Support service names for tls_on_connect_ports. Bug 72
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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28 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
29 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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31JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
32
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33TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
34 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
35
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36PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
37 not dns_use_dnssec.
38
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39JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
40
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41TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
42 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
43 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
44
8ddef691 45TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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46 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
47 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
48 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
49 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 50 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 51
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52JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
53
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54JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
55 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
56
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57JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
58 failed delivery.
59
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60JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
61
511a6c14 62JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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63
64JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
65 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 66
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67JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
68 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
69
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70TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
71
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72JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
73
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74JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
75 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
76
77 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
78 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
79 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
80
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81TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
82 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
83 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
84 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 85
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86JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
87
8c51eead 88JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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89 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
90 lookup).
8c51eead 91
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92TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
93 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
94 Schlichting.
35aba663 95
fd3b6a4a 96JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 97 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 98
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99TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
100 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
101
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102JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
103
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104TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
105 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
106 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
107
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108JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
109 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
110
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111JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
112 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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113 hosts_request_ocsp.
114
115JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1::string} can now
116 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 117 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 118
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119JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
120
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121TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
122 Christian Aistleitner.
123
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124JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
125
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126TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
127 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
128
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129JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
130 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
131
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132JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
133 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
134
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2c422e6f 136Exim version 4.82
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138
139PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
140
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141PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
142 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
143
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144PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
145 by GnuTLS.
146
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147PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
148 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
149 routines.
150
13363eba 151PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 152
66645890 153PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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154 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
155 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
156 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
157 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 158
a3fb9793 159PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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160 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
161 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
162 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 163 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 164 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 165
d27f98fe 166TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 167
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168TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
169
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170TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
171 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
172
ae0e32ee 173TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 174 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 175 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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177TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 178
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179TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
180
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181TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
182 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
183
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184JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
185
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186JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
187
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188PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
189
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190NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
191 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 192
585121e2 193JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 194
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195PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
196 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
197 function.
a5f239e4 198
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199PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
200 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
201
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202JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
203 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
204 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 205
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206JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
207
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208JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
209
ea722490 210JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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211 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
212
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213JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
214 Bugzilla 884.
215
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216JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
217 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
218
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219JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
220 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
221
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222PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
223 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 224 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 225
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226JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
227 authenticators.
228
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229JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
230 for control.
231
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232PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
233
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234PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
235 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
236 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
237 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
238
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239TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
240
241 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
242 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
243 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
244 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
245 the retry rules.
246
247 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
248 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
249 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
250
251 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
252 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
253 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
254 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
255
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256 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
257 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
258 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
259 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
260 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
261 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
262 delivery, as in LMTP.
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263
264 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
265 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
266
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267TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
268
269 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
270
271 Resent-From: f
272
273 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
274 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
275 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
276 username as equal to the username.
277
278 This change corrects that bug.
279
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280GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
281 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
282 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
283
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284TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
285
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286PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
287 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
288 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
289 NULL dereference and crash.
290
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291JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
292
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293PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
294 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
295 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
296
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297SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
298
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299JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
300 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
301 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
302 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
303 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
304 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
305 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
306 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
307 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
308 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
309 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
310
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311PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
312 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
313
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314PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
315 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
316 Bugzilla 880.
317
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318PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
319 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
320 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
321 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
322 an empty string is now equivalent.
323
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324PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
325 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
326 not performing validation itself.
327
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328PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
329 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
330
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331JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
332 Bugzilla 321, 823.
333
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334TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
335
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336PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
337 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
338 other false fix of the same issue.
339 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
340 Bugzilla 1363.
341
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342PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
343 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
344
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345PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
346 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
347 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
348
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349PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
350 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
351 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
352
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353TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
354
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355JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
356
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357TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
358 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
359
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360TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
361 Alexander Miroch.
362
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363TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
364 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
365 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
366 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
367 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 368
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369TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
370 the src/util/ subdirectory.
371
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372TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
373 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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374 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
375
376TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
377 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
378 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
379 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
380
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381TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
382
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383TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
384 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
385 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 386
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387TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
388
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389TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
390 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
391 interaction.
392
393TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
394 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
395
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396TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
397 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
398
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402
403PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
404 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 405 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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b1770b6e 408Exim version 4.80
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410
411PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
412 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
413 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
414
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415NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
416
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417NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
418 improved.
419
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420NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
421
c1e794ba 422PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 423
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424PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
425
426PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
427 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
428
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429PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
430 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
431
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432PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
433 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
434
f1e05cc7 435PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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436 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
437 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 438
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439PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
440
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441PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
442 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
443
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444PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
445
c45dd180 446PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 447
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448PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
449 non-compliant senders.
450 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
451
eae0036b 452NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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453 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
454 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
455
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456PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
457 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
458 in spool file corruption.
459
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460PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
461 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
462 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
463 "Got SSL error 2".
464
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465TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
466 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
467 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
468
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469JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
470 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
471
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472JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
473
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474PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
475 diagnostics.
476 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
477
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478PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
479 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
480 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
481
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482PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
483 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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484 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
485 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 486
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487PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
488 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
489
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490PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
491 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
492 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
493 resolver implementation change.
494
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495PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
496 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
497
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498PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
499
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500PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
501
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502PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
503 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
504
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505PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
506 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
507
9e45c72b 508JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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509 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
510
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511PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
512 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
513 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
514 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 515 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 516
53947857 517PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 518
eae0036b 519PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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520 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
521 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 522
9e45c72b 523JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 524
7390e768
PP
525PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
526 read-only, out of scope).
527 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
528
08488c86
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529PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
530 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
531 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
532 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
533
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PP
534PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
535
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536PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
537 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
538 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
539 real issues in debug logging.
540
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541PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
542 assignment on my part. Fixed.
543
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PP
544PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
545 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
546 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
547
548PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
549 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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550 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
551 problems.
3375e053 552
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553PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
554 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
555
57eb9e91 556PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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557 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
558 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
559 needs to override this, it can.
560
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561PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
562 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
563 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
564
a799883d
PP
565PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
566 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
567 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
568 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
569
3ecab157 570PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 571
0599f9cf 572
867fcbf5
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573Exim version 4.77
574-----------------
575
576PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
577 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
578
f1a29782
TF
579TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
580
ab42bd23
TK
581TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
582 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 583
0ca0cf52
TF
584TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
585 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
586
921b12ca
TF
587TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
588 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
589 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
590
591 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
592 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
593 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
594 not safe for signals.
595
596 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
597 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
598 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
599 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
600 exiwhat.
601
c99ce5c9
TF
602TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
603
604 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
605 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
606 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
607 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
608 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
609
610 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
611 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
612 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
613 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
614 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
615 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
616
617 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
618 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
619 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
620 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
621
622 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
623 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
624 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
625 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
626
627 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
628 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
629 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
630 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
631 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
632 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
633 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
634 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
635 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
636
637 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
638 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
639 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
640 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
641
642 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
643 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
644 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
645 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
646 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
647 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
648 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
649 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
650 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
651 details in the main documentation.
652
3634fc25
TF
653TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
654
792e8a19
TF
655TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
656
5901f0ab
TF
657TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
658 repository when doing development or release builds.
659
7f2a2a43
PP
660PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
661 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 662
061b7ebd
PP
663PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
664 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
665 Bugzilla 97.
666
e12f8c32
PP
667PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
668
9e949f00 669PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
670 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
671
672PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
673 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 674
555ae6af 675PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
676 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
677
678PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
679 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 680
6f7fe114
PP
681PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
682 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
683
c566dd90
PP
684PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
685 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
686 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
687 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 688
d6cc7c78 689PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
690 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
691 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
692
0d0e4455
PP
693PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
694
3399bb60 695PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
696
697PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
698 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
699
0ca0cf52 700
10906672
PP
701Exim version 4.76
702-----------------
703
704PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
705
754a0503
PP
706PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
707 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
708
c0c7b2da
PP
709PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
710
e97d1f08
PP
711PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
712
084c1d8c
PP
713PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
714 Bugzilla 1098.
715
4e7ee012
PP
716PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
717 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 718
c8d52a00
PP
719TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
720 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
721
54e7ce4a
PP
722PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
723 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
724
5ee6f336
PP
725PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
726 Bugzilla 1104.
727
c8d52a00 728TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
729 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
730
731TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
732 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
733 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
734 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
735
736PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
737 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 738
10906672 739
aa097c4c
NM
740Exim version 4.75
741-----------------
742
4c9ef03a 743NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
744 Bugzilla 1073
745
7f3d9eff
TF
746TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
747 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
748 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
749
159f52d2
TF
750TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
751 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
752
0cc9542a
PP
753PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
754 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
755 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
756
f7274286
PP
757PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
758 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
759
7b797365
PP
760PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
761 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
762
caacae52
NM
763NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
764 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
765
09dcaba9
NM
766NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
767 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
768
bc19a55b
PP
769PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
770 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 771
bd4c9759
NM
772NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
773 Fixes bug 943.
774
b72aab72
PP
775PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
776 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
777
2fe76745
PP
778PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
779 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
780
76aa570c
PP
781PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
782 SQL string expansion failure details.
783 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
784
f1e5fef5
PP
785PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
786 Patch from Simon Arlott.
787
4d805ee9
PP
788PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
789 extern declarations in function scope.
790 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
791
cd59ab18
PP
792PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
793 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
794 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
795 a kernel bug).
796
332f5cf3
PP
797PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
798 Patch from Mark Zealey.
799
29cfeb94
PP
800PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
801 Patch from Mark Zealey.
802
660242ad
PP
803PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
804 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
805
bc4bc4c5
PP
806PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
807 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
808
2e64baa9
NM
809NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
810 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
811 Dennis Davis.
812
bddd7526
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813PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
814
6bac1a9a
PP
815PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
816
552193f0
NM
817NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
818 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 819
1b587e48
TF
820TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
821 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
822
aa097c4c 823
8c07b69f
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824Exim version 4.74
825-----------------
826
827TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
828 consequences so log it to the panic log.
