Cutthrough: fix multi-message initiating connections. Bug 2230
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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.
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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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74JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
75 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
76 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
77 pairs of long lines into single ones.
78
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79PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
80 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
81
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82JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
83 This permits better logging.
84
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85JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
86 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
87 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
88 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
89 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 90 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 91
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92JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
93 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
94 "exiwhat" output.
95
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96PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
97 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
98 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
99
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100JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
101 than 255 are no longer allowed.
102
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103JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
104 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
105 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
106 client, there is no benefit for these.
107 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
108 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
109 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
110 is used (3.2.4 +).
111
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112PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
113 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
114
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115JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
116 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
117 erroneously found still-pending ones.
118
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119JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
120 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
121
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122JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
123 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
124 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
125 signature and again for transmission.
126
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127JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
128 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 129 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 130
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131JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
132 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
133 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
134 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
135 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
136 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
137 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
138
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139JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
140 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
141 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 142 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 143
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144PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
145 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
146 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
147 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
148 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
149 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
150 processing options.
151
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152JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
153 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
154 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
155 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
156 connections.
925ac8e4 157
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158PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
159 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
160 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
161 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
162 versions.
163
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164JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
165 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
166 inaccessible.
167
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168JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
169 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
170 banner-time rejection.
171
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172JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
173 callout/hold.
174
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175PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
176 is the name of a transport.
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177 Fixes bug 2140.
178
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179HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
180
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181JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
182 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
183
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184JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
185 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
186 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
187 during compilation.
188
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189JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
190 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
191 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 192 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 193
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194JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
195 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
196 initial verify call returned a defer.
197
ad1a76fe 198JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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199 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
200
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201JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
202 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
203
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204JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
205 if present. Previously it was ignored.
206
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207JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
208 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
209
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210JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
211 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
212 extensible.
213
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214PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
215 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
216
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217PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
218 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
219 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
220
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221JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
222 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
223 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
224 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
225
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226HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
227 and confused the parent.
228
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229JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
230 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
231
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232JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
233 for log purposes.
234
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235JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
236 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
237 out-of-order delivery.
238
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239JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
240 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
241 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
242 error for the HELO.
243
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244JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
245 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
246 desynchronisation.
247
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248JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
249 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
250 one run was done. Bug 2189.
251
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252JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
253 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
254 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
255 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
256 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
257 message is still "Temporary local problem".
258
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259JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
260 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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261 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
262
263HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
264 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
265 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 266
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267JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
268 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
269 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
270 though a different problem.
271
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9427e879 276JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 277 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 278
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279JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
280
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281PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
282 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
283
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284JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
285 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
286
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287JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
288 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
289 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
290 before acknowledging the chunk.
291
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292PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
293 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
294 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
295
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296JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
297 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
298 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
299 should.
300
301JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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302 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
303 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 304
bd8fbe36 305JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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306 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
307
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308JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
309 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
310 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
311 body hash calculated value.
312
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313JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
314 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
315 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
316
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317JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
318
319JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
320 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
321
322JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
323 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
324 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
325
326JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
327 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
328 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
329 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
330 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
331 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
332
333JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
334 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
335 past that check, despite the cost.
336
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337JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
338 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
339 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
340
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341PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
342 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
343 TLS library to consume.
344
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345PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
346
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347PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
348
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349JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
350 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
351 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
352 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
353 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
354 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
355 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
356
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357PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
358
359PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
360
361PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
362 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
363 should be warning-free.
364
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365JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
366
367HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
368 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
369
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370HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
371 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
372 general solution here.
373
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374PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
375 already-broken messages in the queue.
376
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377JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
378
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379JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
380
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385JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
386 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 387
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388JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
389 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
390 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
391
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392JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
393 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
394 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
395 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
396 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
397 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
398 if one fails this test.
399 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
400 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
401
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402JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
403 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
404
23bb6982 405JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 406 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 407
0bd1b1ed 408JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 409 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 410
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411JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
412 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
413
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414JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
415 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
416
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417JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
418
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419JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
420 certificate).
421
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422JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
423 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
424 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
425 connection after a verify cache hit.
426 Do not update it with the verify result either.
427
428JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
429 when routing results in more than one destination address.
430
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431JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
432 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
433 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
434 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
435 when the cutthrough connection is made).
436
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437JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
438 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
439
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440JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
441 Previously they were not counted.
442
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443JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
444 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
445 that needed the lookup.
446
4c04137d 447JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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448 distinguished as "(=".
449
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450JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
451 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
452
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453JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
454
455JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
456 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 457
4c04137d 458JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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459 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
460
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461JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
462 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
463 compatible.
464
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465JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
466 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
467 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
468 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
469
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470JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
471
f59aaaaa 472JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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473 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
474 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 475
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476JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
477 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
478 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
479 be lost.
480
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481JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
482 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
483 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
484 itself :(
485
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486JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
487 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
488 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
489
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490JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
491 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
492 options.
493
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494JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
495
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496PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
497 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
498
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499PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
500 are not in the system include path.
501
ad7fc6eb 502JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 503 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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504 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
505 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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507JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
508 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
509 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
510
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511JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
512
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513HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
514 an incoming connection.
515
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516HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
517 to rspamd.
518
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519HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
520 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 521
87cb4a16 522JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 523 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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529JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
530 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
531 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
532 client dropping the TLS connection.
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534TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
535 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
536
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537TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
538 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
539 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
540 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
541 outgoing I= field.
542
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543JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
544 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
545 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
546 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
547 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
548 check on the next write.
549
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550HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
551 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
552 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
553 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
554 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
555
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556JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
557 mime_regex ACL conditions.
558
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559JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
560 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
561 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
562
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563JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
564 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
565 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
566 an authenticate fail is not an error.
567
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568HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
569 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
570
4c04137d 571JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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572 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
573
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574JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
575 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
576 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
577 distinct.
578
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579JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
580
581JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
582
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583JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
584
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585JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
586 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
587
98b98887 588JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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589 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
590
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591JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
592
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593JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
594 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
595
596JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
597
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598JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
599 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
600
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601JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
602
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603JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
604 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 605 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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606 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
607 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
608 they will retry in-clear.
609 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
610 at installation time.
611
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612HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
613 with the $config_file variable.
614
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615JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
616 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
617 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
618 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 619 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 620
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621GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
622 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
623 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
624 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
625 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
626
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627JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
628
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629JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
630 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
631 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
632 list order is no longer honoured.
633
4c04137d 634JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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635 for DKIM processing.
636
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637JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
638 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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640JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
641 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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642 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
643 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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645JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
646 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
647
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648JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
649 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
650
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651JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
652 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
653
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654JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
655
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656JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
657 cached by the daemon.
658
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659JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
660 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
661
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662JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
663 keys are given for lookup.
664
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665JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
666 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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667 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
668 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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670JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
671 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
672 server-side so match that on older versions.
673
07c73177 674JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 675 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 676 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 677
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678JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
679 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
680
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681JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
682 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
683 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 684 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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685 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
686 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
687 initial truncated version.
688
ab9152ff 689JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 690
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691JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
692
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693JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
694 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
695
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696JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
697
bc3c7bb7 698HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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700JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
701 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
702 induced overflows.
703
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704JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
705 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
706 stage.
707
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708JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
709 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
710
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711JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
712 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
713 former class.
714
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715JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
716 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
717 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
718
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719JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
720 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
721 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
722 extraction. Accept either.
723
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728JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
729 expanded.
730
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731JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
732
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733JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
734 it.
735
01a4a5c5 736JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 737 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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738 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
739 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
740
cb1d7830 741JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 742 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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744
610ff438 745JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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746 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
747 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
748 TLS connections
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750JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
751 sites use this now.
752
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753JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
754 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
755 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
756 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
757 have a dsn_lasthop option.
758
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759JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
760 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 761 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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763JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
764
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765JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
766 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
767
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768JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
769 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
770
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771JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
772 /defer_ok option.
773
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774JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
775 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
776
fd4d8871 777JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 778 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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779 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
780
781JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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782 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
783 specify a port-range.
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785JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
786 timeout value per server.
787
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788JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
789 now have the list separator specified.
790
8a512ed5 791JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 792 option values.
8a512ed5 793
82c0c8ea 794JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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795 under OpenSSL.
796
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797JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
798
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799JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
800 rather than the verbs used.
801
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802JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
803 from 255 to 1024 chars.
804
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805JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
806
cfab9d68 807HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 808 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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810JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
811 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
812
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813HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
814 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
815
4c04137d 816JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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818JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
819
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820JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
821 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 822 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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823 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
824
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825JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
826
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827JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
828 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
829
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830JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
831 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
832
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833JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
834
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835JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
836
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837JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
838
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839JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
840 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
841
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842JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
843 added for tls authenticator.
844
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845HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
846
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851TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
852 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
853 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
854 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
855 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
856 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
857 the script parsing/test process like normal.
858
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859TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
860 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
861 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
862 function when detected.
863
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864JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
865 cause callback expansion.
866
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867TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
868 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
869 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
870 instead of bool when processing it.
871
0f06b4f2 872JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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874
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875JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
876
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877JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
878
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879TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
880
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881TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
882 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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884JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
885 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
886 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
887 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 888 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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890
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891JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
892 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
893 exceeded it.
894
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895JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
896 version 3.3.6 or later.
897
4c04137d 898JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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899 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
900 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 901 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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902 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
903 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
904 option is defined.
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907 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
908
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909JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
910 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
911 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
912 matches.
913
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914JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
915 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
916 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
917
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918JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
919 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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920
921JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
922 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
923 syntax errors.
924
3394b36a 925JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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927JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
928 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
929
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930TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
931 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
932 tarball.
933
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934JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
935
4c04137d 936JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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937 Bug 1561.
938
939JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
940 output list separator was used.
941
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945TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
946 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
947 return.
1f0ebb98 948
a612424f 949JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 950 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
951
952JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
953
954TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 955 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 956
1f0ebb98 957
c0e56233
TF
958Exim version 4.83
959-----------------
960
961TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
962
963 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
964 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
965 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
966 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
967 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
968 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
969
7245734e
TF
970TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
971 utilities have not been installed.
972
fd5dad68
JH
973JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
974 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
975
5428a946
TL
976TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
977 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
978
a3c86431
TL
979TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
980 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
981 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
982 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 983
aa26e137
JH
984JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
985
5a1b8443
WB
986TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
987 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
988
72c9e342
PP
989PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
990 not dns_use_dnssec.
991
76f44207
WB
992JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
993
770747fd
MFM
994TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
995 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
996 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
997
8ddef691 998TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
999 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1000 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1001 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1002 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1003 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1004
b9c2e32f
AR
1005JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1006
e45a1c37
JH
1007JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1008 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1009
67d81c10
JH
1010JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1011 failed delivery.
1012
b1f8e4f8
JH
1013JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1014
511a6c14 1015JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1016
1017JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1018 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1019
51c7471d
JH
1020JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1021 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1022
3695be34
TL
1023TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1024
1e06383a
TL
1025JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1026
76146973
JH
1027JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1028 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1029
1030 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1031 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1032 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1033
8c8b8274
TL
1034TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1035 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1036 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1037 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1038
35aba663
JH
1039JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1040
8c51eead 1041JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1042 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1043 lookup).
8c51eead 1044
deae092e
HS
1045TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1046 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1047 Schlichting.
35aba663 1048
fd3b6a4a 1049JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1050 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1051
8d91c6dc
LT
1052TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1053 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1054
2b4a568d
JH
1055JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1056
d2af03f4
HS
1057TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1058 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1059 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1060
9d1c15ef
JH
1061JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1062 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1063
44662487
JH
1064JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1065 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1066 hosts_request_ocsp.
1067
ed3bba5f 1068JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1069 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1070 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1071
8ccd00b1
JH
1072JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1073
8ded8589
TL
1074TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1075 Christian Aistleitner.
