018c
PH
3369PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3370
75def545
PH
3371PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3372 used in LMTP mode:
3373
3374 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3375 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3376 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3377 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3378
3379 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3380 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3381 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3382
3383PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3384 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3385 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3386 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3387 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3388
c46782ef
PH
3389PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3390 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3391
71fafd95
PH
3392PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3393 will now be deprecated.
3394
2c5db4fd
PH
3395PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3396
9cf6b11a
JJ
3397JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3398 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3399 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3400
3401JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3402 with very large, slow to parse queues
3403
3404JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3405
3406JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3407
898d150f
PH
3408PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3409 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3410 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3411 SMTP output lines.
3412
46218253
PH
3413PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3414 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3415 Sieve code now uses this.
3416
e97957bc
PH
3417PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3418 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3419
81e509d7
PH
3420PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3421 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3422
3d240ff7
PH
3423PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3424
b37c4101
PH
3425PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3426 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3427 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3428 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3429 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3430
79378e0f
PH
3431PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3432 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3433 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3434 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3435
e49c7bb4
PH
3436PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3437
d114ec46
PH
3438PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3439
f3d7df6c
PH
3440PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3441 is preferred over IPv4.
3442
715ab376
PH
3443PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3444 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3445 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3446 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3447 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3448 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3449 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3450
6b31b150
PH
3451PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3452 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3453 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3454
3455PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3456
d515a917
PH
3457PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3458 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3459 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3460 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3461 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3462 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3463 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3464 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3465 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3466 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3467 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3468
9b8fadde
PH
3469PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3470 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3471 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3472
214e2000 3473
5de37277
PH
3474Exim version 4.60
3475-----------------
3476
cc38ddbf
PH
3477PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3478
3479 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3480 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3481
3482 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3483 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3484 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3485
72fdd6ae
PH
3486PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3487
3488 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3489 not a single digit.
3490
3491 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3492 string.
3493
3494 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3495 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3496 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3497 silly things.
3498
3499 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3500 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3501
3502 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3503 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3504
cb741023
PH
3505PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3506 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3507 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3508
f174f16e
PH
3509PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3510 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3511
c25242d7
PH
3512PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3513 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3514
3515 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3516
3517 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3518 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3519 this:
3520
3521 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3522
82c19f95
PH
3523PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3524 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3525 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3526 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3527 identical. For example:
3528
3529 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3530
3531 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3532 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3533 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3534
d7ffbc12
PH
3535PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3536 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3537 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3538 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3539
9f526266
PH
3540PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3541 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3542 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3543 message.
3544
87fcc8b9
PH
3545PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3546
3547 o fixes some comments
3548 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3549 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3550 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3551 and documents the missing references header update
3552
3553 and most important:
3554
3555 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3556 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3557 result)
3558
456682f5
PH
3559PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3560 Electronic Mail") by including:
3561
3562 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3563
3564 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3565 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3566 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3567 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3568 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3569
3570 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3571
3572 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3573
3574 The auto-replied keyword:
3575
3576 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3577 message by an automatic process,
3578
3579 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3580
3581 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3582 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3583
3584 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3585 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3586 other messages.
3587
3e46c1aa
PH
3588PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3589 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3590
49826d12
PH
3591PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3592
eba0c039
PH
3593PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3594 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3595 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3596
a0d6ba8a
PH
3597PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3598 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3599 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3600
f0917727
PH
3601PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3602 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3603 and treats the condition as false.
3604
096fee00
PH
3605PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3606
024bd3c2
PH
3607PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3608 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3609 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3610 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3611 not changing the active code.
3612
3613 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3614 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3615
3616 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3617 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3618
df199fec
PH
3619PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3620 (Bugzilla #53).
3621
d27f1df3
PH
3622PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3623 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3624 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3625 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3626 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3627 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3628 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3629 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3630 the text comparison.
3631
96776534
PH
3632PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3633 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3634 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3635 The same fix has been applied.
3636
5de37277 3637
9a799bc0
PH
3638Exim version 4.54
3639-----------------
3640
3641PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3642 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3643 It now does.
3644
99a4b039
PH
3645PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3646 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3647
3648PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3649
4b233853
PH
3650PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3651 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3652 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3653 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3654 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3655
8857ccfd
PH
3656TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3657 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3658 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3659 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3660 or /domain=).
3661
433a2980
PH
3662PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3663 testing suite.
3664
3e46c1aa 3665
9a799bc0 3666
e3a311ba
TK
3667Exim version 4.53
3668-----------------
3669
3670TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3671 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3672
13b685f9
PH
3673PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3674
395ff96d
PH
3675PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3676
5b68f6e4
PH
3677PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3678 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3679 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3680
1ab52c69
PH
3681PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3682 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3683 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3684
b07e6aa3
PH
3685PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3686 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3687 operating systems.
3688
254e032f
PH
3689PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3690 ${stat: expansion item.
3691
3af76a81
PH
3692PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3693 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3694
2548ba04
PH
3695PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3696 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3697 file for comments.
3698
b6c6011d
PH
3699PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3700
cf39cf57
PH
3701PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3702 setting.
3703
f1513293
PH
3704PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3705 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3706
727549a4
PH
3707TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3708
af46795e
PH
3709PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3710 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3711 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3712 the end of the subprocess.
3713
d7b47fd0
PH
3714PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3715 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3716 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3717 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3718 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3719
ee744174
JJ
3720JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3721
b582ab87
PH
3722TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3723
41a13e0a
PH
3724PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3725 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3726
f625cc5a
PH
3727PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3728
3729PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3730
21f7af35
PH
3731PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3732 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3733 HP-UX compiler.
3734
31480e42
PH
3735PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3736
2d280592
PH
3737PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3738 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3739 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3740
7cd1141b
PH
3741PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3742 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3743
3744PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3745 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3746
750af86e
PH
3747PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3748 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3749
3750 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3751 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3752
3753 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3754 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3755 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3756 contributed by a Radius user.
