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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.86
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
40 the options can now be changed in the usual way.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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46Exim version 4.85
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48TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
49 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
50 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
51 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
52 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
53 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
54 the script parsing/test process like normal.
55
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56TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
57 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
58 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
59 function when detected.
60
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61JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
62 cause callback expansion.
63
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64TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
65 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
66 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
67 instead of bool when processing it.
68
0f06b4f2 69JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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70 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
71
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72JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
73
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74JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
75
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76TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
77
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78TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
79 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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81JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
82 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
83 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
84 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
85 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
86 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
87
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88JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
89 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
90 exceeded it.
91
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92JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
93 version 3.3.6 or later.
94
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95JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
96 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
97 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 98 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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99 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
100 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
101 option is defined.
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103TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
104 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
105
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106JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
107 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
108 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
109 matches.
110
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111JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
112 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
113 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
114
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115JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
116 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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117
118JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
119 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
120 syntax errors.
121
3394b36a 122JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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123
124JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
125 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
126
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127TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
128 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
129 tarball.
130
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131JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
132
133JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
134 Bug 1561.
135
136JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
137 output list separator was used.
138
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140Exim version 4.84
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142TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
143 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
144 return.
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146JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
147 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
148
149JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
150
151TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 152 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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157
158TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
159
160 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
161 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
162 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
163 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
164 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
165 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
166
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167TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
168 utilities have not been installed.
169
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170JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
171 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
172
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173TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
174 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
175
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176TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
177 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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178 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
179 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 180
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181JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
182
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183TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
184 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
185
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186PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
187 not dns_use_dnssec.
188
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189JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
190
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191TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
192 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
193 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
194
8ddef691 195TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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196 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
197 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
198 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
199 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 200 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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202JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
203
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204JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
205 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
206
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207JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
208 failed delivery.
209
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210JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
211
511a6c14 212JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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213
214JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
215 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 216
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217JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
218 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
219
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220TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
221
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222JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
223
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224JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
225 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
226
227 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
228 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
229 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
230
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231TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
232 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
233 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
234 analysis.
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236JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
237
8c51eead 238JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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239 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
240 lookup).
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242TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
243 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
244 Schlichting.
35aba663 245
fd3b6a4a 246JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 247 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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249TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
250 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
251
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252JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
253
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254TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
255 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
256 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
257
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258JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
259 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
260
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261JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
262 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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263 hosts_request_ocsp.
264
ed3bba5f 265JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 266 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 267 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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269JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
270
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271TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
272 Christian Aistleitner.
273
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274JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
275
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276TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
277 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
278
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279JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
280 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
281
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282JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
283 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
284
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285TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
286 support and error reporting did not work properly.
287
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288TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
289 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
290
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291TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
292 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
293 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
294
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295JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
296
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297PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
298 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
299 Jasper Wallace.
300
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301JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
302
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303TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
304 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
305 CVE-2014-2972
306
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310
311PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
312
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313PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
314 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
315
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316PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
317 by GnuTLS.
318
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319PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
320 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
321 routines.
322
13363eba 323PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 324
66645890 325PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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326 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
327 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
328 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
329 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 330
a3fb9793 331PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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332 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
333 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
334 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 335 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 336 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 337
d27f98fe 338TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 339
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340TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
341
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342TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
343 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
344
ae0e32ee 345TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 346 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 347 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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349TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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351TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
352
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353TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
354 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
355
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356JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
357
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358JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
359
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360PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
361
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362NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
363 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 364
585121e2 365JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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367PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
368 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
369 function.
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371PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
372 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
373
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374JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
375 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
376 "acl = name arg..."
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378JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
379
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380JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
381
ea722490 382JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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383 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
384
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385JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
386 Bugzilla 884.
387
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388JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
389 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
390
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391JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
392 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
393
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394PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
395 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 396 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 397
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398JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
399 authenticators.
400
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401JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
402 for control.
403
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404PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
405
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406PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
407 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
408 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
409 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
410
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411TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
412
413 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
414 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
415 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
416 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
417 the retry rules.
418
419 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
420 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
421 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
422
423 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
424 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
425 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
426 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
427
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428 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
429 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
430 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
431 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
432 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
433 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
434 delivery, as in LMTP.
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435
436 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
437 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
438
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439TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
440
441 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
442
443 Resent-From: f
444
445 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
446 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
447 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
448 username as equal to the username.
449
450 This change corrects that bug.
451
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452GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
453 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
454 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
455
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456TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
457
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458PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
459 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
460 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
461 NULL dereference and crash.
462
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463JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
464
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465PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
466 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
467 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
468
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469SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
470
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471JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
472 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
473 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
474 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
475 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
476 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
477 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
478 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
479 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
480 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
481 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
482
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483PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
484 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
485
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486PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
487 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
488 Bugzilla 880.
489
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490PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
491 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
492 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
493 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
494 an empty string is now equivalent.
495
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496PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
497 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
498 not performing validation itself.
499
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500PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
501 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
502
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503JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
504 Bugzilla 321, 823.
505
7142daca
PP
506TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
507
8c020188
PP
508PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
509 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
510 other false fix of the same issue.
511 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
512 Bugzilla 1363.
513
d13cdd30
PP
514PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
515 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
516
e2fbf4a2
PP
517PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
518 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
519 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
520
f4c1088b
PP
521PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
522 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
523 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
524
c5c2182f
PP
525TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
526
73431ca9
JH
527JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
528
2d07a215
TL
529TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
530 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
531
a30a8861
TL
532TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
533 Alexander Miroch.
534
33382dd9
TL
535TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
536 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
537 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
538 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
539 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 540
046172e6
TL
541TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
542 the src/util/ subdirectory.
543
581d7bee 544TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 545 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
546 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
547
548TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
549 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
550 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
551 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
552
237b2cf2
TL
553TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
554
9fc5a352
TL
555TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
556 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
557 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 558
b10e4ec2
TL
559TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
560
e2cebd74
TL
561TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
562 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
563 interaction.
564
565TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
566 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
567
2519e60d
TL
568TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
569 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
570
e78e6ecf 571
4263f395
PP
572Exim version 4.80.1
573-------------------
574
575PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
576 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 577 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 578
ea722490 579
b1770b6e 580Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
581-----------------
582
583PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
584 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
585 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
586
23c7e742
NM
587NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
588
b322aac8
NM
589NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
590 improved.
591
4a891427
NM
592NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
593
c1e794ba 594PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 595
97753960
PP
596PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
597
598PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
599 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
600
df6303fa
PP
601PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
602 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
603
7e6a8985
PP
604PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
605 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
606
f1e05cc7 607PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
608 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
609 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 610
4c287009
PP
611PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
612
b98bb9ac
PP
613PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
614 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
615
4a6a987a
PP
616PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
617
c45dd180 618PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 619
7db8d074
PP
620PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
621 non-compliant senders.
622 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
623
eae0036b 624NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
625 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
626 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
627
dec5017e
PP
628PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
629 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
630 in spool file corruption.
631
c80c5570
PP
632PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
633 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
634 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
635 "Got SSL error 2".
636
076b11e2
PP
637TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
638 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
639 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
640
5407bfff
JH
641JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
642 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
643
9e45c72b
PP
644JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
645
e74376d8
PP
646PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
647 diagnostics.
648 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
649
da3ad30d
PP
650PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
651 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
652 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
653
7be682ca
PP
654PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
655 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
656 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
657 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 658
ef840681
PP
659PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
660 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
661
5bfb4cdf
PP
662PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
663 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
664 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
665 resolver implementation change.
666
c6e95d22
PP
667PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
668 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
669
9cbad13b
PP
670PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
671
9ee44efb
PP
672PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
673
6a6084f8
PP
674PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
675 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
676
12dd53c7
PP
677PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
678 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
679
9e45c72b 680JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
681 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
682
17c76198
PP
683PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
684 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
685 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
686 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 687 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 688
53947857 689PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 690
eae0036b 691PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
692 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
693 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 694
9e45c72b 695JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 696
7390e768
PP
697PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
698 read-only, out of scope).
699 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
700
08488c86
PP
701PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
702 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
703 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
704 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
705
6475bd82
PP
706PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
707
81f91683
PP
708PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
709 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
710 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
711 real issues in debug logging.
712
5779e6aa
PP
713PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
714 assignment on my part. Fixed.
715
3375e053
PP
716PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
717 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
718 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
719
720PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
721 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
722 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
723 problems.
3375e053 724
9d26b8c0
PP
725PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
726 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
727
57eb9e91 728PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
729 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
730 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
731 needs to override this, it can.
732
16880d1a
PP
733PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
734 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
735 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
736
a799883d
PP
737PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
738 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
739 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
740 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
741
3ecab157 742PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 743
0599f9cf 744
867fcbf5
PP
745Exim version 4.77
746-----------------
747
748PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
749 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
750
f1a29782
TF
751TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
752
ab42bd23
TK
753TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
754 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 755
0ca0cf52
TF
756TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
757 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
758
921b12ca
TF
759TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
760 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
761 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
762
763 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
764 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
765 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
766 not safe for signals.
767
768 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
769 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
770 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
771 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
772 exiwhat.
773
c99ce5c9
TF
774TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
775
776 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
777 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
778 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
779 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
780 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
781
782 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
783 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
784 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
785 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
786 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
787 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
788
789 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
790 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
791 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
792 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
793
794 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
795 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
796 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
797 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
798
799 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
800 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
801 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
802 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
803 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
804 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
805 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
806 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
807 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
808
809 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
810 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
811 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
812 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
813
814 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
815 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
816 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
817 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
818 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
819 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
820 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
821 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
822 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
823 details in the main documentation.
824
3634fc25
TF
825TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
826
792e8a19
TF
827TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
828
5901f0ab
TF
829TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
830 repository when doing development or release builds.