1076
f2de3a33
JH
1077JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1078
6eb02f88
TL
1079TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1080 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1081
00bff6f6
JH
1082JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1083 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1084
071c51f7
JH
1085JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1086 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1087
a6d4c44e
TF
1088TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1089 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1090
3ae173e7
ACK
1091TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1092 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1093
c13d09b8
TL
1094TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1095 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1096 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1097
0df4ab80
JH
1098JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1099
66be95e0
PP
1100PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1101 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1102 Jasper Wallace.
1103
1bd0d12b
JH
1104JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1105
0de7239e
TL
1106TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1107 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1108 CVE-2014-2972
1109
fd3b6a4a 1110
2c422e6f 1111Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1112-----------------
1113
1114PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1115
12f69989
PP
1116PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1117 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1118
54c90be1
PP
1119PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1120 by GnuTLS.
1121
1f4a55da
PP
1122PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1123 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1124 routines.
1125
13363eba 1126PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1127
66645890 1128PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1129 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1130 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1131 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1132 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1133
a3fb9793 1134PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1135 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1136 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1137 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1138 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1139 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1140
d27f98fe 1141TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1142
6822b909
TL
1143TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1144
e7568d51
TL
1145TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1146 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1147
ae0e32ee 1148TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1149 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1150 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1151
1152TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1153
e2658fff
TL
1154TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1155
83712b39
TL
1156TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1157 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1158
976b7e9f
JH
1159JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1160
be4a1376
JH
1161JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1162
ec4b68e5
PP
1163PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1164
d7148a07
NM
1165NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1166 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1167
585121e2 1168JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1169
2519e60d
TL
1170PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1171 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1172 function.
a5f239e4 1173
13d08c90
PP
1174PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1175 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1176
bef3ea7f
JH
1177JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1178 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1179 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1180
846726c5
JH
1181JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1182
3a796370
JH
1183JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1184
ea722490 1185JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1186 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1187
b1b05573
JH
1188JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1189 Bugzilla 884.
1190
362145b5
JH
1191JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1192 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1193
3c0a92dc
JH
1194JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1195 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1196
6d7c6175
PP
1197PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1198 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1199 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1200
6f123593
JH
1201JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1202 authenticators.
1203
c8e2fc1e
JH
1204JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1205 for control.
1206
005ac57f
PP
1207PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1208
3f1df0e3
PP
1209PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1210 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1211 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1212 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1213
67bd1ab3
TF
1214TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1215
1216 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1217 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1218 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1219 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1220 the retry rules.
1221
1222 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1223 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1224 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1225
1226 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1227 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1228 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1229 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1230
1ddeb334
TF
1231 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1232 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1233 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1234 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1235 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1236 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1237 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1238
1239 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1240 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1241
326cdc37
TF
1242TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1243
1244 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1245
1246 Resent-From: f
1247
1248 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1249 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1250 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1251 username as equal to the username.
1252
1253 This change corrects that bug.
1254
f62514b3
GF
1255GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1256 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1257 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1258
eb505532
TF
1259TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1260
14c7b357
PP
1261PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1262 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1263 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1264 NULL dereference and crash.
1265
94eaf700
PP
1266JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1267
6f5a440a
PP
1268PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1269 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1270 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1271
514ee161
SC
1272SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1273
fd98a5c6
JH
1274JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1275 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1276 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1277 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1278 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1279 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1280 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1281 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1282 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1283 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1284 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1285
035c7f1e
PP
1286PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1287 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1288
ff284120
PP
1289PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1290 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1291 Bugzilla 880.
1292
26e72755
PP
1293PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1294 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1295 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1296 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1297 an empty string is now equivalent.
1298
0fbd9bff
PP
1299PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1300 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1301 not performing validation itself.
1302
700d22f3
PP
1303PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1304 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1305
fcc8e047
JH
1306JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1307 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1308
4c04137d 1309TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1310
8c020188
PP
1311PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1312 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1313 other false fix of the same issue.
1314 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1315 Bugzilla 1363.
1316
d13cdd30
PP
1317PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1318 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1319
e2fbf4a2
PP
1320PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1321 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1322 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1323
f4c1088b
PP
1324PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1325 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1326 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1327
c5c2182f
PP
1328TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1329
73431ca9
JH
1330JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1331
2d07a215
TL
1332TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1333 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1334
a30a8861
TL
1335TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1336 Alexander Miroch.
1337
33382dd9
TL
1338TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1339 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1340 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1341 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1342 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1343
046172e6
TL
1344TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1345 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1346
581d7bee 1347TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1348 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1349 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1350
1351TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1352 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1353 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1354 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1355
237b2cf2
TL
1356TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1357
9fc5a352
TL
1358TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1359 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1360 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1361
b10e4ec2
TL
1362TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1363
e2cebd74
TL
1364TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1365 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1366 interaction.
1367
1368TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1369 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1370
2519e60d
TL
1371TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1372 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1373
e78e6ecf 1374
4263f395
PP
1375Exim version 4.80.1
1376-------------------
1377
1378PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1379 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1380 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1381
ea722490 1382
b1770b6e 1383Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1384-----------------
1385
1386PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1387 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1388 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1389
23c7e742
NM
1390NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1391
b322aac8
NM
1392NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1393 improved.
1394
4a891427
NM
1395NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1396
c1e794ba 1397PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1398
97753960
PP
1399PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1400
1401PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1402 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1403
df6303fa
PP
1404PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1405 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1406
7e6a8985
PP
1407PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1408 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1409
f1e05cc7 1410PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1411 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1412 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1413
4c287009
PP
1414PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1415
b98bb9ac
PP
1416PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1417 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1418
4a6a987a
PP
1419PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1420
c45dd180 1421PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1422
7db8d074
PP
1423PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1424 non-compliant senders.
1425 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1426
eae0036b 1427NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1428 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1429 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1430
dec5017e
PP
1431PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1432 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1433 in spool file corruption.
1434
c80c5570
PP
1435PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1436 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1437 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1438 "Got SSL error 2".
1439
076b11e2
PP
1440TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1441 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1442 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1443
5407bfff
JH
1444JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1445 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1446
9e45c72b
PP
1447JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1448
e74376d8
PP
1449PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1450 diagnostics.
1451 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1452
4c04137d 1453PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1454 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1455 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1456
7be682ca
PP
1457PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1458 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1459 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1460 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1461
ef840681
PP
1462PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1463 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1464
5bfb4cdf
PP
1465PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1466 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1467 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1468 resolver implementation change.
1469
c6e95d22
PP
1470PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1471 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1472
9cbad13b
PP
1473PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1474
9ee44efb
PP
1475PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1476
6a6084f8
PP
1477PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1478 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1479
12dd53c7
PP
1480PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1481 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1482
9e45c72b 1483JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1484 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1485
17c76198
PP
1486PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1487 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1488 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1489 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1490 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1491
53947857 1492PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1493
eae0036b 1494PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1495 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1496 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1497
9e45c72b 1498JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1499
7390e768
PP
1500PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1501 read-only, out of scope).
1502 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1503
08488c86
PP
1504PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1505 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1506 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1507 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1508
6475bd82
PP
1509PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1510
81f91683
PP
1511PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1512 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1513 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1514 real issues in debug logging.
1515
5779e6aa
PP
1516PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1517 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1518
3375e053
PP
1519PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1520 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1521 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1522
1523PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1524 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1525 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1526 problems.
3375e053 1527
9d26b8c0
PP
1528PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1529 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1530
57eb9e91 1531PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1532 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1533 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1534 needs to override this, it can.
1535
16880d1a
PP
1536PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1537 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1538 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1539
a799883d
PP
1540PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1541 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1542 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1543 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1544
3ecab157 1545PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1546
0599f9cf 1547
867fcbf5
PP
1548Exim version 4.77
1549-----------------
1550
1551PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1552 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1553
f1a29782
TF
1554TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1555
ab42bd23
TK
1556TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1557 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1558
0ca0cf52
TF
1559TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1560 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1561
921b12ca
TF
1562TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1563 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1564 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1565
1566 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1567 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1568 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1569 not safe for signals.
1570
1571 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1572 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1573 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1574 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1575 exiwhat.
1576
c99ce5c9
TF
1577TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1578
1579 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1580 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1581 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1582 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1583 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1584
1585 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1586 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1587 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1588 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1589 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1590 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1591
1592 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1593 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1594 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1595 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1596
1597 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1598 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1599 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1600 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1601
1602 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1603 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1604 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1605 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1606 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1607 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1608 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1609 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1610 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1611
1612 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1613 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1614 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1615 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1616
1617 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1618 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1619 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1620 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1621 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1622 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1623 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1624 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1625 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1626 details in the main documentation.
1627
3634fc25
TF
1628TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1629
792e8a19
TF
1630TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1631
5901f0ab
TF
1632TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1633 repository when doing development or release builds.
1634
7f2a2a43
PP
1635PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1636 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1637
061b7ebd
PP
1638PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1639 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1640 Bugzilla 97.
1641
e12f8c32
PP
1642PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1643
9e949f00 1644PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1645 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1646
1647PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1648 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1649
555ae6af 1650PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1651 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1652
1653PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1654 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1655
6f7fe114
PP
1656PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1657 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1658
c566dd90
PP
1659PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1660 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1661 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1662 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1663
d6cc7c78 1664PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1665 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1666 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1667
0d0e4455
PP
1668PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1669
3399bb60 1670PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1671
1672PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1673 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1674
0ca0cf52 1675
10906672
PP
1676Exim version 4.76
1677-----------------
1678
1679PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1680
754a0503
PP
1681PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1682 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1683
c0c7b2da
PP
1684PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1685
e97d1f08
PP
1686PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1687
084c1d8c
PP
1688PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1689 Bugzilla 1098.
1690
4e7ee012
PP
1691PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1692 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1693
c8d52a00
PP
1694TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1695 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1696
54e7ce4a
PP
1697PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1698 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1699
5ee6f336
PP
1700PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1701 Bugzilla 1104.
1702
c8d52a00 1703TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1704 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1705
1706TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1707 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1708 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1709 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1710
1711PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1712 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1713
10906672 1714
aa097c4c
NM
1715Exim version 4.75
1716-----------------
1717
4c04137d 1718NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1719 Bugzilla 1073
1720
7f3d9eff
TF
1721TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1722 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1723 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1724
159f52d2
TF
1725TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1726 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1727
0cc9542a
PP
1728PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1729 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1730 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1731
f7274286
PP
1732PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1733 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1734
7b797365
PP
1735PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1736 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1737
caacae52
NM
1738NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1739 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1740
09dcaba9
NM
1741NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1742 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1743
bc19a55b
PP
1744PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1745 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1746
bd4c9759
NM
1747NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1748 Fixes bug 943.
1749
b72aab72
PP
1750PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1751 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1752
2fe76745
PP
1753PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1754 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1755
76aa570c
PP
1756PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1757 SQL string expansion failure details.
1758 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1759
f1e5fef5
PP
1760PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1761 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1762
4d805ee9
PP
1763PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1764 extern declarations in function scope.
1765 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1766
cd59ab18
PP
1767PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1768 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1769 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1770 a kernel bug).
1771
332f5cf3
PP
1772PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1773 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1774
29cfeb94
PP
1775PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1776 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1777
660242ad
PP
1778PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1779 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1780
bc4bc4c5
PP
1781PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1782 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1783
2e64baa9
NM
1784NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1785 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1786 Dennis Davis.