3757
3758PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3759 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3760
4304270b
TK
3761TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3762 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3763
750af86e
PH
3764PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3765 available.
3766
64ffc24f
PH
3767PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3768 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3769 received.
3770
5dd9625b
PH
3771PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3772 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3773 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3774 header lines when this was not necessary.
3775
5591031b
PH
3776PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3777
ba18e66a
PH
3778PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3779 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3780 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3781 exists".
3782
9cec981f
PH
3783PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3784 -bV or -d is used.
3785
aa2b5c79
PH
3786PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3787 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3788 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3789 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3790
48a53b7f
PH
3791PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3792
1c59d63b
PH
3793PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3794
671012da
TK
3795TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3796
1509d3a8
PH
3797PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3798
3799PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3800 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3801 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3802 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3803 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3804 settings.
3805
3806PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3807
2fe1a124
PH
3808PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3809 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3810 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3811 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3812 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3813 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3814 which is clearly wrong.
3815
8800895a
PH
3816PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3817
ccfdb010
PH
3818PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3819 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3820 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3821 subsequently added.
3822
1130bfb0
PH
3823PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3824 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3825
ebcb507f
PH
3826PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3827
c35e155c
PH
3828PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3829 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3830
95d1f782
PH
3831PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3832 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3833
fd6de02e
PH
3834PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3835 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3836
58de37c5
PH
3837PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3838 recipients, not senders.
3839
261cf466
TF
3840TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3841 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3842
3ee512ff
PH
3843PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3844
e08c430f
PH
3845PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3846
bef5a11f
PH
3847PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3848 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3849 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3850 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3851
7546de58
TF
3852TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3853
e5d5a95f
TF
3854TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3855 clock is set back in time.
3856
2e88a017
TF
3857TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3858 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3859
a5f65aa4
TF
3860TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3861 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3862
e7726cbf
PH
3863PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3864 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3865 (see PH/47 above).
3866
a7fdad5b
TF
3867TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3868 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3869 header rewrites.
3870
6af56900
PH
3871PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3872 type ("H").
3873
0925ede6
PH
3874PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3875
66afa403
TF
3876TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3877 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3878 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3879
0154e85a
TF
3880TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3881 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3882 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3883 helo verification defer as a failure.
3884
16f12c76
PH
3885PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3886 actual error message.
3887
bbe902f0 3888
e5a9dba6
PH
3889Exim version 4.52
3890-----------------
3891
3892TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3893
22c3b60b
PH
3894PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3895 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3896 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3897 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3898
06a9b4b5
PH
3899TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3900
c1ac6996
PH
3901PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3902 can still be requested.
3903
9c7a242c
PH
3904PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3905 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3906 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3907 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3908
87ba3f5f
PH
3909TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3910 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3911 circumstances, but probably never did.
3912
3913PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3914 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3915 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3916 in the header line.
3917
29aba418
TF
3918TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3919
fe0dab11
TF
3920TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3921 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3922
11d337a4
TK
3923TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3924
3925TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3926
415c8f3b
PH
3927PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3928 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3929 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3930 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3931 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3932 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3933
958541e9
PH
3934PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3935 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3936 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3937 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3938 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3939 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3940
c206415f
TK
3941TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3942 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3943
2a4be8f9
PH
3944PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3945 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3946
1cba11c5
SC
3947SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3948 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3949
4c04137d 3950SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3951
3952SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3953
3954SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3955
3956SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3957
3958SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3959
3960SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3961
1005d00e
TK
3962TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3963
3964TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3965 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3966 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3967
3968TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3969 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3970 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3971 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3972
9b4768fa
PH
3973PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3974 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3975 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3976
3977PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3978 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3979 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3980 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3981
0d7eb84a
PH
3982PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3983 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3984 to be made).
3985
3986PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3987 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3988 should work with maildirs and everything.
3989
40727bee
TK
3990TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3991 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3992
554d2369
TF
3993TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3994 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3995
1f922db1
PH
3996PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3997 function for BDB 4.3.
3998
ef213c3b
PH
3999PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4000
8ac170f3
PH
4001PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4002 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4003 involved.
4004
b1c749bb
PH
4005PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4006 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4007 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4008 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4009 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4010 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4011
4aac9b49
PH
4012PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4013 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4014 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4015 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4016 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4017 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4018 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4019 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4020
294520c8
TK
4021TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4022 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4023 details.
4024
5bd022fe
PH
4025PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4026 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4027
90e9ce59
PH
4028PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4029 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4030 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4031 test. It is now used for both.
4032
5ea81592
PH
4033PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4034 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4035 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4036 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4037 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4038 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4039
c6c2dc1d
PH
4040PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4041 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4042 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4043 string_vformat().
4044
fffffe4c
PH
4045PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4046 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4047 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4048
9a26b6b2
PH
4049PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4050 experimental DomainKeys support:
4051
4052 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4053 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4054 the control was given.
4055
4056 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4057
4aee0225
PH
4058PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4059
32d668a5
PH
4060PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4061
8187c3f3
PH
4062PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4063 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4064 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4065 db.h files).
4066
ff790e47 4067PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4068 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4069 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4070 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4071 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4072 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4073 course.
ff790e47 4074
5417f6d1
PH
4075PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4076 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4077 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4078 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4079 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4080 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4081
59cf8544
PH
4082PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4083 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4084 do -d+all out of habit.
4085
e7ad8a65
PH
4086PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4087 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4088 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4089
ade42478
PH
4090PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4091 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4092 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4093 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4094 record types that Exim uses.
4095
182ad5cf
PH
4096PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4097 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4098 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4099 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4100 non-existent file that was broken.
4101
b0d9fc80
TK
4102TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4103 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4104
4105TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4106 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4107 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4108
4109TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4110
47c7a64a
PH
4111PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4112 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4113 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4114 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4115 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4116 same time.