831
7f2a2a43
PP
832PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
833 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 834
061b7ebd
PP
835PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
836 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
837 Bugzilla 97.
838
e12f8c32
PP
839PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
840
9e949f00 841PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
842 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
843
844PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
845 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 846
555ae6af 847PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
848 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
849
850PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
851 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 852
6f7fe114
PP
853PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
854 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
855
c566dd90
PP
856PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
857 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
858 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
859 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 860
d6cc7c78 861PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
862 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
863 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
864
0d0e4455
PP
865PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
866
3399bb60 867PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
868
869PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
870 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
871
0ca0cf52 872
10906672
PP
873Exim version 4.76
874-----------------
875
876PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
877
754a0503
PP
878PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
879 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
880
c0c7b2da
PP
881PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
882
e97d1f08
PP
883PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
884
084c1d8c
PP
885PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
886 Bugzilla 1098.
887
4e7ee012
PP
888PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
889 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 890
c8d52a00
PP
891TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
892 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
893
54e7ce4a
PP
894PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
895 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
896
5ee6f336
PP
897PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
898 Bugzilla 1104.
899
c8d52a00 900TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
901 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
902
903TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
904 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
905 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
906 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
907
908PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
909 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 910
10906672 911
aa097c4c
NM
912Exim version 4.75
913-----------------
914
4c9ef03a 915NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
916 Bugzilla 1073
917
7f3d9eff
TF
918TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
919 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
920 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
921
159f52d2
TF
922TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
923 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
924
0cc9542a
PP
925PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
926 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
927 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
928
f7274286
PP
929PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
930 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
931
7b797365
PP
932PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
933 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
934
caacae52
NM
935NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
936 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
937
09dcaba9
NM
938NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
939 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
940
bc19a55b
PP
941PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
942 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 943
bd4c9759
NM
944NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
945 Fixes bug 943.
946
b72aab72
PP
947PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
948 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
949
2fe76745
PP
950PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
951 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
952
76aa570c
PP
953PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
954 SQL string expansion failure details.
955 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
956
f1e5fef5
PP
957PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
958 Patch from Simon Arlott.
959
4d805ee9
PP
960PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
961 extern declarations in function scope.
962 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
963
cd59ab18
PP
964PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
965 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
966 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
967 a kernel bug).
968
332f5cf3
PP
969PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
970 Patch from Mark Zealey.
971
29cfeb94
PP
972PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
973 Patch from Mark Zealey.
974
660242ad
PP
975PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
976 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
977
bc4bc4c5
PP
978PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
979 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
980
2e64baa9
NM
981NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
982 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
983 Dennis Davis.
984
bddd7526
PP
985PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
986
6bac1a9a
PP
987PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
988
552193f0
NM
989NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
990 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 991
1b587e48
TF
992TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
993 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
994
aa097c4c 995
8c07b69f
TF
996Exim version 4.74
997-----------------
998
999TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1000 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1001
c0ea85ab
TF
1002TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1003 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1004
0761d44e
TF
1005TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1006
0a349494
PP
1007DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1008 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1009 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1010
1011PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1012 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1013 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1014
fea24b2e
PP
1015PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1016 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1017 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1018 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1019
6545de78
PP
1020PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1021 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1022 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1023 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1024
1670ef10
PP
1025PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1026 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1027 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1028 arbitrary files.
1029
c0886197
PP
1030PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1031 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1032
b7487bce
PP
1033PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1034 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1035 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1036 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1037 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1038
8c07b69f 1039
97fd1e48 1040Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1041-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1042
1043PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1044 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1045 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1046
6901c596
PP
1047PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1048 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1049
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1050JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1051
77bb000f
PP
1052PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1053
a29e5231
PP
1054PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1055
ec5a0394 1056PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1057
55c75993
PP
1058PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1059
453a6645 1060PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1061 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1062 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1063 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1064
8544e77a
PP
1065PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1066 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1067 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1068 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1069 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1070
83e029d5
PP
1071PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1072
ed7f7860
PP
1073PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1074
7d9f747b
PP
1075PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1076
4b2241d2
PP
1077PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1078
10385c15
PP
1079PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1080
dbc4b90d
PP
1081PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1082
532be449
PP
1083PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1084
6a8de854 1085PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1086 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1087 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1088
5dc43717
JJ
1089JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1090
1091JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1092 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1093
3346ab01
PP
1094PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1095 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1096
491fab4c
PP
1097PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1098 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1099 Notification from John Horne.
1100
13eb9497
PP
1101PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1102 compatible.
1103
1104PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1105 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1106 it normally works.
1107
7f36d675
DW
1108DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1109 access.
1110
c1d94452
DW
1111DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1112 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1113 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1114
e2f5dc15
DW
1115DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1116 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1117 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1118 configuration file.
1119
cd25e41d
DW
1120DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1121 option (effectively making it always true).
1122
261dc43e
DW
1123DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1124 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1125
fa32850b
DW
1126DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1127 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1128
79d4bc3d
PP
1129PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1130 run-time user, instead of root.
1131
43236f35 1132PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1133 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1134
fb08281f
DW
1135DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1136 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1137 arguments.
3346ab01 1138
74935b98
DW
1139DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1140 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1141 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1142
90b6341f
DW
1143DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1144
57730b52
ML
1145NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1146
66581d1e 1147
465e92cf
JJ
1148Exim version 4.72
1149-----------------
1150
453a6645
PP
1151JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1152 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1153 typos
465e92cf 1154
453a6645
PP
1155JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1156 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1157 (Finput)
edae0343 1158
9bd3e22c
NM
1159NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1160 Patch from Alain Williams
1161
bb576ff7
NM
1162NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1163
5a1a5845
NM
1164NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1165 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1166
981a9fad
NM
1167NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1168 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1169
7fc497ee
NM
1170NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1171
1a41defa
JJ
1172JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1173
a466095c 1174NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1175 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1176
94a6bd0b
NM
1177TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1178
1179TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1180
1181MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1182 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1183 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1184
c1b141a8
NM
1185NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1186 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1187
b26eacf1 1188NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1189 Patch by Simon Arlott
1190
179c5980 1191PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1192 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1193
9bd3e22c 1194
7c6d71af
NM
1195Exim version 4.71
1196-----------------
1197
7d9f747b 1198TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1199
f013fb92
NM
1200NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1201
0eb8eedd
NM
1202NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1203
663ee6d9
NM
1204NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1205
177ebd9b
NM
1206NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1207
7c6d71af 1208
210f147e
NM
1209Exim version 4.70
1210-----------------
1211
cdd3bb85 1212TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1213 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1214
1215TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1216 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1217 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1218
1219TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1220 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1221 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1222
1223TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1224 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1225
210f147e
NM
1226NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1227 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1228 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1229 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1230
deafd5b3
NM
1231NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1232 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1233 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1234
089793a4
TF
1235TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1236
5f16ca82
TF
1237TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1238
dae9d94e 1239NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1240 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1241
7d9f747b 1242NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1243
06864c44
TF
1244TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1245 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1246 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1247 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1248
65a7d8c3 1249NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1250 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1251
23510047 1252TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1253
7d9f747b 1254NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1255
7d8eec3a 1256NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1257 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1258
89dec7b6
TF
1259TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1260 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1261
a99de90c
TF
1262TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1263 that they are available at delivery time.
1264
e2803e40
TF
1265TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1266
7199e1ee
TF
1267TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1268 incoming_port log selectors.
1269
e276e04b
TF
1270TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1271 setting expands to an empty string.
1272
ce552449 1273NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1274 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1275
e765a0f1 1276NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1277 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1278
4f054c63 1279NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1280 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1281
7d9f747b
PP
1282NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1283 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1284
7d9f747b
PP
1285NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1286 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1287
b52bc06e 1288NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1289 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1290
447de4b0
NM
1291NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1292
4c69d561 1293NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1294 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1295
d5c39246 1296NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1297 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1298
0b23848a
TK
1299TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1300
8f3414a1 1301NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1302 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1303
fb6f955d
NM
1304NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1305
1306NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1307
7d9f747b
PP
1308NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1309 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1310
7d9f747b
PP
1311NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1312 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1313
7d9f747b
PP
1314NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1315 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1316
7d9f747b
PP
1317NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1318 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1319
7d9f747b
PP
1320NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1321 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1322
7d9f747b
PP
1323NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1324 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1325
7d9f747b
PP
1326NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1327 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1328
7d9f747b 1329NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1330 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1331
7d9f747b 1332NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1333
7d9f747b
PP
1334NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1335 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1336
7d9f747b 1337NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1338
7d9f747b 1339NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1340
7d9f747b 1341NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1342
7d9f747b 1343NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1344
17792b53 1345NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1346 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1347
7d9f747b
PP
1348NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1349 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1350
91576cec 1351NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1352 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1353
7d9f747b
PP
1354NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1355 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1356
7d9f747b 1357NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1358
7d9f747b 1359NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1360
7d9f747b 1361NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1362
7d9f747b 1363NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1364
deafd5b3 1365
47db1125
NM
1366Exim version 4.69
1367-----------------
1368
4b3504d0
TK
1369TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1370 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1371 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1372
1373 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1374 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1375 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1376 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1377 build errors in sieve.c.
1378
81ea09ca
NM
1379NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1380 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1381 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1382
f13cddcb
SC
1383SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1384
7d9f747b 1385NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1386
7d9f747b 1387NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1388
7d9f747b 1389NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1390
1391
eb4c0de6
PH
1392Exim version 4.68
1393-----------------
1394
1395PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1396
6a3bceb1
PH
1397PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1398 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1399 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1400 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1401 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1402 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1403 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1404 for iplsearch lookups.
1405
1406 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1407 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1408 previously such lookups could never work.
1409
1410 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1411 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1412 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1413
2e30fa9d
TK
1414TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1415 version.
1416
0806a9c5
MH
1417MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1418 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1419 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1420 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1421 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1422 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1423
ae276964
TK
1424TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1425 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1426
0f2cbd1b
MH
1427MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1428 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1429 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1430 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1431 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1432 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1433
2b85bce7
PH
1434PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1435 local_scan API.
1436
93655c46
PH
1437PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1438
6c512171
PH
1439PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1440 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1441 encrypted.
1442
1443PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1444 by clients under certain conditions.
1445
aa6dc513
PH
1446PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1447 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1448
a96603a0
PH
1449PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1450
8f240103
PH
1451PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1452 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1453
1454PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1455
d677b2f2
PH
1456PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1457
d52120f2
PH
1458PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1459
64f2600a
PH
1460PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1461 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1462
8669f003
PH
1463PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1464
a4dc33a8
PH
1465PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1466 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1467
d6a60c0f
PH
1468PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1469
8f128379
PH
1470PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1471
8932dffe
PH
1472PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1473 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1474 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1475 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1476
ddea74fa 1477PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1478 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1479 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1480
ddea74fa 1481PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1482 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1483
ddea74fa
PH
1484PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1485
ce9f225c
PH
1486PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1487
19897d52
PH
1488PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1489
bc64a74d
PH
1490PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1491 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1492 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1493
eb4c0de6 1494
b4ed4da0
PH
1495Exim version 4.67
1496-----------------
1497
22ad45c9
MH
1498MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1499 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1500 Jan Srzednicki.
