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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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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18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.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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46TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
47 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
48 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
49 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
50 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
51 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
52 the script parsing/test process like normal.
53
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54TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
55 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
56 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
57 function when detected.
58
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59JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
60 cause callback expansion.
61
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62TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
63 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
64 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
65 instead of bool when processing it.
66
0f06b4f2 67JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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68 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
69
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70JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
71
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72JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
73
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74TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
75
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76TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
77 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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79JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
80 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
81 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
82 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
83 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
84 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
85
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86JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
87 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
88 exceeded it.
89
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90JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
91 version 3.3.6 or later.
92
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93JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
94 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
95 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 96 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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97 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
98 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
99 option is defined.
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101TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
102 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
103
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104JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
105 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
106 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
107 matches.
108
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109JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
110 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
111 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
112
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113JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
114 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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115
116JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
117 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
118 syntax errors.
119
3394b36a 120JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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121
122JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
123 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
124
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125TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
126 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
127 tarball.
128
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129JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
130
131JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
132 Bug 1561.
133
134JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
135 output list separator was used.
136
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138Exim version 4.84
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140TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
141 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
142 return.
1f0ebb98 143
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144JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
145 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
146
147JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
148
149TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 150 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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155
156TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
157
158 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
159 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
160 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
161 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
162 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
163 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
164
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165TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
166 utilities have not been installed.
167
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168JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
169 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
170
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171TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
172 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
173
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174TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
175 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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176 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
177 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 178
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179JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
180
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181TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
182 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
183
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184PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
185 not dns_use_dnssec.
186
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187JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
188
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189TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
190 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
191 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
192
8ddef691 193TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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194 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
195 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
196 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
197 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 198 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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200JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
201
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202JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
203 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
204
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205JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
206 failed delivery.
207
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208JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
209
511a6c14 210JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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211
212JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
213 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 214
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215JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
216 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
217
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218TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
219
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220JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
221
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222JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
223 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
224
225 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
226 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
227 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
228
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229TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
230 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
231 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
232 analysis.
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234JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
235
8c51eead 236JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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237 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
238 lookup).
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240TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
241 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
242 Schlichting.
35aba663 243
fd3b6a4a 244JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 245 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 246
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247TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
248 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
249
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250JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
251
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252TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
253 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
254 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
255
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256JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
257 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
258
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259JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
260 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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261 hosts_request_ocsp.
262
ed3bba5f 263JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 264 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 265 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 266
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267JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
268
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269TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
270 Christian Aistleitner.
271
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272JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
273
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274TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
275 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
276
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277JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
278 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
279
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280JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
281 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
282
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283TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
284 support and error reporting did not work properly.
285
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286TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
287 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
288
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289TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
290 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
291 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
292
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293JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
294
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295PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
296 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
297 Jasper Wallace.
298
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299JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
300
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301TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
302 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
303 CVE-2014-2972
304
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308
309PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
310
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311PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
312 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
313
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314PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
315 by GnuTLS.
316
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317PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
318 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
319 routines.
320
13363eba 321PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 322
66645890 323PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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324 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
325 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
326 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
327 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 329PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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330 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
331 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
332 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 333 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 334 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 335
d27f98fe 336TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 337
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338TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
339
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340TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
341 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
342
ae0e32ee 343TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 344 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 345 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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347TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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349TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
350
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351TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
352 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
353
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354JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
355
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356JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
357
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358PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
359
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360NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
361 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 362
585121e2 363JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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365PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
366 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
367 function.
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369PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
370 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
371
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372JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
373 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
374 "acl = name arg..."
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376JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
377
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378JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
379
ea722490 380JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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381 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
382
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383JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
384 Bugzilla 884.
385
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386JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
387 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
388
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389JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
390 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
391
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392PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
393 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 394 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 395
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396JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
397 authenticators.
398
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399JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
400 for control.
401
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402PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
403
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404PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
405 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
406 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
407 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
408
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409TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
410
411 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
412 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
413 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
414 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
415 the retry rules.
416
417 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
418 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
419 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
420
421 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
422 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
423 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
424 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
425
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426 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
427 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
428 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
429 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
430 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
431 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
432 delivery, as in LMTP.
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433
434 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
435 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
436
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437TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
438
439 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
440
441 Resent-From: f
442
443 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
444 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
445 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
446 username as equal to the username.
447
448 This change corrects that bug.
449
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450GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
451 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
452 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
453
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454TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
455
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456PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
457 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
458 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
459 NULL dereference and crash.
460
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461JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
462
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463PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
464 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
465 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
466
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467SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
468
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469JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
470 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
471 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
472 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
473 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
474 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
475 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
476 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
477 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
478 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
479 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
480
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481PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
482 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
483
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484PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
485 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
486 Bugzilla 880.
487
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488PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
489 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
490 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
491 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
492 an empty string is now equivalent.
493
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494PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
495 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
496 not performing validation itself.
497
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498PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
499 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
500
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501JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
502 Bugzilla 321, 823.
503
7142daca
PP
504TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
505
8c020188
PP
506PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
507 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
508 other false fix of the same issue.
509 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
510 Bugzilla 1363.
511
d13cdd30
PP
512PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
513 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
514
e2fbf4a2
PP
515PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
516 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
517 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
518
f4c1088b
PP
519PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
520 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
521 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
522
c5c2182f
PP
523TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
524
73431ca9
JH
525JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
526
2d07a215
TL
527TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
528 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
529
a30a8861
TL
530TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
531 Alexander Miroch.
532
33382dd9
TL
533TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
534 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
535 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
536 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
537 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 538
046172e6
TL
539TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
540 the src/util/ subdirectory.
541
581d7bee 542TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 543 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
544 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
545
546TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
547 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
548 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
549 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
550
237b2cf2
TL
551TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
552
9fc5a352
TL
553TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
554 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
555 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 556
b10e4ec2
TL
557TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
558
e2cebd74
TL
559TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
560 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
561 interaction.
562
563TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
564 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
565
2519e60d
TL
566TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
567 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
568
e78e6ecf 569
4263f395
PP
570Exim version 4.80.1
571-------------------
572
573PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
574 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 575 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 576
ea722490 577
b1770b6e 578Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
579-----------------
580
581PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
582 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
583 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
584
23c7e742
NM
585NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
586
b322aac8
NM
587NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
588 improved.
589
4a891427
NM
590NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
591
c1e794ba 592PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 593
97753960
PP
594PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
595
596PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
597 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
598
df6303fa
PP
599PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
600 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
601
7e6a8985
PP
602PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
603 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
604
f1e05cc7 605PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
606 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
607 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 608
4c287009
PP
609PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
610
b98bb9ac
PP
611PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
612 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
613
4a6a987a
PP
614PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
615
c45dd180 616PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 617
7db8d074
PP
618PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
619 non-compliant senders.
620 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
621
eae0036b 622NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
623 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
624 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
625
dec5017e
PP
626PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
627 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
628 in spool file corruption.
629
c80c5570
PP
630PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
631 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
632 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
633 "Got SSL error 2".
634
076b11e2
PP
635TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
636 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
637 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
638
5407bfff
JH
639JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
640 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
641
9e45c72b
PP
642JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
643
e74376d8
PP
644PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
645 diagnostics.
646 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
647
da3ad30d
PP
648PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
649 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
650 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
651
7be682ca
PP
652PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
653 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
654 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
655 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 656
ef840681
PP
657PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
658 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
659
5bfb4cdf
PP
660PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
661 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
662 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
663 resolver implementation change.
664
c6e95d22
PP
665PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
666 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
667
9cbad13b
PP
668PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
669
9ee44efb
PP
670PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
671
6a6084f8
PP
672PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
673 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
674
12dd53c7
PP
675PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
676 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
677
9e45c72b 678JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
679 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
680
17c76198
PP
681PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
682 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
683 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
684 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 685 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 686
53947857 687PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 688
eae0036b 689PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
690 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
691 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 692
9e45c72b 693JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 694
7390e768
PP
695PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
696 read-only, out of scope).
697 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
698
08488c86
PP
699PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
700 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
701 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
702 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
703
6475bd82
PP
704PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
705
81f91683
PP
706PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
707 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
708 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
709 real issues in debug logging.
710
5779e6aa
PP
711PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
712 assignment on my part. Fixed.
713
3375e053
PP
714PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
715 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
716 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
717
718PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
719 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
720 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
721 problems.
3375e053 722
9d26b8c0
PP
723PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
724 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
725
57eb9e91 726PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
727 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
728 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
729 needs to override this, it can.
730
16880d1a
PP
731PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
732 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
733 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
734
a799883d
PP
735PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
736 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
737 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
738 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
739
3ecab157 740PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 741
0599f9cf 742
867fcbf5
PP
743Exim version 4.77
744-----------------
745
746PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
747 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
748
f1a29782
TF
749TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
750
ab42bd23
TK
751TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
752 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 753
0ca0cf52
TF
754TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
755 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
756
921b12ca
TF
757TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
758 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
759 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
760
761 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
762 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
763 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
764 not safe for signals.
765
766 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
767 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
768 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
769 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
770 exiwhat.
771
c99ce5c9
TF
772TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
773
774 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
775 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
776 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
777 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
778 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
779
780 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
781 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
782 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
783 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
784 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
785 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
786
787 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
788 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
789 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
790 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
791
792 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
793 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
794 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
795 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
796
797 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
798 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
799 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
800 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
801 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
802 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
803 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
804 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
805 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
806
807 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
808 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
809 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
810 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
811
812 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
813 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
814 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
815 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
816 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
817 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
818 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
819 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
820 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
821 details in the main documentation.
822
3634fc25
TF
823TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
824
792e8a19
TF
825TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
826
5901f0ab
TF
827TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
828 repository when doing development or release builds.