4117
a388bce4
SC
4118SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4119 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4120 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4121 at a slight CPU cost.
4122
4123SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4124 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4125
4126SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4127 by Marc Sherman.
4128
0793e4ed
SC
4129SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4130
c58b88df
PH
4131PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4132 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4133
e7ad8a65 4134
7982096b
PH
4135Exim version 4.51
4136-----------------
4137
1a46a8c5
PH
4138TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4139 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4140
2f079f46 4141TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4142
4143TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4144
4145PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4146 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4147
4148PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4149 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4150 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4151 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4152 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4153 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4154 file.
4155
4156PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4157 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4158 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4159 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4160 these two options.
4161
4162PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4163 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4164 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4165 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4166 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4167 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4168 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4169 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4170
4171PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4172 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4173
4174PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4175 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4176 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4177 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4178 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4179 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4180
4181PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4182 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4183 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4184 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4185
4186PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4187 Finch).
4188
4189PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4190 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4191
49c2d5ea
PH
4192PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4193 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4194 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4195 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4196 message.
49c2d5ea 4197
bf759a8b
PH
4198PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4199
83364d30
PH
4200PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4201 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4202
7999bbd7
PH
4203PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4204 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4205 to what was transported.)
4206
7dbf77c9
PH
4207TF/01 Added $received_time.
4208
74e0617f
PH
4209PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4210 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4211 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4212 spamd_address settings.
4213
2f079f46
PH
4214PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4215 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4216 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4217 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4218 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4219
8c841523
PH
4220PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4221
7766a4f0
PH
4222PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4223 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4224 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4225 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4226 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4227
8b417f2c
PH
4228PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4229 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4230
901f42cb
PH
4231PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4232 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4233 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4234 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4235 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4236 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4237 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4238 for failure.
4239
f9b9210e
PH
4240PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4241 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4242 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4243 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4244 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4245 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4246 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4247 "input=".
4248
54cdb463
PH
4249PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4250
cf00dad6
PH
4251PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4252 driver and ACL definitions.
4253
acb1b346
PH
4254PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4255 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4256
c5ddb310
PH
4257PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4258 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4259 understands it better than I do:
4260
4261 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4262 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4263
4264 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4265 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4266 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4267 => three warnings about OTP not working
4268 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4269
4270 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4271 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4272 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4273 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4274 for each call.)
4275 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4276 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4277
4278 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4279 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4280 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4281
31619da6
PH
4282PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4283 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4284 specified.
4285
bebaf0fc
PH
4286PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4287 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4288 "Linux".
4289
475fe28a
PH
4290PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4291 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4292 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4293
4294 warn !verify = sender
4295 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4296
4297 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4298 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4299
7e8bec7a
PH
4300PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4301
4302 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4303 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4304
4305 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4306 nomenclature these days.)
4307
e4a89c47
PH
4308PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4309 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4310
5ca2a9a1
PH
4311PH/30 In these circumstances:
4312 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4313 . First host does not offer TLS;
4314 . First host accepts first address;
4315 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4316 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4317 . Second host accepts second address.
4318 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4319 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4320 address.
7e8bec7a 4321
c688b954
PH
4322PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4323 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4324 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4325 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4326 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4327
fed77020
PH
4328PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4329 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4330
7fe1560f
PH
4331PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4332 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4333
ebb6e6d5
PH
4334PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4335 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4336 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4337
9c4e8f60
PH
4338PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4339 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4340 overlooked.
4341
4342PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4343
d7174846
PH
4344PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4345 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4346 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4347 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4348 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4349 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4350 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4351
4352 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4353 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4354 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4355 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4356 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4357
4358 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4359 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4360 routed further.
4361
cfe75fc3
PH
4362PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4363 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4364 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4365 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4366 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4367 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4368
be22d70e
PH
4369PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4370
0612b098
PH
4371PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4372 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4373 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4374 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4375 printable escape sequences.
4376
2e0c1448
PH
4377PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4378 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4379 body only.
4380
447d236c
PH
4381PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4382 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4383 are as follows:
4384
4385 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4386 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4387 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4388 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4389 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4390
4391 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4392 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4393 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4394
d20976dc
PH
4395PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4396
f656d135
PH
4397PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4398 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4399 play with."
4400
2e2a30b4
PH
4401PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4402 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4403 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4404 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4405 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4406 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4407 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4408 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4409 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4410 the log output.
4411
9176e9f0
PH
4412PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4413 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4414 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4415 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4416 "make".
4417
7982096b 4418
bbe902f0
PH
4419A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4420----------------------------------------
4421
4422Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4423changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4424needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4425in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4426that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4427release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4428from 4.43.
4429
4430I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44314.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4432those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4433historical information.
4434
4435
f7b63901 4436Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4437-----------------
4438
5fe762f6
PH
4439 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4440
139059f6 4441 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4442 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4443
7086e875
PH
4444 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4445 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4446 place.
4447
35af9f61
PH
4448 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4449 filter fails to execute.
4450
b668c215
PH
4451 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4452 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4453 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4454 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4455 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4456
a494b1e1
PH
4457 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4458
4459 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4460 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4461 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4462 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4463
c5fcb476
PH
4464 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4465 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4466 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4467 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4468 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4469
69358f02
PH
4470 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4471
5be20824
PH
447210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4473
eb2c0248
PH
447411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4475 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4476 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4477 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4478
2a3eea10
PH
447912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4480 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4481 sender verification.
4482
448313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4484 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4485
23c7ff99
PH
448614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4487
4deaf07d
PH
448815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4489 connection timeout.
4490
926e1192
PH
449116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4492 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4493
650edc6f
PH
449417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4495 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4496
2c7db3f5
PH
449718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4498 information about exactly what failed.