1787
4c04137d 1788PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1789
6bac1a9a
PP
1790PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1791
552193f0
NM
1792NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1793 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1794
1b587e48
TF
1795TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1796 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1797
aa097c4c 1798
8c07b69f
TF
1799Exim version 4.74
1800-----------------
1801
1802TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1803 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1804
c0ea85ab
TF
1805TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1806 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1807
0761d44e
TF
1808TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1809
0a349494
PP
1810DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1811 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1812 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1813
1814PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1815 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1816 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1817
fea24b2e
PP
1818PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1819 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1820 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1821 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1822
6545de78
PP
1823PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1824 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1825 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1826 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1827
1670ef10
PP
1828PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1829 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1830 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1831 arbitrary files.
1832
c0886197
PP
1833PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1834 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1835
b7487bce
PP
1836PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1837 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1838 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1839 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1840 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1841
8c07b69f 1842
97fd1e48 1843Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1844-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1845
1846PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1847 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1848 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1849
6901c596
PP
1850PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1851 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1852
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1853JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1854
77bb000f
PP
1855PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1856
a29e5231
PP
1857PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1858
ec5a0394 1859PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1860
55c75993
PP
1861PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1862
453a6645 1863PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1864 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1865 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1866 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1867
8544e77a
PP
1868PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1869 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1870 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1871 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1872 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1873
83e029d5
PP
1874PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1875
ed7f7860
PP
1876PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1877
7d9f747b
PP
1878PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1879
4b2241d2
PP
1880PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1881
10385c15
PP
1882PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1883
dbc4b90d
PP
1884PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1885
532be449
PP
1886PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1887
6a8de854 1888PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1889 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1890 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1891
5dc43717
JJ
1892JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1893
1894JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1895 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1896
3346ab01
PP
1897PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1898 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1899
491fab4c
PP
1900PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1901 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1902 Notification from John Horne.
1903
13eb9497
PP
1904PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1905 compatible.
1906
1907PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1908 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1909 it normally works.
1910
7f36d675
DW
1911DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1912 access.
1913
c1d94452
DW
1914DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1915 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1916 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1917
e2f5dc15
DW
1918DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1919 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1920 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1921 configuration file.
1922
cd25e41d
DW
1923DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1924 option (effectively making it always true).
1925
261dc43e
DW
1926DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1927 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1928
fa32850b
DW
1929DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1930 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1931
79d4bc3d
PP
1932PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1933 run-time user, instead of root.
1934
43236f35 1935PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1936 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1937
fb08281f
DW
1938DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1939 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1940 arguments.
3346ab01 1941
74935b98
DW
1942DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1943 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1944 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1945
90b6341f
DW
1946DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1947
57730b52
ML
1948NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1949
66581d1e 1950
465e92cf
JJ
1951Exim version 4.72
1952-----------------
1953
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1954JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1955 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1956 typos
465e92cf 1957
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PP
1958JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1959 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1960 (Finput)
edae0343 1961
9bd3e22c
NM
1962NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1963 Patch from Alain Williams
1964
bb576ff7
NM
1965NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1966
5a1a5845
NM
1967NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1968 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1969
981a9fad
NM
1970NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1971 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1972
7fc497ee
NM
1973NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1974
1a41defa
JJ
1975JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1976
a466095c 1977NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1978 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1979
94a6bd0b
NM
1980TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1981
1982TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1983
1984MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1985 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1986 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1987
c1b141a8
NM
1988NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1989 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1990
b26eacf1 1991NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1992 Patch by Simon Arlott
1993
179c5980 1994PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1995 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1996
9bd3e22c 1997
7c6d71af
NM
1998Exim version 4.71
1999-----------------
2000
7d9f747b 2001TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2002
f013fb92
NM
2003NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2004
0eb8eedd
NM
2005NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2006
663ee6d9
NM
2007NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2008
177ebd9b
NM
2009NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2010
7c6d71af 2011
210f147e
NM
2012Exim version 4.70
2013-----------------
2014
cdd3bb85 2015TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2016 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2017
2018TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2019 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2020 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2021
2022TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2023 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2024 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2025
2026TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2027 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2028
210f147e
NM
2029NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2030 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2031 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2032 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2033
deafd5b3
NM
2034NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2035 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2036 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2037
089793a4
TF
2038TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2039
5f16ca82
TF
2040TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2041
dae9d94e 2042NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2043 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2044
7d9f747b 2045NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2046
06864c44
TF
2047TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2048 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2049 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2050 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2051
65a7d8c3 2052NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2053 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2054
23510047 2055TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2056
7d9f747b 2057NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2058
7d8eec3a 2059NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2060 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2061
89dec7b6
TF
2062TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2063 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2064
a99de90c
TF
2065TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2066 that they are available at delivery time.
2067
e2803e40
TF
2068TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2069
7199e1ee
TF
2070TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2071 incoming_port log selectors.
2072
e276e04b
TF
2073TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2074 setting expands to an empty string.
2075
ce552449 2076NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2077 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2078
e765a0f1 2079NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2080 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2081
4f054c63 2082NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2083 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2084
7d9f747b
PP
2085NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2086 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2087
7d9f747b
PP
2088NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2089 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2090
b52bc06e 2091NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2092 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2093
447de4b0
NM
2094NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2095
4c69d561 2096NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2097 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2098
d5c39246 2099NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2100 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2101
0b23848a
TK
2102TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2103
8f3414a1 2104NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2105 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2106
fb6f955d
NM
2107NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2108
2109NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2110
7d9f747b
PP
2111NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2112 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2113
7d9f747b
PP
2114NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2115 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2116
7d9f747b
PP
2117NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2118 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2119
7d9f747b
PP
2120NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2121 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2122
7d9f747b
PP
2123NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2124 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2125
7d9f747b
PP
2126NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2127 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2128
7d9f747b
PP
2129NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2130 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2131
7d9f747b 2132NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2133 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2134
7d9f747b 2135NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2136
7d9f747b
PP
2137NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2138 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2139
7d9f747b 2140NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2141
7d9f747b 2142NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2143
7d9f747b 2144NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2145
7d9f747b 2146NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2147
17792b53 2148NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2149 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2150
7d9f747b
PP
2151NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2152 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2153
91576cec 2154NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2155 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2156
7d9f747b
PP
2157NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2158 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2159
7d9f747b 2160NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2161
7d9f747b 2162NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2163
7d9f747b 2164NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2165
7d9f747b 2166NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2167
deafd5b3 2168
47db1125
NM
2169Exim version 4.69
2170-----------------
2171
4b3504d0
TK
2172TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2173 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2174 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2175
2176 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2177 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2178 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2179 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2180 build errors in sieve.c.
2181
81ea09ca
NM
2182NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2183 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2184 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2185
f13cddcb
SC
2186SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2187
7d9f747b 2188NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2189
7d9f747b 2190NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2191
7d9f747b 2192NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2193
2194
eb4c0de6
PH
2195Exim version 4.68
2196-----------------
2197
2198PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2199
6a3bceb1
PH
2200PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2201 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2202 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2203 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2204 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2205 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2206 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2207 for iplsearch lookups.
2208
2209 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2210 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2211 previously such lookups could never work.
2212
4c04137d 2213 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2214 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2215 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2216
2e30fa9d
TK
2217TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2218 version.
2219
0806a9c5
MH
2220MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2221 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2222 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2223 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2224 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2225 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2226
ae276964
TK
2227TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2228 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2229
0f2cbd1b
MH
2230MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2231 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2232 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2233 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2234 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2235 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2236
2b85bce7
PH
2237PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2238 local_scan API.
2239
93655c46
PH
2240PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2241
6c512171
PH
2242PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2243 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2244 encrypted.
2245
2246PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2247 by clients under certain conditions.
2248
aa6dc513
PH
2249PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2250 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2251
a96603a0
PH
2252PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2253
8f240103
PH
2254PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2255 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2256
2257PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2258
d677b2f2
PH
2259PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2260
d52120f2
PH
2261PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2262
64f2600a
PH
2263PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2264 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2265
8669f003
PH
2266PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2267
a4dc33a8
PH
2268PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2269 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2270
d6a60c0f
PH
2271PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2272
8f128379
PH
2273PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2274
8932dffe
PH
2275PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2276 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2277 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2278 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2279
ddea74fa 2280PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2281 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2282 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2283
ddea74fa 2284PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2285 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2286
ddea74fa
PH
2287PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2288
ce9f225c
PH
2289PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2290
19897d52
PH
2291PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2292
bc64a74d
PH
2293PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2294 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2295 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2296
eb4c0de6 2297
b4ed4da0
PH
2298Exim version 4.67
2299-----------------
2300
22ad45c9
MH
2301MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2302 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2303 Jan Srzednicki.
2304
b4ed4da0
PH
2305PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2306 issue a MAIL command.
2307
431b7361
PH
2308PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2309
2310 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2311
2312 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2313 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2314 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2315 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2316 item. This has been fixed.
2317
2318PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2319 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2320
83da1223
PH
2321PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2322 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2323
54fc8428
PH
2324PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2325 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2326 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2327
34c5e8dd
SC
2328SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2329
bbe15da8
PH
2330PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2331 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2332 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2333 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2334 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2335
0e8a9471
MH
2336MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2337 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2338 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2339
f0872424
PH
2340PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2341 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2342 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2343 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2344
b01dd148
PH
2345PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2346
6bf342e1
PH
2347PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2348
273f34d0
PH
2349PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2350 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2351 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2352 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2353 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2354
cf8b11a5
PH
2355PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2356
41c7c167
PH
2357PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2358 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2359 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2360 values).
2361
9c57cbc0
PH
2362PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2363
f3f065bb
PH
2364PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2365
047bdd8c
PH
2366PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2367
0ce9abe6
PH
2368PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2369
0e22dfd1
PH
2370PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2371
4c590bd1
PH
2372PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2373 no_callout_flush is set.
2374
09945f1e
PH
2375PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2376 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2377 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2378 fixed.
2379
c51b8e75
PH
2380PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2381
e28326d8 2382PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2383 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2384 other ACL rejections are.
2385
75b1493f
PH
2386PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2387 with slight modification.
2388
7c5214ec
PH
2389PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2390 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2391
4311097e
PH
2392PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2393 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2394 connection.
2395
29f89cad
PH
2396PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2397 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2398
5e687460
SC
2399SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2400
c3611384
PH
2401PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2402 expansion side effects.
2403
5a11a7b4
PH
2404PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2405 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2406 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2407 be the same.
2408
0e20aff9
MH
2409MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2410 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2411 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2412
ca86f471
PH
2413PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2414 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2415 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2416 were accidentally chopped off.
2417
a14e5636
PH
2418PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2419 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2420 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2421 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2422 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2423 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2424 pipelining has not been advertised.
2425
ec95d1a6
PH
2426PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2427
42855d71
PH
2428PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2429 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2430 This has been fixed.
2431
57c2c631
PH
2432PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2433 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2434 reported on Solaris.
2435
58c01c94
PH
2436PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2437 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2438 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2439 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2440 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2441 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2442 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2443
dee5a20a
PH
2444PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2445 cpus.
2446
d2ee6114
PH
2447PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2448
b2d5182b
PH
2449PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2450
79749a79
PH
2451PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2452 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2453 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2454 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2455 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2456 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2457
c456d9bb
PH
2458PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2459 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2460 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2461 host_all_ignored option.
2462
cd9868ec
PH
2463PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2464 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2465 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2466 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2467 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2468 is what is supposed to happen).
2469
ebeaf996
PH
2470PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2471 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2472 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2473 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2474 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2475 uses the Exim user.
2476
2679d413
PH
2477PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2478 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2479 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2480 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2481 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2482 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2483 users.
2484
84024b72
PH
2485PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2486
8005d38e
SC
2487SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2488 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2489 (Jez Hancock).
2490 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2491 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2492
3298c6c6
SC
2493SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2494
a43a27c5
PH
2495PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2496
58eb016e 2497PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2498 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2499 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2500 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2501 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2502 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2503 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2504 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2505 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2506 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2507 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2508
b43a74ea
PH
2509PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2510 advertised in response to EHLO.