829
c0ea85ab
TF
830TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
831 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
832
0761d44e
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833TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
834
0a349494
PP
835DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
836 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
837 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
838
839PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
840 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
841 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
842
fea24b2e
PP
843PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
844 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
845 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
846 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
847
6545de78
PP
848PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
849 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
850 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
851 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
852
1670ef10
PP
853PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
854 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
855 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
856 arbitrary files.
857
c0886197
PP
858PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
859 (Wolfgang Breyha)
860
b7487bce
PP
861PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
862 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
863 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
864 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
865 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
866
8c07b69f 867
97fd1e48 868Exim version 4.73
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PP
870
871PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
872 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
873 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
874
6901c596
PP
875PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
876 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
877
a8c8d6b5
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878JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
879
77bb000f
PP
880PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
881
a29e5231
PP
882PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
883
ec5a0394 884PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 885
55c75993
PP
886PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
887
453a6645 888PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
889 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
890 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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891 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
892
8544e77a
PP
893PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
894 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
895 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
896 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
897 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 898
83e029d5
PP
899PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
900
ed7f7860
PP
901PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
902
7d9f747b
PP
903PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
904
4b2241d2
PP
905PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
906
10385c15
PP
907PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
908
dbc4b90d
PP
909PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
910
532be449
PP
911PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
912
6a8de854 913PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
914 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
915 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 916
5dc43717
JJ
917JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
918
919JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
920 "exim" to be used
55c75993 921
3346ab01
PP
922PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
923 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
924
491fab4c
PP
925PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
926 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
927 Notification from John Horne.
928
13eb9497
PP
929PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
930 compatible.
931
932PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
933 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
934 it normally works.
935
7f36d675
DW
936DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
937 access.
938
c1d94452
DW
939DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
940 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
941 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
942
e2f5dc15
DW
943DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
944 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
945 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
946 configuration file.
947
cd25e41d
DW
948DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
949 option (effectively making it always true).
950
261dc43e
DW
951DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
952 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
953
fa32850b
DW
954DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
955 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
956
79d4bc3d
PP
957PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
958 run-time user, instead of root.
959
43236f35 960PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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961 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
962
fb08281f
DW
963DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
964 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
965 arguments.
3346ab01 966
74935b98
DW
967DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
968 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
969 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
970
90b6341f
DW
971DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
972
57730b52
ML
973NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
974
66581d1e 975
465e92cf
JJ
976Exim version 4.72
977-----------------
978
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979JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
980 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
981 typos
465e92cf 982
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983JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
984 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
985 (Finput)
edae0343 986
9bd3e22c
NM
987NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
988 Patch from Alain Williams
989
bb576ff7
NM
990NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
991
5a1a5845
NM
992NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
993 Patch from Andreas Metzler
994
981a9fad
NM
995NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
996 Patch from Kirill Miazine
997
7fc497ee
NM
998NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
999
1a41defa
JJ
1000JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1001
a466095c 1002NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1003 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1004
94a6bd0b
NM
1005TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1006
1007TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1008
1009MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1010 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1011 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1012
c1b141a8
NM
1013NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1014 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1015
b26eacf1 1016NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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1017 Patch by Simon Arlott
1018
179c5980 1019PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1020 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1021
9bd3e22c 1022
7c6d71af
NM
1023Exim version 4.71
1024-----------------
1025
7d9f747b 1026TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1027
f013fb92
NM
1028NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1029
0eb8eedd
NM
1030NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1031
663ee6d9
NM
1032NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1033
177ebd9b
NM
1034NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1035
7c6d71af 1036
210f147e
NM
1037Exim version 4.70
1038-----------------
1039
cdd3bb85 1040TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1041 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1042
1043TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1044 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1045 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1046
1047TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1048 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1049 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1050
1051TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1052 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1053
210f147e
NM
1054NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1055 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1056 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1057 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1058
deafd5b3
NM
1059NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1060 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1061 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1062
089793a4
TF
1063TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1064
5f16ca82
TF
1065TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1066
dae9d94e 1067NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1068 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1069
7d9f747b 1070NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1071
06864c44
TF
1072TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1073 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1074 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1075 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1076
65a7d8c3 1077NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1078 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1079
23510047 1080TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1081
7d9f747b 1082NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1083
7d8eec3a 1084NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1085 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1086
89dec7b6
TF
1087TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1088 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1089
a99de90c
TF
1090TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1091 that they are available at delivery time.
1092
e2803e40
TF
1093TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1094
7199e1ee
TF
1095TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1096 incoming_port log selectors.
1097
e276e04b
TF
1098TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1099 setting expands to an empty string.
1100
ce552449 1101NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1102 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1103
e765a0f1 1104NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1105 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1106
4f054c63 1107NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1108 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1109
7d9f747b
PP
1110NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1111 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1112
7d9f747b
PP
1113NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1114 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1115
b52bc06e 1116NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1117 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1118
447de4b0
NM
1119NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1120
4c69d561 1121NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1122 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1123
d5c39246 1124NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1125 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1126
0b23848a
TK
1127TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1128
8f3414a1 1129NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1130 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1131
fb6f955d
NM
1132NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1133
1134NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1135
7d9f747b
PP
1136NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1137 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1138
7d9f747b
PP
1139NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1140 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1141
7d9f747b
PP
1142NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1143 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1144
7d9f747b
PP
1145NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1146 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1147
7d9f747b
PP
1148NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1149 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1150
7d9f747b
PP
1151NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1152 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1153
7d9f747b
PP
1154NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1155 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1156
7d9f747b 1157NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1158 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1159
7d9f747b 1160NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1161
7d9f747b
PP
1162NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1163 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1164
7d9f747b 1165NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1166
7d9f747b 1167NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1168
7d9f747b 1169NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1170
7d9f747b 1171NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1172
17792b53 1173NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1174 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1175
7d9f747b
PP
1176NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1177 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1178
91576cec 1179NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1180 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1181
7d9f747b
PP
1182NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1183 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1184
7d9f747b 1185NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1186
7d9f747b 1187NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1188
7d9f747b 1189NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1190
7d9f747b 1191NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1192
deafd5b3 1193
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NM
1194Exim version 4.69
1195-----------------
1196
4b3504d0
TK
1197TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1198 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1199 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1200
1201 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1202 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1203 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1204 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1205 build errors in sieve.c.
1206
81ea09ca
NM
1207NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1208 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1209 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1210
f13cddcb
SC
1211SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1212
7d9f747b 1213NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1214
7d9f747b 1215NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1216
7d9f747b 1217NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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1218
1219
eb4c0de6
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1220Exim version 4.68
1221-----------------
1222
1223PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1224
6a3bceb1
PH
1225PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1226 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1227 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1228 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1229 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1230 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1231 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1232 for iplsearch lookups.
1233
1234 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1235 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1236 previously such lookups could never work.
1237
1238 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1239 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1240 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1241
2e30fa9d
TK
1242TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1243 version.
1244
0806a9c5
MH
1245MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1246 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1247 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1248 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1249 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1250 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1251
ae276964
TK
1252TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1253 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1254
0f2cbd1b
MH
1255MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1256 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1257 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1258 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1259 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1260 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1261
2b85bce7
PH
1262PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1263 local_scan API.
1264
93655c46
PH
1265PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1266
6c512171
PH
1267PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1268 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1269 encrypted.
1270
1271PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1272 by clients under certain conditions.
1273
aa6dc513
PH
1274PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1275 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1276
a96603a0
PH
1277PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1278
8f240103
PH
1279PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1280 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1281
1282PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1283
d677b2f2
PH
1284PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1285
d52120f2
PH
1286PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1287
64f2600a
PH
1288PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1289 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1290
8669f003
PH
1291PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1292
a4dc33a8
PH
1293PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1294 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1295
d6a60c0f
PH
1296PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1297
8f128379
PH
1298PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1299
8932dffe
PH
1300PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1301 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1302 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1303 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1304
ddea74fa 1305PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1306 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1307 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1308
ddea74fa 1309PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1310 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1311
ddea74fa
PH
1312PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1313
ce9f225c
PH
1314PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1315
19897d52
PH
1316PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1317
bc64a74d
PH
1318PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1319 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1320 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1321
eb4c0de6 1322
b4ed4da0
PH
1323Exim version 4.67
1324-----------------
1325
22ad45c9
MH
1326MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1327 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1328 Jan Srzednicki.
1329
b4ed4da0
PH
1330PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1331 issue a MAIL command.
1332
431b7361
PH
1333PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1334
1335 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1336
1337 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1338 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1339 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1340 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1341 item. This has been fixed.
1342
1343PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1344 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1345
83da1223
PH
1346PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1347 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1348
54fc8428
PH
1349PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1350 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1351 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1352
34c5e8dd
SC
1353SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1354
bbe15da8
PH
1355PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1356 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1357 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1358 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1359 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1360
0e8a9471
MH
1361MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1362 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1363 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1364
f0872424
PH
1365PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1366 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1367 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1368 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1369
b01dd148
PH
1370PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1371
6bf342e1
PH
1372PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1373
273f34d0
PH
1374PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1375 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1376 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1377 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1378 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1379
cf8b11a5
PH
1380PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1381
41c7c167
PH
1382PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1383 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1384 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1385 values).
1386
9c57cbc0
PH
1387PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1388
f3f065bb
PH
1389PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1390
047bdd8c
PH
1391PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1392
0ce9abe6
PH
1393PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1394
0e22dfd1
PH
1395PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1396
4c590bd1
PH
1397PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1398 no_callout_flush is set.
1399
09945f1e
PH
1400PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1401 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1402 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1403 fixed.
1404
c51b8e75
PH
1405PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1406
e28326d8
PH
1407PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1408 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1409 other ACL rejections are.
1410
75b1493f
PH
1411PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1412 with slight modification.
1413
7c5214ec
PH
1414PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1415 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1416
4311097e
PH
1417PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1418 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1419 connection.
1420
29f89cad
PH
1421PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1422 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1423
5e687460
SC
1424SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1425
c3611384
PH
1426PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1427 expansion side effects.
1428
5a11a7b4
PH
1429PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1430 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1431 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1432 be the same.