829
7f2a2a43
PP
830PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
831 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 832
061b7ebd
PP
833PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
834 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
835 Bugzilla 97.
836
e12f8c32
PP
837PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
838
9e949f00 839PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
840 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
841
842PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
843 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 844
555ae6af 845PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
846 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
847
848PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
849 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 850
6f7fe114
PP
851PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
852 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
853
c566dd90
PP
854PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
855 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
856 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
857 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 858
d6cc7c78 859PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
860 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
861 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
862
0d0e4455
PP
863PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
864
3399bb60 865PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
866
867PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
868 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
869
0ca0cf52 870
10906672
PP
871Exim version 4.76
872-----------------
873
874PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
875
754a0503
PP
876PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
877 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
878
c0c7b2da
PP
879PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
880
e97d1f08
PP
881PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
882
084c1d8c
PP
883PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
884 Bugzilla 1098.
885
4e7ee012
PP
886PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
887 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 888
c8d52a00
PP
889TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
890 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
891
54e7ce4a
PP
892PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
893 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
894
5ee6f336
PP
895PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
896 Bugzilla 1104.
897
c8d52a00 898TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
899 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
900
901TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
902 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
903 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
904 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
905
906PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
907 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 908
10906672 909
aa097c4c
NM
910Exim version 4.75
911-----------------
912
4c9ef03a 913NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
914 Bugzilla 1073
915
7f3d9eff
TF
916TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
917 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
918 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
919
159f52d2
TF
920TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
921 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
922
0cc9542a
PP
923PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
924 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
925 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
926
f7274286
PP
927PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
928 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
929
7b797365
PP
930PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
931 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
932
caacae52
NM
933NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
934 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
935
09dcaba9
NM
936NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
937 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
938
bc19a55b
PP
939PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
940 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 941
bd4c9759
NM
942NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
943 Fixes bug 943.
944
b72aab72
PP
945PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
946 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
947
2fe76745
PP
948PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
949 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
950
76aa570c
PP
951PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
952 SQL string expansion failure details.
953 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
954
f1e5fef5
PP
955PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
956 Patch from Simon Arlott.
957
4d805ee9
PP
958PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
959 extern declarations in function scope.
960 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
961
cd59ab18
PP
962PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
963 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
964 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
965 a kernel bug).
966
332f5cf3
PP
967PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
968 Patch from Mark Zealey.
969
29cfeb94
PP
970PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
971 Patch from Mark Zealey.
972
660242ad
PP
973PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
974 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
975
bc4bc4c5
PP
976PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
977 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
978
2e64baa9
NM
979NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
980 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
981 Dennis Davis.
982
bddd7526
PP
983PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
984
6bac1a9a
PP
985PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
986
552193f0
NM
987NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
988 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 989
1b587e48
TF
990TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
991 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
992
aa097c4c 993
8c07b69f
TF
994Exim version 4.74
995-----------------
996
997TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
998 consequences so log it to the panic log.
999
c0ea85ab
TF
1000TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1001 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1002
0761d44e
TF
1003TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1004
0a349494
PP
1005DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1006 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1007 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1008
1009PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1010 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1011 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1012
fea24b2e
PP
1013PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1014 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1015 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1016 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1017
6545de78
PP
1018PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1019 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1020 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1021 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1022
1670ef10
PP
1023PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1024 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1025 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1026 arbitrary files.
1027
c0886197
PP
1028PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1029 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1030
b7487bce
PP
1031PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1032 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1033 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1034 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1035 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1036
8c07b69f 1037
97fd1e48 1038Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1039-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1040
1041PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1042 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1043 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1044
6901c596
PP
1045PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1046 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1047
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1048JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1049
77bb000f
PP
1050PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1051
a29e5231
PP
1052PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1053
ec5a0394 1054PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1055
55c75993
PP
1056PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1057
453a6645 1058PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1059 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1060 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1061 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1062
8544e77a
PP
1063PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1064 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1065 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1066 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1067 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1068
83e029d5
PP
1069PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1070
ed7f7860
PP
1071PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1072
7d9f747b
PP
1073PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1074
4b2241d2
PP
1075PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1076
10385c15
PP
1077PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1078
dbc4b90d
PP
1079PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1080
532be449
PP
1081PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1082
6a8de854 1083PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1084 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1085 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1086
5dc43717
JJ
1087JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1088
1089JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1090 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1091
3346ab01
PP
1092PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1093 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1094
491fab4c
PP
1095PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1096 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1097 Notification from John Horne.
1098
13eb9497
PP
1099PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1100 compatible.
1101
1102PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1103 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1104 it normally works.
1105
7f36d675
DW
1106DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1107 access.
1108
c1d94452
DW
1109DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1110 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1111 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1112
e2f5dc15
DW
1113DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1114 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1115 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1116 configuration file.
1117
cd25e41d
DW
1118DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1119 option (effectively making it always true).
1120
261dc43e
DW
1121DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1122 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1123
fa32850b
DW
1124DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1125 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1126
79d4bc3d
PP
1127PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1128 run-time user, instead of root.
1129
43236f35 1130PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1131 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1132
fb08281f
DW
1133DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1134 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1135 arguments.
3346ab01 1136
74935b98
DW
1137DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1138 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1139 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1140
90b6341f
DW
1141DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1142
57730b52
ML
1143NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1144
66581d1e 1145
465e92cf
JJ
1146Exim version 4.72
1147-----------------
1148
453a6645
PP
1149JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1150 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1151 typos
465e92cf 1152
453a6645
PP
1153JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1154 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1155 (Finput)
edae0343 1156
9bd3e22c
NM
1157NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1158 Patch from Alain Williams
1159
bb576ff7
NM
1160NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1161
5a1a5845
NM
1162NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1163 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1164
981a9fad
NM
1165NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1166 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1167
7fc497ee
NM
1168NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1169
1a41defa
JJ
1170JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1171
a466095c 1172NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1173 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1174
94a6bd0b
NM
1175TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1176
1177TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1178
1179MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1180 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1181 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1182
c1b141a8
NM
1183NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1184 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1185
b26eacf1 1186NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1187 Patch by Simon Arlott
1188
179c5980 1189PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1190 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1191
9bd3e22c 1192
7c6d71af
NM
1193Exim version 4.71
1194-----------------
1195
7d9f747b 1196TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1197
f013fb92
NM
1198NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1199
0eb8eedd
NM
1200NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1201
663ee6d9
NM
1202NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1203
177ebd9b
NM
1204NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1205
7c6d71af 1206
210f147e
NM
1207Exim version 4.70
1208-----------------
1209
cdd3bb85 1210TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1211 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1212
1213TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1214 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1215 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1216
1217TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1218 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1219 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1220
1221TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1222 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1223
210f147e
NM
1224NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1225 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1226 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1227 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1228
deafd5b3
NM
1229NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1230 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1231 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1232
089793a4
TF
1233TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1234
5f16ca82
TF
1235TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1236
dae9d94e 1237NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1238 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1239
7d9f747b 1240NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1241
06864c44
TF
1242TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1243 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1244 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1245 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1246
65a7d8c3 1247NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1248 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1249
23510047 1250TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1251
7d9f747b 1252NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1253
7d8eec3a 1254NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1255 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1256
89dec7b6
TF
1257TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1258 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1259
a99de90c
TF
1260TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1261 that they are available at delivery time.
1262
e2803e40
TF
1263TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1264
7199e1ee
TF
1265TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1266 incoming_port log selectors.
1267
e276e04b
TF
1268TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1269 setting expands to an empty string.
1270
ce552449 1271NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1272 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1273
e765a0f1 1274NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1275 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1276
4f054c63 1277NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1278 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1279
7d9f747b
PP
1280NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1281 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1282
7d9f747b
PP
1283NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1284 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1285
b52bc06e 1286NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1287 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1288
447de4b0
NM
1289NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1290
4c69d561 1291NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1292 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1293
d5c39246 1294NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1295 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1296
0b23848a
TK
1297TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1298
8f3414a1 1299NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1300 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1301
fb6f955d
NM
1302NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1303
1304NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1305
7d9f747b
PP
1306NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1307 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1308
7d9f747b
PP
1309NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1310 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1311
7d9f747b
PP
1312NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1313 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1314
7d9f747b
PP
1315NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1316 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1317
7d9f747b
PP
1318NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1319 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1320
7d9f747b
PP
1321NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1322 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1323
7d9f747b
PP
1324NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1325 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1326
7d9f747b 1327NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1328 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1329
7d9f747b 1330NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1331
7d9f747b
PP
1332NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1333 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1334
7d9f747b 1335NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1336
7d9f747b 1337NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1338
7d9f747b 1339NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1340
7d9f747b 1341NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1342
17792b53 1343NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1344 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1345
7d9f747b
PP
1346NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1347 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1348
91576cec 1349NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1350 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1351
7d9f747b
PP
1352NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1353 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1354
7d9f747b 1355NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1356
7d9f747b 1357NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1358
7d9f747b 1359NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1360
7d9f747b 1361NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1362
deafd5b3 1363
47db1125
NM
1364Exim version 4.69
1365-----------------
1366
4b3504d0
TK
1367TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1368 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1369 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1370
1371 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1372 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1373 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1374 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1375 build errors in sieve.c.
1376
81ea09ca
NM
1377NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1378 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1379 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1380
f13cddcb
SC
1381SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1382
7d9f747b 1383NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1384
7d9f747b 1385NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1386
7d9f747b 1387NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1388
1389
eb4c0de6
PH
1390Exim version 4.68
1391-----------------
1392
1393PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1394
6a3bceb1
PH
1395PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1396 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1397 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1398 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1399 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1400 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1401 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1402 for iplsearch lookups.
1403
1404 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1405 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1406 previously such lookups could never work.
1407
1408 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1409 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1410 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1411
2e30fa9d
TK
1412TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1413 version.
1414
0806a9c5
MH
1415MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1416 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1417 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1418 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1419 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1420 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1421
ae276964
TK
1422TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1423 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1424
0f2cbd1b
MH
1425MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1426 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1427 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1428 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1429 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1430 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1431
2b85bce7
PH
1432PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1433 local_scan API.
1434
93655c46
PH
1435PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1436
6c512171
PH
1437PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1438 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1439 encrypted.
1440
1441PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1442 by clients under certain conditions.