4499
3d235903
PH
450019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4501
7c7ad977
PH
450220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4503 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4504 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4505
981756db
PH
450621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4507 It is now set to "smtps".
4508
d4eb88df
PH
450922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4510 ignore_target_hosts.
4511
451223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4513 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4514 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4515 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4516 "[x.x.x.x]".
4517
7d468ab8
PH
451824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4519 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4520 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4521
452225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4523 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4524 wake it up if nothing else does.
4525
62c0818f
PH
452626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4527 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4528 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4529 end up negative.
4530
26034054
PH
453127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4532 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4533
af66f652
PH
453428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4535
90af77f4
PH
453629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4537 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4538 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4539 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4540 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4541 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4542 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4543 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4544
d8ef3577
PH
454530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4546 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4547 than one IP address.
4548
5cb8cbc6
PH
454931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4550 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4551 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4552 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4553
14702f5b
PH
455432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4555 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4556 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4557 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4558 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4559 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4560
063b1e99
PH
456133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4562 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4563 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4564 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4565
652e1b65
PH
456634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4567 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4568 respected.
4569
6f0c9a4f
PH
457035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4571 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4572 $sender_host_address.
4573
33397d19
PH
457436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4575 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4576 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4577 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4578 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4579 very small.
4580
7bb56e1f
PH
458137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4582
4583 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4584 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4585
ea3bc19b
PH
4586 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4587 just the host names, not the priorities.
4588
4589 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4590 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4591 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4592
ea3bc19b 4593 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4594 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4595
0bcb2a0e
PH
459638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4597 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4598 domain.
4599
2ac0e484
PH
460039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4601
4e1fde53
PH
460240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4603 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4604
de365ded
PH
460541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4606 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4607 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4608
f05da2e8
PH
460942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4610
d6453af2
PH
461143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4612
f7b63901
PH
461344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4614
461545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4616 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4617 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4618 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4619 because the tests only now provoked it.
4620
a444213a
PH
462146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4622 (this can affect the format of dates).
4623
0ec020ea
PH
462447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4625 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4626 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4627 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4628
b1206957
PH
462948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4630
463149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4632 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4633 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4634 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4635
26dd5a95
PH
463650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4637 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4638 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4639
343b2385
PH
464051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4641 autoreply.
4642
1c5466b9
PH
464352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4644 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4645 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4646 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4647 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4648 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4649 is going on).
4650
55ee9ee3
PH
465153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4652 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4653 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4654 the line.
4655
d38f8232
PH
465654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4657 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4658 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4659
4660 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4661 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4662 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4663 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4664 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4665 so I produce this patch..."
4666
3295e65b
PH
4667 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4668 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4669 is not defined.
4670
7102e136
PH
467155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4672 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4673 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4674 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4675 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4676
3ca0ba97
PH
467756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4678
c2bcbe20
PH
467957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4680 long debug lines gets shown.
4681
18ce445d
PH
468258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4683 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4684
1f5b4c3d
PH
468559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4686
4687 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4688 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4689 of $primary_hostname.
4690
b975ba52
PH
469160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4692 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4693 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4694 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4695 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4696 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4697 by change 4.50/55 above.
4698
4699 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4700 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4701 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4702 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4703 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4704 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4705 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4706
470761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4708 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4709 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4710 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4711
17ffcae7
PH
471262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4713 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4714
d95f9fdb
PH
471563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4716 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4717 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4718 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4719 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4720
86b8287f
PH
472164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4722 This has been fixed.
4723
60dc5e56
PH
472465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4725 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4726 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4727 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4728 the caching.)
4729
533244af
PH
473066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4731
a5a28604
PH
473267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4733 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4734 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4735 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4736
7e634d24
PH
473768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4738 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4739
3e11c26b
PH
474069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4741 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4742 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4743
6729cf78
PH
474470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4745 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4746 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4747 message there.
4748
00f00ca5
PH
474971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4750 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4751 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4752
c9bdd01c
PH
475372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4754 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4755 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4756 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4757
d43194df
PH
475873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4759 during host lookups.
4760
fe5b5d0b
PH
476174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4762 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4763
4764 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4765
76a2d7ba
PH
476675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4767 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4768 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4769 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4770 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4771 background.
4772
477376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4774 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4775
04f7d5b9
PH
477677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4777 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4778 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4779
bc60667e
PH
478078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4781
bb6e88ff
PH
478279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4783 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4784 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4785 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4786 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4787 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4788 process earlier.
4789
1e70f85b
PH
479080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4791 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4792 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4793 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4794 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4795
479681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4797 tables).
4798
4e01f9d6
PH
479982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4800
1ee1cef2
PH
480183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4802 "vacation" handling.
4803
6e2b4ccc
PH
480484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4805 OS variants using glibc.
4806
8e669ac1
PH
480785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4808
495ae4b0 4809
bbe902f0
PH
4810----------------------------------------------------
4811See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4812----------------------------------------------------
4813
4814
4815Exim version 4.44
4816-----------------
4817
4818 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4819 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4820 transport
4821
4822 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4823 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4824 place.
4825
4826 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4827 filter fails to execute.
4828
4829 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4830 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4831 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4832 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4833 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4834
4835 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4836 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4837 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4838 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4839
4840 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4841 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4842 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4843 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4844 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4845
4846 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4847
4848 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4849 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4850 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4851 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4852
4853 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4854 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4855 sender verification.
4856
485710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4858 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4859
486011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4861 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4862
486312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4864 ignore_target_hosts.
4865
486613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4867 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4868 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4869 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4870 "[x.x.x.x]".
4871
487214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4873 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4874 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4875
487615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4877 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4878 wake it up if nothing else does.
4879
488016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4881 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4882 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4883 end up negative.
4884
488517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4886 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4887
ea3a6f44 488818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4889
489019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4891 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4892 empty pattern.
4893
489420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4895 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4896 one IP address.