1433
0e20aff9
MH
1434MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1435 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1436 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1437
ca86f471
PH
1438PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1439 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1440 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1441 were accidentally chopped off.
1442
a14e5636
PH
1443PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1444 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1445 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1446 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1447 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1448 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1449 pipelining has not been advertised.
1450
ec95d1a6
PH
1451PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1452
42855d71
PH
1453PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1454 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1455 This has been fixed.
1456
57c2c631
PH
1457PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1458 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1459 reported on Solaris.
1460
58c01c94
PH
1461PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1462 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1463 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1464 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1465 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1466 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1467 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1468
dee5a20a
PH
1469PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1470 cpus.
1471
d2ee6114
PH
1472PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1473
b2d5182b
PH
1474PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1475
79749a79
PH
1476PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1477 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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1478 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1479 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1480 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1481 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1482
c456d9bb
PH
1483PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1484 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1485 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1486 host_all_ignored option.
1487
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1488PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1489 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1490 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1491 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1492 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1493 is what is supposed to happen).
1494
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1495PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1496 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1497 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1498 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1499 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1500 uses the Exim user.
1501
2679d413
PH
1502PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1503 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1504 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1505 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1506 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1507 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1508 users.
1509
84024b72
PH
1510PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1511
8005d38e
SC
1512SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1513 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1514 (Jez Hancock).
1515 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1516 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1517
3298c6c6
SC
1518SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1519
a43a27c5
PH
1520PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1521
58eb016e 1522PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1523 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1524 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1525 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1526 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1527 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1528 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1529 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1530 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1531 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1532 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1533
b43a74ea
PH
1534PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1535 advertised in response to EHLO.
1536
b4ed4da0 1537
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1538Exim version 4.66
1539-----------------
1540
1541PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1542 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1543
1544 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1545 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1546
1547 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1548 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1549 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1550
1551 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1552 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1553 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1554 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1555 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1556
1557
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1558Exim version 4.65
1559-----------------
1560
1561TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1562 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1563 versions. (#438)
1564
d6066548
MH
1565MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1566 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1567 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1568
4362ff0d
PH
1569PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1570 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1571 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1572 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1573 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1574 rather than extend the field.
1575
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1577Exim version 4.64
1578-----------------
aa41d2de 1579
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TK
1580TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1581 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1582 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1583 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1584 these files.
1585
1586TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1587 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1588 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1589
1590TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1591 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1592 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1593
1594TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1595 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1596 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1597 in the field name.
1598
2b1c6e3a
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1599PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1600 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1601 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1602 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1603 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1604 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1605 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1606 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1607 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1608 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1609 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1610
1f872c80
PH
1611PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1612 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1613
1614PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1615 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1616 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1617 ignores EPIPE as well.
1618
d203e649
PH
1619PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1620 (quoted-printable decoding).
1621
cc2ed8f7 1622PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1623 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1624
ddfcd446
PH
1625PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1626
d45b1de8
PH
1627PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1628
1629PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1630
38a0a95f 1631PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1632 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1633
a2405d83
JJ
1634JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1635 in 4.64-PH/09.
1636
1637JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1638 miscellaneous code fixes
1639
6ea85e9a
PH
1640PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1641 rejections.
1642
26da7e20
PH
1643PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1644 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1645 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1646 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1647 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1648 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1649 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1650 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1651
14aa5a05 1652PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1653 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1654 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1655 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1656 function.
1657 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1658 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1659 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1660 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1661 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1662 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1663 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1664 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1665 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1666
ff75a1f7
PH
1667PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1668 decoding.
1669
e6f6568e
PH
1670PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1671 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1672 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1673 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1674 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1675 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1676 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1677 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1678
d6f6e0dc
PH
1679PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1680 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1681 list.
1682
322050c2
PH
1683PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1684 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1685 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1686 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1687 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1688 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1689 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1690 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1691 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1692 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1693 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1694 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1695 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1696
08955dd3
PH
1697PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1698 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1699 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1700 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1701 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1702 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1703 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1704
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1705PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1706 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1707 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1708 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1709 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1710 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1711 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1712 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1713 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1714 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1715
602e59e5
PH
1716PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1717 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1718 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1719 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1720 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1721
411ef850
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1722PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1723 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1724 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1725 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1726 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1727 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1728 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1729
7befa435
PH
1730PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1731 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1732 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1733 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1734 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1735 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1736 been verified.
1737
48da4259 1738PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1739 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1740 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1741 and authorization.)
1742
48da4259
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1743PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1744 if any retry times were supplied.
1745
d1d5595c
PH
1746PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1747 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1748 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1749
0ef732d9
PH
1750PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1751
328895cc
PH
1752PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1753
fd700877
PH
1754PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1755 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1756 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1757 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1758 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1759 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1760
8dce1a6f
PH
1761PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1762 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1763
17af4a17
PH
1764PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1765 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1766 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1767
1768PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1769 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1770 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1771 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1772 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1773 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1774 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1775 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1776 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1777
1778 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1779 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1780 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1781 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1782 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1783 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1784 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1785 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1786 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1787
1788 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1789 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1790 hammering the server.
1791
c1114884
PH
1792PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1793 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1794
7a0743eb
PH
1795PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1796
0d85fa3f
PH
1797PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1798 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1799 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1800
1bf43b78
PH
1801PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1802 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1803 one case where this was not true.
1804
520de300
PH
1805PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1806 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1807 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1808 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1809 fails.
1810
48c7f9e2
PH
1811PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1812 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1813 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1814 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1815 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1816 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1817 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1818 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1819 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1820 smtp transport.
1821
99ea1c86
PH
1822PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1823 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1824 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1825 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1826
a2042e78
PH
1827PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1828 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1829
4fbcfc2e
PH
1830PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1831 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1832 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1833
aa41d2de
PH
1834PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1835
af561417
PH
1836PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1837
3cc66b45
PH
1838PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1839
194cc0e4
PH
1840PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1841 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1842 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1843 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1844
a401ddaa
PH
1845PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1846 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1847
4e88a19f
PH
1848PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1849 be meaningful with "accept".
1850
d7d7b289
SC
1851SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1852 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1853
1854SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1855 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1856 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1857
1858SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1859 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1860 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1861 there is data to show.
1862 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1863
1864SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1865 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1866 as well as the number of messages.
1867
1868SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1869 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1870 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1871
1872SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1873 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1874 have a flag are now skipped.
1875
1876SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1877 Added the -emptyok flag.
1878
1879SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1880 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1881
0ea2a468
JJ
1882JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1883 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1884 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1885
1886JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1887 match 4.64-PH/13
1888
1889JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1890 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1891
1892JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1893
1894JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1895 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1896
8a10f5a4
PH
1897PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1898
30e18802
PH
1899PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1900 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1901 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1902 contravention of the specifications.
1903
55728a4f
PH
1904PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1905 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1906 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1907
d7837193
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1908PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1909 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1910 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1911
87054a31
PH
1912PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1913
ea2c01d2
MH
1914MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1915 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1916 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1917 some point in the past.
1918
e4fa6968
PH
1919PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1920 transport during callout processing was broken.
1921
56f5d9bd
PH
1922PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1923 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1924
922e1c28
PH
1925PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1926 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1927
21eb6e72
PH
1928PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1929 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1930
a0540757
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1931PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1932
944e9e9c 1933
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1934Exim version 4.63
1935-----------------
1936
1937SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1938 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1939
1940SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1941 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1942 there is data to show.
1943 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1944
1945SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1946 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1947
2b965a65
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1948TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1949 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1950
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PH
1951TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1952 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1953
c59f5781
TF
1954TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1955 submissions from trusted users.
1956
90fc3069
TF
1957TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1958 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1959
6083aca0
TF
1960TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1961 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1962 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1963 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1964 there is now a framework to start from.
1965
765b530f
PH
1966PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1967 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1968 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1969
4e167a8c
PH
1970PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1971
4608d683
PH
1972PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1973
b8dc3e4a
PH
1974PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1975
5418e93b
PH
1976PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1977 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1978 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1979
b4a9bda2
PH
1980PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1981 libradius.
1982
45b91596
PH
1983PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1984 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1985 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1986
5547e2c5
PH
1987PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1988 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1989 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1990 its arguments.
1991
dbcef0ea
PH
1992PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1993 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1994 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1995 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1996 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1997
25257489
PH
1998PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1999 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2000
c816d124
PH
2001PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2002
a9ccd69a
PH
2003PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2004 operations in malware.c.
2005
75fa1910
PH
2006PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2007 signatures.
2008
a7d7aa58
PH
2009PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2010 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2011 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2012 all.
2013
42119b09
PH
2014PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2015 statements to "add_header".
2016
41609df5
PH
2017PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2018 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2019
a5bd321b
PH
2020PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2021 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2022 latter.
2023
e85a7ad5 2024PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2025 so that it is now:
2026
e85a7ad5
PH
2027 ${if or { \
2028 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2029 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2030 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2031 }{no}{yes}}
2032
e85a7ad5
PH
2033 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2034 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2035
d8fe1c03
PH
2036PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2037 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2038
16282d2b
PH
2039PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2040 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2041 any possible encoding problems.
2042
35d40a98
PH
2043PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2044 but not after initializing Perl.
2045
034d99ab
PH
2046PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2047 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2048 apparently, which is not desirable.
2049
6ec97b1b
PH
2050PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2051 queries.
2052
e22ca4ac
JJ
2053JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2054 --not options
2055
2056JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2057
33d73e3b
PH
2058PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2059 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2060 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2061 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2062
9ecb03f3
PH
2063PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2064 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2065 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2066
084efe8d
PH
2067PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2068 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2069 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2070 0.12.
2071
366fc9f0
PH
2072PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2073 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2074 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2075 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2076 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2077
c59f5781 2078
c887c79e
TF
2079Exim version 4.62
2080-----------------
2081
2082TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2083 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2084
1cce3af8
PH
2085PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2086 patch).
2087
afb3eaaf
PH
2088PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2089 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2090 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2091 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2092 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2093 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2094 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2095 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2096 451 error is used.