1443
aa6dc513
PH
1444PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1445 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1446
a96603a0
PH
1447PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1448
8f240103
PH
1449PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1450 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1451
1452PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1453
d677b2f2
PH
1454PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1455
d52120f2
PH
1456PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1457
64f2600a
PH
1458PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1459 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1460
8669f003
PH
1461PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1462
a4dc33a8
PH
1463PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1464 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1465
d6a60c0f
PH
1466PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1467
8f128379
PH
1468PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1469
8932dffe
PH
1470PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1471 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1472 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1473 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1474
ddea74fa 1475PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1476 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1477 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1478
ddea74fa 1479PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1480 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1481
ddea74fa
PH
1482PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1483
ce9f225c
PH
1484PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1485
19897d52
PH
1486PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1487
bc64a74d
PH
1488PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1489 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1490 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1491
eb4c0de6 1492
b4ed4da0
PH
1493Exim version 4.67
1494-----------------
1495
22ad45c9
MH
1496MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1497 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1498 Jan Srzednicki.
1499
b4ed4da0
PH
1500PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1501 issue a MAIL command.
1502
431b7361
PH
1503PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1504
1505 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1506
1507 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1508 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1509 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1510 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1511 item. This has been fixed.
1512
1513PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1514 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1515
83da1223
PH
1516PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1517 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1518
54fc8428
PH
1519PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1520 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1521 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1522
34c5e8dd
SC
1523SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1524
bbe15da8
PH
1525PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1526 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1527 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1528 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1529 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1530
0e8a9471
MH
1531MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1532 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1533 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1534
f0872424
PH
1535PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1536 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1537 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1538 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1539
b01dd148
PH
1540PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1541
6bf342e1
PH
1542PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1543
273f34d0
PH
1544PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1545 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1546 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1547 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1548 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1549
cf8b11a5
PH
1550PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1551
41c7c167
PH
1552PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1553 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1554 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1555 values).
1556
9c57cbc0
PH
1557PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1558
f3f065bb
PH
1559PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1560
047bdd8c
PH
1561PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1562
0ce9abe6
PH
1563PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1564
0e22dfd1
PH
1565PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1566
4c590bd1
PH
1567PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1568 no_callout_flush is set.
1569
09945f1e
PH
1570PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1571 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1572 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1573 fixed.
1574
c51b8e75
PH
1575PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1576
e28326d8
PH
1577PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1578 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1579 other ACL rejections are.
1580
75b1493f
PH
1581PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1582 with slight modification.
1583
7c5214ec
PH
1584PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1585 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1586
4311097e
PH
1587PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1588 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1589 connection.
1590
29f89cad
PH
1591PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1592 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1593
5e687460
SC
1594SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1595
c3611384
PH
1596PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1597 expansion side effects.
1598
5a11a7b4
PH
1599PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1600 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1601 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1602 be the same.
1603
0e20aff9
MH
1604MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1605 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1606 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1607
ca86f471
PH
1608PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1609 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1610 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1611 were accidentally chopped off.
1612
a14e5636
PH
1613PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1614 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1615 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1616 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1617 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1618 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1619 pipelining has not been advertised.
1620
ec95d1a6
PH
1621PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1622
42855d71
PH
1623PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1624 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1625 This has been fixed.
1626
57c2c631
PH
1627PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1628 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1629 reported on Solaris.
1630
58c01c94
PH
1631PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1632 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1633 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1634 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1635 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1636 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1637 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1638
dee5a20a
PH
1639PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1640 cpus.
1641
d2ee6114
PH
1642PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1643
b2d5182b
PH
1644PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1645
79749a79
PH
1646PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1647 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1648 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1649 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1650 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1651 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1652
c456d9bb
PH
1653PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1654 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1655 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1656 host_all_ignored option.
1657
cd9868ec
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1658PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1659 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1660 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1661 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1662 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1663 is what is supposed to happen).
1664
ebeaf996
PH
1665PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1666 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1667 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1668 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1669 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1670 uses the Exim user.
1671
2679d413
PH
1672PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1673 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1674 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1675 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1676 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1677 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1678 users.
1679
84024b72
PH
1680PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1681
8005d38e
SC
1682SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1683 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1684 (Jez Hancock).
1685 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1686 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1687
3298c6c6
SC
1688SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1689
a43a27c5
PH
1690PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1691
58eb016e 1692PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1693 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1694 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1695 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1696 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1697 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1698 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1699 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1700 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1701 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1702 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1703
b43a74ea
PH
1704PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1705 advertised in response to EHLO.
1706
b4ed4da0 1707
5dd1517f
PH
1708Exim version 4.66
1709-----------------
1710
1711PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1712 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1713
1714 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1715 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1716
1717 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1718 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1719 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1720
1721 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1722 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1723 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1724 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1725 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1726
1727
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TK
1728Exim version 4.65
1729-----------------
1730
1731TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1732 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1733 versions. (#438)
1734
d6066548
MH
1735MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1736 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1737 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1738
4362ff0d
PH
1739PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1740 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1741 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1742 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1743 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1744 rather than extend the field.
1745
93cfa765 1746
944e9e9c
TF
1747Exim version 4.64
1748-----------------
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TK
1750TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1751 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1752 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1753 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1754 these files.
1755
1756TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1757 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1758 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1759
1760TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1761 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1762 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1763
1764TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1765 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1766 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1767 in the field name.
1768
2b1c6e3a
PH
1769PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1770 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1771 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1772 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1773 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1774 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1775 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1776 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1777 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1778 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1779 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1780
1f872c80
PH
1781PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1782 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1783
1784PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1785 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1786 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1787 ignores EPIPE as well.
1788
d203e649
PH
1789PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1790 (quoted-printable decoding).
1791
cc2ed8f7 1792PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1793 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1794
ddfcd446
PH
1795PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1796
d45b1de8
PH
1797PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1798
1799PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1800
38a0a95f 1801PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1802 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1803
a2405d83
JJ
1804JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1805 in 4.64-PH/09.
1806
1807JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1808 miscellaneous code fixes
1809
6ea85e9a
PH
1810PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1811 rejections.
1812
26da7e20
PH
1813PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1814 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1815 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1816 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1817 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1818 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1819 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1820 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1821
14aa5a05 1822PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1823 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1824 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1825 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1826 function.
1827 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1828 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1829 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1830 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1831 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1832 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1833 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1834 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1835 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1836
ff75a1f7
PH
1837PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1838 decoding.
1839
e6f6568e
PH
1840PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1841 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1842 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1843 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1844 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1845 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1846 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1847 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1848
d6f6e0dc
PH
1849PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1850 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1851 list.
1852
322050c2
PH
1853PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1854 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1855 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1856 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1857 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1858 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1859 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1860 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1861 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1862 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1863 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1864 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1865 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1866
08955dd3
PH
1867PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1868 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1869 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1870 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1871 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1872 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1873 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1874
1eccaa59
PH
1875PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1876 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1877 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1878 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1879 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1880 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1881 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1882 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1883 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1884 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1885
602e59e5
PH
1886PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1887 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1888 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1889 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1890 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1891
411ef850
PH
1892PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1893 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1894 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1895 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1896 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1897 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1898 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1899
7befa435
PH
1900PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1901 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1902 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1903 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1904 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1905 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1906 been verified.
1907
48da4259 1908PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1909 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1910 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1911 and authorization.)
1912
48da4259
PH
1913PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1914 if any retry times were supplied.
1915
d1d5595c
PH
1916PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1917 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1918 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1919
0ef732d9
PH
1920PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1921
328895cc
PH
1922PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1923
fd700877
PH
1924PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1925 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1926 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1927 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1928 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1929 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1930
8dce1a6f
PH
1931PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1932 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1933
17af4a17
PH
1934PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1935 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1936 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1937
1938PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1939 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1940 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1941 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1942 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1943 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1944 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1945 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1946 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1947
1948 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1949 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1950 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1951 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1952 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1953 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1954 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1955 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1956 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1957
1958 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1959 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1960 hammering the server.
1961
c1114884
PH
1962PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1963 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1964
7a0743eb
PH
1965PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1966
0d85fa3f
PH
1967PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1968 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1969 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1970
1bf43b78
PH
1971PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1972 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1973 one case where this was not true.
1974
520de300
PH
1975PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1976 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1977 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1978 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1979 fails.
1980
48c7f9e2
PH
1981PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1982 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1983 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1984 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1985 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1986 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1987 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1988 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1989 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1990 smtp transport.
1991
99ea1c86
PH
1992PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1993 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1994 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1995 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1996
a2042e78
PH
1997PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1998 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1999
4fbcfc2e
PH
2000PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2001 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2002 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2003
aa41d2de
PH
2004PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2005
af561417
PH
2006PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2007
3cc66b45
PH
2008PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2009
194cc0e4
PH
2010PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2011 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2012 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2013 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2014
a401ddaa
PH
2015PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2016 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2017
4e88a19f
PH
2018PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2019 be meaningful with "accept".
2020
d7d7b289
SC
2021SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2022 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2023
2024SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2025 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2026 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2027
2028SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2029 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2030 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2031 there is data to show.
2032 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2033
2034SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2035 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2036 as well as the number of messages.
2037
2038SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2039 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2040 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2041
2042SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2043 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2044 have a flag are now skipped.
2045
2046SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2047 Added the -emptyok flag.
2048
2049SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2050 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2051
0ea2a468
JJ
2052JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2053 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2054 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2055
2056JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2057 match 4.64-PH/13
2058
2059JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2060 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2061
2062JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2063
2064JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2065 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2066
8a10f5a4
PH
2067PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2068
30e18802
PH
2069PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2070 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2071 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2072 contravention of the specifications.
2073
55728a4f
PH
2074PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2075 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2076 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2077
d7837193
PH
2078PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2079 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2080 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2081
87054a31
PH
2082PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2083
ea2c01d2
MH
2084MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2085 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2086 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2087 some point in the past.
2088
e4fa6968
PH
2089PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2090 transport during callout processing was broken.
2091
56f5d9bd
PH
2092PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2093 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2094
922e1c28
PH
2095PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2096 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2097
21eb6e72
PH
2098PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2099 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2100
a0540757
PH
2101PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2102
944e9e9c 2103
478be7b0
SC
2104Exim version 4.63
2105-----------------
2106
2107SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2108 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2109
2110SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2111 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2112 there is data to show.
2113 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2114
2115SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2116 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2117
2b965a65
TF
2118TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2119 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2120
45b91596
PH
2121TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2122 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2123
c59f5781
TF
2124TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2125 submissions from trusted users.
2126
90fc3069
TF
2127TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2128 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2129
6083aca0
TF
2130TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2131 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2132 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2133 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2134 there is now a framework to start from.