1501
b4ed4da0
PH
1502PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1503 issue a MAIL command.
1504
431b7361
PH
1505PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1506
1507 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1508
1509 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1510 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1511 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1512 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1513 item. This has been fixed.
1514
1515PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1516 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1517
83da1223
PH
1518PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1519 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1520
54fc8428
PH
1521PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1522 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1523 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1524
34c5e8dd
SC
1525SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1526
bbe15da8
PH
1527PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1528 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1529 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1530 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1531 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1532
0e8a9471
MH
1533MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1534 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1535 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1536
f0872424
PH
1537PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1538 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1539 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1540 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1541
b01dd148
PH
1542PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1543
6bf342e1
PH
1544PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1545
273f34d0
PH
1546PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1547 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1548 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1549 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1550 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1551
cf8b11a5
PH
1552PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1553
41c7c167
PH
1554PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1555 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1556 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1557 values).
1558
9c57cbc0
PH
1559PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1560
f3f065bb
PH
1561PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1562
047bdd8c
PH
1563PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1564
0ce9abe6
PH
1565PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1566
0e22dfd1
PH
1567PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1568
4c590bd1
PH
1569PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1570 no_callout_flush is set.
1571
09945f1e
PH
1572PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1573 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1574 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1575 fixed.
1576
c51b8e75
PH
1577PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1578
e28326d8
PH
1579PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1580 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1581 other ACL rejections are.
1582
75b1493f
PH
1583PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1584 with slight modification.
1585
7c5214ec
PH
1586PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1587 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1588
4311097e
PH
1589PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1590 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1591 connection.
1592
29f89cad
PH
1593PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1594 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1595
5e687460
SC
1596SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1597
c3611384
PH
1598PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1599 expansion side effects.
1600
5a11a7b4
PH
1601PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1602 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1603 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1604 be the same.
1605
0e20aff9
MH
1606MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1607 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1608 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1609
ca86f471
PH
1610PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1611 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1612 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1613 were accidentally chopped off.
1614
a14e5636
PH
1615PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1616 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1617 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1618 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1619 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1620 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1621 pipelining has not been advertised.
1622
ec95d1a6
PH
1623PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1624
42855d71
PH
1625PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1626 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1627 This has been fixed.
1628
57c2c631
PH
1629PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1630 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1631 reported on Solaris.
1632
58c01c94
PH
1633PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1634 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1635 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1636 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1637 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1638 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1639 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1640
dee5a20a
PH
1641PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1642 cpus.
1643
d2ee6114
PH
1644PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1645
b2d5182b
PH
1646PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1647
79749a79
PH
1648PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1649 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1650 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1651 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1652 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1653 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1654
c456d9bb
PH
1655PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1656 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1657 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1658 host_all_ignored option.
1659
cd9868ec
PH
1660PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1661 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1662 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1663 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1664 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1665 is what is supposed to happen).
1666
ebeaf996
PH
1667PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1668 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1669 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1670 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1671 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1672 uses the Exim user.
1673
2679d413
PH
1674PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1675 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1676 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1677 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1678 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1679 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1680 users.
1681
84024b72
PH
1682PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1683
8005d38e
SC
1684SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1685 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1686 (Jez Hancock).
1687 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1688 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1689
3298c6c6
SC
1690SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1691
a43a27c5
PH
1692PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1693
58eb016e 1694PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1695 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1696 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1697 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1698 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1699 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1700 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1701 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1702 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1703 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1704 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1705
b43a74ea
PH
1706PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1707 advertised in response to EHLO.
1708
b4ed4da0 1709
5dd1517f
PH
1710Exim version 4.66
1711-----------------
1712
1713PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1714 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1715
1716 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1717 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1718
1719 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1720 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1721 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1722
1723 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1724 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1725 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1726 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1727 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1728
1729
93cfa765
TK
1730Exim version 4.65
1731-----------------
1732
1733TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1734 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1735 versions. (#438)
1736
d6066548
MH
1737MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1738 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1739 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1740
4362ff0d
PH
1741PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1742 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1743 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1744 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1745 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1746 rather than extend the field.
1747
93cfa765 1748
944e9e9c
TF
1749Exim version 4.64
1750-----------------
aa41d2de 1751
21d74bd9
TK
1752TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1753 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1754 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1755 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1756 these files.
1757
1758TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1759 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1760 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1761
1762TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1763 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1764 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1765
1766TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1767 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1768 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1769 in the field name.
1770
2b1c6e3a
PH
1771PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1772 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1773 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1774 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1775 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1776 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1777 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1778 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1779 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1780 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1781 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1782
1f872c80
PH
1783PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1784 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1785
1786PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1787 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1788 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1789 ignores EPIPE as well.
1790
d203e649
PH
1791PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1792 (quoted-printable decoding).
1793
cc2ed8f7 1794PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1795 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1796
ddfcd446
PH
1797PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1798
d45b1de8
PH
1799PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1800
1801PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1802
38a0a95f 1803PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1804 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1805
a2405d83
JJ
1806JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1807 in 4.64-PH/09.
1808
1809JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1810 miscellaneous code fixes
1811
6ea85e9a
PH
1812PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1813 rejections.
1814
26da7e20
PH
1815PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1816 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1817 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1818 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1819 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1820 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1821 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1822 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1823
14aa5a05 1824PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1825 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1826 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1827 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1828 function.
1829 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1830 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1831 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1832 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1833 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1834 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1835 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1836 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1837 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1838
ff75a1f7
PH
1839PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1840 decoding.
1841
e6f6568e
PH
1842PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1843 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1844 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1845 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1846 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1847 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1848 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1849 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1850
d6f6e0dc
PH
1851PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1852 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1853 list.
1854
322050c2
PH
1855PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1856 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1857 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1858 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1859 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1860 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1861 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1862 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1863 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1864 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1865 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1866 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1867 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1868
08955dd3
PH
1869PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1870 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1871 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1872 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1873 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1874 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1875 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1876
1eccaa59
PH
1877PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1878 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1879 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1880 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1881 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1882 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1883 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1884 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1885 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1886 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1887
602e59e5
PH
1888PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1889 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1890 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1891 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1892 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1893
411ef850
PH
1894PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1895 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1896 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1897 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1898 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1899 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1900 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1901
7befa435
PH
1902PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1903 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1904 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1905 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1906 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1907 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1908 been verified.
1909
48da4259 1910PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1911 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1912 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1913 and authorization.)
1914
48da4259
PH
1915PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1916 if any retry times were supplied.
1917
d1d5595c
PH
1918PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1919 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1920 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1921
0ef732d9
PH
1922PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1923
328895cc
PH
1924PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1925
fd700877
PH
1926PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1927 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1928 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1929 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1930 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1931 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1932
8dce1a6f
PH
1933PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1934 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1935
17af4a17
PH
1936PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1937 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1938 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1939
1940PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1941 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1942 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1943 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1944 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1945 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1946 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1947 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1948 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1949
1950 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1951 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1952 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1953 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1954 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1955 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1956 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1957 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1958 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1959
1960 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1961 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1962 hammering the server.
1963
c1114884
PH
1964PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1965 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1966
7a0743eb
PH
1967PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1968
0d85fa3f
PH
1969PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1970 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1971 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1972
1bf43b78
PH
1973PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1974 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1975 one case where this was not true.
1976
520de300
PH
1977PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1978 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1979 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1980 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1981 fails.
1982
48c7f9e2
PH
1983PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1984 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1985 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1986 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1987 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1988 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1989 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1990 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1991 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1992 smtp transport.
1993
99ea1c86
PH
1994PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1995 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1996 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1997 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1998
a2042e78
PH
1999PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2000 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2001
4fbcfc2e
PH
2002PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2003 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2004 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2005
aa41d2de
PH
2006PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2007
af561417
PH
2008PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2009
3cc66b45
PH
2010PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2011
194cc0e4
PH
2012PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2013 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2014 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2015 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2016
a401ddaa
PH
2017PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2018 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2019
4e88a19f
PH
2020PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2021 be meaningful with "accept".
2022
d7d7b289
SC
2023SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2024 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2025
2026SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2027 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2028 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2029
2030SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2031 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2032 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2033 there is data to show.
2034 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2035
2036SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2037 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2038 as well as the number of messages.
2039
2040SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2041 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2042 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2043
2044SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2045 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2046 have a flag are now skipped.
2047
2048SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2049 Added the -emptyok flag.
2050
2051SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2052 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2053
0ea2a468
JJ
2054JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2055 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2056 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2057
2058JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2059 match 4.64-PH/13
2060
2061JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2062 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2063
2064JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2065
2066JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2067 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2068
8a10f5a4
PH
2069PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2070
30e18802
PH
2071PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2072 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2073 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2074 contravention of the specifications.
2075
55728a4f
PH
2076PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2077 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2078 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2079
d7837193
PH
2080PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2081 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2082 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2083
87054a31
PH
2084PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2085
ea2c01d2
MH
2086MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2087 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2088 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2089 some point in the past.
2090
e4fa6968
PH
2091PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2092 transport during callout processing was broken.
2093
56f5d9bd
PH
2094PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2095 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2096
922e1c28
PH
2097PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2098 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2099
21eb6e72
PH
2100PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2101 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2102
a0540757
PH
2103PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2104
944e9e9c 2105
478be7b0
SC
2106Exim version 4.63
2107-----------------
2108
2109SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2110 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2111
2112SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2113 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2114 there is data to show.
2115 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2116
2117SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2118 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2119
2b965a65
TF
2120TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2121 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2122
45b91596
PH
2123TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2124 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2125
c59f5781
TF
2126TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2127 submissions from trusted users.
2128
90fc3069
TF
2129TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2130 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2131
6083aca0
TF
2132TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2133 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2134 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2135 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2136 there is now a framework to start from.
2137
765b530f
PH
2138PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2139 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2140 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2141
4e167a8c
PH
2142PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2143
4608d683
PH
2144PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2145
b8dc3e4a
PH
2146PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2147
5418e93b
PH
2148PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2149 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2150 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2151
b4a9bda2
PH
2152PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2153 libradius.
2154
45b91596
PH
2155PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2156 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2157 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2158
5547e2c5
PH
2159PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2160 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2161 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2162 its arguments.