2097
e173618b
PH
2098PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2099
dd16e114
PH
2100PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2101 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2102 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2103
f7fd3850
PH
2104PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2105 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2106 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2107 odd errors.
2108
d87df92c
PH
2109PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2110 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2111
7e9f683d
PH
2112PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2113 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2114 option (which defaults to 0600).
2115
bfad5236
PH
2116PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2117
01c490df
PH
2118PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2119 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2120 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2121 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2122 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2123 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2124 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2125
d6629cdc
PH
2126PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2127
1cce3af8 2128
214e2000
PH
2129Exim version 4.61
2130-----------------
2131
2132PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2133 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2134 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2135 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2136 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2137 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2138 addresses as local.
2139
f9daeae0
PH
2140PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2141 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2142
7e66e54d
PH
2143PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2144
c8ea1597
PH
2145PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2146 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2147 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2148 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2149 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2150 grumble.
2151
911f6fde
PH
2152PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2153 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2154
47ca6d6c
PH
2155PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2156 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2157 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2158 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2159 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2160
ed0e9820
PH
2161PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2162 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2163 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2164 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2165
eff37e47
PH
2166PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2167 be the same on different OS.
2168
1921d2ea
PH
2169PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2170 testing.
2171
b3f69ca8
JJ
2172JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2173 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2174
2175JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2176 in 4.61-PH/06
2177
424a1c63
PH
2178PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2179 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2180 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2181 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2182 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2183 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2184 bounce message.
2185
7a100415
PH
2186PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2187 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2188 when Exim was called.
2189
19b9dc85
PH
2190PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2191 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2192
309bd837
PH
2193PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2194 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2195 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2196 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2197
59e82a2a
PH
2198PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2199 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2200 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2201 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2202 changes:
2203
2204 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2205 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2206 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2207
2208 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2209 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2210 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2211
9edc04ce
PH
2212PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2213 feature).
2214
1349e1e5
PH
2215PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2216 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2217 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2218 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2219 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2220 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2221 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2222 values from the SRV records were lost.
2223
ea49d0e1
PH
2224PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2225 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2226 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2227
064a94c9
PH
2228PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2229 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2230 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2231
727071f8
PH
2232PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2233 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2234 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2235 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2236 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2237 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2238 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2239 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2240 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2241 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2242
f78eb7c6
PH
2243PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2244 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2245 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2246
21c28500
PH
2247PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2248 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2249
2250PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2251 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2252 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2253 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2254 is given.
2255
1688f43b
PH
2256PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2257 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2258 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2259
2260PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2261 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2262 PH/23 above applies.
2263
9675b384
PH
2264PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2265 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2266 (for which there is an explicit test).
2267
6a3f1455
PH
2268PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2269
dac79d3e
PH
2270PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2271 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2272 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2273 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2274 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2275
5977a0b3
PH
2276PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2277 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2278 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2279 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2280
c91535f3
PH
2281PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2282 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2283 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2284
0d46a8c8
PH
2285PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2286
278c6e6c
PH
2287PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2288
2cbb4081
PH
2289PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2290 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2291 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2292
3eef829e
PH
2293PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2294 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2295 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2296 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2297 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2298
1ab95fa6
PH
2299PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2300 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2301 the message gets confusing).
2302
230205fc
PH
2303PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2304 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2305 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2306 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2307
75e0e026
PH
2308PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2309 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2310 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2311 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2312 same order.
2313
2314PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2315 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2316 the different processes.
2317
145396a6
PH
2318PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2319
3cd34f13
PH
2320PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2321
11121d3d
JJ
2322JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2323 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2324
2325JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2326 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2327
2328JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2329 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2330 messages matching specified criteria.
2331
8def5aaf
PH
2332PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2333
929ba01c
PH
2334PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2335 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2336
2632889e
PH
2337PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2338 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2339 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2340 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2341 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2342 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2343 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2344 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2345 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2346 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2347
944a9c55
PH
2348PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2349 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2350 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2351
4a23603b
PH
2352PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2353
4730f942
PH
2354PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2355 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2356 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2357 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2358 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2359 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2360 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2361 the variable.
2362
30dba1e6
PH
2363PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2364 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2365
382afc6b
PH
2366PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2367
a86229cf
PH
2368PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2369
50c99ba6
PH
2370PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2371
d35e429d
PH
2372PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2373 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2374 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2375 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2376 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2377 size of the count of files.
2378
f90d018c
PH
2379PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2380
75def545
PH
2381PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2382 used in LMTP mode:
2383
2384 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2385 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2386 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2387 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2388
2389 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2390 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2391 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2392
2393PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2394 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2395 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2396 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2397 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2398
c46782ef
PH
2399PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2400 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2401
71fafd95
PH
2402PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2403 will now be deprecated.
2404
2c5db4fd
PH
2405PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2406
9cf6b11a
JJ
2407JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2408 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2409 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2410
2411JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2412 with very large, slow to parse queues
2413
2414JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2415
2416JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2417
898d150f
PH
2418PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2419 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2420 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2421 SMTP output lines.
2422
46218253
PH
2423PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2424 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2425 Sieve code now uses this.
2426
e97957bc
PH
2427PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2428 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2429
81e509d7
PH
2430PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2431 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2432
3d240ff7
PH
2433PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2434
b37c4101
PH
2435PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2436 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2437 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2438 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2439 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2440
79378e0f
PH
2441PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2442 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2443 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2444 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2445
e49c7bb4
PH
2446PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2447
d114ec46
PH
2448PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2449
f3d7df6c
PH
2450PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2451 is preferred over IPv4.
2452
715ab376
PH
2453PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2454 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2455 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2456 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2457 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2458 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2459 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2460
6b31b150
PH
2461PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2462 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2463 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2464
2465PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2466
d515a917
PH
2467PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2468 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2469 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2470 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2471 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2472 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2473 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2474 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2475 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2476 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2477 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2478
9b8fadde
PH
2479PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2480 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2481 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2482
214e2000 2483
5de37277
PH
2484Exim version 4.60
2485-----------------
2486
cc38ddbf
PH
2487PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2488
2489 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2490 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2491
2492 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2493 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2494 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2495
72fdd6ae
PH
2496PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2497
2498 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2499 not a single digit.
2500
2501 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2502 string.
2503
2504 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2505 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2506 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2507 silly things.
2508
2509 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2510 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2511
2512 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2513 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2514
cb741023
PH
2515PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2516 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2517 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2518
f174f16e
PH
2519PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2520 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2521
c25242d7
PH
2522PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2523 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2524
2525 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2526
2527 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2528 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2529 this:
2530
2531 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2532
82c19f95
PH
2533PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2534 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2535 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2536 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2537 identical. For example:
2538
2539 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2540
2541 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2542 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2543 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2544
d7ffbc12
PH
2545PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2546 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2547 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2548 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2549
9f526266
PH
2550PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2551 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2552 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2553 message.
2554
87fcc8b9
PH
2555PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2556
2557 o fixes some comments
2558 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2559 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2560 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2561 and documents the missing references header update
2562
2563 and most important:
2564
2565 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2566 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2567 result)
2568
456682f5
PH
2569PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2570 Electronic Mail") by including:
2571
2572 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2573
2574 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2575 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2576 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2577 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2578 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2579
2580 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2581
2582 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2583
2584 The auto-replied keyword:
2585
2586 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2587 message by an automatic process,
2588
2589 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2590
2591 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2592 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2593
2594 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2595 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2596 other messages.
2597
3e46c1aa
PH
2598PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2599 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2600
49826d12
PH
2601PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2602
eba0c039
PH
2603PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2604 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2605 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2606
a0d6ba8a
PH
2607PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2608 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2609 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2610
f0917727
PH
2611PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2612 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2613 and treats the condition as false.
2614
096fee00
PH
2615PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2616
024bd3c2
PH
2617PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2618 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2619 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2620 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2621 not changing the active code.
2622
2623 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2624 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2625
2626 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2627 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2628
df199fec
PH
2629PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2630 (Bugzilla #53).
2631
d27f1df3
PH
2632PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2633 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2634 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2635 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2636 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2637 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2638 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2639 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2640 the text comparison.
2641
96776534
PH
2642PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2643 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2644 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2645 The same fix has been applied.
2646
5de37277 2647
9a799bc0
PH
2648Exim version 4.54
2649-----------------
2650
2651PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2652 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2653 It now does.
2654
99a4b039
PH
2655PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2656 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2657
2658PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2659
4b233853
PH
2660PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2661 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2662 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2663 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2664 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2665
8857ccfd
PH
2666TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2667 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2668 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2669 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2670 or /domain=).
2671
433a2980
PH
2672PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2673 testing suite.
2674
3e46c1aa 2675
9a799bc0 2676
e3a311ba
TK
2677Exim version 4.53
2678-----------------
2679
2680TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2681 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2682
13b685f9
PH
2683PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2684
395ff96d
PH
2685PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2686
5b68f6e4
PH
2687PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2688 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2689 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2690
1ab52c69
PH
2691PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2692 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2693 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2694
b07e6aa3
PH
2695PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2696 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2697 operating systems.
2698
254e032f
PH
2699PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2700 ${stat: expansion item.
2701
3af76a81
PH
2702PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2703 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2704
2548ba04
PH
2705PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2706 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2707 file for comments.
2708
b6c6011d
PH
2709PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2710
cf39cf57
PH
2711PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2712 setting.
2713
f1513293
PH
2714PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2715 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2716
727549a4
PH
2717TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2718
af46795e
PH
2719PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2720 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2721 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2722 the end of the subprocess.
2723
d7b47fd0
PH
2724PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2725 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2726 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2727 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2728 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2729
ee744174
JJ
2730JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2731
b582ab87
PH
2732TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2733
41a13e0a
PH
2734PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2735 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2736
f625cc5a
PH
2737PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2738
2739PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2740
21f7af35
PH
2741PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2742 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2743 HP-UX compiler.
2744
31480e42
PH
2745PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2746
2d280592
PH
2747PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2748 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2749 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2750
7cd1141b
PH
2751PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2752 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2753
2754PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2755 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2756
750af86e
PH
2757PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2758 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2759
2760 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2761 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2762
2763 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2764 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2765 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2766 contributed by a Radius user.