2511
b4ed4da0 2512
5dd1517f
PH
2513Exim version 4.66
2514-----------------
2515
2516PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2517 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2518
2519 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2520 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2521
2522 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2523 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2524 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2525
2526 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2527 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2528 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2529 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2530 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2531
2532
93cfa765
TK
2533Exim version 4.65
2534-----------------
2535
2536TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2537 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2538 versions. (#438)
2539
d6066548
MH
2540MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2541 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2542 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2543
4362ff0d
PH
2544PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2545 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2546 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2547 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2548 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2549 rather than extend the field.
2550
93cfa765 2551
944e9e9c
TF
2552Exim version 4.64
2553-----------------
aa41d2de 2554
21d74bd9
TK
2555TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2556 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2557 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2558 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2559 these files.
2560
2561TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2562 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2563 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2564
2565TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2566 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2567 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2568
2569TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2570 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2571 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2572 in the field name.
2573
2b1c6e3a
PH
2574PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2575 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2576 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2577 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2578 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2579 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2580 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2581 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2582 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2583 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2584 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2585
1f872c80
PH
2586PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2587 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2588
2589PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2590 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2591 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2592 ignores EPIPE as well.
2593
d203e649
PH
2594PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2595 (quoted-printable decoding).
2596
cc2ed8f7 2597PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2598 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2599
ddfcd446
PH
2600PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2601
d45b1de8
PH
2602PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2603
2604PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2605
38a0a95f 2606PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2607 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2608
a2405d83
JJ
2609JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2610 in 4.64-PH/09.
2611
2612JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2613 miscellaneous code fixes
2614
6ea85e9a
PH
2615PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2616 rejections.
2617
26da7e20
PH
2618PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2619 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2620 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2621 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2622 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2623 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2624 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2625 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2626
14aa5a05 2627PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2628 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2629 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2630 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2631 function.
2632 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2633 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2634 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2635 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2636 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2637 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2638 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2639 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2640 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2641
ff75a1f7
PH
2642PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2643 decoding.
2644
e6f6568e
PH
2645PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2646 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2647 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2648 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2649 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2650 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2651 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2652 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2653
d6f6e0dc
PH
2654PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2655 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2656 list.
2657
322050c2
PH
2658PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2659 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2660 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2661 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2662 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2663 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2664 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2665 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2666 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2667 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2668 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2669 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2670 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2671
08955dd3
PH
2672PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2673 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2674 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2675 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2676 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2677 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2678 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2679
1eccaa59
PH
2680PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2681 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2682 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2683 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2684 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2685 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2686 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2687 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2688 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2689 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2690
602e59e5
PH
2691PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2692 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2693 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2694 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2695 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2696
411ef850
PH
2697PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2698 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2699 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2700 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2701 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2702 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2703 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2704
7befa435
PH
2705PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2706 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2707 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2708 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2709 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2710 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2711 been verified.
2712
48da4259 2713PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2714 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2715 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2716 and authorization.)
2717
48da4259
PH
2718PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2719 if any retry times were supplied.
2720
d1d5595c
PH
2721PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2722 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2723 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2724
0ef732d9
PH
2725PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2726
328895cc
PH
2727PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2728
fd700877
PH
2729PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2730 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2731 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2732 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2733 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2734 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2735
8dce1a6f
PH
2736PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2737 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2738
17af4a17
PH
2739PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2740 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2741 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2742
2743PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2744 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2745 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2746 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2747 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2748 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2749 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2750 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2751 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2752
2753 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2754 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2755 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2756 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2757 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2758 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2759 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2760 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2761 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2762
2763 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2764 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2765 hammering the server.
2766
c1114884
PH
2767PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2768 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2769
7a0743eb
PH
2770PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2771
0d85fa3f
PH
2772PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2773 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2774 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2775
1bf43b78
PH
2776PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2777 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2778 one case where this was not true.
2779
520de300
PH
2780PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2781 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2782 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2783 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2784 fails.
2785
48c7f9e2
PH
2786PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2787 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2788 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2789 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2790 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2791 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2792 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2793 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2794 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2795 smtp transport.
2796
99ea1c86
PH
2797PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2798 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2799 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2800 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2801
a2042e78
PH
2802PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2803 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2804
4fbcfc2e
PH
2805PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2806 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2807 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2808
aa41d2de
PH
2809PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2810
af561417
PH
2811PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2812
3cc66b45
PH
2813PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2814
194cc0e4
PH
2815PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2816 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2817 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2818 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2819
a401ddaa
PH
2820PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2821 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2822
4e88a19f
PH
2823PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2824 be meaningful with "accept".
2825
d7d7b289
SC
2826SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2827 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2828
2829SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2830 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2831 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2832
2833SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2834 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2835 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2836 there is data to show.
2837 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2838
2839SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2840 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2841 as well as the number of messages.
2842
2843SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2844 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2845 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2846
2847SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2848 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2849 have a flag are now skipped.
2850
2851SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2852 Added the -emptyok flag.
2853
2854SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2855 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2856
0ea2a468
JJ
2857JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2858 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2859 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2860
2861JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2862 match 4.64-PH/13
2863
2864JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2865 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2866
2867JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2868
2869JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2870 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2871
8a10f5a4
PH
2872PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2873
30e18802
PH
2874PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2875 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2876 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2877 contravention of the specifications.
2878
55728a4f
PH
2879PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2880 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2881 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2882
d7837193
PH
2883PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2884 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2885 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2886
87054a31
PH
2887PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2888
ea2c01d2
MH
2889MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2890 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2891 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2892 some point in the past.
2893
e4fa6968
PH
2894PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2895 transport during callout processing was broken.
2896
56f5d9bd
PH
2897PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2898 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2899
922e1c28
PH
2900PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2901 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2902
21eb6e72
PH
2903PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2904 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2905
a0540757
PH
2906PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2907
944e9e9c 2908
478be7b0
SC
2909Exim version 4.63
2910-----------------
2911
2912SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2913 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2914
2915SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2916 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2917 there is data to show.
2918 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2919
2920SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2921 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2922
2b965a65
TF
2923TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2924 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2925
45b91596
PH
2926TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2927 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2928
c59f5781
TF
2929TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2930 submissions from trusted users.
2931
90fc3069
TF
2932TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2933 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2934
6083aca0
TF
2935TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2936 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2937 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2938 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2939 there is now a framework to start from.
2940
765b530f
PH
2941PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2942 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2943 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2944
4e167a8c
PH
2945PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2946
4608d683
PH
2947PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2948
b8dc3e4a
PH
2949PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2950
5418e93b
PH
2951PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2952 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2953 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2954
b4a9bda2
PH
2955PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2956 libradius.
2957
45b91596
PH
2958PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2959 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2960 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2961
5547e2c5
PH
2962PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2963 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2964 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2965 its arguments.
2966
dbcef0ea
PH
2967PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2968 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2969 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2970 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2971 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2972
25257489
PH
2973PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2974 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2975
c816d124
PH
2976PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2977
a9ccd69a
PH
2978PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2979 operations in malware.c.
2980
75fa1910
PH
2981PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2982 signatures.
2983
a7d7aa58
PH
2984PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2985 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2986 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2987 all.
2988
42119b09
PH
2989PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2990 statements to "add_header".
2991
41609df5
PH
2992PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2993 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2994
a5bd321b
PH
2995PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2996 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2997 latter.
2998
e85a7ad5 2999PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3000 so that it is now:
3001
e85a7ad5
PH
3002 ${if or { \
3003 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3004 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3005 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3006 }{no}{yes}}
3007
e85a7ad5
PH
3008 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3009 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3010
d8fe1c03
PH
3011PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3012 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3013
16282d2b
PH
3014PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3015 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3016 any possible encoding problems.
3017
35d40a98
PH
3018PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3019 but not after initializing Perl.
3020
034d99ab
PH
3021PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3022 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3023 apparently, which is not desirable.
3024
6ec97b1b
PH
3025PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3026 queries.
3027
e22ca4ac
JJ
3028JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3029 --not options
3030
3031JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3032
33d73e3b
PH
3033PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3034 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3035 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3036 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3037
9ecb03f3
PH
3038PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3039 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3040 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3041
084efe8d
PH
3042PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3043 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3044 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3045 0.12.
3046
366fc9f0
PH
3047PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3048 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3049 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3050 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3051 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3052
c59f5781 3053
c887c79e
TF
3054Exim version 4.62
3055-----------------
3056
3057TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3058 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3059
1cce3af8
PH
3060PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3061 patch).
3062
afb3eaaf
PH
3063PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3064 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3065 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3066 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3067 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3068 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3069 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3070 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3071 451 error is used.
3072
e173618b
PH
3073PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3074
dd16e114
PH
3075PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3076 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3077 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3078
f7fd3850
PH
3079PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3080 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3081 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3082 odd errors.
3083
d87df92c
PH
3084PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3085 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3086
7e9f683d
PH
3087PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3088 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3089 option (which defaults to 0600).
3090
bfad5236
PH
3091PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3092
01c490df
PH
3093PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3094 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3095 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3096 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3097 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3098 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3099 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3100
d6629cdc
PH
3101PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3102
1cce3af8 3103
214e2000
PH
3104Exim version 4.61
3105-----------------
3106
3107PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3108 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3109 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3110 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3111 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3112 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3113 addresses as local.
3114
f9daeae0
PH
3115PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3116 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3117
7e66e54d
PH
3118PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3119
c8ea1597
PH
3120PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3121 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3122 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3123 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3124 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3125 grumble.
3126
911f6fde
PH
3127PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3128 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3129
47ca6d6c
PH
3130PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3131 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3132 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3133 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3134 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3135
ed0e9820
PH
3136PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3137 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3138 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3139 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3140
eff37e47
PH
3141PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3142 be the same on different OS.
3143
1921d2ea
PH
3144PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3145 testing.
3146
b3f69ca8
JJ
3147JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3148 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3149
3150JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3151 in 4.61-PH/06
3152
424a1c63
PH
3153PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3154 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3155 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3156 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3157 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3158 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3159 bounce message.
3160
7a100415
PH
3161PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3162 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3163 when Exim was called.
3164
19b9dc85
PH
3165PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3166 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3167
309bd837
PH
3168PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3169 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3170 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3171 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3172
59e82a2a
PH
3173PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3174 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3175 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3176 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3177 changes:
3178
3179 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3180 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3181 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3182
3183 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3184 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3185 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3186
9edc04ce
PH
3187PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3188 feature).
3189
1349e1e5
PH
3190PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3191 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3192 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3193 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3194 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3195 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3196 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3197 values from the SRV records were lost.
3198
ea49d0e1
PH
3199PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3200 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3201 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3202
064a94c9
PH
3203PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3204 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3205 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3206
727071f8
PH
3207PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3208 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3209 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3210 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3211 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3212 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3213 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3214 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3215 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3216 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3217
f78eb7c6
PH
3218PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3219 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3220 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3221
21c28500
PH
3222PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3223 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3224
3225PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3226 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3227 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3228 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3229 is given.
3230
1688f43b
PH
3231PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3232 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3233 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3234
3235PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3236 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3237 PH/23 above applies.
3238
9675b384
PH
3239PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3240 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3241 (for which there is an explicit test).
3242
6a3f1455
PH
3243PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3244
dac79d3e
PH
3245PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3246 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3247 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3248 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3249 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3250
5977a0b3
PH
3251PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3252 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3253 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3254 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3255
c91535f3
PH
3256PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3257 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3258 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3259
0d46a8c8
PH
3260PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3261
278c6e6c
PH
3262PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3263
2cbb4081
PH
3264PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3265 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3266 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3267
3eef829e
PH
3268PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3269 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3270 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3271 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3272 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3273
1ab95fa6
PH
3274PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3275 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3276 the message gets confusing).