2163
dbcef0ea
PH
2164PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2165 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2166 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2167 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2168 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2169
25257489
PH
2170PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2171 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2172
c816d124
PH
2173PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2174
a9ccd69a
PH
2175PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2176 operations in malware.c.
2177
75fa1910
PH
2178PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2179 signatures.
2180
a7d7aa58
PH
2181PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2182 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2183 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2184 all.
2185
42119b09
PH
2186PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2187 statements to "add_header".
2188
41609df5
PH
2189PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2190 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2191
a5bd321b
PH
2192PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2193 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2194 latter.
2195
e85a7ad5 2196PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2197 so that it is now:
2198
e85a7ad5
PH
2199 ${if or { \
2200 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2201 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2202 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2203 }{no}{yes}}
2204
e85a7ad5
PH
2205 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2206 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2207
d8fe1c03
PH
2208PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2209 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2210
16282d2b
PH
2211PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2212 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2213 any possible encoding problems.
2214
35d40a98
PH
2215PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2216 but not after initializing Perl.
2217
034d99ab
PH
2218PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2219 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2220 apparently, which is not desirable.
2221
6ec97b1b
PH
2222PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2223 queries.
2224
e22ca4ac
JJ
2225JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2226 --not options
2227
2228JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2229
33d73e3b
PH
2230PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2231 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2232 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2233 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2234
9ecb03f3
PH
2235PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2236 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2237 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2238
084efe8d
PH
2239PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2240 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2241 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2242 0.12.
2243
366fc9f0
PH
2244PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2245 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2246 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2247 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2248 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2249
c59f5781 2250
c887c79e
TF
2251Exim version 4.62
2252-----------------
2253
2254TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2255 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2256
1cce3af8
PH
2257PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2258 patch).
2259
afb3eaaf
PH
2260PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2261 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2262 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2263 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2264 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2265 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2266 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2267 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2268 451 error is used.
2269
e173618b
PH
2270PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2271
dd16e114
PH
2272PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2273 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2274 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2275
f7fd3850
PH
2276PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2277 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2278 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2279 odd errors.
2280
d87df92c
PH
2281PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2282 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2283
7e9f683d
PH
2284PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2285 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2286 option (which defaults to 0600).
2287
bfad5236
PH
2288PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2289
01c490df
PH
2290PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2291 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2292 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2293 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2294 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2295 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2296 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2297
d6629cdc
PH
2298PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2299
1cce3af8 2300
214e2000
PH
2301Exim version 4.61
2302-----------------
2303
2304PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2305 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2306 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2307 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2308 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2309 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2310 addresses as local.
2311
f9daeae0
PH
2312PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2313 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2314
7e66e54d
PH
2315PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2316
c8ea1597
PH
2317PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2318 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2319 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2320 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2321 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2322 grumble.
2323
911f6fde
PH
2324PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2325 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2326
47ca6d6c
PH
2327PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2328 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2329 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2330 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2331 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2332
ed0e9820
PH
2333PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2334 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2335 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2336 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2337
eff37e47
PH
2338PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2339 be the same on different OS.
2340
1921d2ea
PH
2341PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2342 testing.
2343
b3f69ca8
JJ
2344JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2345 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2346
2347JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2348 in 4.61-PH/06
2349
424a1c63
PH
2350PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2351 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2352 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2353 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2354 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2355 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2356 bounce message.
2357
7a100415
PH
2358PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2359 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2360 when Exim was called.
2361
19b9dc85
PH
2362PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2363 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2364
309bd837
PH
2365PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2366 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2367 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2368 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2369
59e82a2a
PH
2370PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2371 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2372 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2373 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2374 changes:
2375
2376 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2377 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2378 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2379
2380 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2381 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2382 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2383
9edc04ce
PH
2384PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2385 feature).
2386
1349e1e5
PH
2387PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2388 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2389 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2390 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2391 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2392 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2393 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2394 values from the SRV records were lost.
2395
ea49d0e1
PH
2396PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2397 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2398 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2399
064a94c9
PH
2400PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2401 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2402 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2403
727071f8
PH
2404PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2405 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2406 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2407 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2408 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2409 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2410 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2411 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2412 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2413 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2414
f78eb7c6
PH
2415PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2416 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2417 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2418
21c28500
PH
2419PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2420 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2421
2422PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2423 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2424 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2425 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2426 is given.
2427
1688f43b
PH
2428PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2429 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2430 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2431
2432PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2433 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2434 PH/23 above applies.
2435
9675b384
PH
2436PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2437 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2438 (for which there is an explicit test).
2439
6a3f1455
PH
2440PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2441
dac79d3e
PH
2442PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2443 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2444 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2445 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2446 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2447
5977a0b3
PH
2448PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2449 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2450 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2451 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2452
c91535f3
PH
2453PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2454 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2455 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2456
0d46a8c8
PH
2457PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2458
278c6e6c
PH
2459PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2460
2cbb4081
PH
2461PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2462 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2463 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2464
3eef829e
PH
2465PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2466 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2467 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2468 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2469 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2470
1ab95fa6
PH
2471PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2472 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2473 the message gets confusing).
2474
230205fc
PH
2475PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2476 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2477 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2478 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2479
75e0e026
PH
2480PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2481 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2482 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2483 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2484 same order.
2485
2486PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2487 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2488 the different processes.
2489
145396a6
PH
2490PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2491
3cd34f13
PH
2492PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2493
11121d3d
JJ
2494JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2495 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2496
2497JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2498 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2499
2500JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2501 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2502 messages matching specified criteria.
2503
8def5aaf
PH
2504PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2505
929ba01c
PH
2506PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2507 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2508
2632889e
PH
2509PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2510 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2511 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2512 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2513 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2514 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2515 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2516 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2517 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2518 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2519
944a9c55
PH
2520PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2521 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2522 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2523
4a23603b
PH
2524PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2525
4730f942
PH
2526PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2527 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2528 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2529 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2530 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2531 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2532 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2533 the variable.
2534
30dba1e6
PH
2535PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2536 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2537
382afc6b
PH
2538PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2539
a86229cf
PH
2540PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2541
50c99ba6
PH
2542PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2543
d35e429d
PH
2544PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2545 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2546 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2547 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2548 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2549 size of the count of files.
2550
f90d018c
PH
2551PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2552
75def545
PH
2553PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2554 used in LMTP mode:
2555
2556 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2557 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2558 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2559 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2560
2561 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2562 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2563 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2564
2565PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2566 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2567 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2568 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2569 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2570
c46782ef
PH
2571PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2572 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2573
71fafd95
PH
2574PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2575 will now be deprecated.
2576
2c5db4fd
PH
2577PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2578
9cf6b11a
JJ
2579JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2580 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2581 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2582
2583JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2584 with very large, slow to parse queues
2585
2586JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2587
2588JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2589
898d150f
PH
2590PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2591 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2592 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2593 SMTP output lines.
2594
46218253
PH
2595PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2596 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2597 Sieve code now uses this.
2598
e97957bc
PH
2599PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2600 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2601
81e509d7
PH
2602PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2603 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2604
3d240ff7
PH
2605PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2606
b37c4101
PH
2607PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2608 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2609 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2610 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2611 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2612
79378e0f
PH
2613PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2614 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2615 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2616 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2617
e49c7bb4
PH
2618PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2619
d114ec46
PH
2620PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2621
f3d7df6c
PH
2622PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2623 is preferred over IPv4.
2624
715ab376
PH
2625PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2626 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2627 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2628 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2629 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2630 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2631 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2632
6b31b150
PH
2633PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2634 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2635 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2636
2637PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2638
d515a917
PH
2639PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2640 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2641 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2642 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2643 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2644 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2645 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2646 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2647 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2648 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2649 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2650
9b8fadde
PH
2651PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2652 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2653 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2654
214e2000 2655
5de37277
PH
2656Exim version 4.60
2657-----------------
2658
cc38ddbf
PH
2659PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2660
2661 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2662 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2663
2664 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2665 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2666 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2667
72fdd6ae
PH
2668PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2669
2670 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2671 not a single digit.
2672
2673 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2674 string.
2675
2676 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2677 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2678 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2679 silly things.
2680
2681 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2682 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2683
2684 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2685 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2686
cb741023
PH
2687PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2688 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2689 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2690
f174f16e
PH
2691PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2692 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2693
c25242d7
PH
2694PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2695 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2696
2697 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2698
2699 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2700 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2701 this:
2702
2703 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2704
82c19f95
PH
2705PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2706 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2707 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2708 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2709 identical. For example:
2710
2711 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2712
2713 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2714 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2715 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2716
d7ffbc12
PH
2717PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2718 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2719 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2720 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2721
9f526266
PH
2722PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2723 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2724 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2725 message.
2726
87fcc8b9
PH
2727PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2728
2729 o fixes some comments
2730 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2731 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2732 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2733 and documents the missing references header update
2734
2735 and most important:
2736
2737 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2738 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2739 result)
2740
456682f5
PH
2741PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2742 Electronic Mail") by including:
2743
2744 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2745
2746 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2747 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2748 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2749 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2750 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2751
2752 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2753
2754 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2755
2756 The auto-replied keyword:
2757
2758 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2759 message by an automatic process,
2760
2761 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2762
2763 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2764 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2765
2766 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2767 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2768 other messages.
2769
3e46c1aa
PH
2770PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2771 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2772
49826d12
PH
2773PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2774
eba0c039
PH
2775PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2776 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2777 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2778
a0d6ba8a
PH
2779PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2780 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2781 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2782
f0917727
PH
2783PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2784 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2785 and treats the condition as false.
2786
096fee00
PH
2787PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2788
024bd3c2
PH
2789PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2790 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2791 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2792 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2793 not changing the active code.
2794
2795 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2796 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2797
2798 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2799 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2800
df199fec
PH
2801PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2802 (Bugzilla #53).
2803
d27f1df3
PH
2804PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2805 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2806 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2807 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2808 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2809 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2810 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2811 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2812 the text comparison.
2813
96776534
PH
2814PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2815 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2816 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2817 The same fix has been applied.
2818
5de37277 2819
9a799bc0
PH
2820Exim version 4.54
2821-----------------
2822
2823PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2824 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2825 It now does.
2826
99a4b039
PH
2827PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2828 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2829
2830PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2831
4b233853
PH
2832PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2833 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2834 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2835 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2836 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2837
8857ccfd
PH
2838TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2839 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2840 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2841 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2842 or /domain=).
2843
433a2980
PH
2844PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2845 testing suite.