2767
2768PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2769 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2770
4304270b
TK
2771TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2772 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2773
750af86e
PH
2774PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2775 available.
2776
64ffc24f
PH
2777PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2778 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2779 received.
2780
5dd9625b
PH
2781PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2782 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2783 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2784 header lines when this was not necessary.
2785
5591031b
PH
2786PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2787
ba18e66a
PH
2788PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2789 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2790 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2791 exists".
2792
9cec981f
PH
2793PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2794 -bV or -d is used.
2795
aa2b5c79
PH
2796PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2797 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2798 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2799 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2800
48a53b7f
PH
2801PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2802
1c59d63b
PH
2803PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2804
671012da
TK
2805TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2806
1509d3a8
PH
2807PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2808
2809PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2810 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2811 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2812 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2813 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2814 settings.
2815
2816PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2817
2fe1a124
PH
2818PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2819 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2820 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2821 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2822 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2823 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2824 which is clearly wrong.
2825
8800895a
PH
2826PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2827
ccfdb010
PH
2828PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2829 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2830 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2831 subsequently added.
2832
1130bfb0
PH
2833PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2834 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2835
ebcb507f
PH
2836PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2837
c35e155c
PH
2838PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2839 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2840
95d1f782
PH
2841PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2842 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2843
fd6de02e
PH
2844PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2845 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2846
58de37c5
PH
2847PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2848 recipients, not senders.
2849
261cf466
TF
2850TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2851 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2852
3ee512ff
PH
2853PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2854
e08c430f
PH
2855PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2856
bef5a11f
PH
2857PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2858 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2859 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2860 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2861
7546de58
TF
2862TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2863
e5d5a95f
TF
2864TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2865 clock is set back in time.
2866
2e88a017
TF
2867TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2868 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2869
a5f65aa4
TF
2870TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2871 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2872
e7726cbf
PH
2873PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2874 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2875 (see PH/47 above).
2876
a7fdad5b
TF
2877TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2878 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2879 header rewrites.
2880
6af56900
PH
2881PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2882 type ("H").
2883
0925ede6
PH
2884PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2885
66afa403
TF
2886TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2887 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2888 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2889
0154e85a
TF
2890TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2891 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2892 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2893 helo verification defer as a failure.
2894
16f12c76
PH
2895PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2896 actual error message.
2897
bbe902f0 2898
e5a9dba6
PH
2899Exim version 4.52
2900-----------------
2901
2902TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2903
22c3b60b
PH
2904PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2905 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2906 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2907 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2908
06a9b4b5
PH
2909TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2910
c1ac6996
PH
2911PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2912 can still be requested.
2913
9c7a242c
PH
2914PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2915 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2916 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2917 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2918
87ba3f5f
PH
2919TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2920 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2921 circumstances, but probably never did.
2922
2923PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2924 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2925 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2926 in the header line.
2927
29aba418
TF
2928TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2929
fe0dab11
TF
2930TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2931 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2932
11d337a4
TK
2933TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2934
2935TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2936
415c8f3b
PH
2937PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2938 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2939 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2940 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2941 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2942 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2943
958541e9
PH
2944PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2945 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2946 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2947 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2948 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2949 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2950
c206415f
TK
2951TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2952 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2953
2a4be8f9
PH
2954PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2955 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2956
1cba11c5
SC
2957SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2958 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2959
2960SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2961
2962SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2963
2964SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2965
2966SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2967
2968SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2969
2970SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2971
1005d00e
TK
2972TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2973
2974TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2975 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2976 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2977
2978TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2979 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2980 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2981 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2982
9b4768fa
PH
2983PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2984 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2985 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2986
2987PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2988 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2989 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2990 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2991
0d7eb84a
PH
2992PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2993 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2994 to be made).
2995
2996PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2997 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2998 should work with maildirs and everything.
2999
40727bee
TK
3000TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3001 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3002
554d2369
TF
3003TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3004 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3005
1f922db1
PH
3006PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3007 function for BDB 4.3.
3008
ef213c3b
PH
3009PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3010
8ac170f3
PH
3011PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3012 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3013 involved.
3014
b1c749bb
PH
3015PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3016 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3017 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3018 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3019 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3020 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3021
4aac9b49
PH
3022PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3023 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3024 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3025 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3026 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3027 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3028 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3029 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3030
294520c8
TK
3031TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3032 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3033 details.
3034
5bd022fe
PH
3035PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3036 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3037
90e9ce59
PH
3038PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3039 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3040 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3041 test. It is now used for both.
3042
5ea81592
PH
3043PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3044 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3045 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3046 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3047 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3048 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3049
c6c2dc1d
PH
3050PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3051 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3052 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3053 string_vformat().
3054
fffffe4c
PH
3055PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3056 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3057 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3058
9a26b6b2
PH
3059PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3060 experimental DomainKeys support:
3061
3062 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3063 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3064 the control was given.
3065
3066 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3067
4aee0225
PH
3068PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3069
32d668a5
PH
3070PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3071
8187c3f3
PH
3072PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3073 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3074 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3075 db.h files).
3076
ff790e47 3077PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3078 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3079 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3080 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3081 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3082 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3083 course.
ff790e47 3084
5417f6d1
PH
3085PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3086 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3087 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3088 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3089 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3090 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3091
59cf8544
PH
3092PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3093 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3094 do -d+all out of habit.
3095
e7ad8a65
PH
3096PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3097 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3098 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3099
ade42478
PH
3100PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3101 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3102 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3103 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3104 record types that Exim uses.
3105
182ad5cf
PH
3106PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3107 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3108 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3109 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3110 non-existent file that was broken.
3111
b0d9fc80
TK
3112TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3113 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3114
3115TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3116 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3117 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3118
3119TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3120
47c7a64a
PH
3121PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3122 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3123 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3124 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3125 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3126 same time.
3127
a388bce4
SC
3128SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3129 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3130 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3131 at a slight CPU cost.
3132
3133SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3134 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3135
3136SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3137 by Marc Sherman.
3138
0793e4ed
SC
3139SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3140
c58b88df
PH
3141PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3142 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3143
e7ad8a65 3144
7982096b
PH
3145Exim version 4.51
3146-----------------
3147
1a46a8c5
PH
3148TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3149 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3150
2f079f46 3151TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3152
3153TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3154
3155PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3156 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3157
3158PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3159 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3160 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3161 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3162 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3163 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3164 file.
3165
3166PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3167 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3168 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3169 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3170 these two options.
3171
3172PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3173 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3174 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3175 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3176 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3177 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3178 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3179 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3180
3181PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3182 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3183
3184PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3185 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3186 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3187 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3188 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3189 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3190
3191PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3192 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3193 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3194 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3195
3196PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3197 Finch).
3198
3199PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3200 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3201
49c2d5ea
PH
3202PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3203 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3204 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3205 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3206 message.
49c2d5ea 3207
bf759a8b
PH
3208PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3209
83364d30
PH
3210PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3211 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3212
7999bbd7
PH
3213PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3214 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3215 to what was transported.)
3216
7dbf77c9
PH
3217TF/01 Added $received_time.
3218
74e0617f
PH
3219PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3220 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3221 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3222 spamd_address settings.
3223
2f079f46
PH
3224PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3225 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3226 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3227 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3228 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3229
8c841523
PH
3230PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3231
7766a4f0
PH
3232PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3233 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3234 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3235 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3236 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3237
8b417f2c
PH
3238PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3239 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3240
901f42cb
PH
3241PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3242 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3243 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3244 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3245 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3246 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3247 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3248 for failure.
3249
f9b9210e
PH
3250PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3251 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3252 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3253 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3254 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3255 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3256 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3257 "input=".
3258
54cdb463
PH
3259PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3260
cf00dad6
PH
3261PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3262 driver and ACL definitions.
3263
acb1b346
PH
3264PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3265 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3266
c5ddb310
PH
3267PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3268 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3269 understands it better than I do:
3270
3271 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3272 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3273
3274 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3275 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3276 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3277 => three warnings about OTP not working
3278 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3279
3280 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3281 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3282 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3283 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3284 for each call.)
3285 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3286 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3287
3288 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3289 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3290 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3291
31619da6
PH
3292PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3293 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3294 specified.
3295
bebaf0fc
PH
3296PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3297 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3298 "Linux".
3299
475fe28a
PH
3300PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3301 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3302 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3303
3304 warn !verify = sender
3305 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3306
3307 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3308 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3309
7e8bec7a
PH
3310PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3311
3312 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3313 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3314
3315 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3316 nomenclature these days.)
3317
e4a89c47
PH
3318PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3319 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3320
5ca2a9a1
PH
3321PH/30 In these circumstances:
3322 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3323 . First host does not offer TLS;
3324 . First host accepts first address;
3325 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3326 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3327 . Second host accepts second address.
3328 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3329 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3330 address.
7e8bec7a 3331
c688b954
PH
3332PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3333 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3334 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3335 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3336 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3337
fed77020
PH
3338PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3339 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3340
7fe1560f
PH
3341PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3342 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3343
ebb6e6d5
PH
3344PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3345 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3346 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3347
9c4e8f60
PH
3348PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3349 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3350 overlooked.
3351
3352PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3353
d7174846
PH
3354PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3355 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3356 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3357 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3358 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3359 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3360 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3361
3362 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3363 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3364 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3365 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3366 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3367
3368 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3369 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3370 routed further.
3371
cfe75fc3
PH
3372PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3373 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3374 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3375 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3376 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3377 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3378
be22d70e
PH
3379PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3380
0612b098
PH
3381PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3382 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3383 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3384 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3385 printable escape sequences.
3386
2e0c1448
PH
3387PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3388 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3389 body only.
3390
447d236c
PH
3391PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3392 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3393 are as follows:
3394
3395 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3396 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3397 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3398 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3399 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3400
3401 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3402 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3403 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3404
d20976dc
PH
3405PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3406
f656d135
PH
3407PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3408 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3409 play with."
3410
2e2a30b4
PH
3411PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3412 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3413 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3414 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3415 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3416 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3417 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3418 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3419 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3420 the log output.