2135
765b530f
PH
2136PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2137 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2138 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2139
4e167a8c
PH
2140PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2141
4608d683
PH
2142PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2143
b8dc3e4a
PH
2144PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2145
5418e93b
PH
2146PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2147 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2148 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2149
b4a9bda2
PH
2150PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2151 libradius.
2152
45b91596
PH
2153PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2154 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2155 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2156
5547e2c5
PH
2157PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2158 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2159 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2160 its arguments.
2161
dbcef0ea
PH
2162PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2163 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2164 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2165 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2166 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2167
25257489
PH
2168PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2169 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2170
c816d124
PH
2171PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2172
a9ccd69a
PH
2173PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2174 operations in malware.c.
2175
75fa1910
PH
2176PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2177 signatures.
2178
a7d7aa58
PH
2179PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2180 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2181 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2182 all.
2183
42119b09
PH
2184PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2185 statements to "add_header".
2186
41609df5
PH
2187PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2188 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2189
a5bd321b
PH
2190PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2191 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2192 latter.
2193
e85a7ad5 2194PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2195 so that it is now:
2196
e85a7ad5
PH
2197 ${if or { \
2198 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2199 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2200 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2201 }{no}{yes}}
2202
e85a7ad5
PH
2203 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2204 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2205
d8fe1c03
PH
2206PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2207 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2208
16282d2b
PH
2209PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2210 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2211 any possible encoding problems.
2212
35d40a98
PH
2213PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2214 but not after initializing Perl.
2215
034d99ab
PH
2216PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2217 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2218 apparently, which is not desirable.
2219
6ec97b1b
PH
2220PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2221 queries.
2222
e22ca4ac
JJ
2223JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2224 --not options
2225
2226JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2227
33d73e3b
PH
2228PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2229 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2230 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2231 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2232
9ecb03f3
PH
2233PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2234 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2235 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2236
084efe8d
PH
2237PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2238 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2239 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2240 0.12.
2241
366fc9f0
PH
2242PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2243 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2244 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2245 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2246 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2247
c59f5781 2248
c887c79e
TF
2249Exim version 4.62
2250-----------------
2251
2252TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2253 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2254
1cce3af8
PH
2255PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2256 patch).
2257
afb3eaaf
PH
2258PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2259 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2260 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2261 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2262 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2263 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2264 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2265 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2266 451 error is used.
2267
e173618b
PH
2268PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2269
dd16e114
PH
2270PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2271 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2272 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2273
f7fd3850
PH
2274PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2275 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2276 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2277 odd errors.
2278
d87df92c
PH
2279PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2280 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2281
7e9f683d
PH
2282PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2283 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2284 option (which defaults to 0600).
2285
bfad5236
PH
2286PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2287
01c490df
PH
2288PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2289 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2290 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2291 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2292 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2293 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2294 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2295
d6629cdc
PH
2296PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2297
1cce3af8 2298
214e2000
PH
2299Exim version 4.61
2300-----------------
2301
2302PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2303 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2304 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2305 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2306 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2307 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2308 addresses as local.
2309
f9daeae0
PH
2310PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2311 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2312
7e66e54d
PH
2313PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2314
c8ea1597
PH
2315PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2316 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2317 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2318 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2319 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2320 grumble.
2321
911f6fde
PH
2322PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2323 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2324
47ca6d6c
PH
2325PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2326 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2327 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2328 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2329 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2330
ed0e9820
PH
2331PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2332 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2333 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2334 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2335
eff37e47
PH
2336PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2337 be the same on different OS.
2338
1921d2ea
PH
2339PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2340 testing.
2341
b3f69ca8
JJ
2342JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2343 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2344
2345JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2346 in 4.61-PH/06
2347
424a1c63
PH
2348PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2349 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2350 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2351 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2352 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2353 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2354 bounce message.
2355
7a100415
PH
2356PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2357 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2358 when Exim was called.
2359
19b9dc85
PH
2360PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2361 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2362
309bd837
PH
2363PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2364 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2365 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2366 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2367
59e82a2a
PH
2368PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2369 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2370 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2371 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2372 changes:
2373
2374 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2375 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2376 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2377
2378 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2379 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2380 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2381
9edc04ce
PH
2382PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2383 feature).
2384
1349e1e5
PH
2385PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2386 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2387 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2388 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2389 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2390 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2391 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2392 values from the SRV records were lost.
2393
ea49d0e1
PH
2394PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2395 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2396 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2397
064a94c9
PH
2398PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2399 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2400 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2401
727071f8
PH
2402PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2403 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2404 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2405 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2406 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2407 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2408 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2409 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2410 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2411 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2412
f78eb7c6
PH
2413PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2414 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2415 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2416
21c28500
PH
2417PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2418 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2419
2420PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2421 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2422 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2423 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2424 is given.
2425
1688f43b
PH
2426PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2427 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2428 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2429
2430PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2431 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2432 PH/23 above applies.
2433
9675b384
PH
2434PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2435 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2436 (for which there is an explicit test).
2437
6a3f1455
PH
2438PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2439
dac79d3e
PH
2440PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2441 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2442 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2443 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2444 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2445
5977a0b3
PH
2446PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2447 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2448 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2449 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2450
c91535f3
PH
2451PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2452 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2453 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2454
0d46a8c8
PH
2455PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2456
278c6e6c
PH
2457PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2458
2cbb4081
PH
2459PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2460 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2461 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2462
3eef829e
PH
2463PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2464 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2465 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2466 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2467 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2468
1ab95fa6
PH
2469PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2470 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2471 the message gets confusing).
2472
230205fc
PH
2473PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2474 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2475 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2476 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2477
75e0e026
PH
2478PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2479 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2480 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2481 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2482 same order.
2483
2484PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2485 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2486 the different processes.
2487
145396a6
PH
2488PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2489
3cd34f13
PH
2490PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2491
11121d3d
JJ
2492JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2493 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2494
2495JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2496 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2497
2498JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2499 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2500 messages matching specified criteria.
2501
8def5aaf
PH
2502PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2503
929ba01c
PH
2504PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2505 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2506
2632889e
PH
2507PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2508 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2509 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2510 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2511 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2512 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2513 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2514 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2515 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2516 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2517
944a9c55
PH
2518PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2519 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2520 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2521
4a23603b
PH
2522PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2523
4730f942
PH
2524PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2525 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2526 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2527 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2528 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2529 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2530 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2531 the variable.
2532
30dba1e6
PH
2533PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2534 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2535
382afc6b
PH
2536PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2537
a86229cf
PH
2538PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2539
50c99ba6
PH
2540PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2541
d35e429d
PH
2542PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2543 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2544 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2545 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2546 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2547 size of the count of files.
2548
f90d018c
PH
2549PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2550
75def545
PH
2551PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2552 used in LMTP mode:
2553
2554 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2555 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2556 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2557 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2558
2559 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2560 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2561 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2562
2563PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2564 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2565 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2566 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2567 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2568
c46782ef
PH
2569PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2570 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2571
71fafd95
PH
2572PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2573 will now be deprecated.
2574
2c5db4fd
PH
2575PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2576
9cf6b11a
JJ
2577JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2578 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2579 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2580
2581JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2582 with very large, slow to parse queues
2583
2584JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2585
2586JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2587
898d150f
PH
2588PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2589 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2590 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2591 SMTP output lines.
2592
46218253
PH
2593PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2594 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2595 Sieve code now uses this.
2596
e97957bc
PH
2597PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2598 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2599
81e509d7
PH
2600PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2601 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2602
3d240ff7
PH
2603PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2604
b37c4101
PH
2605PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2606 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2607 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2608 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2609 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2610
79378e0f
PH
2611PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2612 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2613 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2614 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2615
e49c7bb4
PH
2616PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2617
d114ec46
PH
2618PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2619
f3d7df6c
PH
2620PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2621 is preferred over IPv4.
2622
715ab376
PH
2623PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2624 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2625 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2626 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2627 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2628 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2629 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2630
6b31b150
PH
2631PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2632 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2633 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2634
2635PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2636
d515a917
PH
2637PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2638 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2639 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2640 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2641 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2642 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2643 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2644 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2645 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2646 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2647 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2648
9b8fadde
PH
2649PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2650 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2651 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2652
214e2000 2653
5de37277
PH
2654Exim version 4.60
2655-----------------
2656
cc38ddbf
PH
2657PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2658
2659 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2660 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2661
2662 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2663 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2664 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2665
72fdd6ae
PH
2666PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2667
2668 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2669 not a single digit.
2670
2671 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2672 string.
2673
2674 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2675 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2676 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2677 silly things.
2678
2679 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2680 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2681
2682 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2683 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2684
cb741023
PH
2685PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2686 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2687 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2688
f174f16e
PH
2689PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2690 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2691
c25242d7
PH
2692PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2693 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2694
2695 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2696
2697 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2698 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2699 this:
2700
2701 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2702
82c19f95
PH
2703PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2704 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2705 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2706 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2707 identical. For example:
2708
2709 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2710
2711 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2712 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2713 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2714
d7ffbc12
PH
2715PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2716 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2717 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2718 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2719
9f526266
PH
2720PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2721 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2722 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2723 message.
2724
87fcc8b9
PH
2725PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2726
2727 o fixes some comments
2728 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2729 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2730 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2731 and documents the missing references header update
2732
2733 and most important:
2734
2735 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2736 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2737 result)
2738
456682f5
PH
2739PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2740 Electronic Mail") by including:
2741
2742 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2743
2744 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2745 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2746 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2747 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2748 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2749
2750 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2751
2752 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2753
2754 The auto-replied keyword:
2755
2756 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2757 message by an automatic process,
2758
2759 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2760
2761 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2762 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2763
2764 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2765 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2766 other messages.
2767
3e46c1aa
PH
2768PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2769 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2770
49826d12
PH
2771PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2772
eba0c039
PH
2773PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2774 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2775 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2776
a0d6ba8a
PH
2777PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2778 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2779 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2780
f0917727
PH
2781PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2782 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2783 and treats the condition as false.
2784
096fee00
PH
2785PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2786
024bd3c2
PH
2787PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2788 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2789 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2790 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2791 not changing the active code.