2846
3e46c1aa 2847
9a799bc0 2848
e3a311ba
TK
2849Exim version 4.53
2850-----------------
2851
2852TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2853 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2854
13b685f9
PH
2855PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2856
395ff96d
PH
2857PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2858
5b68f6e4
PH
2859PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2860 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2861 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2862
1ab52c69
PH
2863PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2864 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2865 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2866
b07e6aa3
PH
2867PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2868 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2869 operating systems.
2870
254e032f
PH
2871PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2872 ${stat: expansion item.
2873
3af76a81
PH
2874PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2875 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2876
2548ba04
PH
2877PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2878 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2879 file for comments.
2880
b6c6011d
PH
2881PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2882
cf39cf57
PH
2883PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2884 setting.
2885
f1513293
PH
2886PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2887 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2888
727549a4
PH
2889TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2890
af46795e
PH
2891PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2892 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2893 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2894 the end of the subprocess.
2895
d7b47fd0
PH
2896PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2897 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2898 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2899 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2900 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2901
ee744174
JJ
2902JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2903
b582ab87
PH
2904TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2905
41a13e0a
PH
2906PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2907 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2908
f625cc5a
PH
2909PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2910
2911PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2912
21f7af35
PH
2913PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2914 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2915 HP-UX compiler.
2916
31480e42
PH
2917PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2918
2d280592
PH
2919PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2920 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2921 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2922
7cd1141b
PH
2923PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2924 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2925
2926PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2927 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2928
750af86e
PH
2929PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2930 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2931
2932 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2933 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2934
2935 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2936 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2937 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2938 contributed by a Radius user.
2939
2940PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2941 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2942
4304270b
TK
2943TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2944 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2945
750af86e
PH
2946PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2947 available.
2948
64ffc24f
PH
2949PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2950 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2951 received.
2952
5dd9625b
PH
2953PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2954 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2955 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2956 header lines when this was not necessary.
2957
5591031b
PH
2958PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2959
ba18e66a
PH
2960PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2961 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2962 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2963 exists".
2964
9cec981f
PH
2965PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2966 -bV or -d is used.
2967
aa2b5c79
PH
2968PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2969 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2970 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2971 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2972
48a53b7f
PH
2973PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2974
1c59d63b
PH
2975PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2976
671012da
TK
2977TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2978
1509d3a8
PH
2979PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2980
2981PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2982 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2983 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2984 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2985 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2986 settings.
2987
2988PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2989
2fe1a124
PH
2990PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2991 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2992 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2993 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2994 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2995 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2996 which is clearly wrong.
2997
8800895a
PH
2998PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2999
ccfdb010
PH
3000PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3001 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3002 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3003 subsequently added.
3004
1130bfb0
PH
3005PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3006 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3007
ebcb507f
PH
3008PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3009
c35e155c
PH
3010PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3011 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3012
95d1f782
PH
3013PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3014 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3015
fd6de02e
PH
3016PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3017 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3018
58de37c5
PH
3019PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3020 recipients, not senders.
3021
261cf466
TF
3022TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3023 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3024
3ee512ff
PH
3025PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3026
e08c430f
PH
3027PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3028
bef5a11f
PH
3029PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3030 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3031 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3032 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3033
7546de58
TF
3034TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3035
e5d5a95f
TF
3036TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3037 clock is set back in time.
3038
2e88a017
TF
3039TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3040 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3041
a5f65aa4
TF
3042TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3043 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3044
e7726cbf
PH
3045PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3046 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3047 (see PH/47 above).
3048
a7fdad5b
TF
3049TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3050 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3051 header rewrites.
3052
6af56900
PH
3053PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3054 type ("H").
3055
0925ede6
PH
3056PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3057
66afa403
TF
3058TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3059 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3060 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3061
0154e85a
TF
3062TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3063 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3064 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3065 helo verification defer as a failure.
3066
16f12c76
PH
3067PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3068 actual error message.
3069
bbe902f0 3070
e5a9dba6
PH
3071Exim version 4.52
3072-----------------
3073
3074TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3075
22c3b60b
PH
3076PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3077 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3078 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3079 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3080
06a9b4b5
PH
3081TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3082
c1ac6996
PH
3083PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3084 can still be requested.
3085
9c7a242c
PH
3086PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3087 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3088 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3089 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3090
87ba3f5f
PH
3091TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3092 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3093 circumstances, but probably never did.
3094
3095PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3096 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3097 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3098 in the header line.
3099
29aba418
TF
3100TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3101
fe0dab11
TF
3102TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3103 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3104
11d337a4
TK
3105TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3106
3107TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3108
415c8f3b
PH
3109PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3110 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3111 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3112 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3113 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3114 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3115
958541e9
PH
3116PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3117 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3118 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3119 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3120 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3121 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3122
c206415f
TK
3123TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3124 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3125
2a4be8f9
PH
3126PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3127 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3128
1cba11c5
SC
3129SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3130 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3131
3132SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3133
3134SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3135
3136SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3137
3138SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3139
3140SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3141
3142SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3143
1005d00e
TK
3144TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3145
3146TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3147 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3148 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3149
3150TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3151 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3152 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3153 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3154
9b4768fa
PH
3155PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3156 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3157 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3158
3159PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3160 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3161 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3162 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3163
0d7eb84a
PH
3164PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3165 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3166 to be made).
3167
3168PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3169 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3170 should work with maildirs and everything.
3171
40727bee
TK
3172TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3173 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3174
554d2369
TF
3175TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3176 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3177
1f922db1
PH
3178PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3179 function for BDB 4.3.
3180
ef213c3b
PH
3181PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3182
8ac170f3
PH
3183PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3184 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3185 involved.
3186
b1c749bb
PH
3187PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3188 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3189 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3190 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3191 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3192 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3193
4aac9b49
PH
3194PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3195 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3196 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3197 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3198 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3199 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3200 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3201 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3202
294520c8
TK
3203TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3204 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3205 details.
3206
5bd022fe
PH
3207PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3208 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3209
90e9ce59
PH
3210PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3211 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3212 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3213 test. It is now used for both.
3214
5ea81592
PH
3215PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3216 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3217 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3218 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3219 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3220 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3221
c6c2dc1d
PH
3222PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3223 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3224 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3225 string_vformat().
3226
fffffe4c
PH
3227PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3228 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3229 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3230
9a26b6b2
PH
3231PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3232 experimental DomainKeys support:
3233
3234 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3235 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3236 the control was given.
3237
3238 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3239
4aee0225
PH
3240PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3241
32d668a5
PH
3242PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3243
8187c3f3
PH
3244PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3245 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3246 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3247 db.h files).
3248
ff790e47 3249PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3250 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3251 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3252 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3253 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3254 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3255 course.
ff790e47 3256
5417f6d1
PH
3257PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3258 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3259 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3260 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3261 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3262 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3263
59cf8544
PH
3264PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3265 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3266 do -d+all out of habit.
3267
e7ad8a65
PH
3268PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3269 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3270 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3271
ade42478
PH
3272PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3273 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3274 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3275 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3276 record types that Exim uses.
3277
182ad5cf
PH
3278PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3279 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3280 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3281 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3282 non-existent file that was broken.
3283
b0d9fc80
TK
3284TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3285 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3286
3287TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3288 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3289 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3290
3291TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3292
47c7a64a
PH
3293PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3294 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3295 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3296 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3297 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3298 same time.
3299
a388bce4
SC
3300SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3301 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3302 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3303 at a slight CPU cost.
3304
3305SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3306 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3307
3308SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3309 by Marc Sherman.
3310
0793e4ed
SC
3311SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3312
c58b88df
PH
3313PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3314 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3315
e7ad8a65 3316
7982096b
PH
3317Exim version 4.51
3318-----------------
3319
1a46a8c5
PH
3320TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3321 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3322
2f079f46 3323TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3324
3325TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3326
3327PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3328 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3329
3330PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3331 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3332 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3333 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3334 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3335 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3336 file.
3337
3338PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3339 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3340 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3341 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3342 these two options.
3343
3344PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3345 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3346 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3347 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3348 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3349 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3350 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3351 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3352
3353PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3354 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3355
3356PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3357 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3358 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3359 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3360 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3361 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3362
3363PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3364 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3365 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3366 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3367
3368PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3369 Finch).
3370
3371PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3372 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3373
49c2d5ea
PH
3374PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3375 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3376 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3377 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3378 message.
49c2d5ea 3379
bf759a8b
PH
3380PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3381
83364d30
PH
3382PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3383 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3384
7999bbd7
PH
3385PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3386 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3387 to what was transported.)
3388
7dbf77c9
PH
3389TF/01 Added $received_time.
3390
74e0617f
PH
3391PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3392 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3393 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3394 spamd_address settings.
3395
2f079f46
PH
3396PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3397 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3398 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3399 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3400 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3401
8c841523
PH
3402PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3403
7766a4f0
PH
3404PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3405 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3406 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3407 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3408 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3409
8b417f2c
PH
3410PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3411 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3412
901f42cb
PH
3413PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3414 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3415 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3416 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3417 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3418 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3419 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3420 for failure.
3421
f9b9210e
PH
3422PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3423 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3424 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3425 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3426 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3427 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3428 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3429 "input=".
3430
54cdb463
PH
3431PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3432
cf00dad6
PH
3433PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3434 driver and ACL definitions.
3435
acb1b346
PH
3436PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3437 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3438
c5ddb310
PH
3439PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3440 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3441 understands it better than I do:
3442
3443 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3444 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3445
3446 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3447 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3448 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3449 => three warnings about OTP not working
3450 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3451
3452 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3453 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3454 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3455 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3456 for each call.)
3457 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3458 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3459
3460 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3461 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3462 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3463
31619da6
PH
3464PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3465 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3466 specified.
3467
bebaf0fc
PH
3468PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3469 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3470 "Linux".
3471
475fe28a
PH
3472PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3473 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3474 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3475
3476 warn !verify = sender
3477 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3478
3479 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3480 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3481
7e8bec7a
PH
3482PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3483
3484 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3485 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3486
3487 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3488 nomenclature these days.)
3489
e4a89c47
PH
3490PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3491 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3492
5ca2a9a1
PH
3493PH/30 In these circumstances:
3494 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3495 . First host does not offer TLS;
3496 . First host accepts first address;
3497 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3498 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3499 . Second host accepts second address.
3500 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3501 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3502 address.