3421
9176e9f0
PH
3422PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3423 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3424 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3425 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3426 "make".
3427
7982096b 3428
bbe902f0
PH
3429A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3430----------------------------------------
3431
3432Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3433changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3434needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3435in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3436that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3437release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3438from 4.43.
3439
3440I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3442those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3443historical information.
3444
3445
f7b63901 3446Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3447-----------------
3448
5fe762f6
PH
3449 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3450
139059f6 3451 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3452 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3453
7086e875
PH
3454 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3455 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3456 place.
3457
35af9f61
PH
3458 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3459 filter fails to execute.
3460
b668c215
PH
3461 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3462 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3463 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3464 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3465 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3466
a494b1e1
PH
3467 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3468
3469 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3470 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3471 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3472 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3473
c5fcb476
PH
3474 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3475 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3476 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3477 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3478 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3479
69358f02
PH
3480 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3481
5be20824
PH
348210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3483
eb2c0248
PH
348411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3485 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3486 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3487 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3488
2a3eea10
PH
348912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3490 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3491 sender verification.
3492
349313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3494 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3495
23c7ff99
PH
349614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3497
4deaf07d
PH
349815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3499 connection timeout.
3500
926e1192
PH
350116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3502 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3503
650edc6f
PH
350417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3505 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3506
2c7db3f5
PH
350718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3508 information about exactly what failed.
3509
3d235903
PH
351019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3511
7c7ad977
PH
351220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3513 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3514 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3515
981756db
PH
351621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3517 It is now set to "smtps".
3518
d4eb88df
PH
351922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3520 ignore_target_hosts.
3521
352223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3523 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3524 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3525 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3526 "[x.x.x.x]".
3527
7d468ab8
PH
352824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3529 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3530 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3531
353225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3533 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3534 wake it up if nothing else does.
3535
62c0818f
PH
353626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3537 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3538 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3539 end up negative.
3540
26034054
PH
354127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3542 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3543
af66f652
PH
354428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3545
90af77f4
PH
354629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3547 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3548 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3549 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3550 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3551 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3552 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3553 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3554
d8ef3577
PH
355530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3556 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3557 than one IP address.
3558
5cb8cbc6
PH
355931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3560 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3561 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3562 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3563
14702f5b
PH
356432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3565 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3566 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3567 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3568 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3569 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3570
063b1e99
PH
357133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3572 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3573 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3574 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3575
652e1b65
PH
357634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3577 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3578 respected.
3579
6f0c9a4f
PH
358035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3581 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3582 $sender_host_address.
3583
33397d19
PH
358436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3585 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3586 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3587 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3588 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3589 very small.
3590
7bb56e1f
PH
359137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3592
3593 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3594 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3595
ea3bc19b
PH
3596 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3597 just the host names, not the priorities.
3598
3599 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3600 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3601 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3602
ea3bc19b 3603 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3604 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3605
0bcb2a0e
PH
360638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3607 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3608 domain.
3609
2ac0e484
PH
361039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3611
4e1fde53
PH
361240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3613 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3614
de365ded
PH
361541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3616 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3617 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3618
f05da2e8
PH
361942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3620
d6453af2
PH
362143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3622
f7b63901
PH
362344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3624
362545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3626 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3627 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3628 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3629 because the tests only now provoked it.
3630
a444213a
PH
363146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3632 (this can affect the format of dates).
3633
0ec020ea
PH
363447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3635 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3636 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3637 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3638
b1206957
PH
363948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3640
364149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3642 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3643 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3644 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3645
26dd5a95
PH
364650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3647 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3648 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3649
343b2385
PH
365051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3651 autoreply.
3652
1c5466b9
PH
365352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3654 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3655 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3656 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3657 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3658 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3659 is going on).
3660
55ee9ee3
PH
366153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3662 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3663 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3664 the line.
3665
d38f8232
PH
366654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3667 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3668 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3669
3670 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3671 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3672 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3673 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3674 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3675 so I produce this patch..."
3676
3295e65b
PH
3677 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3678 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3679 is not defined.
3680
7102e136
PH
368155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3682 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3683 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3684 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3685 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3686
3ca0ba97
PH
368756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3688
c2bcbe20
PH
368957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3690 long debug lines gets shown.
3691
18ce445d
PH
369258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3693 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3694
1f5b4c3d
PH
369559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3696
3697 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3698 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3699 of $primary_hostname.
3700
b975ba52
PH
370160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3702 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3703 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3704 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3705 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3706 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3707 by change 4.50/55 above.
3708
3709 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3710 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3711 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3712 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3713 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3714 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3715 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3716
371761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3718 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3719 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3720 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3721
17ffcae7
PH
372262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3723 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3724
d95f9fdb
PH
372563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3726 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3727 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3728 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3729 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3730
86b8287f
PH
373164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3732 This has been fixed.
3733
60dc5e56
PH
373465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3735 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3736 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3737 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3738 the caching.)
3739
533244af
PH
374066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3741
a5a28604
PH
374267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3743 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3744 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3745 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3746
7e634d24
PH
374768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3748 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3749
3e11c26b
PH
375069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3751 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3752 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3753
6729cf78
PH
375470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3755 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3756 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3757 message there.
3758
00f00ca5
PH
375971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3760 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3761 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3762
c9bdd01c
PH
376372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3764 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3765 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3766 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3767
d43194df
PH
376873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3769 during host lookups.
3770
fe5b5d0b
PH
377174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3772 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3773
3774 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3775
76a2d7ba
PH
377675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3777 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3778 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3779 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3780 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3781 background.
3782
378376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3784 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3785
04f7d5b9
PH
378677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3787 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3788 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3789
bc60667e
PH
379078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3791
bb6e88ff
PH
379279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3793 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3794 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3795 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3796 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3797 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3798 process earlier.
3799
1e70f85b
PH
380080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3801 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3802 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3803 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3804 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3805
380681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3807 tables).
3808
4e01f9d6
PH
380982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3810
1ee1cef2
PH
381183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3812 "vacation" handling.
3813
6e2b4ccc
PH
381484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3815 OS variants using glibc.
3816
8e669ac1
PH
381785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3818
495ae4b0 3819
bbe902f0
PH
3820----------------------------------------------------
3821See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3822----------------------------------------------------
3823
3824
3825Exim version 4.44
3826-----------------
3827
3828 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3829 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3830 transport
3831
3832 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3833 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3834 place.
3835
3836 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3837 filter fails to execute.
3838
3839 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3840 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3841 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3842 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3843 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3844
3845 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3846 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3847 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3848 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3849
3850 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3851 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3852 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3853 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3854 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3855
3856 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3857
3858 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3859 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3860 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3861 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3862
3863 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3864 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3865 sender verification.
3866
386710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3868 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3869
387011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3871 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3872
387312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3874 ignore_target_hosts.
3875
387613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3877 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3878 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3879 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3880 "[x.x.x.x]".
3881
388214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3883 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3884 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3885
388615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3887 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3888 wake it up if nothing else does.
3889
389016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3891 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3892 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3893 end up negative.
3894
389517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3896 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3897
ea3a6f44 389818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3899
390019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3901 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3902 empty pattern.
3903
390420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3905 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3906 one IP address.
3907
ea3a6f44
NM
390821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3909 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3910 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3911 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3912 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3913 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3914
ea3a6f44
NM
391522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3916 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3917 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3918
391923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3920 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3921 $sender_host_address.
3922
392324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3924
ea3a6f44
NM
392525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3926 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3927 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3928
392926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3930 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3931
ea3a6f44
NM
393227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3933 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3934
ea3a6f44
NM
393528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3936 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3937 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3938 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3939
394029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3941 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3942 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3943
ea3a6f44
NM
394430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3945 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3946 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3947 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3948
ea3a6f44
NM
394931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3950 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3951 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3952
ea3a6f44
NM
395331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3954 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3955
ea3a6f44
NM
395632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3957 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3958 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3959 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3960 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3961 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3962 is going on).
bbe902f0 3963
ea3a6f44
NM
396433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3965 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3966 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3967 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3968 CAN-2005-0021
3969
ea3a6f44
NM
397034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3971 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3972 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3973 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3974 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3975 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3976 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3977
3978 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3979 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3980 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3981 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3982 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3983 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3984 CAN-2005-0021
3985
ea3a6f44
NM
398635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3987 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3988 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3989 CAN-2005-0022
3990
ea3a6f44
NM
399136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3992 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3993 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3994 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3995 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3996
ea3a6f44
NM
399737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3998 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3999 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4000 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4001 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4002
ea3a6f44
NM
400338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4004 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4005 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4006 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4007 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4008
4009
495ae4b0
PH
4010Exim version 4.43
4011-----------------
4012
4013 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4014 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4015 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4016 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4017 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4018 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4019 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4020
4021 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4022 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4023 the delivery.
4024
4025 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4026
4027 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4028
4029 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4030 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4031 to local_scan().
4032
4033 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4034 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4035 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4036 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4037 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4038
4039 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4040 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4041
4042 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4043
4044 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4045
404610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4047 header_sender only.
4048
404911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4050 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4051
405212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4053 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4054 affecting debugging statements).
4055
405613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4057
405814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4059 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4060 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4061 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4062 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4063 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4064 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4065 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4066 after the received time, and all would be well.
4067
406815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4069 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4070 condition in an expansion string.
4071
407216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4073
407417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4075 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4076 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4077 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4078 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4079 job under whatever limits there are.
4080
408118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4082
408319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4084 space).
4085
408620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4087 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4088 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4089 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4090 return path is set.
4091
409221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4093 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4094 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4095 binary data in such strings.
4096
409722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4098
409923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4100 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4101 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4102 failure, which is pointless.
4103
410424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4105
410625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4107
410826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4109 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4110 Sender: header lines.
4111
411227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4113 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4114 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4115
411628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4117 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4118 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4119 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4120 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4121 happens.
4122
412329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4124 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4125 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4126 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4127 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4128
412930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4130 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4131 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4132 1024.
4133
413431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4135 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4136
413732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4138 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4139
414033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4141
414232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4143
414433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4145
414634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4147 syntax error.