2792
2793 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2794 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2795
2796 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2797 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2798
df199fec
PH
2799PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2800 (Bugzilla #53).
2801
d27f1df3
PH
2802PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2803 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2804 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2805 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2806 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2807 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2808 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2809 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2810 the text comparison.
2811
96776534
PH
2812PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2813 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2814 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2815 The same fix has been applied.
2816
5de37277 2817
9a799bc0
PH
2818Exim version 4.54
2819-----------------
2820
2821PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2822 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2823 It now does.
2824
99a4b039
PH
2825PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2826 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2827
2828PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2829
4b233853
PH
2830PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2831 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2832 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2833 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2834 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2835
8857ccfd
PH
2836TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2837 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2838 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2839 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2840 or /domain=).
2841
433a2980
PH
2842PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2843 testing suite.
2844
3e46c1aa 2845
9a799bc0 2846
e3a311ba
TK
2847Exim version 4.53
2848-----------------
2849
2850TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2851 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2852
13b685f9
PH
2853PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2854
395ff96d
PH
2855PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2856
5b68f6e4
PH
2857PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2858 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2859 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2860
1ab52c69
PH
2861PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2862 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2863 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2864
b07e6aa3
PH
2865PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2866 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2867 operating systems.
2868
254e032f
PH
2869PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2870 ${stat: expansion item.
2871
3af76a81
PH
2872PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2873 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2874
2548ba04
PH
2875PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2876 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2877 file for comments.
2878
b6c6011d
PH
2879PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2880
cf39cf57
PH
2881PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2882 setting.
2883
f1513293
PH
2884PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2885 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2886
727549a4
PH
2887TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2888
af46795e
PH
2889PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2890 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2891 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2892 the end of the subprocess.
2893
d7b47fd0
PH
2894PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2895 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2896 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2897 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2898 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2899
ee744174
JJ
2900JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2901
b582ab87
PH
2902TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2903
41a13e0a
PH
2904PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2905 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2906
f625cc5a
PH
2907PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2908
2909PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2910
21f7af35
PH
2911PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2912 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2913 HP-UX compiler.
2914
31480e42
PH
2915PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2916
2d280592
PH
2917PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2918 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2919 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2920
7cd1141b
PH
2921PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2922 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2923
2924PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2925 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2926
750af86e
PH
2927PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2928 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2929
2930 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2931 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2932
2933 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2934 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2935 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2936 contributed by a Radius user.
2937
2938PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2939 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2940
4304270b
TK
2941TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2942 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2943
750af86e
PH
2944PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2945 available.
2946
64ffc24f
PH
2947PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2948 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2949 received.
2950
5dd9625b
PH
2951PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2952 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2953 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2954 header lines when this was not necessary.
2955
5591031b
PH
2956PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2957
ba18e66a
PH
2958PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2959 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2960 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2961 exists".
2962
9cec981f
PH
2963PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2964 -bV or -d is used.
2965
aa2b5c79
PH
2966PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2967 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2968 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2969 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2970
48a53b7f
PH
2971PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2972
1c59d63b
PH
2973PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2974
671012da
TK
2975TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2976
1509d3a8
PH
2977PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2978
2979PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2980 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2981 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2982 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2983 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2984 settings.
2985
2986PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2987
2fe1a124
PH
2988PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2989 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2990 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2991 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2992 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2993 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2994 which is clearly wrong.
2995
8800895a
PH
2996PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2997
ccfdb010
PH
2998PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2999 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3000 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3001 subsequently added.
3002
1130bfb0
PH
3003PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3004 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3005
ebcb507f
PH
3006PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3007
c35e155c
PH
3008PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3009 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3010
95d1f782
PH
3011PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3012 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3013
fd6de02e
PH
3014PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3015 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3016
58de37c5
PH
3017PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3018 recipients, not senders.
3019
261cf466
TF
3020TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3021 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3022
3ee512ff
PH
3023PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3024
e08c430f
PH
3025PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3026
bef5a11f
PH
3027PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3028 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3029 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3030 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3031
7546de58
TF
3032TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3033
e5d5a95f
TF
3034TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3035 clock is set back in time.
3036
2e88a017
TF
3037TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3038 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3039
a5f65aa4
TF
3040TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3041 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3042
e7726cbf
PH
3043PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3044 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3045 (see PH/47 above).
3046
a7fdad5b
TF
3047TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3048 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3049 header rewrites.
3050
6af56900
PH
3051PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3052 type ("H").
3053
0925ede6
PH
3054PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3055
66afa403
TF
3056TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3057 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3058 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3059
0154e85a
TF
3060TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3061 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3062 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3063 helo verification defer as a failure.
3064
16f12c76
PH
3065PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3066 actual error message.
3067
bbe902f0 3068
e5a9dba6
PH
3069Exim version 4.52
3070-----------------
3071
3072TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3073
22c3b60b
PH
3074PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3075 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3076 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3077 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3078
06a9b4b5
PH
3079TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3080
c1ac6996
PH
3081PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3082 can still be requested.
3083
9c7a242c
PH
3084PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3085 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3086 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3087 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3088
87ba3f5f
PH
3089TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3090 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3091 circumstances, but probably never did.
3092
3093PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3094 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3095 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3096 in the header line.
3097
29aba418
TF
3098TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3099
fe0dab11
TF
3100TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3101 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3102
11d337a4
TK
3103TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3104
3105TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3106
415c8f3b
PH
3107PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3108 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3109 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3110 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3111 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3112 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3113
958541e9
PH
3114PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3115 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3116 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3117 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3118 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3119 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3120
c206415f
TK
3121TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3122 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3123
2a4be8f9
PH
3124PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3125 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3126
1cba11c5
SC
3127SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3128 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3129
3130SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3131
3132SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3133
3134SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3135
3136SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3137
3138SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3139
3140SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3141
1005d00e
TK
3142TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3143
3144TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3145 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3146 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3147
3148TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3149 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3150 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3151 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3152
9b4768fa
PH
3153PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3154 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3155 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3156
3157PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3158 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3159 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3160 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3161
0d7eb84a
PH
3162PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3163 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3164 to be made).
3165
3166PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3167 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3168 should work with maildirs and everything.
3169
40727bee
TK
3170TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3171 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3172
554d2369
TF
3173TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3174 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3175
1f922db1
PH
3176PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3177 function for BDB 4.3.
3178
ef213c3b
PH
3179PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3180
8ac170f3
PH
3181PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3182 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3183 involved.
3184
b1c749bb
PH
3185PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3186 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3187 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3188 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3189 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3190 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3191
4aac9b49
PH
3192PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3193 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3194 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3195 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3196 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3197 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3198 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3199 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3200
294520c8
TK
3201TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3202 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3203 details.
3204
5bd022fe
PH
3205PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3206 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3207
90e9ce59
PH
3208PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3209 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3210 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3211 test. It is now used for both.
3212
5ea81592
PH
3213PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3214 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3215 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3216 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3217 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3218 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3219
c6c2dc1d
PH
3220PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3221 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3222 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3223 string_vformat().
3224
fffffe4c
PH
3225PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3226 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3227 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3228
9a26b6b2
PH
3229PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3230 experimental DomainKeys support:
3231
3232 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3233 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3234 the control was given.
3235
3236 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3237
4aee0225
PH
3238PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3239
32d668a5
PH
3240PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3241
8187c3f3
PH
3242PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3243 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3244 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3245 db.h files).
3246
ff790e47 3247PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3248 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3249 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3250 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3251 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3252 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3253 course.
ff790e47 3254
5417f6d1
PH
3255PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3256 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3257 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3258 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3259 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3260 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3261
59cf8544
PH
3262PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3263 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3264 do -d+all out of habit.
3265
e7ad8a65
PH
3266PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3267 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3268 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3269
ade42478
PH
3270PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3271 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3272 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3273 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3274 record types that Exim uses.
3275
182ad5cf
PH
3276PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3277 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3278 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3279 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3280 non-existent file that was broken.
3281
b0d9fc80
TK
3282TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3283 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3284
3285TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3286 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3287 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3288
3289TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3290
47c7a64a
PH
3291PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3292 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3293 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3294 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3295 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3296 same time.
3297
a388bce4
SC
3298SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3299 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3300 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3301 at a slight CPU cost.
3302
3303SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3304 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3305
3306SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3307 by Marc Sherman.
3308
0793e4ed
SC
3309SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3310
c58b88df
PH
3311PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3312 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3313
e7ad8a65 3314
7982096b
PH
3315Exim version 4.51
3316-----------------
3317
1a46a8c5
PH
3318TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3319 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3320
2f079f46 3321TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3322
3323TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3324
3325PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3326 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3327
3328PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3329 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3330 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3331 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3332 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3333 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3334 file.
3335
3336PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3337 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3338 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3339 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3340 these two options.
3341
3342PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3343 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3344 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3345 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3346 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3347 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3348 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3349 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3350
3351PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3352 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3353
3354PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3355 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3356 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3357 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3358 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3359 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3360
3361PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3362 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3363 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3364 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3365
3366PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3367 Finch).
3368
3369PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3370 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3371
49c2d5ea
PH
3372PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3373 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3374 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3375 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3376 message.
49c2d5ea 3377
bf759a8b
PH
3378PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3379
83364d30
PH
3380PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3381 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3382
7999bbd7
PH
3383PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3384 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3385 to what was transported.)
3386
7dbf77c9
PH
3387TF/01 Added $received_time.
3388
74e0617f
PH
3389PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3390 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3391 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3392 spamd_address settings.
3393
2f079f46
PH
3394PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3395 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3396 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3397 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3398 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3399
8c841523
PH
3400PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3401
7766a4f0
PH
3402PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3403 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3404 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3405 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3406 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3407
8b417f2c
PH
3408PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3409 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3410
901f42cb
PH
3411PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3412 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3413 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3414 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3415 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3416 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3417 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3418 for failure.
3419
f9b9210e
PH
3420PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3421 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3422 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3423 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3424 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3425 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3426 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3427 "input=".
3428
54cdb463
PH
3429PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3430
cf00dad6
PH
3431PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3432 driver and ACL definitions.