4897
ea3a6f44
NM
489821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4899 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4900 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4901 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4902 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4903 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4904
ea3a6f44
NM
490522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4906 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4907 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4908
490923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4910 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4911 $sender_host_address.
4912
491324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4914
ea3a6f44
NM
491525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4916 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4917 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4918
491926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4920 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4921
ea3a6f44
NM
492227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4923 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4924
ea3a6f44
NM
492528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4926 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4927 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4928 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4929
493029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4931 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4932 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4933
ea3a6f44
NM
493430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4935 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4936 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4937 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4938
ea3a6f44
NM
493931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4940 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4941 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4942
ea3a6f44
NM
494331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4944 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4945
ea3a6f44
NM
494632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4947 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4948 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4949 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4950 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4951 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4952 is going on).
bbe902f0 4953
ea3a6f44
NM
495433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4955 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4956 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4957 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4958 CAN-2005-0021
4959
ea3a6f44
NM
496034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4961 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4962 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4963 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4964 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4965 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4966 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4967
4968 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4969 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4970 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4971 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4972 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4973 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4974 CAN-2005-0021
4975
ea3a6f44
NM
497635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4977 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4978 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4979 CAN-2005-0022
4980
ea3a6f44
NM
498136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4982 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4983 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4984 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4985 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4986
ea3a6f44
NM
498737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4988 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4989 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4990 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4991 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4992
ea3a6f44
NM
499338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4994 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4995 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4996 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4997 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4998
4999
495ae4b0
PH
5000Exim version 4.43
5001-----------------
5002
5003 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5004 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5005 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5006 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5007 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5008 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5009 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5010
5011 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5012 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5013 the delivery.
5014
5015 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5016
5017 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5018
5019 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5020 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5021 to local_scan().
5022
5023 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5024 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5025 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5026 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5027 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5028
5029 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5030 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5031
5032 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5033
5034 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5035
503610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5037 header_sender only.
5038
503911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5040 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5041
504212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5043 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5044 affecting debugging statements).
5045
504613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5047
504814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5049 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5050 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5051 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5052 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5053 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5054 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5055 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5056 after the received time, and all would be well.
5057
505815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5059 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5060 condition in an expansion string.
5061
506216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5063
506417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5065 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5066 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5067 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5068 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5069 job under whatever limits there are.
5070
507118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5072
507319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5074 space).
5075
507620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5077 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5078 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5079 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5080 return path is set.
5081
508221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5083 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5084 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5085 binary data in such strings.
5086
508722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5088
508923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5090 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5091 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5092 failure, which is pointless.
5093
509424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5095
509625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5097
509826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5099 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5100 Sender: header lines.
5101
510227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5103 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5104 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5105
510628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5107 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5108 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5109 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5110 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5111 happens.
5112
511329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5114 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5115 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5116 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5117 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5118
511930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5120 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5121 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5122 1024.
5123
512431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5125 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5126
512732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5128 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5129
513033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5131
513232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5133
513433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5135
513634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5137 syntax error.
5138
513935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5140
514136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5142
514337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5144 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5145 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5146 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5147
514838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5149 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5150
5151
5152Exim version 4.42
5153-----------------
5154
5155 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5156 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5157 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5158 it was not quoted.
5159 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5160 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5161 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5162 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5163 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5164 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5165
5166 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5167 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5168 verification failure".
5169
5170 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5171 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5172 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5173 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5174
5175 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5176 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5177 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5178 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5179 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5180 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5181 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5182 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5183 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5184 treated as a timeout.
5185
5186 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5187 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5188 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5189 not set for Exim filters).
5190
5191 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5192 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5193 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5194
5195 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5196
5197 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5198 try to make them clearer.
5199
5200 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5201 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5202
5203 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5204
5205 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5206
520710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5208 only the Cygwin environment.
5209
521011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5211 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5212 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5213 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5214 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5215
521612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5217 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5218 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5219 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5220 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5221 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5222 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5223
522413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5225 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5226
522714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5228
5229 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5230 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5231 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5232
5233 To: susanne@some.where
5234
5235 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5236 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5237 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5238 of addresses in From: header lines).
5239
5240 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5241 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5242 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5243
5244 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5245 treated as non-personal.
5246
5247 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5248 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5249
525015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5251
525216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5253
525417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5255 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5256 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5257
525818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5259 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5260
526119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5262 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5263 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5264 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5265 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5266 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5267
526820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5269 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5270 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5271 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5272 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5273 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5274 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5275 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5276
5277 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5278
527921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5280 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5281
528222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5283 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5284 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5285
528623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5287 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5288
528924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5290 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5291 rather than long int.
5292
529325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5294
529526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5296
5297
5298Exim version 4.41
5299-----------------
5300
5301 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5302 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5303 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5304 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5305 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5306 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5307
5308
5309Exim version 4.40
5310-----------------
5311
5312 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5313 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5314
5315 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5316 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5317 socklen_t is defined.
5318
5319 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5320 always exist.
5321
5322 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5323 configured.
5324
5325 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5326 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5327 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5328 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5329 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5330
5331 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5332 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5333 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5334 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5335
5336 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5337 of flapping under certain conditions.
5338
5339 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5340 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5341 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5342
5343 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5344
534510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5346
534711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5348 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5349 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5350 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5351
535212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5353 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5354 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5355 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5356 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5357 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5358 preserved with the message after it was received.
5359
536013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5361 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5362 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5363 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5364 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5365 test suite worked just fine.
5366
536714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5368 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5369 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5370
537115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5372 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5373 string.
5374
537516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5376 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5377 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5378 does not fully solve it.
5379
538017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5381 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5382 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5383 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5384 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5385
538618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5387 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5388 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5389
539019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5391 string, for example:
5392
5393 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5394
5395 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5396 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5397 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5398 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5399 the routers could not see them.
5400
540120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5402 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5403
540421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5405 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5406 output).