4148
414935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4150
415136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4152
415337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4154 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4155 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4156 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4157
415838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4159 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4160
4161
4162Exim version 4.42
4163-----------------
4164
4165 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4166 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4167 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4168 it was not quoted.
4169 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4170 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4171 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4172 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4173 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4174 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4175
4176 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4177 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4178 verification failure".
4179
4180 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4181 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4182 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4183 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4184
4185 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4186 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4187 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4188 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4189 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4190 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4191 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4192 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4193 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4194 treated as a timeout.
4195
4196 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4197 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4198 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4199 not set for Exim filters).
4200
4201 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4202 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4203 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4204
4205 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4206
4207 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4208 try to make them clearer.
4209
4210 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4211 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4212
4213 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4214
4215 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4216
421710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4218 only the Cygwin environment.
4219
422011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4221 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4222 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4223 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4224 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4225
422612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4227 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4228 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4229 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4230 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4231 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4232 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4233
423413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4235 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4236
423714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4238
4239 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4240 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4241 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4242
4243 To: susanne@some.where
4244
4245 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4246 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4247 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4248 of addresses in From: header lines).
4249
4250 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4251 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4252 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4253
4254 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4255 treated as non-personal.
4256
4257 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4258 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4259
426015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4261
426216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4263
426417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4265 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4266 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4267
426818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4269 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4270
427119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4272 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4273 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4274 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4275 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4276 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4277
427820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4279 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4280 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4281 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4282 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4283 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4284 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4285 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4286
4287 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4288
428921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4290 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4291
429222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4293 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4294 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4295
429623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4297 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4298
429924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4300 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4301 rather than long int.
4302
430325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4304
430526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4306
4307
4308Exim version 4.41
4309-----------------
4310
4311 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4312 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4313 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4314 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4315 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4316 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4317
4318
4319Exim version 4.40
4320-----------------
4321
4322 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4323 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4324
4325 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4326 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4327 socklen_t is defined.
4328
4329 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4330 always exist.
4331
4332 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4333 configured.
4334
4335 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4336 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4337 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4338 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4339 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4340
4341 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4342 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4343 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4344 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4345
4346 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4347 of flapping under certain conditions.
4348
4349 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4350 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4351 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4352
4353 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4354
435510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4356
435711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4358 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4359 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4360 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4361
436212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4363 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4364 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4365 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4366 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4367 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4368 preserved with the message after it was received.
4369
437013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4371 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4372 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4373 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4374 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4375 test suite worked just fine.
4376
437714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4378 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4379 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4380
438115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4382 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4383 string.
4384
438516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4386 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4387 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4388 does not fully solve it.
4389
439017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4391 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4392 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4393 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4394 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4395
439618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4397 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4398 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4399
440019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4401 string, for example:
4402
4403 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4404
4405 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4406 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4407 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4408 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4409 the routers could not see them.
4410
441120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4412 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4413
441421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4415 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4416 output).
4417
441822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4419 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4420 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4421 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4422 that needed quoting.
4423
442423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4425 was not being matched caselessly.
4426
442724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4428 backslashes.
4429
443025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4431 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4432 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4433 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4434 when use_sender is false.
4435
443626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4437
443827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4439
444028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4441
444229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4443 the configuration file.
4444
444530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4446 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4447
444831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4449
445032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4451 bytes in the message body.
4452
445333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4454 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4455 delivery.
4456
445734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4458
445935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4460
446136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4462 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4463 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4464 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4465 another IP address.
4466
4467
4468Exim version 4.34
4469-----------------
4470
4471 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4472 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4473
4474 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4475 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4476 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4477 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4478 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4479
4480 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4481 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4482
4483 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4484 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4485 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4486
4487 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4488 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4489 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4490
4491 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4492 for routers.
4493
4494 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4495 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4496 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4497 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4498 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4499 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4500 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4501
4502
4503Exim version 4.33
4504-----------------
4505
4506 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4507 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4508 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4509 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4510 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4511 default (and expected) setting.
4512
4513 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4514 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4515 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4516 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4517
4518 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4519 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4520
4521 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4522 in domain lists.
4523
4524 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4525 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4526 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4527 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4528 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4529 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4530
4531 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4532 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4533 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4534
4535 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4536 part (NOT match_host).
4537
4538 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4539
4540 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4541 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4542 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4543 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4544 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4545 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4546 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4547 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4548 the same named file.
4549
455010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4551 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4552 when Exim is built.
4553
455411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4555 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4556 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4557 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4558 a host name.
4559
456012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4561 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4562 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4563
456413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4565
456614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4567
456815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4569
457016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4571 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4572
457317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4574 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4575 before starting the TLS session.
4576
457718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4578
457919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4580 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4581
458220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4583 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4584 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4585 colon in the middle).
4586
4587
4588Exim version 4.32
4589-----------------
4590
4591 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4592 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4593 multiple configurations are in use.
4594
4595 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4596 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4597 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4598 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4599 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4600 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4601
4602 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4603 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4604
4605 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4606 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4607 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4608
4609 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4610 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4611 occurs.
4612
4613 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4614 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4615
4616 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4617
4618 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4619 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4620
4621 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4622
4623 -prval:sval
4624
4625 is equivalent to
4626
4627 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4628
4629 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4630 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4631 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4632 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4633 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4634
463510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4636 Exim's behaviour:
4637
4638 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4639 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4640 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4641 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4642 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4643 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4644
4645 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4646 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4647 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4648 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4649 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4650 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4651 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4652 string.
4653
4654 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4655 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4656 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4657 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4658 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4659
466011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4661
466212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4663 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4664 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4665
466613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4667
466814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4669 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4670 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4671 information.
4672
467315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4674 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4675
467616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4677 Three changes have been made:
4678
4679 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4680 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4681 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4682 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4683 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4684
4685 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4686 been restored.
4687
4688 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4689 the modified behaviour.
4690
4691
4692Exim version 4.31
4693-----------------
4694
4695 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4696 Larry Rosenman.
4697
4698 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4699 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4700
4701 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4702 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4703 try to track down a specific problem.
4704
4705 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4706 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4707 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4708
4709 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4710 warning.
4711
4712 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4713 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4714 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4715 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4716 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4717 some earlier ones do not.
4718
4719 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4720
4721 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4722 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4723 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4724 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4725 address literals are enabled, of course).
4726
4727 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4728
472910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4730 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4731 by a command such as
4732
4733 exim -f "" ...
4734
4735 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4736
473711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4738
473912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4740 remained set. It is now erased.
4741
474213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4743 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4744
474514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4746 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4747 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4748 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4749 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4750 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4751 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4752 appropriate error code.
4753
475415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4755 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4756 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4757 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4758 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4759 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4760
476116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4762 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4763 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4764
476517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4766 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4767 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4768 terminate the header.
4769
477018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4771 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4772 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4773
477419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4775 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4776 (4.30/29). In particular:
4777
4778 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4779 imposed.
4780
4781 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4782 to write a maildirsize file.
4783
4784 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4785 the transport, the new value overrides.
4786
4787 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4788 count.
4789
479020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4791 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4792 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4793 space or a tab.
4794
479521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4796 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4797 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4798 the fallback hosts.
4799
480022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4801 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4802 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4803
480423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4805 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4806 using a union.
4807
480824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4809 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4810 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4811
481225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4813
481426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4815
481627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4817
481828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4819 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4820 become corrupted.
4821
482229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4823 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4824 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4825 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4826 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4827 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4828 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4829 too great.
4830
483130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4832 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4833 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4834 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4835 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4836 incorrectly.
4837
483831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4839 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4840 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4841 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4842 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4843 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4844 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4845 cached value only when the same options are set.
4846
484732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4848
484933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4850 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4851 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4852 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4853 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4854
485534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4856 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4857 it is clearly obsolete.
4858
485935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4860 transport.
4861
486236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4863 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4864 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4865 times.
4866
486737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4868 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4869 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4870 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4871 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4872
487338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4874 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4875 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4876 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4877
487839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4879
4880 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4881
4882 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4883 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4884 2^31.
4885
488640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4887 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4888 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4889 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4890 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4891 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4892 $localpart_data.
4893
489441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4895 with the -f command-line option.
4896
489742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4898 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4899 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4900 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4901 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4902 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4903
490443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4905 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4906 line.
4907
490844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4909 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4910 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4911 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4912 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4913 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4914 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4915 buffer is too small.
4916
491745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4918 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4919
492046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4921 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4922 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4923 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4924 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4925 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4926 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4927 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4928 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4929
493047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4931 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4932 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4933
493448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4935 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4936 ACL").
4937
493849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4939 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4940 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4941 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4942 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4943
494450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4945 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4946 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4947 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4948 is set.
4949
495051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4951
495252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4953
495453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4955 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4956
495754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4958 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4959 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4960
496155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4962 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4963 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4964 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4965 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4966
496756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4968 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4969 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4970 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4971 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4972 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4973 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4974
497557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4976 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4977 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4978 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4979 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4980 the test of how many are available.
4981
498258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4983 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4984 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4985 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4986 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4987 new message is started.
4988
498959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4990 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4991
499260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4993 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4994
499561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4996 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4997 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4998 is no long logged.
4999
500062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5001 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5002 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5003 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5004 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5005 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5006 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5007
500863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5009 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5010 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5011 interpreted as octal.
5012
501364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5014 setting.
5015
501665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5017 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5018 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5019 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5020 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5021 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5022
502366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5024 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5025 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5026 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5027
5028 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5029 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5030 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5031 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5032
5033 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5034 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5035 is a bug fix.
5036
5037 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5038 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5039
504067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5041
504268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5043 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5044 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5045 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5046
504769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5048 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5049 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5050 supplied", which is not helpful.
5051
505270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5053 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5054 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5055
505671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5057 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5058 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5059 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5060 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5061 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5062 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5063 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5064
506572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5066 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5067 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5068 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5069 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5070
507173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5072 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5073 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5074 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5075 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5076 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5077
507874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5079 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5080 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5081
508275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5083
508476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5085 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5086 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5087 variables.