7e8bec7a 3503
c688b954
PH
3504PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3505 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3506 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3507 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3508 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3509
fed77020
PH
3510PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3511 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3512
7fe1560f
PH
3513PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3514 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3515
ebb6e6d5
PH
3516PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3517 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3518 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3519
9c4e8f60
PH
3520PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3521 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3522 overlooked.
3523
3524PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3525
d7174846
PH
3526PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3527 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3528 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3529 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3530 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3531 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3532 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3533
3534 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3535 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3536 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3537 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3538 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3539
3540 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3541 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3542 routed further.
3543
cfe75fc3
PH
3544PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3545 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3546 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3547 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3548 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3549 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3550
be22d70e
PH
3551PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3552
0612b098
PH
3553PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3554 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3555 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3556 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3557 printable escape sequences.
3558
2e0c1448
PH
3559PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3560 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3561 body only.
3562
447d236c
PH
3563PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3564 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3565 are as follows:
3566
3567 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3568 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3569 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3570 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3571 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3572
3573 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3574 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3575 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3576
d20976dc
PH
3577PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3578
f656d135
PH
3579PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3580 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3581 play with."
3582
2e2a30b4
PH
3583PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3584 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3585 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3586 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3587 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3588 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3589 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3590 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3591 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3592 the log output.
3593
9176e9f0
PH
3594PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3595 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3596 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3597 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3598 "make".
3599
7982096b 3600
bbe902f0
PH
3601A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3602----------------------------------------
3603
3604Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3605changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3606needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3607in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3608that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3609release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3610from 4.43.
3611
3612I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36134.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3614those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3615historical information.
3616
3617
f7b63901 3618Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3619-----------------
3620
5fe762f6
PH
3621 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3622
139059f6 3623 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3624 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3625
7086e875
PH
3626 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3627 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3628 place.
3629
35af9f61
PH
3630 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3631 filter fails to execute.
3632
b668c215
PH
3633 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3634 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3635 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3636 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3637 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3638
a494b1e1
PH
3639 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3640
3641 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3642 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3643 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3644 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3645
c5fcb476
PH
3646 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3647 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3648 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3649 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3650 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3651
69358f02
PH
3652 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3653
5be20824
PH
365410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3655
eb2c0248
PH
365611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3657 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3658 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3659 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3660
2a3eea10
PH
366112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3662 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3663 sender verification.
3664
366513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3666 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3667
23c7ff99
PH
366814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3669
4deaf07d
PH
367015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3671 connection timeout.
3672
926e1192
PH
367316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3674 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3675
650edc6f
PH
367617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3677 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3678
2c7db3f5
PH
367918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3680 information about exactly what failed.
3681
3d235903
PH
368219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3683
7c7ad977
PH
368420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3685 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3686 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3687
981756db
PH
368821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3689 It is now set to "smtps".
3690
d4eb88df
PH
369122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3692 ignore_target_hosts.
3693
369423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3695 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3696 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3697 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3698 "[x.x.x.x]".
3699
7d468ab8
PH
370024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3701 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3702 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3703
370425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3705 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3706 wake it up if nothing else does.
3707
62c0818f
PH
370826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3709 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3710 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3711 end up negative.
3712
26034054
PH
371327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3714 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3715
af66f652
PH
371628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3717
90af77f4
PH
371829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3719 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3720 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3721 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3722 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3723 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3724 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3725 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3726
d8ef3577
PH
372730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3728 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3729 than one IP address.
3730
5cb8cbc6
PH
373131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3732 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3733 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3734 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3735
14702f5b
PH
373632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3737 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3738 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3739 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3740 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3741 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3742
063b1e99
PH
374333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3744 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3745 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3746 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3747
652e1b65
PH
374834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3749 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3750 respected.
3751
6f0c9a4f
PH
375235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3753 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3754 $sender_host_address.
3755
33397d19
PH
375636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3757 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3758 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3759 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3760 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3761 very small.
3762
7bb56e1f
PH
376337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3764
3765 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3766 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3767
ea3bc19b
PH
3768 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3769 just the host names, not the priorities.
3770
3771 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3772 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3773 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3774
ea3bc19b 3775 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3776 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3777
0bcb2a0e
PH
377838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3779 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3780 domain.
3781
2ac0e484
PH
378239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3783
4e1fde53
PH
378440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3785 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3786
de365ded
PH
378741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3788 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3789 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3790
f05da2e8
PH
379142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3792
d6453af2
PH
379343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3794
f7b63901
PH
379544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3796
379745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3798 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3799 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3800 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3801 because the tests only now provoked it.
3802
a444213a
PH
380346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3804 (this can affect the format of dates).
3805
0ec020ea
PH
380647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3807 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3808 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3809 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3810
b1206957
PH
381148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3812
381349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3814 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3815 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3816 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3817
26dd5a95
PH
381850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3819 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3820 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3821
343b2385
PH
382251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3823 autoreply.
3824
1c5466b9
PH
382552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3826 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3827 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3828 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3829 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3830 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3831 is going on).
3832
55ee9ee3
PH
383353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3834 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3835 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3836 the line.
3837
d38f8232
PH
383854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3839 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3840 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3841
3842 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3843 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3844 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3845 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3846 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3847 so I produce this patch..."
3848
3295e65b
PH
3849 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3850 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3851 is not defined.
3852
7102e136
PH
385355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3854 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3855 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3856 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3857 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3858
3ca0ba97
PH
385956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3860
c2bcbe20
PH
386157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3862 long debug lines gets shown.
3863
18ce445d
PH
386458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3865 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3866
1f5b4c3d
PH
386759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3868
3869 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3870 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3871 of $primary_hostname.
3872
b975ba52
PH
387360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3874 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3875 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3876 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3877 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3878 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3879 by change 4.50/55 above.
3880
3881 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3882 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3883 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3884 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3885 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3886 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3887 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3888
388961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3890 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3891 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3892 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3893
17ffcae7
PH
389462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3895 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3896
d95f9fdb
PH
389763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3898 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3899 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3900 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3901 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3902
86b8287f
PH
390364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3904 This has been fixed.
3905
60dc5e56
PH
390665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3907 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3908 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3909 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3910 the caching.)
3911
533244af
PH
391266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3913
a5a28604
PH
391467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3915 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3916 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3917 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3918
7e634d24
PH
391968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3920 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3921
3e11c26b
PH
392269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3923 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3924 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3925
6729cf78
PH
392670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3927 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3928 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3929 message there.
3930
00f00ca5
PH
393171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3932 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3933 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3934
c9bdd01c
PH
393572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3936 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3937 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3938 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3939
d43194df
PH
394073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3941 during host lookups.
3942
fe5b5d0b
PH
394374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3944 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3945
3946 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3947
76a2d7ba
PH
394875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3949 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3950 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3951 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3952 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3953 background.
3954
395576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3956 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3957
04f7d5b9
PH
395877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3959 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3960 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3961
bc60667e
PH
396278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3963
bb6e88ff
PH
396479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3965 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3966 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3967 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3968 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3969 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3970 process earlier.
3971
1e70f85b
PH
397280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3973 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3974 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3975 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3976 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3977
397881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3979 tables).
3980
4e01f9d6
PH
398182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3982
1ee1cef2
PH
398383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3984 "vacation" handling.
3985
6e2b4ccc
PH
398684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3987 OS variants using glibc.
3988
8e669ac1
PH
398985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3990
495ae4b0 3991
bbe902f0
PH
3992----------------------------------------------------
3993See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3994----------------------------------------------------
3995
3996
3997Exim version 4.44
3998-----------------
3999
4000 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4001 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4002 transport
4003
4004 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4005 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4006 place.
4007
4008 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4009 filter fails to execute.
4010
4011 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4012 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4013 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4014 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4015 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4016
4017 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4018 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4019 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4020 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4021
4022 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4023 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4024 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4025 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4026 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4027
4028 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4029
4030 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4031 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4032 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4033 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4034
4035 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4036 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4037 sender verification.
4038
403910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4040 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4041
404211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4043 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4044
404512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4046 ignore_target_hosts.
4047
404813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4049 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4050 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4051 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4052 "[x.x.x.x]".
4053
405414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4055 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4056 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4057
405815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4059 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4060 wake it up if nothing else does.
4061
406216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4063 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4064 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4065 end up negative.
4066
406717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4068 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4069
ea3a6f44 407018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4071
407219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4073 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4074 empty pattern.
4075
407620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4077 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4078 one IP address.
4079
ea3a6f44
NM
408021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4081 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4082 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4083 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4084 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4085 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4086
ea3a6f44
NM
408722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4088 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4089 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4090
409123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4092 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4093 $sender_host_address.
4094
409524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4096
ea3a6f44
NM
409725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4098 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4099 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4100
410126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4102 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4103
ea3a6f44
NM
410427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4105 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4106
ea3a6f44
NM
410728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4108 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4109 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4110 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4111
411229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4113 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4114 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4115
ea3a6f44
NM
411630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4117 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4118 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4119 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4120
ea3a6f44
NM
412131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4122 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4123 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4124
ea3a6f44
NM
412531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4126 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4127
ea3a6f44
NM
412832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4129 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4130 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4131 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4132 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4133 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4134 is going on).
bbe902f0 4135
ea3a6f44
NM
413633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4137 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4138 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4139 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4140 CAN-2005-0021
4141
ea3a6f44
NM
414234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4143 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4144 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4145 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4146 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4147 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4148 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4149
4150 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4151 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4152 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4153 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4154 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4155 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4156 CAN-2005-0021
4157
ea3a6f44
NM
415835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4159 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4160 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4161 CAN-2005-0022
4162
ea3a6f44
NM
416336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4164 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4165 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4166 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4167 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4168
ea3a6f44
NM
416937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4170 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4171 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4172 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4173 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4174
ea3a6f44
NM
417538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4176 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4177 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4178 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4179 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4180
4181
495ae4b0
PH
4182Exim version 4.43
4183-----------------
4184
4185 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4186 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4187 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4188 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4189 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4190 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4191 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4192
4193 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4194 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4195 the delivery.
4196
4197 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4198
4199 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4200
4201 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4202 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4203 to local_scan().
4204
4205 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4206 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4207 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4208 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4209 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4210
4211 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4212 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4213
4214 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4215
4216 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4217
421810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4219 header_sender only.
4220
422111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4222 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4223
422412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4225 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4226 affecting debugging statements).
4227
422813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4229
423014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4231 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4232 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4233 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4234 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4235 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4236 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4237 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4238 after the received time, and all would be well.
4239
424015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4241 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4242 condition in an expansion string.