3433
acb1b346
PH
3434PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3435 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3436
c5ddb310
PH
3437PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3438 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3439 understands it better than I do:
3440
3441 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3442 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3443
3444 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3445 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3446 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3447 => three warnings about OTP not working
3448 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3449
3450 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3451 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3452 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3453 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3454 for each call.)
3455 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3456 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3457
3458 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3459 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3460 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3461
31619da6
PH
3462PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3463 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3464 specified.
3465
bebaf0fc
PH
3466PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3467 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3468 "Linux".
3469
475fe28a
PH
3470PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3471 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3472 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3473
3474 warn !verify = sender
3475 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3476
3477 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3478 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3479
7e8bec7a
PH
3480PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3481
3482 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3483 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3484
3485 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3486 nomenclature these days.)
3487
e4a89c47
PH
3488PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3489 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3490
5ca2a9a1
PH
3491PH/30 In these circumstances:
3492 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3493 . First host does not offer TLS;
3494 . First host accepts first address;
3495 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3496 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3497 . Second host accepts second address.
3498 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3499 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3500 address.
7e8bec7a 3501
c688b954
PH
3502PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3503 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3504 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3505 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3506 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3507
fed77020
PH
3508PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3509 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3510
7fe1560f
PH
3511PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3512 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3513
ebb6e6d5
PH
3514PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3515 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3516 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3517
9c4e8f60
PH
3518PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3519 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3520 overlooked.
3521
3522PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3523
d7174846
PH
3524PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3525 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3526 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3527 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3528 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3529 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3530 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3531
3532 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3533 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3534 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3535 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3536 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3537
3538 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3539 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3540 routed further.
3541
cfe75fc3
PH
3542PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3543 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3544 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3545 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3546 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3547 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3548
be22d70e
PH
3549PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3550
0612b098
PH
3551PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3552 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3553 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3554 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3555 printable escape sequences.
3556
2e0c1448
PH
3557PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3558 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3559 body only.
3560
447d236c
PH
3561PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3562 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3563 are as follows:
3564
3565 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3566 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3567 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3568 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3569 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3570
3571 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3572 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3573 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3574
d20976dc
PH
3575PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3576
f656d135
PH
3577PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3578 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3579 play with."
3580
2e2a30b4
PH
3581PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3582 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3583 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3584 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3585 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3586 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3587 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3588 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3589 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3590 the log output.
3591
9176e9f0
PH
3592PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3593 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3594 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3595 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3596 "make".
3597
7982096b 3598
bbe902f0
PH
3599A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3600----------------------------------------
3601
3602Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3603changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3604needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3605in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3606that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3607release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3608from 4.43.
3609
3610I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3612those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3613historical information.
3614
3615
f7b63901 3616Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3617-----------------
3618
5fe762f6
PH
3619 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3620
139059f6 3621 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3622 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3623
7086e875
PH
3624 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3625 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3626 place.
3627
35af9f61
PH
3628 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3629 filter fails to execute.
3630
b668c215
PH
3631 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3632 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3633 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3634 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3635 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3636
a494b1e1
PH
3637 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3638
3639 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3640 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3641 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3642 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3643
c5fcb476
PH
3644 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3645 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3646 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3647 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3648 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3649
69358f02
PH
3650 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3651
5be20824
PH
365210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3653
eb2c0248
PH
365411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3655 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3656 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3657 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3658
2a3eea10
PH
365912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3660 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3661 sender verification.
3662
366313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3664 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3665
23c7ff99
PH
366614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3667
4deaf07d
PH
366815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3669 connection timeout.
3670
926e1192
PH
367116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3672 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3673
650edc6f
PH
367417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3675 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3676
2c7db3f5
PH
367718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3678 information about exactly what failed.
3679
3d235903
PH
368019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3681
7c7ad977
PH
368220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3683 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3684 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3685
981756db
PH
368621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3687 It is now set to "smtps".
3688
d4eb88df
PH
368922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3690 ignore_target_hosts.
3691
369223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3693 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3694 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3695 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3696 "[x.x.x.x]".
3697
7d468ab8
PH
369824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3699 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3700 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3701
370225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3703 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3704 wake it up if nothing else does.
3705
62c0818f
PH
370626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3707 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3708 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3709 end up negative.
3710
26034054
PH
371127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3712 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3713
af66f652
PH
371428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3715
90af77f4
PH
371629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3717 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3718 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3719 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3720 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3721 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3722 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3723 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3724
d8ef3577
PH
372530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3726 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3727 than one IP address.
3728
5cb8cbc6
PH
372931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3730 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3731 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3732 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3733
14702f5b
PH
373432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3735 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3736 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3737 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3738 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3739 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3740
063b1e99
PH
374133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3742 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3743 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3744 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3745
652e1b65
PH
374634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3747 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3748 respected.
3749
6f0c9a4f
PH
375035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3751 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3752 $sender_host_address.
3753
33397d19
PH
375436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3755 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3756 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3757 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3758 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3759 very small.
3760
7bb56e1f
PH
376137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3762
3763 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3764 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3765
ea3bc19b
PH
3766 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3767 just the host names, not the priorities.
3768
3769 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3770 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3771 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3772
ea3bc19b 3773 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3774 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3775
0bcb2a0e
PH
377638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3777 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3778 domain.
3779
2ac0e484
PH
378039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3781
4e1fde53
PH
378240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3783 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3784
de365ded
PH
378541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3786 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3787 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3788
f05da2e8
PH
378942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3790
d6453af2
PH
379143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3792
f7b63901
PH
379344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3794
379545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3796 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3797 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3798 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3799 because the tests only now provoked it.
3800
a444213a
PH
380146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3802 (this can affect the format of dates).
3803
0ec020ea
PH
380447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3805 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3806 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3807 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3808
b1206957
PH
380948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3810
381149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3812 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3813 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3814 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3815
26dd5a95
PH
381650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3817 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3818 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3819
343b2385
PH
382051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3821 autoreply.
3822
1c5466b9
PH
382352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3824 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3825 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3826 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3827 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3828 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3829 is going on).
3830
55ee9ee3
PH
383153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3832 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3833 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3834 the line.
3835
d38f8232
PH
383654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3837 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3838 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3839
3840 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3841 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3842 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3843 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3844 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3845 so I produce this patch..."
3846
3295e65b
PH
3847 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3848 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3849 is not defined.
3850
7102e136
PH
385155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3852 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3853 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3854 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3855 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3856
3ca0ba97
PH
385756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3858
c2bcbe20
PH
385957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3860 long debug lines gets shown.
3861
18ce445d
PH
386258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3863 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3864
1f5b4c3d
PH
386559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3866
3867 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3868 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3869 of $primary_hostname.
3870
b975ba52
PH
387160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3872 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3873 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3874 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3875 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3876 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3877 by change 4.50/55 above.
3878
3879 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3880 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3881 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3882 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3883 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3884 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3885 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3886
388761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3888 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3889 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3890 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3891
17ffcae7
PH
389262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3893 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3894
d95f9fdb
PH
389563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3896 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3897 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3898 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3899 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3900
86b8287f
PH
390164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3902 This has been fixed.
3903
60dc5e56
PH
390465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3905 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3906 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3907 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3908 the caching.)
3909
533244af
PH
391066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3911
a5a28604
PH
391267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3913 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3914 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3915 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3916
7e634d24
PH
391768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3918 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3919
3e11c26b
PH
392069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3921 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3922 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3923
6729cf78
PH
392470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3925 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3926 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3927 message there.
3928
00f00ca5
PH
392971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3930 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3931 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3932
c9bdd01c
PH
393372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3934 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3935 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3936 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3937
d43194df
PH
393873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3939 during host lookups.
3940
fe5b5d0b
PH
394174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3942 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3943
3944 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3945
76a2d7ba
PH
394675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3947 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3948 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3949 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3950 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3951 background.
3952
395376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3954 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3955
04f7d5b9
PH
395677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3957 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3958 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3959
bc60667e
PH
396078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3961
bb6e88ff
PH
396279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3963 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3964 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3965 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3966 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3967 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3968 process earlier.
3969
1e70f85b
PH
397080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3971 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3972 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3973 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3974 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3975
397681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3977 tables).
3978
4e01f9d6
PH
397982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3980
1ee1cef2
PH
398183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3982 "vacation" handling.
3983
6e2b4ccc
PH
398484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3985 OS variants using glibc.
3986
8e669ac1
PH
398785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3988
495ae4b0 3989
bbe902f0
PH
3990----------------------------------------------------
3991See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3992----------------------------------------------------
3993
3994
3995Exim version 4.44
3996-----------------
3997
3998 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3999 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4000 transport
4001
4002 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4003 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4004 place.
4005
4006 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4007 filter fails to execute.
4008
4009 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4010 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4011 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4012 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4013 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4014
4015 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4016 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4017 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4018 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4019
4020 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4021 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4022 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4023 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4024 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4025
4026 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4027
4028 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4029 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4030 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4031 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4032
4033 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4034 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4035 sender verification.
4036
403710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4038 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4039
404011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4041 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4042
404312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4044 ignore_target_hosts.
4045
404613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4047 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4048 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4049 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4050 "[x.x.x.x]".
4051
405214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4053 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4054 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4055
405615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4057 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4058 wake it up if nothing else does.
4059
406016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4061 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4062 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4063 end up negative.
4064
406517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4066 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4067
ea3a6f44 406818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4069
407019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4071 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4072 empty pattern.
4073
407420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4075 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4076 one IP address.
4077
ea3a6f44
NM
407821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4079 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4080 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4081 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4082 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4083 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4084
ea3a6f44
NM
408522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4086 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4087 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4088
408923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4090 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4091 $sender_host_address.