5088
508977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5090
509178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5092 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5093 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5094 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5095 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5096 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5097 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5098 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5099
510079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5101 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5102 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5103 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5104 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5105
510680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5107 Haardt.
5108
510981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5110 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5111 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5112 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5113 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5114 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5115 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5116 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5117 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5118
5119
5120Exim version 4.30
5121-----------------
5122
5123 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5124 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5125 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5126
5127 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5128 fixed.
5129
5130 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5131 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5132 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5133
5134 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5135 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5136 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5137 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5138 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5139 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5140
5141 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5142 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5143 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5144 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5145 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5146 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5147 the Exim test suite.
5148
5149 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5150 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5151 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5152 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5153
5154 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5155 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5156 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5157 specify it in this variable.
5158
5159 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5160 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5161 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5162 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5163
5164 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5165 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5166 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5167 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5168
5169 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5170 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5171 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5172 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5173 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5174
5175 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5176
517710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5178 they are logged.
5179
518011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5181 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5182 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5183 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5184 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5185
518612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5187 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5188
518913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5190 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5191 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5192 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5193 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5194
519514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5196 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5197
519815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5199 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5200 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5201
520216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5203 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5204
520517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5206 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5207
520818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5209 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5210 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5211
521219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5213 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5214
521520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5216 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5217 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5218 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5219
522021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5221
522222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5223 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5224 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5225 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5226
522723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5228
522924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5230 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5231
523225. Added .include_if_exists.
5233
523426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5235 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5236 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5237 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5238 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5239 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5240
524127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5242
524328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5244 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5245 this.
5246
524729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5248
524930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5250 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5251
5252 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5253 550 Sender verify failed
5254
5255 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5256 the final line of the response.
5257
525831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5259 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5260 all other user lookups.
5261
526232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5263 delivery time.
5264
526533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5266 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5267 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5268 result into an int without checking.
5269
527034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5271 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5272 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5273
527435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5275 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5276 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5277 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5278
527936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5280 correctly.
5281
528237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5283 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5284
528538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5286 to the empty sender.
5287
528839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5289 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5290 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5291 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5292 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5293 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5294 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5295 panic log.
5296
529740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5298 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5299 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5300 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5301 used.
5302
530341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5304 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5305
530642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5307 timestamps.
5308
530943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5310 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5311
531244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5313
531445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5315 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5316 logs.
5317
531846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5319 as soon as it is encountered.
5320
532147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5322
532348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5324 rewritten to "<>".
5325
532649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5327 recognizes a tab character.
5328
532950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5330 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5331 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5332 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5333
533451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5335
533652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5337 crash.
5338
533953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5340
534154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5342
534355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5344 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5345 2822.
5346
534756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5348 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5349 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5350 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5351 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5352
535357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5354 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5355
535658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5357 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5358 list (.included file names were always shown).
5359
536059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5361 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5362 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5363 root at that time.
5364
536560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5366 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5367
536861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5369
537062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5371
537263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5373
537464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5375 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5376 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5377 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5378 failures to open the logs.
5379
538065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5381 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5382 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5383 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5384 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5385 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5386 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5387
5388
5389Exim version 4.24
5390-----------------
5391
5392 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5393 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5394 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5395 change 4.23/1.
5396
5397 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5398 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5399 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5400
5401 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5402 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5403 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5404
5405 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5406 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5407 causing some misleading effects.
5408
5409 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5410 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5411 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5412
5413 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5414 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5415 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5416 queue-runner function directly.
5417
5418
5419Exim version 4.23
5420-----------------
5421
5422 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5423 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5424
5425 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5426 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5427 was always written to the default place.
5428
5429 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5430 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5431 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5432
5433 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5434
5435 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5436
5437 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5438 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5439 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5440
5441 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5442 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5443 must start.
5444
5445 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5446 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5447 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5448
5449 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5450 command line option is disabled.
5451
5452 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5453 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5454
5455 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5456
5457 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5458
5459 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5460 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5461
546210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5463
546411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5465 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5466 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5467 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5468 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5469 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5470
547112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5472 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5473 timeout.
5474
547513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5476 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5477
547814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5479 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5480
548115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5482 received was valid base64.
5483
548416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5485 name of the variable that was being set.
5486
548717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5488
548918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5490 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5491 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5492 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5493 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5494 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5495
549619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5497
549820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5499 nor realm was specified.
5500
550121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5502 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5503 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5504 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5505
550622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5507 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5508 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5509
551023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5511 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5512 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5513
551424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5515 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5516 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5517 some systems use these upper case variants.
5518
551925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5520 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5521 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5522 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5523
552426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5525
552627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5527 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5528
552928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5530 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5531 expansion variable.
5532
553329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5534
553530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5536 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5537 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5538 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5539
554031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5541 using it.
5542
554332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5544 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5545 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5546
554733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5548 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5549
555034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5551 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5552 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5553 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5554
555535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5556 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5557 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5558
555936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5560
556137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5562 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5563 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5564 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5565 aborted.
5566
556738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5568 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5569 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5570
557139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5572
557340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5574 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5575
557641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5577 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5578
557942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5580 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5581 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5582 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5583 when emails are that large.
5584
5585
5586
5587Exim version 4.22
5588-----------------
5589
5590 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5591 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5592
5593 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5594 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5595 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5596
5597 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5598 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5599 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5600
5601 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5602 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5603 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5604 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5605 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5606
5607 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5608 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5609 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5610 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5611 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5612 ever.
5613
5614 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5615 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5616 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5617 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5618 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5619 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5620 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5621 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5622 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5623 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5624 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5625 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5626 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5627 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5628
5629 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5630 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5631 parameterised it.
5632
5633 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5634 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5635 error should be diagnosed.
5636
5637 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5638 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5639 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5640 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5641 appeared instead of "NULL".
5642
564310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5644 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5645 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5646 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5647 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5648 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5649 proceeds).
5650
5651 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5652 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5653 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5654
5655
5656Exim version 4.21
5657-----------------
5658
5659 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5660 or receiver verification errors.
5661
5662 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5663 name.
5664
5665 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5666 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5667 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5668 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5669
5670 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5671 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5672 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5673 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5674 shouldn't happen again.
5675
5676 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5677 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5678 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5679
5680 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5681 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5682
5683 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5684
5685 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5686 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5687
5688 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5689 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5690 RFC.
5691
569210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5693 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5694 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5695
569611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5697 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5698 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5699 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5700
570112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5702 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5703 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5704 to define what should happen).
5705
570613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5707 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5708 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5709
571014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5711
571215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5713
571416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5715 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5716
571717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5718 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5719 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5720 structure in all cases.
5721
5722 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5723 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5724 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5725 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5726
572718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5728 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5729 domain name.
5730
573119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5732 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5733
573420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5735 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5736
573721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5738 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5739 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5740
574122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5742 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5743 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5744
574523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5746 the book and for uniformity.
5747
574824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5749
575025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5751 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5752 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5753 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5754 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5755 non-existent command as the problem.
5756
575726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5758 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5759 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5760
576127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5762
576328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5764 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5765 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5766
576729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5768 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5769 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5770 timestamps using strftime().
5771
577230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5773 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5774
577532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5776 transport-time rewrites.
5777
577833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5779 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5780 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5781 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5782
578334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5784 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5785
578635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5787 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5788 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5789 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5790 comma and a space.
5791
579236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5793 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5794 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5795 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5796 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5797 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5798 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5799
580037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5801 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5802 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5803 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5804 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5805
580638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5807 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5808 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5809 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5810 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5811 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5812 remaining text gets split now.
5813
581439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5815 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5816 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5817 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5818
581940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5820 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5821 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5822 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5823 $return_path.
5824
582541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5826 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5827 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5828 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5829 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5830 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5831 passed through if needed.
5832
583342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5834 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5835 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5836 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5837 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5838 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5839
584043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5841 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5842 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5843 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5844 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5845
584644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5847 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5848 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5849 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5850 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5851
585245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5853 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5854 noticed.
5855
585646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5857 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5858 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5859 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5860 mayhem of various kinds.
5861
586247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5863 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5864 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5865 the right test for positive values.
5866
586748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5868 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5869 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5870 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5871 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5872 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5873 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5874 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5875 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5876 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5877 envelope.
5878
587949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5880 module.
5881
588250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5883 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5884 forbidding it.
5885
588651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5887 the existing equality matching.
5888
588952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5890 dealing with inode numbers.
5891
589253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5893 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5894 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5895
589654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5897 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5898 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5899 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5900 local_scan().
5901
590255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5903 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5904 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5905 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5906 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5907 relay addresses has also been removed.
5908
590956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5910
591157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5912 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5913 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5914
591558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5916 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5917 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5918 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5919 processing applies to CR:
5920
5921 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5922 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5923
5924 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5925 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5926 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5927 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5928
592959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5930 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5931 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5932
593360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5934 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5935 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5936 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5937 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5938 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5939 arisen.
5940
594161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5942 program routers.
5943
594462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5945 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5946 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5947 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5948 adds:
5949
5950 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5951
5952 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5953
5954 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5955
595663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5957 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5958 not considered personal.
5959
596064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5961
596265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5963
596466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5965
596667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5967 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5968 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5969 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5970 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5971 header lines, and spool format errors.
5972
597368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5974 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5975 for more flexibility.
5976
597769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5978 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5979 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5980
598170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5982 Sabourenkov.
5983
598471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5985 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5986 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5987 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5988 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5989 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5990 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5991 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5992 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5993
599472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5995 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5996 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5997 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5998 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5999 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6000 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6001
600273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6003 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6004 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6005
600674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6007 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6008 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6009 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6010 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6011 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6012 instead of killing the process with assert().
6013
601475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6015 than Unicode encoding.
6016
601776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6018 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6019 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6020 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6021
602277. Added process_log_path.
6023
602478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6025 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6026
602779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6028 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6029
603080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6031 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6032 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6033
603481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6035 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6036 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6037 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6038 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6039 were applied:
6040
6041 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6042 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6043 as invalid.
6044
604582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6046 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6047 they will be used during message reception.
6048
6049
6050Exim version 4.20
6051-----------------
6052
6053The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6054
6055****