3277
230205fc
PH
3278PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3279 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3280 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3281 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3282
75e0e026
PH
3283PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3284 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3285 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3286 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3287 same order.
3288
3289PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3290 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3291 the different processes.
3292
145396a6
PH
3293PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3294
3cd34f13
PH
3295PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3296
11121d3d
JJ
3297JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3298 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3299
3300JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3301 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3302
3303JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3304 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3305 messages matching specified criteria.
3306
8def5aaf
PH
3307PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3308
929ba01c
PH
3309PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3310 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3311
2632889e
PH
3312PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3313 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3314 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3315 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3316 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3317 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3318 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3319 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3320 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3321 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3322
944a9c55
PH
3323PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3324 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3325 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3326
4a23603b
PH
3327PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3328
4730f942
PH
3329PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3330 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3331 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3332 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3333 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3334 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3335 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3336 the variable.
3337
30dba1e6
PH
3338PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3339 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3340
382afc6b
PH
3341PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3342
a86229cf
PH
3343PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3344
50c99ba6
PH
3345PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3346
d35e429d
PH
3347PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3348 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3349 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3350 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3351 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3352 size of the count of files.
3353
f90d018c
PH
3354PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3355
75def545
PH
3356PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3357 used in LMTP mode:
3358
3359 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3360 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3361 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3362 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3363
3364 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3365 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3366 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3367
3368PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3369 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3370 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3371 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3372 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3373
c46782ef
PH
3374PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3375 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3376
71fafd95
PH
3377PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3378 will now be deprecated.
3379
2c5db4fd
PH
3380PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3381
9cf6b11a
JJ
3382JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3383 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3384 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3385
3386JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3387 with very large, slow to parse queues
3388
3389JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3390
3391JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3392
898d150f
PH
3393PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3394 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3395 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3396 SMTP output lines.
3397
46218253
PH
3398PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3399 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3400 Sieve code now uses this.
3401
e97957bc
PH
3402PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3403 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3404
81e509d7
PH
3405PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3406 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3407
3d240ff7
PH
3408PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3409
b37c4101
PH
3410PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3411 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3412 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3413 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3414 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3415
79378e0f
PH
3416PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3417 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3418 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3419 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3420
e49c7bb4
PH
3421PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3422
d114ec46
PH
3423PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3424
f3d7df6c
PH
3425PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3426 is preferred over IPv4.
3427
715ab376
PH
3428PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3429 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3430 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3431 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3432 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3433 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3434 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3435
6b31b150
PH
3436PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3437 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3438 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3439
3440PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3441
d515a917
PH
3442PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3443 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3444 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3445 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3446 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3447 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3448 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3449 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3450 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3451 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3452 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3453
9b8fadde
PH
3454PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3455 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3456 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3457
214e2000 3458
5de37277
PH
3459Exim version 4.60
3460-----------------
3461
cc38ddbf
PH
3462PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3463
3464 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3465 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3466
3467 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3468 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3469 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3470
72fdd6ae
PH
3471PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3472
3473 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3474 not a single digit.
3475
3476 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3477 string.
3478
3479 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3480 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3481 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3482 silly things.
3483
3484 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3485 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3486
3487 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3488 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3489
cb741023
PH
3490PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3491 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3492 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3493
f174f16e
PH
3494PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3495 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3496
c25242d7
PH
3497PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3498 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3499
3500 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3501
3502 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3503 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3504 this:
3505
3506 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3507
82c19f95
PH
3508PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3509 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3510 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3511 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3512 identical. For example:
3513
3514 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3515
3516 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3517 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3518 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3519
d7ffbc12
PH
3520PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3521 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3522 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3523 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3524
9f526266
PH
3525PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3526 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3527 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3528 message.
3529
87fcc8b9
PH
3530PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3531
3532 o fixes some comments
3533 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3534 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3535 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3536 and documents the missing references header update
3537
3538 and most important:
3539
3540 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3541 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3542 result)
3543
456682f5
PH
3544PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3545 Electronic Mail") by including:
3546
3547 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3548
3549 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3550 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3551 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3552 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3553 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3554
3555 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3556
3557 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3558
3559 The auto-replied keyword:
3560
3561 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3562 message by an automatic process,
3563
3564 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3565
3566 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3567 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3568
3569 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3570 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3571 other messages.
3572
3e46c1aa
PH
3573PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3574 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3575
49826d12
PH
3576PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3577
eba0c039
PH
3578PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3579 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3580 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3581
a0d6ba8a
PH
3582PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3583 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3584 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3585
f0917727
PH
3586PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3587 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3588 and treats the condition as false.
3589
096fee00
PH
3590PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3591
024bd3c2
PH
3592PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3593 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3594 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3595 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3596 not changing the active code.
3597
3598 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3599 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3600
3601 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3602 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3603
df199fec
PH
3604PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3605 (Bugzilla #53).
3606
d27f1df3
PH
3607PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3608 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3609 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3610 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3611 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3612 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3613 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3614 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3615 the text comparison.
3616
96776534
PH
3617PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3618 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3619 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3620 The same fix has been applied.
3621
5de37277 3622
9a799bc0
PH
3623Exim version 4.54
3624-----------------
3625
3626PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3627 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3628 It now does.
3629
99a4b039
PH
3630PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3631 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3632
3633PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3634
4b233853
PH
3635PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3636 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3637 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3638 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3639 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3640
8857ccfd
PH
3641TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3642 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3643 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3644 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3645 or /domain=).
3646
433a2980
PH
3647PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3648 testing suite.
3649
3e46c1aa 3650
9a799bc0 3651
e3a311ba
TK
3652Exim version 4.53
3653-----------------
3654
3655TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3656 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3657
13b685f9
PH
3658PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3659
395ff96d
PH
3660PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3661
5b68f6e4
PH
3662PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3663 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3664 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3665
1ab52c69
PH
3666PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3667 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3668 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3669
b07e6aa3
PH
3670PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3671 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3672 operating systems.
3673
254e032f
PH
3674PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3675 ${stat: expansion item.
3676
3af76a81
PH
3677PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3678 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3679
2548ba04
PH
3680PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3681 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3682 file for comments.
3683
b6c6011d
PH
3684PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3685
cf39cf57
PH
3686PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3687 setting.
3688
f1513293
PH
3689PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3690 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3691
727549a4
PH
3692TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3693
af46795e
PH
3694PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3695 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3696 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3697 the end of the subprocess.
3698
d7b47fd0
PH
3699PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3700 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3701 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3702 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3703 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3704
ee744174
JJ
3705JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3706
b582ab87
PH
3707TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3708
41a13e0a
PH
3709PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3710 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3711
f625cc5a
PH
3712PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3713
3714PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3715
21f7af35
PH
3716PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3717 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3718 HP-UX compiler.
3719
31480e42
PH
3720PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3721
2d280592
PH
3722PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3723 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3724 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3725
7cd1141b
PH
3726PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3727 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3728
3729PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3730 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3731
750af86e
PH
3732PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3733 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3734
3735 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3736 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3737
3738 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3739 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3740 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3741 contributed by a Radius user.
3742
3743PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3744 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3745
4304270b
TK
3746TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3747 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3748
750af86e
PH
3749PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3750 available.
3751
64ffc24f
PH
3752PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3753 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3754 received.
3755
5dd9625b
PH
3756PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3757 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3758 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3759 header lines when this was not necessary.
3760
5591031b
PH
3761PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3762
ba18e66a
PH
3763PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3764 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3765 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3766 exists".
3767
9cec981f
PH
3768PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3769 -bV or -d is used.
3770
aa2b5c79
PH
3771PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3772 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3773 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3774 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3775
48a53b7f
PH
3776PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3777
1c59d63b
PH
3778PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3779
671012da
TK
3780TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3781
1509d3a8
PH
3782PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3783
3784PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3785 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3786 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3787 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3788 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3789 settings.
3790
3791PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3792
2fe1a124
PH
3793PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3794 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3795 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3796 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3797 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3798 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3799 which is clearly wrong.
3800
8800895a
PH
3801PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3802
ccfdb010
PH
3803PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3804 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3805 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3806 subsequently added.
3807
1130bfb0
PH
3808PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3809 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3810
ebcb507f
PH
3811PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3812
c35e155c
PH
3813PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3814 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3815
95d1f782
PH
3816PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3817 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3818
fd6de02e
PH
3819PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3820 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3821
58de37c5
PH
3822PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3823 recipients, not senders.
3824
261cf466
TF
3825TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3826 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3827
3ee512ff
PH
3828PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3829
e08c430f
PH
3830PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3831
bef5a11f
PH
3832PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3833 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3834 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3835 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3836
7546de58
TF
3837TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3838
e5d5a95f
TF
3839TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3840 clock is set back in time.
3841
2e88a017
TF
3842TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3843 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3844
a5f65aa4
TF
3845TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3846 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3847
e7726cbf
PH
3848PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3849 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3850 (see PH/47 above).
3851
a7fdad5b
TF
3852TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3853 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3854 header rewrites.
3855
6af56900
PH
3856PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3857 type ("H").
3858
0925ede6
PH
3859PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3860
66afa403
TF
3861TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3862 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3863 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3864
0154e85a
TF
3865TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3866 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3867 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3868 helo verification defer as a failure.
3869
16f12c76
PH
3870PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3871 actual error message.
3872
bbe902f0 3873
e5a9dba6
PH
3874Exim version 4.52
3875-----------------
3876
3877TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3878
22c3b60b
PH
3879PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3880 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3881 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3882 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3883
06a9b4b5
PH
3884TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3885
c1ac6996
PH
3886PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3887 can still be requested.
3888
9c7a242c
PH
3889PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3890 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3891 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3892 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3893
87ba3f5f
PH
3894TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3895 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3896 circumstances, but probably never did.
3897
3898PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3899 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3900 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3901 in the header line.
3902
29aba418
TF
3903TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3904
fe0dab11
TF
3905TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3906 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3907
11d337a4
TK
3908TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3909
3910TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3911
415c8f3b
PH
3912PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3913 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3914 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3915 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3916 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3917 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3918
958541e9
PH
3919PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3920 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3921 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3922 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3923 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3924 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3925
c206415f
TK
3926TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3927 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3928
2a4be8f9
PH
3929PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3930 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3931
1cba11c5
SC
3932SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3933 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3934
4c04137d 3935SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3936
3937SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3938
3939SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3940
3941SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3942
3943SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3944
3945SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3946
1005d00e
TK
3947TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3948
3949TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3950 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3951 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3952
3953TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3954 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3955 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3956 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3957
9b4768fa
PH
3958PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3959 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3960 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3961
3962PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3963 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3964 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3965 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3966
0d7eb84a
PH
3967PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3968 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3969 to be made).
3970
3971PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3972 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3973 should work with maildirs and everything.
3974
40727bee
TK
3975TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3976 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3977
554d2369
TF
3978TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3979 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3980
1f922db1
PH
3981PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3982 function for BDB 4.3.
3983
ef213c3b
PH
3984PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3985
8ac170f3
PH
3986PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3987 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3988 involved.
3989
b1c749bb
PH
3990PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3991 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3992 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3993 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3994 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3995 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3996
4aac9b49
PH
3997PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3998 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3999 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4000 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4001 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4002 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4003 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4004 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4005
294520c8
TK
4006TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4007 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4008 details.
4009
5bd022fe
PH
4010PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4011 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4012
90e9ce59
PH
4013PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4014 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4015 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4016 test. It is now used for both.
4017
5ea81592
PH
4018PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4019 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4020 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4021 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4022 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4023 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4024
c6c2dc1d
PH
4025PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4026 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4027 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4028 string_vformat().
4029
fffffe4c
PH
4030PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4031 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4032 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4033
9a26b6b2
PH
4034PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4035 experimental DomainKeys support:
4036
4037 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4038 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4039 the control was given.