4092
409324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4094
ea3a6f44
NM
409525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4096 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4097 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4098
409926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4100 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4101
ea3a6f44
NM
410227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4103 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4104
ea3a6f44
NM
410528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4106 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4107 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4108 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4109
411029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4111 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4112 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4113
ea3a6f44
NM
411430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4115 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4116 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4117 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4118
ea3a6f44
NM
411931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4120 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4121 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4122
ea3a6f44
NM
412331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4124 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4125
ea3a6f44
NM
412632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4127 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4128 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4129 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4130 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4131 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4132 is going on).
bbe902f0 4133
ea3a6f44
NM
413433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4135 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4136 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4137 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4138 CAN-2005-0021
4139
ea3a6f44
NM
414034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4141 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4142 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4143 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4144 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4145 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4146 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4147
4148 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4149 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4150 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4151 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4152 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4153 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4154 CAN-2005-0021
4155
ea3a6f44
NM
415635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4157 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4158 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4159 CAN-2005-0022
4160
ea3a6f44
NM
416136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4162 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4163 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4164 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4165 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4166
ea3a6f44
NM
416737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4168 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4169 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4170 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4171 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4172
ea3a6f44
NM
417338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4174 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4175 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4176 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4177 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4178
4179
495ae4b0
PH
4180Exim version 4.43
4181-----------------
4182
4183 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4184 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4185 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4186 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4187 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4188 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4189 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4190
4191 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4192 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4193 the delivery.
4194
4195 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4196
4197 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4198
4199 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4200 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4201 to local_scan().
4202
4203 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4204 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4205 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4206 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4207 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4208
4209 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4210 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4211
4212 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4213
4214 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4215
421610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4217 header_sender only.
4218
421911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4220 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4221
422212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4223 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4224 affecting debugging statements).
4225
422613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4227
422814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4229 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4230 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4231 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4232 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4233 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4234 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4235 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4236 after the received time, and all would be well.
4237
423815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4239 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4240 condition in an expansion string.
4241
424216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4243
424417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4245 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4246 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4247 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4248 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4249 job under whatever limits there are.
4250
425118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4252
425319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4254 space).
4255
425620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4257 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4258 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4259 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4260 return path is set.
4261
426221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4263 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4264 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4265 binary data in such strings.
4266
426722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4268
426923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4270 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4271 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4272 failure, which is pointless.
4273
427424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4275
427625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4277
427826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4279 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4280 Sender: header lines.
4281
428227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4283 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4284 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4285
428628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4287 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4288 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4289 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4290 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4291 happens.
4292
429329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4294 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4295 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4296 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4297 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4298
429930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4300 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4301 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4302 1024.
4303
430431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4305 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4306
430732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4308 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4309
431033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4311
431232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4313
431433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4315
431634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4317 syntax error.
4318
431935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4320
432136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4322
432337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4324 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4325 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4326 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4327
432838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4329 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4330
4331
4332Exim version 4.42
4333-----------------
4334
4335 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4336 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4337 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4338 it was not quoted.
4339 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4340 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4341 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4342 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4343 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4344 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4345
4346 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4347 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4348 verification failure".
4349
4350 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4351 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4352 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4353 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4354
4355 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4356 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4357 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4358 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4359 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4360 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4361 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4362 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4363 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4364 treated as a timeout.
4365
4366 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4367 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4368 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4369 not set for Exim filters).
4370
4371 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4372 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4373 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4374
4375 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4376
4377 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4378 try to make them clearer.
4379
4380 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4381 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4382
4383 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4384
4385 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4386
438710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4388 only the Cygwin environment.
4389
439011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4391 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4392 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4393 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4394 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4395
439612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4397 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4398 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4399 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4400 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4401 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4402 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4403
440413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4405 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4406
440714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4408
4409 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4410 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4411 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4412
4413 To: susanne@some.where
4414
4415 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4416 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4417 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4418 of addresses in From: header lines).
4419
4420 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4421 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4422 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4423
4424 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4425 treated as non-personal.
4426
4427 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4428 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4429
443015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4431
443216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4433
443417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4435 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4436 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4437
443818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4439 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4440
444119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4442 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4443 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4444 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4445 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4446 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4447
444820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4449 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4450 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4451 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4452 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4453 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4454 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4455 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4456
4457 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4458
445921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4460 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4461
446222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4463 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4464 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4465
446623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4467 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4468
446924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4470 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4471 rather than long int.
4472
447325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4474
447526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4476
4477
4478Exim version 4.41
4479-----------------
4480
4481 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4482 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4483 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4484 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4485 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4486 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4487
4488
4489Exim version 4.40
4490-----------------
4491
4492 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4493 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4494
4495 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4496 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4497 socklen_t is defined.
4498
4499 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4500 always exist.
4501
4502 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4503 configured.
4504
4505 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4506 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4507 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4508 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4509 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4510
4511 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4512 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4513 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4514 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4515
4516 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4517 of flapping under certain conditions.
4518
4519 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4520 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4521 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4522
4523 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4524
452510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4526
452711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4528 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4529 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4530 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4531
453212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4533 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4534 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4535 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4536 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4537 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4538 preserved with the message after it was received.
4539
454013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4541 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4542 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4543 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4544 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4545 test suite worked just fine.
4546
454714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4548 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4549 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4550
455115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4552 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4553 string.
4554
455516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4556 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4557 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4558 does not fully solve it.
4559
456017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4561 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4562 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4563 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4564 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4565
456618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4567 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4568 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4569
457019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4571 string, for example:
4572
4573 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4574
4575 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4576 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4577 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4578 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4579 the routers could not see them.
4580
458120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4582 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4583
458421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4585 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4586 output).
4587
458822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4589 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4590 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4591 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4592 that needed quoting.
4593
459423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4595 was not being matched caselessly.
4596
459724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4598 backslashes.
4599
460025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4601 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4602 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4603 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4604 when use_sender is false.
4605
460626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4607
460827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4609
461028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4611
461229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4613 the configuration file.
4614
461530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4616 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4617
461831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4619
462032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4621 bytes in the message body.
4622
462333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4624 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4625 delivery.
4626
462734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4628
462935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4630
463136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4632 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4633 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4634 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4635 another IP address.
4636
4637
4638Exim version 4.34
4639-----------------
4640
4641 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4642 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4643
4644 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4645 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4646 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4647 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4648 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4649
4650 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4651 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4652
4653 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4654 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4655 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4656
4657 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4658 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4659 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4660
4661 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4662 for routers.
4663
4664 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4665 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4666 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4667 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4668 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4669 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4670 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4671
4672
4673Exim version 4.33
4674-----------------
4675
4676 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4677 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4678 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4679 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4680 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4681 default (and expected) setting.
4682
4683 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4684 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4685 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4686 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4687
4688 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4689 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4690
4691 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4692 in domain lists.
4693
4694 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4695 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4696 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4697 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4698 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4699 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4700
4701 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4702 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4703 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4704
4705 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4706 part (NOT match_host).
4707
4708 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4709
4710 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4711 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4712 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4713 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4714 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4715 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4716 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4717 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4718 the same named file.
4719
472010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4721 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4722 when Exim is built.
4723
472411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4725 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4726 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4727 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4728 a host name.
4729
473012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4731 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4732 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4733
473413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4735
473614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4737
473815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4739
474016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4741 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4742
474317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4744 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4745 before starting the TLS session.
4746
474718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4748
474919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4750 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4751
475220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4753 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4754 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4755 colon in the middle).
4756
4757
4758Exim version 4.32
4759-----------------
4760
4761 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4762 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4763 multiple configurations are in use.
4764
4765 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4766 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4767 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4768 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4769 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4770 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4771
4772 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4773 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4774
4775 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4776 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4777 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4778
4779 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4780 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4781 occurs.
4782
4783 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4784 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4785
4786 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4787
4788 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4789 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4790
4791 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4792
4793 -prval:sval
4794
4795 is equivalent to
4796
4797 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4798
4799 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4800 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4801 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4802 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4803 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4804
480510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4806 Exim's behaviour:
4807
4808 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4809 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4810 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4811 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4812 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4813 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4814
4815 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4816 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4817 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4818 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4819 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4820 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4821 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4822 string.
4823
4824 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4825 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4826 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4827 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4828 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4829
483011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4831
483212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4833 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4834 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4835
483613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4837
483814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4839 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4840 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4841 information.
4842
484315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4844 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4845
484616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4847 Three changes have been made:
4848
4849 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4850 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4851 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4852 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4853 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4854
4855 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4856 been restored.
4857
4858 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4859 the modified behaviour.
4860
4861
4862Exim version 4.31
4863-----------------
4864
4865 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4866 Larry Rosenman.
4867
4868 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4869 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4870
4871 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4872 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4873 try to track down a specific problem.
4874
4875 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4876 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4877 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4878
4879 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4880 warning.
4881
4882 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4883 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4884 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4885 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4886 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4887 some earlier ones do not.
4888
4889 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4890
4891 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4892 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4893 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4894 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4895 address literals are enabled, of course).
4896
4897 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4898
489910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4900 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4901 by a command such as
4902
4903 exim -f "" ...
4904
4905 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4906
490711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4908
490912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4910 remained set. It is now erased.
4911
491213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4913 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4914
491514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4916 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4917 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4918 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4919 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4920 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4921 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4922 appropriate error code.
4923
492415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4925 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4926 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4927 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4928 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4929 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4930
493116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4932 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4933 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4934
493517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4936 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4937 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4938 terminate the header.
4939
494018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4941 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4942 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4943
494419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4945 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4946 (4.30/29). In particular:
4947
4948 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4949 imposed.
4950
4951 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4952 to write a maildirsize file.
4953
4954 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4955 the transport, the new value overrides.
4956
4957 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4958 count.
4959
496020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4961 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4962 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4963 space or a tab.
4964
496521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4966 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4967 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4968 the fallback hosts.
4969
497022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4971 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4972 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4973
497423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4975 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4976 using a union.
4977
497824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4979 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4980 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4981
498225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4983
498426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4985
498627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4987
498828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4989 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4990 become corrupted.
4991
499229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4993 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4994 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4995 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4996 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4997 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4998 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4999 too great.
5000
500130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5002 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5003 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5004 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5005 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5006 incorrectly.
5007
500831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5009 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5010 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5011 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5012 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5013 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5014 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5015 cached value only when the same options are set.
5016
501732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5018
501933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5020 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5021 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5022 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5023 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5024
502534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5026 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5027 it is clearly obsolete.
5028
502935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5030 transport.
5031
503236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5033 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5034 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5035 times.
5036
503737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5038 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5039 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5040 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5041 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5042
504338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5044 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5045 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5046 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5047
504839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5049
5050 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5051
5052 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5053 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5054 2^31.
5055
505640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5057 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5058 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5059 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5060 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5061 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5062 $localpart_data.
5063
506441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5065 with the -f command-line option.