5407
540822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5409 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5410 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5411 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5412 that needed quoting.
5413
541423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5415 was not being matched caselessly.
5416
541724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5418 backslashes.
5419
542025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5421 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5422 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5423 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5424 when use_sender is false.
5425
542626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5427
542827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5429
543028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5431
543229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5433 the configuration file.
5434
543530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5436 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5437
543831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5439
544032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5441 bytes in the message body.
5442
544333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5444 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5445 delivery.
5446
544734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5448
544935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5450
545136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5452 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5453 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5454 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5455 another IP address.
5456
5457
5458Exim version 4.34
5459-----------------
5460
5461 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5462 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5463
5464 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5465 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5466 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5467 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5468 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5469
5470 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5471 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5472
5473 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5474 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5475 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5476
5477 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5478 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5479 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5480
5481 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5482 for routers.
5483
5484 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5485 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5486 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5487 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5488 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5489 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5490 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5491
5492
5493Exim version 4.33
5494-----------------
5495
5496 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5497 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5498 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5499 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5500 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5501 default (and expected) setting.
5502
5503 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5504 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5505 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5506 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5507
5508 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5509 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5510
5511 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5512 in domain lists.
5513
5514 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5515 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5516 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5517 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5518 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5519 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5520
5521 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5522 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5523 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5524
5525 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5526 part (NOT match_host).
5527
5528 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5529
5530 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5531 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5532 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5533 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5534 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5535 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5536 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5537 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5538 the same named file.
5539
554010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5541 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5542 when Exim is built.
5543
554411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5545 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5546 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5547 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5548 a host name.
5549
555012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5551 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5552 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5553
555413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5555
555614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5557
555815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5559
556016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5561 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5562
556317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5564 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5565 before starting the TLS session.
5566
556718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5568
556919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5570 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5571
557220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5573 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5574 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5575 colon in the middle).
5576
5577
5578Exim version 4.32
5579-----------------
5580
5581 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5582 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5583 multiple configurations are in use.
5584
5585 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5586 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5587 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5588 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5589 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5590 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5591
5592 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5593 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5594
5595 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5596 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5597 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5598
5599 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5600 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5601 occurs.
5602
5603 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5604 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5605
5606 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5607
5608 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5609 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5610
5611 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5612
5613 -prval:sval
5614
5615 is equivalent to
5616
5617 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5618
5619 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5620 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5621 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5622 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5623 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5624
562510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5626 Exim's behaviour:
5627
5628 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5629 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5630 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5631 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5632 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5633 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5634
5635 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5636 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5637 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5638 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5639 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5640 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5641 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5642 string.
5643
5644 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5645 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5646 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5647 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5648 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5649
565011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5651
565212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5653 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5654 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5655
565613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5657
565814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5659 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5660 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5661 information.
5662
566315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5664 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5665
566616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5667 Three changes have been made:
5668
5669 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5670 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5671 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5672 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5673 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5674
5675 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5676 been restored.
5677
5678 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5679 the modified behaviour.
5680
5681
5682Exim version 4.31
5683-----------------
5684
5685 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5686 Larry Rosenman.
5687
5688 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5689 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5690
5691 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5692 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5693 try to track down a specific problem.
5694
5695 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5696 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5697 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5698
5699 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5700 warning.
5701
5702 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5703 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5704 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5705 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5706 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5707 some earlier ones do not.
5708
5709 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5710
5711 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5712 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5713 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5714 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5715 address literals are enabled, of course).
5716
5717 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5718
571910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5720 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5721 by a command such as
5722
5723 exim -f "" ...
5724
5725 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5726
572711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5728
572912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5730 remained set. It is now erased.
5731
573213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5733 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5734
573514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5736 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5737 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5738 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5739 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5740 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5741 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5742 appropriate error code.
5743
574415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5745 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5746 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5747 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5748 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5749 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5750
575116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5752 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5753 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5754
575517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5756 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5757 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5758 terminate the header.
5759
576018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5761 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5762 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5763
576419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5765 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5766 (4.30/29). In particular:
5767
5768 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5769 imposed.
5770
5771 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5772 to write a maildirsize file.
5773
5774 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5775 the transport, the new value overrides.
5776
5777 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5778 count.
5779
578020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5781 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5782 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5783 space or a tab.
5784
578521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5786 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5787 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5788 the fallback hosts.
5789
579022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5791 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5792 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5793
579423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5795 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5796 using a union.
5797
579824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5799 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5800 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5801
580225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5803
580426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5805
580627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5807
580828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5809 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5810 become corrupted.
5811
581229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5813 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5814 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5815 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5816 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5817 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5818 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5819 too great.
5820
582130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5822 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5823 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5824 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5825 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5826 incorrectly.
5827
582831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5829 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5830 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5831 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5832 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5833 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5834 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5835 cached value only when the same options are set.
5836
583732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5838
583933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5840 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5841 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5842 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5843 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5844
584534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5846 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5847 it is clearly obsolete.
5848
584935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5850 transport.
5851
585236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5853 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5854 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5855 times.
5856
585737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5858 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5859 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5860 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5861 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5862
586338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5864 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5865 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5866 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5867
586839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5869
5870 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5871
5872 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5873 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5874 2^31.
5875
587640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5877 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5878 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5879 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5880 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5881 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5882 $localpart_data.
5883
588441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5885 with the -f command-line option.
5886
588742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5888 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5889 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5890 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5891 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5892 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5893
589443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5895 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5896 line.
5897
589844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5899 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5900 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5901 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5902 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5903 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5904 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5905 buffer is too small.
5906
590745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5908 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5909
591046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5911 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5912 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5913 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5914 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5915 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5916 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5917 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5918 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5919
592047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5921 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5922 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5923
592448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5925 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5926 ACL").
5927
592849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5929 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5930 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5931 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5932 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5933
593450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5935 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5936 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5937 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5938 is set.