4040
4041 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4042
4aee0225
PH
4043PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4044
32d668a5
PH
4045PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4046
8187c3f3
PH
4047PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4048 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4049 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4050 db.h files).
4051
ff790e47 4052PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4053 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4054 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4055 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4056 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4057 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4058 course.
ff790e47 4059
5417f6d1
PH
4060PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4061 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4062 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4063 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4064 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4065 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4066
59cf8544
PH
4067PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4068 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4069 do -d+all out of habit.
4070
e7ad8a65
PH
4071PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4072 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4073 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4074
ade42478
PH
4075PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4076 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4077 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4078 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4079 record types that Exim uses.
4080
182ad5cf
PH
4081PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4082 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4083 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4084 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4085 non-existent file that was broken.
4086
b0d9fc80
TK
4087TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4088 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4089
4090TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4091 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4092 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4093
4094TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4095
47c7a64a
PH
4096PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4097 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4098 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4099 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4100 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4101 same time.
4102
a388bce4
SC
4103SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4104 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4105 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4106 at a slight CPU cost.
4107
4108SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4109 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4110
4111SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4112 by Marc Sherman.
4113
0793e4ed
SC
4114SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4115
c58b88df
PH
4116PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4117 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4118
e7ad8a65 4119
7982096b
PH
4120Exim version 4.51
4121-----------------
4122
1a46a8c5
PH
4123TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4124 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4125
2f079f46 4126TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4127
4128TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4129
4130PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4131 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4132
4133PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4134 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4135 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4136 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4137 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4138 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4139 file.
4140
4141PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4142 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4143 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4144 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4145 these two options.
4146
4147PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4148 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4149 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4150 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4151 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4152 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4153 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4154 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4155
4156PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4157 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4158
4159PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4160 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4161 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4162 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4163 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4164 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4165
4166PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4167 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4168 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4169 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4170
4171PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4172 Finch).
4173
4174PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4175 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4176
49c2d5ea
PH
4177PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4178 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4179 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4180 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4181 message.
49c2d5ea 4182
bf759a8b
PH
4183PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4184
83364d30
PH
4185PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4186 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4187
7999bbd7
PH
4188PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4189 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4190 to what was transported.)
4191
7dbf77c9
PH
4192TF/01 Added $received_time.
4193
74e0617f
PH
4194PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4195 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4196 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4197 spamd_address settings.
4198
2f079f46
PH
4199PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4200 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4201 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4202 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4203 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4204
8c841523
PH
4205PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4206
7766a4f0
PH
4207PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4208 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4209 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4210 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4211 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4212
8b417f2c
PH
4213PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4214 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4215
901f42cb
PH
4216PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4217 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4218 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4219 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4220 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4221 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4222 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4223 for failure.
4224
f9b9210e
PH
4225PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4226 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4227 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4228 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4229 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4230 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4231 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4232 "input=".
4233
54cdb463
PH
4234PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4235
cf00dad6
PH
4236PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4237 driver and ACL definitions.
4238
acb1b346
PH
4239PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4240 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4241
c5ddb310
PH
4242PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4243 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4244 understands it better than I do:
4245
4246 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4247 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4248
4249 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4250 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4251 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4252 => three warnings about OTP not working
4253 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4254
4255 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4256 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4257 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4258 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4259 for each call.)
4260 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4261 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4262
4263 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4264 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4265 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4266
31619da6
PH
4267PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4268 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4269 specified.
4270
bebaf0fc
PH
4271PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4272 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4273 "Linux".
4274
475fe28a
PH
4275PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4276 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4277 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4278
4279 warn !verify = sender
4280 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4281
4282 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4283 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4284
7e8bec7a
PH
4285PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4286
4287 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4288 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4289
4290 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4291 nomenclature these days.)
4292
e4a89c47
PH
4293PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4294 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4295
5ca2a9a1
PH
4296PH/30 In these circumstances:
4297 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4298 . First host does not offer TLS;
4299 . First host accepts first address;
4300 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4301 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4302 . Second host accepts second address.
4303 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4304 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4305 address.
7e8bec7a 4306
c688b954
PH
4307PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4308 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4309 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4310 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4311 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4312
fed77020
PH
4313PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4314 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4315
7fe1560f
PH
4316PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4317 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4318
ebb6e6d5
PH
4319PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4320 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4321 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4322
9c4e8f60
PH
4323PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4324 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4325 overlooked.
4326
4327PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4328
d7174846
PH
4329PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4330 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4331 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4332 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4333 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4334 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4335 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4336
4337 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4338 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4339 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4340 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4341 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4342
4343 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4344 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4345 routed further.
4346
cfe75fc3
PH
4347PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4348 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4349 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4350 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4351 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4352 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4353
be22d70e
PH
4354PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4355
0612b098
PH
4356PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4357 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4358 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4359 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4360 printable escape sequences.
4361
2e0c1448
PH
4362PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4363 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4364 body only.
4365
447d236c
PH
4366PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4367 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4368 are as follows:
4369
4370 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4371 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4372 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4373 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4374 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4375
4376 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4377 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4378 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4379
d20976dc
PH
4380PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4381
f656d135
PH
4382PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4383 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4384 play with."
4385
2e2a30b4
PH
4386PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4387 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4388 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4389 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4390 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4391 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4392 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4393 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4394 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4395 the log output.
4396
9176e9f0
PH
4397PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4398 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4399 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4400 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4401 "make".
4402
7982096b 4403
bbe902f0
PH
4404A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4405----------------------------------------
4406
4407Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4408changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4409needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4410in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4411that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4412release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4413from 4.43.
4414
4415I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44164.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4417those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4418historical information.
4419
4420
f7b63901 4421Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4422-----------------
4423
5fe762f6
PH
4424 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4425
139059f6 4426 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4427 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4428
7086e875
PH
4429 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4430 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4431 place.
4432
35af9f61
PH
4433 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4434 filter fails to execute.
4435
b668c215
PH
4436 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4437 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4438 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4439 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4440 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4441
a494b1e1
PH
4442 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4443
4444 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4445 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4446 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4447 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4448
c5fcb476
PH
4449 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4450 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4451 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4452 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4453 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4454
69358f02
PH
4455 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4456
5be20824
PH
445710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4458
eb2c0248
PH
445911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4460 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4461 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4462 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4463
2a3eea10
PH
446412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4465 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4466 sender verification.
4467
446813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4469 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4470
23c7ff99
PH
447114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4472
4deaf07d
PH
447315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4474 connection timeout.
4475
926e1192
PH
447616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4477 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4478
650edc6f
PH
447917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4480 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4481
2c7db3f5
PH
448218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4483 information about exactly what failed.
4484
3d235903
PH
448519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4486
7c7ad977
PH
448720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4488 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4489 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4490
981756db
PH
449121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4492 It is now set to "smtps".
4493
d4eb88df
PH
449422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4495 ignore_target_hosts.
4496
449723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4498 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4499 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4500 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4501 "[x.x.x.x]".
4502
7d468ab8
PH
450324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4504 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4505 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4506
450725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4508 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4509 wake it up if nothing else does.
4510
62c0818f
PH
451126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4512 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4513 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4514 end up negative.
4515
26034054
PH
451627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4517 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4518
af66f652
PH
451928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4520
90af77f4
PH
452129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4522 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4523 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4524 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4525 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4526 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4527 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4528 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4529
d8ef3577
PH
453030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4531 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4532 than one IP address.
4533
5cb8cbc6
PH
453431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4535 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4536 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4537 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4538
14702f5b
PH
453932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4540 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4541 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4542 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4543 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4544 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4545
063b1e99
PH
454633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4547 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4548 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4549 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4550
652e1b65
PH
455134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4552 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4553 respected.
4554
6f0c9a4f
PH
455535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4556 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4557 $sender_host_address.
4558
33397d19
PH
455936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4560 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4561 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4562 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4563 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4564 very small.
4565
7bb56e1f
PH
456637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4567
4568 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4569 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4570
ea3bc19b
PH
4571 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4572 just the host names, not the priorities.
4573
4574 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4575 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4576 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4577
ea3bc19b 4578 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4579 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4580
0bcb2a0e
PH
458138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4582 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4583 domain.
4584
2ac0e484
PH
458539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4586
4e1fde53
PH
458740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4588 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4589
de365ded
PH
459041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4591 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4592 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4593
f05da2e8
PH
459442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4595
d6453af2
PH
459643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4597
f7b63901
PH
459844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4599
460045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4601 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4602 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4603 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4604 because the tests only now provoked it.
4605
a444213a
PH
460646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4607 (this can affect the format of dates).
4608
0ec020ea
PH
460947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4610 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4611 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4612 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4613
b1206957
PH
461448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4615
461649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4617 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4618 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4619 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4620
26dd5a95
PH
462150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4622 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4623 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4624
343b2385
PH
462551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4626 autoreply.
4627
1c5466b9
PH
462852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4629 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4630 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4631 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4632 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4633 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4634 is going on).
4635
55ee9ee3
PH
463653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4637 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4638 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4639 the line.
4640
d38f8232
PH
464154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4642 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4643 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4644
4645 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4646 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4647 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4648 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4649 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4650 so I produce this patch..."
4651
3295e65b
PH
4652 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4653 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4654 is not defined.
4655
7102e136
PH
465655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4657 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4658 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4659 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4660 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4661
3ca0ba97
PH
466256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4663
c2bcbe20
PH
466457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4665 long debug lines gets shown.
4666
18ce445d
PH
466758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4668 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4669
1f5b4c3d
PH
467059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4671
4672 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4673 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4674 of $primary_hostname.
4675
b975ba52
PH
467660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4677 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4678 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4679 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4680 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4681 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4682 by change 4.50/55 above.
4683
4684 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4685 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4686 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4687 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4688 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4689 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4690 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4691
469261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4693 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4694 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4695 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4696
17ffcae7
PH
469762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4698 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4699
d95f9fdb
PH
470063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4701 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4702 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4703 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4704 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4705
86b8287f
PH
470664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4707 This has been fixed.
4708
60dc5e56
PH
470965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4710 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4711 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4712 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4713 the caching.)
4714
533244af
PH
471566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4716
a5a28604
PH
471767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4718 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4719 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4720 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4721
7e634d24
PH
472268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4723 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4724
3e11c26b
PH
472569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4726 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4727 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4728
6729cf78
PH
472970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4730 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4731 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4732 message there.
4733
00f00ca5
PH
473471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4735 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4736 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4737
c9bdd01c
PH
473872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4739 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4740 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4741 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4742
d43194df
PH
474373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4744 during host lookups.
4745
fe5b5d0b
PH
474674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4747 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4748
4749 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4750
76a2d7ba
PH
475175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4752 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4753 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4754 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4755 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4756 background.
4757
475876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4759 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4760
04f7d5b9
PH
476177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4762 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4763 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4764
bc60667e
PH
476578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4766
bb6e88ff
PH
476779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4768 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4769 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4770 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4771 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4772 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4773 process earlier.
4774
1e70f85b
PH
477580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4776 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4777 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4778 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4779 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4780
478181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4782 tables).
4783
4e01f9d6
PH
478482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4785
1ee1cef2
PH
478683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4787 "vacation" handling.
4788
6e2b4ccc
PH
478984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4790 OS variants using glibc.
4791
8e669ac1
PH
479285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4793
495ae4b0 4794
bbe902f0
PH
4795----------------------------------------------------
4796See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4797----------------------------------------------------
4798
4799
4800Exim version 4.44
4801-----------------
4802
4803 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4804 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4805 transport
4806
4807 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4808 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4809 place.
4810
4811 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4812 filter fails to execute.
4813
4814 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4815 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4816 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4817 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4818 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4819
4820 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4821 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4822 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4823 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4824
4825 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4826 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4827 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4828 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4829 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4830
4831 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4832
4833 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4834 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4835 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4836 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4837
4838 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4839 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4840 sender verification.