4243
424416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4245
424617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4247 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4248 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4249 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4250 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4251 job under whatever limits there are.
4252
425318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4254
425519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4256 space).
4257
425820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4259 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4260 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4261 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4262 return path is set.
4263
426421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4265 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4266 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4267 binary data in such strings.
4268
426922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4270
427123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4272 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4273 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4274 failure, which is pointless.
4275
427624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4277
427825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4279
428026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4281 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4282 Sender: header lines.
4283
428427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4285 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4286 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4287
428828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4289 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4290 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4291 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4292 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4293 happens.
4294
429529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4296 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4297 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4298 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4299 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4300
430130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4302 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4303 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4304 1024.
4305
430631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4307 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4308
430932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4310 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4311
431233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4313
431432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4315
431633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4317
431834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4319 syntax error.
4320
432135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4322
432336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4324
432537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4326 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4327 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4328 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4329
433038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4331 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4332
4333
4334Exim version 4.42
4335-----------------
4336
4337 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4338 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4339 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4340 it was not quoted.
4341 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4342 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4343 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4344 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4345 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4346 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4347
4348 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4349 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4350 verification failure".
4351
4352 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4353 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4354 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4355 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4356
4357 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4358 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4359 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4360 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4361 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4362 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4363 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4364 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4365 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4366 treated as a timeout.
4367
4368 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4369 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4370 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4371 not set for Exim filters).
4372
4373 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4374 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4375 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4376
4377 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4378
4379 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4380 try to make them clearer.
4381
4382 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4383 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4384
4385 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4386
4387 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4388
438910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4390 only the Cygwin environment.
4391
439211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4393 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4394 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4395 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4396 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4397
439812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4399 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4400 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4401 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4402 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4403 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4404 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4405
440613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4407 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4408
440914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4410
4411 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4412 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4413 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4414
4415 To: susanne@some.where
4416
4417 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4418 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4419 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4420 of addresses in From: header lines).
4421
4422 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4423 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4424 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4425
4426 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4427 treated as non-personal.
4428
4429 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4430 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4431
443215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4433
443416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4435
443617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4437 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4438 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4439
444018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4441 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4442
444319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4444 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4445 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4446 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4447 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4448 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4449
445020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4451 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4452 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4453 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4454 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4455 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4456 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4457 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4458
4459 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4460
446121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4462 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4463
446422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4465 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4466 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4467
446823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4469 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4470
447124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4472 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4473 rather than long int.
4474
447525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4476
447726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4478
4479
4480Exim version 4.41
4481-----------------
4482
4483 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4484 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4485 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4486 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4487 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4488 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4489
4490
4491Exim version 4.40
4492-----------------
4493
4494 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4495 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4496
4497 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4498 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4499 socklen_t is defined.
4500
4501 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4502 always exist.
4503
4504 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4505 configured.
4506
4507 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4508 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4509 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4510 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4511 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4512
4513 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4514 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4515 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4516 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4517
4518 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4519 of flapping under certain conditions.
4520
4521 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4522 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4523 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4524
4525 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4526
452710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4528
452911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4530 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4531 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4532 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4533
453412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4535 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4536 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4537 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4538 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4539 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4540 preserved with the message after it was received.
4541
454213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4543 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4544 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4545 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4546 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4547 test suite worked just fine.
4548
454914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4550 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4551 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4552
455315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4554 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4555 string.
4556
455716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4558 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4559 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4560 does not fully solve it.
4561
456217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4563 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4564 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4565 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4566 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4567
456818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4569 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4570 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4571
457219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4573 string, for example:
4574
4575 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4576
4577 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4578 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4579 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4580 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4581 the routers could not see them.
4582
458320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4584 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4585
458621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4587 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4588 output).
4589
459022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4591 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4592 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4593 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4594 that needed quoting.
4595
459623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4597 was not being matched caselessly.
4598
459924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4600 backslashes.
4601
460225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4603 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4604 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4605 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4606 when use_sender is false.
4607
460826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4609
461027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4611
461228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4613
461429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4615 the configuration file.
4616
461730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4618 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4619
462031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4621
462232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4623 bytes in the message body.
4624
462533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4626 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4627 delivery.
4628
462934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4630
463135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4632
463336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4634 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4635 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4636 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4637 another IP address.
4638
4639
4640Exim version 4.34
4641-----------------
4642
4643 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4644 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4645
4646 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4647 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4648 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4649 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4650 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4651
4652 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4653 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4654
4655 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4656 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4657 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4658
4659 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4660 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4661 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4662
4663 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4664 for routers.
4665
4666 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4667 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4668 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4669 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4670 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4671 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4672 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4673
4674
4675Exim version 4.33
4676-----------------
4677
4678 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4679 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4680 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4681 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4682 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4683 default (and expected) setting.
4684
4685 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4686 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4687 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4688 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4689
4690 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4691 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4692
4693 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4694 in domain lists.
4695
4696 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4697 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4698 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4699 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4700 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4701 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4702
4703 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4704 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4705 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4706
4707 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4708 part (NOT match_host).
4709
4710 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4711
4712 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4713 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4714 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4715 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4716 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4717 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4718 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4719 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4720 the same named file.
4721
472210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4723 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4724 when Exim is built.
4725
472611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4727 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4728 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4729 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4730 a host name.
4731
473212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4733 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4734 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4735
473613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4737
473814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4739
474015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4741
474216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4743 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4744
474517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4746 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4747 before starting the TLS session.
4748
474918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4750
475119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4752 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4753
475420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4755 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4756 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4757 colon in the middle).
4758
4759
4760Exim version 4.32
4761-----------------
4762
4763 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4764 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4765 multiple configurations are in use.
4766
4767 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4768 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4769 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4770 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4771 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4772 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4773
4774 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4775 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4776
4777 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4778 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4779 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4780
4781 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4782 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4783 occurs.
4784
4785 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4786 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4787
4788 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4789
4790 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4791 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4792
4793 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4794
4795 -prval:sval
4796
4797 is equivalent to
4798
4799 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4800
4801 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4802 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4803 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4804 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4805 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4806
480710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4808 Exim's behaviour:
4809
4810 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4811 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4812 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4813 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4814 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4815 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4816
4817 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4818 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4819 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4820 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4821 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4822 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4823 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4824 string.
4825
4826 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4827 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4828 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4829 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4830 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4831
483211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4833
483412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4835 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4836 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4837
483813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4839
484014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4841 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4842 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4843 information.
4844
484515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4846 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4847
484816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4849 Three changes have been made:
4850
4851 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4852 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4853 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4854 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4855 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4856
4857 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4858 been restored.
4859
4860 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4861 the modified behaviour.
4862
4863
4864Exim version 4.31
4865-----------------
4866
4867 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4868 Larry Rosenman.
4869
4870 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4871 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4872
4873 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4874 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4875 try to track down a specific problem.
4876
4877 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4878 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4879 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4880
4881 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4882 warning.
4883
4884 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4885 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4886 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4887 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4888 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4889 some earlier ones do not.
4890
4891 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4892
4893 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4894 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4895 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4896 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4897 address literals are enabled, of course).
4898
4899 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4900
490110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4902 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4903 by a command such as
4904
4905 exim -f "" ...
4906
4907 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4908
490911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4910
491112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4912 remained set. It is now erased.
4913
491413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4915 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4916
491714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4918 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4919 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4920 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4921 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4922 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4923 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4924 appropriate error code.
4925
492615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4927 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4928 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4929 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4930 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4931 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4932
493316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4934 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4935 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4936
493717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4938 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4939 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4940 terminate the header.
4941
494218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4943 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4944 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4945
494619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4947 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4948 (4.30/29). In particular:
4949
4950 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4951 imposed.
4952
4953 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4954 to write a maildirsize file.
4955
4956 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4957 the transport, the new value overrides.
4958
4959 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4960 count.
4961
496220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4963 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4964 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4965 space or a tab.
4966
496721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4968 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4969 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4970 the fallback hosts.
4971
497222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4973 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4974 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4975
497623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4977 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4978 using a union.
4979
498024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4981 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4982 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4983
498425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4985
498626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4987
498827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4989
499028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4991 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4992 become corrupted.
4993
499429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4995 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4996 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4997 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4998 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4999 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5000 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5001 too great.
5002
500330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5004 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5005 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5006 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5007 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5008 incorrectly.
5009
501031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5011 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5012 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5013 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5014 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5015 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5016 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5017 cached value only when the same options are set.
5018
501932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5020
502133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5022 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5023 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5024 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5025 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5026
502734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5028 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5029 it is clearly obsolete.
5030
503135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5032 transport.
5033
503436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5035 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5036 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5037 times.
5038
503937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5040 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5041 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5042 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5043 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5044
504538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5046 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5047 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5048 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5049
505039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5051
5052 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5053
5054 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5055 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5056 2^31.
5057
505840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5059 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5060 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5061 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5062 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5063 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5064 $localpart_data.
5065
506641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5067 with the -f command-line option.
5068
506942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5070 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5071 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5072 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5073 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5074 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5075
507643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5077 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5078 line.
5079
508044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5081 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5082 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5083 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5084 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5085 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5086 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5087 buffer is too small.
5088
508945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5090 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5091
509246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5093 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5094 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5095 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5096 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5097 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5098 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5099 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5100 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5101
510247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5103 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5104 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5105
510648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5107 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5108 ACL").
5109
511049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5111 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5112 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5113 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5114 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5115
511650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5117 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5118 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5119 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5120 is set.
5121
512251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5123
512452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5125
512653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5127 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5128
512954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5130 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5131 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5132
513355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5134 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5135 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5136 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5137 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5138
513956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5140 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5141 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5142 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5143 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5144 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5145 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5146
514757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5148 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5149 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5150 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5151 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5152 the test of how many are available.
5153
515458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5155 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5156 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5157 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5158 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5159 new message is started.
5160
516159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5162 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5163
516460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5165 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5166
516761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5168 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5169 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5170 is no long logged.
5171
517262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5173 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5174 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5175 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5176 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5177 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5178 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5179
518063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5181 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5182 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5183 interpreted as octal.
5184
518564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5186 setting.
5187
518865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5189 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5190 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5191 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5192 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5193 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5194
519566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5196 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5197 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5198 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5199
5200 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5201 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5202 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5203 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5204
5205 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5206 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5207 is a bug fix.
5208
5209 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5210 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5211
521267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5213
521468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5215 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5216 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5217 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5218
521969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5220 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5221 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5222 supplied", which is not helpful.