5939
594051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5941
594252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5943
594453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5945 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5946
594754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5948 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5949 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5950
595155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5952 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5953 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5954 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5955 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5956
595756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5958 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5959 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5960 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5961 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5962 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5963 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5964
596557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5966 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5967 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5968 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5969 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5970 the test of how many are available.
5971
597258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5973 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5974 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5975 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5976 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5977 new message is started.
5978
597959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5980 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5981
598260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5983 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5984
598561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5986 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5987 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5988 is no long logged.
5989
599062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5991 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5992 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5993 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5994 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5995 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5996 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5997
599863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5999 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6000 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6001 interpreted as octal.
6002
600364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6004 setting.
6005
600665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6007 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6008 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6009 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6010 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6011 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6012
601366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6014 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6015 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6016 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6017
6018 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6019 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6020 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6021 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6022
6023 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6024 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6025 is a bug fix.
6026
6027 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6028 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6029
603067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6031
603268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6033 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6034 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6035 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6036
603769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6038 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6039 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6040 supplied", which is not helpful.
6041
604270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6043 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6044 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6045
604671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6047 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6048 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6049 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6050 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6051 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6052 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6053 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6054
605572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6056 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6057 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6058 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6059 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6060
606173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6062 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6063 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6064 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6065 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6066 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6067
606874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6069 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6070 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6071
607275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6073
607476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6075 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6076 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6077 variables.
6078
607977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6080
608178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6082 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6083 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6084 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6085 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6086 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6087 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6088 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6089
609079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6091 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6092 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6093 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6094 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6095
609680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6097 Haardt.
6098
609981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6100 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6101 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6102 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6103 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6104 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6105 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6106 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6107 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6108
6109
6110Exim version 4.30
6111-----------------
6112
6113 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6114 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6115 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6116
6117 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6118 fixed.
6119
6120 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6121 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6122 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6123
6124 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6125 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6126 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6127 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6128 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6129 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6130
6131 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6132 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6133 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6134 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6135 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6136 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6137 the Exim test suite.
6138
6139 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6140 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6141 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6142 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6143
6144 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6145 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6146 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6147 specify it in this variable.
6148
6149 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6150 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6151 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6152 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6153
6154 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6155 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6156 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6157 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6158
6159 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6160 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6161 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6162 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6163 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6164
6165 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6166
616710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6168 they are logged.
6169
617011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6171 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6172 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6173 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6174 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6175
617612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6177 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6178
617913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6180 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6181 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6182 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6183 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6184
618514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6186 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6187
618815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6189 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6190 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6191
619216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6193 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6194
619517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6196 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6197
619818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6199 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6200 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6201
620219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6203 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6204
620520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6206 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6207 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6208 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6209
621021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6211
621222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6213 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6214 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6215 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6216
621723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6218
621924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6220 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6221
622225. Added .include_if_exists.
6223
622426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6225 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6226 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6227 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6228 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6229 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6230
623127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6232
623328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6234 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6235 this.
6236
623729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6238
623930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6240 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6241
6242 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6243 550 Sender verify failed
6244
6245 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6246 the final line of the response.
6247
624831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6249 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6250 all other user lookups.
6251
625232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6253 delivery time.
6254
625533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6256 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6257 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6258 result into an int without checking.
6259
626034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6261 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6262 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6263
626435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6265 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6266 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6267 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6268
626936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6270 correctly.
6271
627237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6273 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6274
627538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6276 to the empty sender.
6277
627839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6279 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6280 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6281 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6282 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6283 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6284 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6285 panic log.
6286
628740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6288 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6289 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6290 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6291 used.
6292
629341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6294 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6295
629642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6297 timestamps.
6298
629943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6300 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6301
630244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6303
630445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6305 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6306 logs.
6307
630846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6309 as soon as it is encountered.
6310
631147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6312
631348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6314 rewritten to "<>".
6315
631649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6317 recognizes a tab character.
6318
631950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6320 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6321 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6322 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6323
632451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6325
632652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6327 crash.
6328
632953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6330
633154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6332
633355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6334 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6335 2822.
6336
633756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6338 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6339 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6340 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6341 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6342
634357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6344 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6345
634658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6347 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6348 list (.included file names were always shown).
6349
635059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6351 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6352 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6353 root at that time.
6354
635560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6356 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6357
635861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6359
636062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6361
636263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6363
636464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6365 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6366 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6367 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6368 failures to open the logs.
6369
637065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6371 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6372 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6373 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6374 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6375 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6376 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6377
6378
6379Exim version 4.24
6380-----------------
6381
6382 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6383 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6384 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6385 change 4.23/1.
6386
6387 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6388 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6389 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6390
6391 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6392 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6393 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6394
6395 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6396 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6397 causing some misleading effects.
6398
6399 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6400 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6401 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6402
6403 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6404 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6405 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6406 queue-runner function directly.
6407
6408
6409Exim version 4.23
6410-----------------
6411
6412 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6413 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6414
6415 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6416 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6417 was always written to the default place.
6418
6419 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6420 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6421 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6422
6423 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6424
6425 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6426
6427 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6428 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6429 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6430
6431 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6432 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6433 must start.
6434
6435 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6436 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6437 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6438
6439 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6440 command line option is disabled.
6441
6442 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6443 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6444
6445 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6446
6447 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6448
6449 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6450 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6451
645210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6453
645411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6455 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6456 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6457 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6458 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6459 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6460
646112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6462 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6463 timeout.
6464
646513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6466 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6467
646814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6469 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6470
647115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6472 received was valid base64.
6473
647416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6475 name of the variable that was being set.
6476
647717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6478
647918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6480 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6481 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6482 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6483 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6484 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6485
648619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6487
648820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6489 nor realm was specified.