4841
484210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4843 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4844
484511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4846 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4847
484812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4849 ignore_target_hosts.
4850
485113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4852 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4853 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4854 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4855 "[x.x.x.x]".
4856
485714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4858 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4859 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4860
486115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4862 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4863 wake it up if nothing else does.
4864
486516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4866 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4867 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4868 end up negative.
4869
487017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4871 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4872
ea3a6f44 487318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4874
487519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4876 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4877 empty pattern.
4878
487920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4880 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4881 one IP address.
4882
ea3a6f44
NM
488321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4884 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4885 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4886 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4887 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4888 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4889
ea3a6f44
NM
489022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4891 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4892 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4893
489423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4895 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4896 $sender_host_address.
4897
489824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4899
ea3a6f44
NM
490025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4901 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4902 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4903
490426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4905 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4906
ea3a6f44
NM
490727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4908 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4909
ea3a6f44
NM
491028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4911 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4912 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4913 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4914
491529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4916 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4917 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4918
ea3a6f44
NM
491930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4920 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4921 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4922 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4923
ea3a6f44
NM
492431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4925 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4926 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4927
ea3a6f44
NM
492831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4929 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4930
ea3a6f44
NM
493132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4932 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4933 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4934 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4935 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4936 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4937 is going on).
bbe902f0 4938
ea3a6f44
NM
493933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4940 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4941 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4942 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4943 CAN-2005-0021
4944
ea3a6f44
NM
494534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4946 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4947 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4948 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4949 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4950 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4951 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4952
4953 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4954 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4955 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4956 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4957 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4958 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4959 CAN-2005-0021
4960
ea3a6f44
NM
496135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4962 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4963 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4964 CAN-2005-0022
4965
ea3a6f44
NM
496636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4967 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4968 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4969 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4970 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4971
ea3a6f44
NM
497237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4973 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4974 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4975 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4976 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4977
ea3a6f44
NM
497838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4979 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4980 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4981 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4982 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4983
4984
495ae4b0
PH
4985Exim version 4.43
4986-----------------
4987
4988 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4989 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4990 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4991 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4992 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4993 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4994 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4995
4996 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4997 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4998 the delivery.
4999
5000 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5001
5002 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5003
5004 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5005 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5006 to local_scan().
5007
5008 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5009 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5010 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5011 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5012 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5013
5014 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5015 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5016
5017 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5018
5019 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5020
502110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5022 header_sender only.
5023
502411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5025 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5026
502712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5028 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5029 affecting debugging statements).
5030
503113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5032
503314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5034 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5035 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5036 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5037 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5038 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5039 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5040 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5041 after the received time, and all would be well.
5042
504315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5044 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5045 condition in an expansion string.
5046
504716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5048
504917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5050 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5051 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5052 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5053 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5054 job under whatever limits there are.
5055
505618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5057
505819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5059 space).
5060
506120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5062 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5063 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5064 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5065 return path is set.
5066
506721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5068 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5069 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5070 binary data in such strings.
5071
507222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5073
507423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5075 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5076 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5077 failure, which is pointless.
5078
507924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5080
508125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5082
508326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5084 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5085 Sender: header lines.
5086
508727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5088 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5089 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5090
509128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5092 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5093 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5094 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5095 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5096 happens.
5097
509829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5099 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5100 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5101 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5102 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5103
510430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5105 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5106 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5107 1024.
5108
510931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5110 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5111
511232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5113 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5114
511533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5116
511732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5118
511933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5120
512134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5122 syntax error.
5123
512435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5125
512636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5127
512837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5129 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5130 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5131 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5132
513338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5134 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5135
5136
5137Exim version 4.42
5138-----------------
5139
5140 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5141 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5142 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5143 it was not quoted.
5144 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5145 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5146 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5147 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5148 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5149 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5150
5151 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5152 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5153 verification failure".
5154
5155 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5156 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5157 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5158 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5159
5160 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5161 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5162 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5163 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5164 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5165 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5166 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5167 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5168 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5169 treated as a timeout.
5170
5171 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5172 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5173 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5174 not set for Exim filters).
5175
5176 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5177 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5178 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5179
5180 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5181
5182 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5183 try to make them clearer.
5184
5185 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5186 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5187
5188 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5189
5190 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5191
519210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5193 only the Cygwin environment.
5194
519511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5196 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5197 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5198 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5199 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5200
520112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5202 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5203 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5204 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5205 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5206 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5207 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5208
520913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5210 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5211
521214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5213
5214 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5215 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5216 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5217
5218 To: susanne@some.where
5219
5220 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5221 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5222 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5223 of addresses in From: header lines).
5224
5225 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5226 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5227 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5228
5229 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5230 treated as non-personal.
5231
5232 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5233 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5234
523515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5236
523716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5238
523917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5240 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5241 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5242
524318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5244 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5245
524619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5247 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5248 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5249 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5250 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5251 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5252
525320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5254 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5255 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5256 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5257 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5258 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5259 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5260 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5261
5262 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5263
526421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5265 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5266
526722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5268 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5269 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5270
527123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5272 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5273
527424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5275 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5276 rather than long int.
5277
527825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5279
528026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5281
5282
5283Exim version 4.41
5284-----------------
5285
5286 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5287 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5288 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5289 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5290 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5291 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5292
5293
5294Exim version 4.40
5295-----------------
5296
5297 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5298 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5299
5300 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5301 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5302 socklen_t is defined.
5303
5304 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5305 always exist.
5306
5307 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5308 configured.
5309
5310 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5311 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5312 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5313 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5314 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5315
5316 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5317 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5318 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5319 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5320
5321 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5322 of flapping under certain conditions.
5323
5324 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5325 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5326 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5327
5328 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5329
533010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5331
533211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5333 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5334 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5335 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5336
533712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5338 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5339 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5340 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5341 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5342 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5343 preserved with the message after it was received.
5344
534513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5346 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5347 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5348 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5349 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5350 test suite worked just fine.
5351
535214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5353 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5354 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5355
535615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5357 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5358 string.
5359
536016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5361 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5362 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5363 does not fully solve it.
5364
536517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5366 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5367 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5368 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5369 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5370
537118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5372 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5373 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5374
537519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5376 string, for example:
5377
5378 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5379
5380 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5381 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5382 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5383 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5384 the routers could not see them.
5385
538620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5387 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5388
538921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5390 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5391 output).
5392
539322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5394 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5395 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5396 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5397 that needed quoting.
5398
539923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5400 was not being matched caselessly.
5401
540224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5403 backslashes.
5404
540525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5406 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5407 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5408 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5409 when use_sender is false.
5410
541126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5412
541327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5414
541528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5416
541729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5418 the configuration file.
5419
542030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5421 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5422
542331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5424
542532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5426 bytes in the message body.
5427
542833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5429 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5430 delivery.
5431
543234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5433
543435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5435
543636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5437 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5438 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5439 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5440 another IP address.
5441
5442
5443Exim version 4.34
5444-----------------
5445
5446 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5447 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5448
5449 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5450 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5451 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5452 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5453 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5454
5455 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5456 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5457
5458 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5459 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5460 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5461
5462 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5463 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5464 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5465
5466 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5467 for routers.
5468
5469 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5470 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5471 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5472 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5473 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5474 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5475 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5476
5477
5478Exim version 4.33
5479-----------------
5480
5481 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5482 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5483 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5484 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5485 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5486 default (and expected) setting.
5487
5488 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5489 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5490 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5491 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5492
5493 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5494 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5495
5496 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5497 in domain lists.
5498
5499 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5500 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5501 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5502 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5503 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5504 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5505
5506 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5507 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5508 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5509
5510 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5511 part (NOT match_host).
5512
5513 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5514
5515 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5516 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5517 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5518 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5519 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5520 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5521 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5522 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5523 the same named file.
5524
552510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5526 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5527 when Exim is built.
5528
552911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5530 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5531 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5532 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5533 a host name.
5534
553512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5536 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5537 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5538
553913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5540
554114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5542
554315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5544
554516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5546 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5547
554817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5549 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5550 before starting the TLS session.
5551
555218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5553
555419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5555 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5556
555720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5558 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5559 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5560 colon in the middle).
5561
5562
5563Exim version 4.32
5564-----------------
5565
5566 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5567 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5568 multiple configurations are in use.
5569
5570 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5571 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5572 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5573 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5574 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5575 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5576
5577 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5578 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5579
5580 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5581 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5582 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5583
5584 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5585 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5586 occurs.
5587
5588 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5589 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5590
5591 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5592
5593 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5594 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5595
5596 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5597
5598 -prval:sval
5599
5600 is equivalent to
5601
5602 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5603
5604 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5605 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5606 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5607 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5608 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5609
561010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5611 Exim's behaviour:
5612
5613 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5614 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5615 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5616 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5617 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5618 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5619
5620 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5621 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5622 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5623 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5624 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5625 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5626 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5627 string.
5628
5629 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5630 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5631 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5632 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5633 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5634
563511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5636
563712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5638 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5639 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5640
564113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5642
564314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5644 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5645 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5646 information.
5647
564815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5649 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5650
565116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5652 Three changes have been made:
5653
5654 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5655 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5656 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5657 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5658 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5659
5660 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5661 been restored.
5662
5663 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5664 the modified behaviour.
5665
5666
5667Exim version 4.31
5668-----------------
5669
5670 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5671 Larry Rosenman.
5672
5673 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5674 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5675
5676 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5677 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5678 try to track down a specific problem.
5679
5680 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5681 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5682 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5683
5684 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5685 warning.
5686
5687 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5688 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5689 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5690 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5691 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5692 some earlier ones do not.
5693
5694 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5695
5696 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5697 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5698 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5699 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5700 address literals are enabled, of course).
5701
5702 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5703
570410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5705 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5706 by a command such as
5707
5708 exim -f "" ...
5709
5710 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5711
571211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5713
571412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5715 remained set. It is now erased.
5716
571713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5718 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5719
572014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5721 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5722 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5723 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5724 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5725 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5726 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5727 appropriate error code.
5728
572915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5730 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5731 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5732 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5733 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5734 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5735
573616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5737 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5738 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5739
574017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5741 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5742 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5743 terminate the header.
5744
574518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5746 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5747 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5748
574919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5750 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5751 (4.30/29). In particular:
5752
5753 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5754 imposed.
5755
5756 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5757 to write a maildirsize file.
5758
5759 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5760 the transport, the new value overrides.
5761
5762 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5763 count.
5764
576520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5766 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5767 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5768 space or a tab.
5769
577021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5771 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5772 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5773 the fallback hosts.
5774
577522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5776 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5777 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5778
577923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5780 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5781 using a union.
5782
578324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5784 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5785 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5786
578725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5788
578926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5790
579127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5792
579328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5794 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5795 become corrupted.
5796
579729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5798 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5799 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5800 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5801 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5802 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5803 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5804 too great.
5805
580630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5807 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5808 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5809 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5810 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5811 incorrectly.
5812
581331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5814 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5815 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5816 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5817 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5818 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5819 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5820 cached value only when the same options are set.
5821
582232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5823
582433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5825 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5826 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5827 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5828 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5829
583034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5831 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5832 it is clearly obsolete.
5833
583435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5835 transport.
5836
583736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5838 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5839 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5840 times.
5841
584237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5843 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5844 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5845 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5846 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5847
584838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5849 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5850 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5851 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5852
585339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5854
5855 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5856
5857 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5858 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5859 2^31.
5860
586140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5862 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5863 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5864 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5865 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5866 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5867 $localpart_data.
5868
586941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5870 with the -f command-line option.
5871
587242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5873 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5874 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5875 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5876 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5877 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5878
587943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5880 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5881 line.
5882
588344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5884 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5885 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5886 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5887 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5888 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5889 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5890 buffer is too small.