5223
522470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5225 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5226 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5227
522871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5229 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5230 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5231 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5232 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5233 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5234 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5235 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5236
523772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5238 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5239 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5240 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5241 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5242
524373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5244 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5245 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5246 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5247 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5248 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5249
525074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5251 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5252 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5253
525475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5255
525676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5257 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5258 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5259 variables.
5260
526177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5262
526378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5264 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5265 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5266 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5267 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5268 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5269 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5270 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5271
527279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5273 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5274 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5275 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5276 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5277
527880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5279 Haardt.
5280
528181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5282 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5283 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5284 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5285 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5286 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5287 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5288 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5289 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5290
5291
5292Exim version 4.30
5293-----------------
5294
5295 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5296 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5297 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5298
5299 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5300 fixed.
5301
5302 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5303 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5304 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5305
5306 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5307 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5308 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5309 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5310 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5311 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5312
5313 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5314 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5315 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5316 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5317 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5318 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5319 the Exim test suite.
5320
5321 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5322 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5323 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5324 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5325
5326 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5327 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5328 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5329 specify it in this variable.
5330
5331 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5332 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5333 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5334 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5335
5336 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5337 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5338 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5339 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5340
5341 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5342 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5343 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5344 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5345 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5346
5347 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5348
534910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5350 they are logged.
5351
535211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5353 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5354 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5355 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5356 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5357
535812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5359 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5360
536113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5362 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5363 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5364 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5365 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5366
536714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5368 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5369
537015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5371 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5372 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5373
537416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5375 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5376
537717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5378 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5379
538018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5381 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5382 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5383
538419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5385 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5386
538720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5388 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5389 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5390 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5391
539221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5393
539422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5395 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5396 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5397 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5398
539923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5400
540124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5402 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5403
540425. Added .include_if_exists.
5405
540626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5407 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5408 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5409 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5410 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5411 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5412
541327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5414
541528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5416 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5417 this.
5418
541929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5420
542130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5422 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5423
5424 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5425 550 Sender verify failed
5426
5427 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5428 the final line of the response.
5429
543031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5431 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5432 all other user lookups.
5433
543432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5435 delivery time.
5436
543733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5438 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5439 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5440 result into an int without checking.
5441
544234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5443 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5444 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5445
544635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5447 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5448 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5449 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5450
545136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5452 correctly.
5453
545437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5455 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5456
545738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5458 to the empty sender.
5459
546039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5461 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5462 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5463 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5464 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5465 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5466 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5467 panic log.
5468
546940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5470 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5471 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5472 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5473 used.
5474
547541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5476 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5477
547842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5479 timestamps.
5480
548143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5482 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5483
548444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5485
548645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5487 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5488 logs.
5489
549046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5491 as soon as it is encountered.
5492
549347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5494
549548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5496 rewritten to "<>".
5497
549849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5499 recognizes a tab character.
5500
550150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5502 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5503 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5504 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5505
550651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5507
550852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5509 crash.
5510
551153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5512
551354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5514
551555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5516 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5517 2822.
5518
551956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5520 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5521 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5522 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5523 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5524
552557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5526 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5527
552858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5529 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5530 list (.included file names were always shown).
5531
553259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5533 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5534 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5535 root at that time.
5536
553760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5538 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5539
554061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5541
554262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5543
554463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5545
554664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5547 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5548 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5549 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5550 failures to open the logs.
5551
555265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5553 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5554 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5555 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5556 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5557 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5558 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5559
5560
5561Exim version 4.24
5562-----------------
5563
5564 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5565 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5566 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5567 change 4.23/1.
5568
5569 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5570 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5571 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5572
5573 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5574 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5575 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5576
5577 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5578 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5579 causing some misleading effects.
5580
5581 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5582 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5583 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5584
5585 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5586 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5587 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5588 queue-runner function directly.
5589
5590
5591Exim version 4.23
5592-----------------
5593
5594 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5595 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5596
5597 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5598 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5599 was always written to the default place.
5600
5601 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5602 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5603 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5604
5605 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5606
5607 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5608
5609 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5610 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5611 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5612
5613 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5614 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5615 must start.
5616
5617 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5618 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5619 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5620
5621 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5622 command line option is disabled.
5623
5624 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5625 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5626
5627 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5628
5629 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5630
5631 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5632 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5633
563410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5635
563611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5637 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5638 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5639 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5640 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5641 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5642
564312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5644 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5645 timeout.
5646
564713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5648 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5649
565014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5651 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5652
565315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5654 received was valid base64.
5655
565616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5657 name of the variable that was being set.
5658
565917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5660
566118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5662 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5663 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5664 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5665 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5666 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5667
566819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5669
567020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5671 nor realm was specified.
5672
567321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5674 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5675 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5676 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5677
567822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5679 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5680 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5681
568223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5683 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5684 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5685
568624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5687 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5688 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5689 some systems use these upper case variants.
5690
569125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5692 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5693 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5694 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5695
569626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5697
569827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5699 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5700
570128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5702 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5703 expansion variable.
5704
570529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5706
570730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5708 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5709 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5710 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5711
571231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5713 using it.
5714
571532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5716 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5717 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5718
571933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5720 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5721
572234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5723 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5724 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5725 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5726
572735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5728 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5729 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5730
573136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5732
573337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5734 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5735 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5736 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5737 aborted.
5738
573938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5740 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5741 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5742
574339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5744
574540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5746 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5747
574841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5749 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5750
575142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5752 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5753 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5754 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5755 when emails are that large.
5756
5757
5758
5759Exim version 4.22
5760-----------------
5761
5762 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5763 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5764
5765 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5766 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5767 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5768
5769 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5770 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5771 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5772
5773 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5774 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5775 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5776 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5777 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5778
5779 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5780 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5781 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5782 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5783 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5784 ever.
5785
5786 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5787 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5788 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5789 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5790 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5791 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5792 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5793 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5794 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5795 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5796 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5797 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5798 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5799 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5800
5801 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5802 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5803 parameterised it.
5804
5805 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5806 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5807 error should be diagnosed.
5808
5809 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5810 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5811 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5812 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5813 appeared instead of "NULL".
5814
581510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5816 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5817 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5818 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5819 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5820 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5821 proceeds).
5822
5823 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5824 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5825 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5826
5827
5828Exim version 4.21
5829-----------------
5830
5831 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5832 or receiver verification errors.
5833
5834 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5835 name.
5836
5837 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5838 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5839 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5840 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5841
5842 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5843 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5844 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5845 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5846 shouldn't happen again.
5847
5848 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5849 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5850 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5851
5852 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5853 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5854
5855 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5856
5857 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5858 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5859
5860 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5861 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5862 RFC.
5863
586410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5865 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5866 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5867
586811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5869 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5870 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5871 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5872
587312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5874 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5875 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5876 to define what should happen).
5877
587813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5879 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5880 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5881
588214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5883
588415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5885
588616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5887 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5888
588917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5890 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5891 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5892 structure in all cases.
5893
5894 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5895 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5896 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5897 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5898
589918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5900 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5901 domain name.
5902
590319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5904 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5905
590620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5907 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5908
590921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5910 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5911 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5912
591322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5914 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5915 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5916
591723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5918 the book and for uniformity.
5919
592024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5921
592225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5923 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5924 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5925 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5926 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5927 non-existent command as the problem.
5928
592926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5930 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5931 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5932
593327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5934
593528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5936 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5937 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5938
593929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5940 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5941 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5942 timestamps using strftime().
5943
594430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5945 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5946
594732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5948 transport-time rewrites.
5949
595033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5951 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5952 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5953 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5954
595534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5956 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5957
595835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5959 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5960 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5961 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5962 comma and a space.
5963
596436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5965 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5966 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5967 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5968 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5969 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5970 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5971
597237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5973 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5974 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5975 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5976 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5977
597838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5979 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5980 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5981 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5982 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5983 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5984 remaining text gets split now.
5985
598639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5987 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5988 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5989 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5990
599140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5992 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5993 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5994 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5995 $return_path.
5996
599741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5998 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5999 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6000 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6001 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6002 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6003 passed through if needed.
6004
600542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6006 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6007 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6008 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6009 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6010 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6011
601243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6013 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6014 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6015 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6016 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6017
601844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6019 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6020 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6021 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6022 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6023
602445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6025 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6026 noticed.
6027
602846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6029 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6030 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6031 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6032 mayhem of various kinds.
6033
603447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6035 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6036 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6037 the right test for positive values.
6038
603948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6040 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6041 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6042 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6043 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6044 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6045 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6046 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6047 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6048 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6049 envelope.
6050
605149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6052 module.
6053
605450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6055 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6056 forbidding it.
6057
605851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6059 the existing equality matching.
6060
606152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6062 dealing with inode numbers.
6063
606453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6065 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6066 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6067
606854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6069 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6070 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6071 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6072 local_scan().
6073
607455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6075 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6076 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6077 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6078 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6079 relay addresses has also been removed.
6080
608156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6082
608357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6084 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6085 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6086
608758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6088 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6089 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6090 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6091 processing applies to CR:
6092
6093 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6094 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6095
6096 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6097 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6098 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6099 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6100
610159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6102 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6103 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6104
610560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6106 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6107 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6108 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6109 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6110 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6111 arisen.
6112
611361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6114 program routers.
6115
611662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6117 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6118 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6119 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6120 adds:
6121
6122 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6123
6124 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6125
6126 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6127
612863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6129 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6130 not considered personal.
6131
613264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6133
613465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6135
613666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6137
613867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6139 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6140 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6141 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6142 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6143 header lines, and spool format errors.
6144
614568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6146 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6147 for more flexibility.
6148
614969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6150 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6151 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6152
615370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6154 Sabourenkov.
6155
615671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6157 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6158 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6159 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6160 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6161 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6162 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6163 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6164 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6165
616672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6167 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6168 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6169 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6170 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6171 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6172 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6173
617473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6175 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6176 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6177
617874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6179 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6180 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6181 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6182 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6183 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6184 instead of killing the process with assert().
6185
618675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6187 than Unicode encoding.
6188
618976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6190 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6191 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6192 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6193
619477. Added process_log_path.
6195
619678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6197 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6198
619979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6200 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6201
620280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6203 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6204 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6205
620681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6207 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6208 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6209 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6210 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6211 were applied:
6212
6213 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6214 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6215 as invalid.
6216
621782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6218 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6219 they will be used during message reception.
6220
6221
6222Exim version 4.20
6223-----------------
6224
6225The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6226
6227****