6490
649121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6492 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6493 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6494 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6495
649622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6497 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6498 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6499
650023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6501 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6502 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6503
650424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6505 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6506 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6507 some systems use these upper case variants.
6508
650925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6510 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6511 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6512 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6513
651426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6515
651627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6517 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6518
651928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6520 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6521 expansion variable.
6522
652329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6524
652530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6526 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6527 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6528 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6529
653031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6531 using it.
6532
653332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6534 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6535 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6536
653733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6538 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6539
654034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6541 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6542 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6543 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6544
654535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6546 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6547 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6548
654936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6550
655137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6552 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6553 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6554 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6555 aborted.
6556
655738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6558 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6559 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6560
656139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6562
656340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6564 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6565
656641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6567 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6568
656942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6570 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6571 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6572 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6573 when emails are that large.
6574
6575
6576
6577Exim version 4.22
6578-----------------
6579
6580 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6581 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6582
6583 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6584 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6585 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6586
6587 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6588 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6589 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6590
6591 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6592 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6593 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6594 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6595 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6596
6597 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6598 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6599 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6600 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6601 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6602 ever.
6603
6604 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6605 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6606 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6607 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6608 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6609 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6610 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6611 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6612 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6613 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6614 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6615 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6616 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6617 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6618
6619 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6620 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6621 parameterised it.
6622
6623 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6624 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6625 error should be diagnosed.
6626
6627 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6628 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6629 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6630 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6631 appeared instead of "NULL".
6632
663310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6634 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6635 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6636 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6637 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6638 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6639 proceeds).
6640
6641 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6642 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6643 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6644
6645
6646Exim version 4.21
6647-----------------
6648
6649 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6650 or receiver verification errors.
6651
6652 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6653 name.
6654
6655 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6656 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6657 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6658 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6659
6660 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6661 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6662 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6663 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6664 shouldn't happen again.
6665
6666 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6667 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6668 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6669
6670 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6671 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6672
6673 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6674
6675 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6676 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6677
6678 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6679 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6680 RFC.
6681
668210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6683 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6684 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6685
668611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6687 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6688 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6689 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6690
669112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6692 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6693 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6694 to define what should happen).
6695
669613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6697 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6698 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6699
670014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6701
670215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6703
670416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6705 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6706
4c04137d 670717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6708 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6709 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6710 structure in all cases.
6711
6712 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6713 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6714 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6715 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6716
671718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6718 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6719 domain name.
6720
672119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6722 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6723
672420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6725 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6726
672721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6728 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6729 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6730
673122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6732 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6733 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6734
673523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6736 the book and for uniformity.
6737
673824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6739
674025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6741 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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6742 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6743 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6744 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6745 non-existent command as the problem.
6746
674726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6748 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6749 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6750
675127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6752
675328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6754 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6755 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6756
675729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6758 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6759 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6760 timestamps using strftime().
6761
676230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6763 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6764
676532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6766 transport-time rewrites.
6767
676833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6769 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6770 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6771 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6772
677334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6774 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6775
677635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6777 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6778 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6779 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6780 comma and a space.
6781
678236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6783 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6784 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6785 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6786 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6787 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6788 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6789
679037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6791 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6792 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6793 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6794 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6795
679638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6797 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6798 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6799 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6800 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6801 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6802 remaining text gets split now.
6803
680439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6805 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6806 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6807 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6808
680940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6810 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6811 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6812 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6813 $return_path.
6814
681541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6816 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6817 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6818 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6819 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6820 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6821 passed through if needed.
6822
682342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6824 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6825 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6826 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6827 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6828 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6829
683043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6831 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6832 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6833 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6834 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6835
683644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6837 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6838 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6839 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6840 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6841
684245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6843 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6844 noticed.
6845
684646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6847 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6848 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6849 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6850 mayhem of various kinds.
6851
685247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6853 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6854 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6855 the right test for positive values.
6856
685748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6858 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6859 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6860 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6861 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6862 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6863 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6864 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6865 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6866 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6867 envelope.
6868
686949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6870 module.
6871
687250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6873 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6874 forbidding it.
6875
687651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6877 the existing equality matching.
6878
687952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6880 dealing with inode numbers.
6881
688253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6883 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6884 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6885
688654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6887 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6888 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6889 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6890 local_scan().
6891
689255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6893 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6894 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6895 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6896 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6897 relay addresses has also been removed.
6898
689956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6900
690157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6902 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6903 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6904
690558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6906 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6907 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6908 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6909 processing applies to CR:
6910
6911 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6912 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6913
6914 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6915 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6916 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6917 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6918
691959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6920 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6921 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6922
692360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6924 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6925 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6926 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6927 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6928 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6929 arisen.
6930
693161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6932 program routers.
6933
693462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6935 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6936 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6937 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6938 adds:
6939
6940 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6941
6942 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6943
6944 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6945
694663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6947 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6948 not considered personal.
6949
695064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6951
695265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6953
695466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6955
695667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6957 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6958 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6959 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6960 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6961 header lines, and spool format errors.
6962
696368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6964 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6965 for more flexibility.
6966
696769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6968 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6969 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6970
697170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6972 Sabourenkov.
6973
697471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6975 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6976 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6977 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6978 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6979 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6980 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6981 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6982 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6983
698472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6985 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6986 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6987 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6988 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6989 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6990 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6991
699273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6993 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6994 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6995
699674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6997 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6998 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6999 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7000 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7001 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7002 instead of killing the process with assert().
7003
700475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7005 than Unicode encoding.
7006
700776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7008 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7009 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7010 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7011
701277. Added process_log_path.
7013
701478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7015 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7016
701779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7018 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7019
702080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7021 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7022 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7023
702481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7025 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7026 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7027 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7028 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7029 were applied:
7030
7031 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7032 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7033 as invalid.
7034
703582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7036 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7037 they will be used during message reception.
7038
7039
7040Exim version 4.20
7041-----------------
7042
7043The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7044
7045****