5891
589245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5893 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5894
589546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5896 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5897 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5898 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5899 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5900 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5901 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5902 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5903 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5904
590547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5906 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5907 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5908
590948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5910 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5911 ACL").
5912
591349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5914 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5915 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5916 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5917 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5918
591950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5920 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5921 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5922 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5923 is set.
5924
592551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5926
592752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5928
592953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5930 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5931
593254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5933 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5934 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5935
593655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5937 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5938 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5939 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5940 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5941
594256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5943 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5944 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5945 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5946 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5947 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5948 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5949
595057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5951 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5952 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5953 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5954 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5955 the test of how many are available.
5956
595758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5958 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5959 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5960 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5961 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5962 new message is started.
5963
596459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5965 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5966
596760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5968 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5969
597061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5971 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5972 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5973 is no long logged.
5974
597562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5976 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5977 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5978 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5979 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5980 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5981 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5982
598363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5984 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5985 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5986 interpreted as octal.
5987
598864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5989 setting.
5990
599165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5992 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5993 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5994 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5995 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5996 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5997
599866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5999 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6000 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6001 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6002
6003 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6004 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6005 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6006 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6007
6008 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6009 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6010 is a bug fix.
6011
6012 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6013 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6014
601567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6016
601768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6018 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6019 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6020 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6021
602269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6023 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6024 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6025 supplied", which is not helpful.
6026
602770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6028 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6029 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6030
603171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6032 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6033 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6034 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6035 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6036 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6037 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6038 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6039
604072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6041 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6042 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6043 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6044 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6045
604673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6047 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6048 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6049 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6050 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6051 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6052
605374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6054 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6055 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6056
605775. Added write_rejectlog option.
6058
605976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6060 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6061 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6062 variables.
6063
606477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6065
606678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6067 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6068 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6069 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6070 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6071 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6072 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6073 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6074
607579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6076 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6077 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6078 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6079 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6080
608180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6082 Haardt.
6083
608481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6085 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6086 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6087 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6088 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6089 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6090 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6091 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6092 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6093
6094
6095Exim version 4.30
6096-----------------
6097
6098 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6099 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6100 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6101
6102 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6103 fixed.
6104
6105 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6106 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6107 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6108
6109 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6110 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6111 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6112 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6113 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6114 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6115
6116 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6117 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6118 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6119 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6120 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6121 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6122 the Exim test suite.
6123
6124 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6125 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6126 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6127 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6128
6129 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6130 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6131 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6132 specify it in this variable.
6133
6134 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6135 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6136 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6137 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6138
6139 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6140 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6141 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6142 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6143
6144 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6145 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6146 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6147 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6148 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6149
6150 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6151
615210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6153 they are logged.
6154
615511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6156 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6157 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6158 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6159 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6160
616112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6162 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6163
616413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6165 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6166 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6167 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6168 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6169
617014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6171 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6172
617315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6174 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6175 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6176
617716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6178 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6179
618017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6181 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6182
618318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6184 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6185 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6186
618719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6188 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6189
619020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6191 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6192 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6193 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6194
619521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6196
619722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6198 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6199 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6200 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6201
620223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6203
620424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6205 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6206
620725. Added .include_if_exists.
6208
620926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6210 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6211 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6212 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6213 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6214 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6215
621627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6217
621828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6219 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6220 this.
6221
622229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6223
622430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6225 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6226
6227 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6228 550 Sender verify failed
6229
6230 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6231 the final line of the response.
6232
623331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6234 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6235 all other user lookups.
6236
623732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6238 delivery time.
6239
624033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6241 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6242 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6243 result into an int without checking.
6244
624534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6246 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6247 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6248
624935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6250 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6251 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6252 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6253
625436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6255 correctly.
6256
625737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6258 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6259
626038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6261 to the empty sender.
6262
626339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6264 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6265 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6266 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6267 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6268 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6269 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6270 panic log.
6271
627240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6273 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6274 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6275 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6276 used.
6277
627841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6279 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6280
628142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6282 timestamps.
6283
628443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6285 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6286
628744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6288
628945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6290 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6291 logs.
6292
629346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6294 as soon as it is encountered.
6295
629647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6297
629848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6299 rewritten to "<>".
6300
630149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6302 recognizes a tab character.
6303
630450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6305 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6306 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6307 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6308
630951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6310
631152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6312 crash.
6313
631453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6315
631654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6317
631855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6319 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6320 2822.
6321
632256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6323 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6324 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6325 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6326 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6327
632857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6329 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6330
633158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6332 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6333 list (.included file names were always shown).
6334
633559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6336 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6337 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6338 root at that time.
6339
634060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6341 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6342
634361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6344
634562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6346
634763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6348
634964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6350 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6351 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6352 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6353 failures to open the logs.
6354
635565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6356 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6357 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6358 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6359 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6360 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6361 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6362
6363
6364Exim version 4.24
6365-----------------
6366
6367 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6368 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6369 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6370 change 4.23/1.
6371
6372 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6373 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6374 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6375
6376 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6377 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6378 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6379
6380 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6381 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6382 causing some misleading effects.
6383
6384 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6385 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6386 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6387
6388 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6389 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6390 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6391 queue-runner function directly.
6392
6393
6394Exim version 4.23
6395-----------------
6396
6397 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6398 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6399
6400 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6401 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6402 was always written to the default place.
6403
6404 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6405 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6406 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6407
6408 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6409
6410 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6411
6412 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6413 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6414 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6415
6416 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6417 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6418 must start.
6419
6420 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6421 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6422 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6423
6424 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6425 command line option is disabled.
6426
6427 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6428 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6429
6430 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6431
6432 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6433
6434 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6435 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6436
643710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6438
643911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6440 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6441 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6442 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6443 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6444 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6445
644612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6447 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6448 timeout.
6449
645013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6451 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6452
645314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6454 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6455
645615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6457 received was valid base64.
6458
645916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6460 name of the variable that was being set.
6461
646217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6463
646418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6465 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6466 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6467 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6468 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6469 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6470
647119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6472
647320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6474 nor realm was specified.
6475
647621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6477 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6478 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6479 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6480
648122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6482 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6483 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6484
648523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6486 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6487 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6488
648924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6490 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6491 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6492 some systems use these upper case variants.
6493
649425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6495 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6496 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6497 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6498
649926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6500
650127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6502 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6503
650428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6505 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6506 expansion variable.
6507
650829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6509
651030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6511 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6512 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6513 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6514
651531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6516 using it.
6517
651832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6519 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6520 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6521
652233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6523 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6524
652534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6526 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6527 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6528 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6529
653035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6531 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6532 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6533
653436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6535
653637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6537 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6538 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6539 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6540 aborted.
6541
654238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6543 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6544 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6545
654639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6547
654840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6549 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6550
655141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6552 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6553
655442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6555 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6556 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6557 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6558 when emails are that large.
6559
6560
6561
6562Exim version 4.22
6563-----------------
6564
6565 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6566 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6567
6568 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6569 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6570 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6571
6572 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6573 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6574 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6575
6576 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6577 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6578 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6579 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6580 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6581
6582 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6583 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6584 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6585 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6586 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6587 ever.
6588
6589 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6590 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6591 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6592 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6593 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6594 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6595 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6596 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6597 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6598 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6599 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6600 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6601 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6602 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6603
6604 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6605 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6606 parameterised it.
6607
6608 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6609 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6610 error should be diagnosed.
6611
6612 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6613 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6614 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6615 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6616 appeared instead of "NULL".
6617
661810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6619 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6620 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6621 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6622 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6623 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6624 proceeds).
6625
6626 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6627 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6628 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6629
6630
6631Exim version 4.21
6632-----------------
6633
6634 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6635 or receiver verification errors.
6636
6637 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6638 name.
6639
6640 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6641 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6642 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6643 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6644
6645 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6646 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6647 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6648 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6649 shouldn't happen again.
6650
6651 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6652 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6653 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6654
6655 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6656 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6657
6658 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6659
6660 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6661 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6662
6663 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6664 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6665 RFC.
6666
666710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6668 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6669 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6670
667111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6672 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6673 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6674 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6675
667612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6677 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6678 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6679 to define what should happen).
6680
668113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6682 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6683 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6684
668514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6686
668715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6688
668916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6690 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6691
4c04137d 669217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
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6693 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6694 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6695 structure in all cases.
6696
6697 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6698 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6699 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6700 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6701
670218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6703 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6704 domain name.
6705
670619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6707 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6708
670920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6710 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6711
671221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6713 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6714 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6715
671622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6717 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6718 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6719
672023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6721 the book and for uniformity.
6722
672324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6724
672525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6726 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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6727 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6728 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6729 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6730 non-existent command as the problem.
6731
673226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6733 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6734 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6735
673627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6737
673828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6739 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6740 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6741
674229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6743 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6744 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6745 timestamps using strftime().
6746
674730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6748 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6749
675032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6751 transport-time rewrites.
6752
675333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6754 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6755 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6756 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6757
675834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6759 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6760
676135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6762 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6763 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6764 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6765 comma and a space.
6766
676736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6768 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6769 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6770 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6771 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6772 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6773 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6774
677537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6776 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6777 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6778 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6779 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6780
678138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6782 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6783 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6784 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6785 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6786 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6787 remaining text gets split now.
6788
678939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6790 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6791 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6792 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6793
679440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6795 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6796 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6797 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6798 $return_path.
6799
680041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6801 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6802 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6803 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6804 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6805 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6806 passed through if needed.
6807
680842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6809 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6810 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6811 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6812 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6813 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6814
681543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6816 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6817 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6818 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6819 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6820
682144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6822 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6823 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6824 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6825 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6826
682745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6828 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6829 noticed.
6830
683146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6832 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6833 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6834 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6835 mayhem of various kinds.
6836
683747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6838 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6839 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6840 the right test for positive values.
6841
684248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6843 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6844 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6845 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6846 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6847 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6848 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6849 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6850 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6851 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6852 envelope.
6853
685449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6855 module.
6856
685750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6858 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6859 forbidding it.
6860
686151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6862 the existing equality matching.
6863
686452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6865 dealing with inode numbers.
6866
686753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6868 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6869 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6870
687154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6872 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6873 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6874 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6875 local_scan().
6876
687755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6878 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6879 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6880 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6881 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6882 relay addresses has also been removed.
6883
688456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6885
688657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6887 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6888 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6889
689058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6891 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6892 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6893 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6894 processing applies to CR:
6895
6896 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6897 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6898
6899 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6900 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6901 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6902 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6903
690459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6905 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6906 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6907
690860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6909 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6910 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6911 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6912 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6913 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6914 arisen.
6915
691661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6917 program routers.
6918
691962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6920 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6921 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6922 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6923 adds:
6924
6925 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6926
6927 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6928
6929 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6930
693163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6932 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6933 not considered personal.
6934
693564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6936
693765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6938
693966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6940
694167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6942 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6943 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6944 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6945 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6946 header lines, and spool format errors.
6947
694868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6949 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6950 for more flexibility.
6951
695269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6953 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6954 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6955
695670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6957 Sabourenkov.
6958
695971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6960 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6961 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6962 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6963 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6964 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6965 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6966 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6967 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6968
696972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6970 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6971 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6972 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6973 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6974 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6975 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6976
697773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6978 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6979 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6980
698174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6982 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6983 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6984 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6985 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6986 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6987 instead of killing the process with assert().
6988
698975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6990 than Unicode encoding.
6991
699276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6993 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6994 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6995 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6996
699777. Added process_log_path.
6998
699978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7000 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7001
700279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7003 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7004
700580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7006 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7007 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7008
700981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7010 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7011 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7012 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7013 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7014 were applied:
7015
7016 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7017 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7018 as invalid.
7019
702082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7021 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7022 they will be used during message reception.
7023
7024
7025Exim version 4.20
7026-----------------
7027
7028The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7029
7030****