5066
506742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5068 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5069 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5070 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5071 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5072 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5073
507443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5075 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5076 line.
5077
507844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5079 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5080 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5081 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5082 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5083 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5084 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5085 buffer is too small.
5086
508745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5088 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5089
509046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5091 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5092 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5093 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5094 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5095 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5096 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5097 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5098 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5099
510047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5101 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5102 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5103
510448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5105 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5106 ACL").
5107
510849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5109 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5110 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5111 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5112 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5113
511450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5115 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5116 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5117 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5118 is set.
5119
512051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5121
512252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5123
512453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5125 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5126
512754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5128 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5129 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5130
513155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5132 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5133 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5134 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5135 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5136
513756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5138 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5139 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5140 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5141 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5142 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5143 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5144
514557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5146 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5147 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5148 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5149 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5150 the test of how many are available.
5151
515258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5153 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5154 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5155 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5156 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5157 new message is started.
5158
515959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5160 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5161
516260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5163 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5164
516561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5166 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5167 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5168 is no long logged.
5169
517062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5171 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5172 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5173 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5174 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5175 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5176 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5177
517863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5179 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5180 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5181 interpreted as octal.
5182
518364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5184 setting.
5185
518665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5187 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5188 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5189 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5190 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5191 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5192
519366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5194 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5195 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5196 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5197
5198 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5199 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5200 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5201 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5202
5203 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5204 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5205 is a bug fix.
5206
5207 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5208 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5209
521067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5211
521268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5213 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5214 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5215 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5216
521769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5218 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5219 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5220 supplied", which is not helpful.
5221
522270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5223 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5224 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5225
522671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5227 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5228 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5229 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5230 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5231 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5232 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5233 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5234
523572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5236 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5237 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5238 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5239 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5240
524173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5242 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5243 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5244 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5245 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5246 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5247
524874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5249 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5250 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5251
525275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5253
525476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5255 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5256 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5257 variables.
5258
525977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5260
526178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5262 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5263 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5264 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5265 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5266 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5267 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5268 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5269
527079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5271 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5272 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5273 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5274 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5275
527680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5277 Haardt.
5278
527981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5280 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5281 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5282 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5283 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5284 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5285 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5286 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5287 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5288
5289
5290Exim version 4.30
5291-----------------
5292
5293 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5294 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5295 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5296
5297 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5298 fixed.
5299
5300 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5301 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5302 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5303
5304 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5305 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5306 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5307 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5308 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5309 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5310
5311 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5312 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5313 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5314 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5315 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5316 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5317 the Exim test suite.
5318
5319 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5320 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5321 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5322 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5323
5324 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5325 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5326 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5327 specify it in this variable.
5328
5329 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5330 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5331 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5332 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5333
5334 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5335 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5336 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5337 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5338
5339 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5340 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5341 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5342 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5343 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5344
5345 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5346
534710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5348 they are logged.
5349
535011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5351 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5352 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5353 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5354 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5355
535612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5357 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5358
535913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5360 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5361 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5362 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5363 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5364
536514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5366 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5367
536815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5369 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5370 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5371
537216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5373 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5374
537517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5376 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5377
537818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5379 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5380 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5381
538219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5383 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5384
538520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5386 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5387 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5388 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5389
539021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5391
539222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5393 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5394 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5395 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5396
539723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5398
539924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5400 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5401
540225. Added .include_if_exists.
5403
540426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5405 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5406 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5407 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5408 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5409 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5410
541127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5412
541328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5414 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5415 this.
5416
541729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5418
541930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5420 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5421
5422 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5423 550 Sender verify failed
5424
5425 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5426 the final line of the response.
5427
542831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5429 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5430 all other user lookups.
5431
543232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5433 delivery time.
5434
543533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5436 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5437 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5438 result into an int without checking.
5439
544034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5441 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5442 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5443
544435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5445 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5446 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5447 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5448
544936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5450 correctly.
5451
545237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5453 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5454
545538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5456 to the empty sender.
5457
545839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5459 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5460 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5461 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5462 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5463 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5464 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5465 panic log.
5466
546740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5468 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5469 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5470 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5471 used.
5472
547341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5474 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5475
547642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5477 timestamps.
5478
547943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5480 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5481
548244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5483
548445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5485 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5486 logs.
5487
548846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5489 as soon as it is encountered.
5490
549147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5492
549348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5494 rewritten to "<>".
5495
549649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5497 recognizes a tab character.
5498
549950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5500 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5501 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5502 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5503
550451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5505
550652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5507 crash.
5508
550953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5510
551154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5512
551355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5514 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5515 2822.
5516
551756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5518 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5519 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5520 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5521 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5522
552357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5524 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5525
552658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5527 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5528 list (.included file names were always shown).
5529
553059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5531 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5532 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5533 root at that time.
5534
553560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5536 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5537
553861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5539
554062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5541
554263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5543
554464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5545 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5546 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5547 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5548 failures to open the logs.
5549
555065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5551 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5552 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5553 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5554 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5555 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5556 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5557
5558
5559Exim version 4.24
5560-----------------
5561
5562 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5563 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5564 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5565 change 4.23/1.
5566
5567 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5568 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5569 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5570
5571 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5572 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5573 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5574
5575 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5576 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5577 causing some misleading effects.
5578
5579 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5580 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5581 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5582
5583 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5584 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5585 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5586 queue-runner function directly.
5587
5588
5589Exim version 4.23
5590-----------------
5591
5592 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5593 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5594
5595 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5596 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5597 was always written to the default place.
5598
5599 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5600 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5601 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5602
5603 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5604
5605 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5606
5607 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5608 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5609 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5610
5611 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5612 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5613 must start.
5614
5615 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5616 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5617 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5618
5619 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5620 command line option is disabled.
5621
5622 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5623 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5624
5625 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5626
5627 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5628
5629 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5630 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5631
563210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5633
563411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5635 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5636 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5637 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5638 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5639 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5640
564112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5642 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5643 timeout.
5644
564513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5646 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5647
564814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5649 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5650
565115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5652 received was valid base64.
5653
565416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5655 name of the variable that was being set.
5656
565717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5658
565918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5660 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5661 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5662 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5663 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5664 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5665
566619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5667
566820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5669 nor realm was specified.
5670
567121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5672 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5673 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5674 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5675
567622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5677 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5678 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5679
568023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5681 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5682 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5683
568424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5685 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5686 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5687 some systems use these upper case variants.
5688
568925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5690 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5691 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5692 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5693
569426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5695
569627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5697 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5698
569928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5700 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5701 expansion variable.
5702
570329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5704
570530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5706 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5707 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5708 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5709
571031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5711 using it.
5712
571332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5714 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5715 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5716
571733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5718 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5719
572034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5721 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5722 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5723 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5724
572535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5726 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5727 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5728
572936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5730
573137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5732 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5733 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5734 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5735 aborted.
5736
573738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5738 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5739 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5740
574139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5742
574340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5744 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5745
574641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5747 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5748
574942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5750 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5751 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5752 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5753 when emails are that large.
5754
5755
5756
5757Exim version 4.22
5758-----------------
5759
5760 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5761 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5762
5763 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5764 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5765 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5766
5767 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5768 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5769 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5770
5771 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5772 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5773 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5774 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5775 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5776
5777 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5778 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5779 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5780 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5781 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5782 ever.
5783
5784 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5785 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5786 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5787 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5788 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5789 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5790 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5791 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5792 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5793 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5794 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5795 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5796 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5797 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5798
5799 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5800 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5801 parameterised it.
5802
5803 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5804 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5805 error should be diagnosed.
5806
5807 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5808 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5809 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5810 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5811 appeared instead of "NULL".
5812
581310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5814 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5815 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5816 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5817 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5818 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5819 proceeds).
5820
5821 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5822 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5823 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5824
5825
5826Exim version 4.21
5827-----------------
5828
5829 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5830 or receiver verification errors.
5831
5832 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5833 name.
5834
5835 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5836 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5837 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5838 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5839
5840 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5841 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5842 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5843 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5844 shouldn't happen again.
5845
5846 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5847 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5848 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5849
5850 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5851 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5852
5853 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5854
5855 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5856 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5857
5858 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5859 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5860 RFC.
5861
586210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5863 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5864 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5865
586611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5867 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5868 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5869 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5870
587112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5872 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5873 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5874 to define what should happen).
5875
587613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5877 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5878 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5879
588014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5881
588215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5883
588416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5885 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5886
588717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5888 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5889 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5890 structure in all cases.
5891
5892 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5893 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5894 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5895 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5896
589718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5898 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5899 domain name.
5900
590119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5902 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5903
590420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5905 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5906
590721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5908 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5909 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5910
591122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5912 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5913 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5914
591523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5916 the book and for uniformity.
5917
591824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5919
592025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5921 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5922 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5923 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5924 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5925 non-existent command as the problem.
5926
592726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5928 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5929 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5930
593127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5932
593328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5934 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5935 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5936
593729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5938 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5939 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5940 timestamps using strftime().
5941
594230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5943 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5944
594532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5946 transport-time rewrites.
5947
594833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5949 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5950 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5951 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5952
595334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5954 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5955
595635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5957 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5958 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5959 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5960 comma and a space.
5961
596236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5963 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5964 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5965 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5966 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5967 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5968 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5969
597037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5971 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5972 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5973 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5974 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5975
597638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5977 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5978 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5979 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5980 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5981 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5982 remaining text gets split now.
5983
598439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5985 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5986 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5987 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5988
598940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5990 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5991 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5992 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5993 $return_path.
5994
599541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5996 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5997 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5998 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5999 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6000 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6001 passed through if needed.
6002
600342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6004 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6005 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6006 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6007 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6008 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6009
601043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6011 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6012 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6013 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6014 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6015
601644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6017 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6018 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6019 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6020 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6021
602245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6023 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6024 noticed.
6025
602646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6027 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6028 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6029 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6030 mayhem of various kinds.
6031
603247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6033 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6034 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6035 the right test for positive values.
6036
603748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6038 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6039 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6040 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6041 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6042 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6043 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6044 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6045 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6046 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6047 envelope.
6048
604949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6050 module.
6051
605250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6053 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6054 forbidding it.
6055
605651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6057 the existing equality matching.
6058
605952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6060 dealing with inode numbers.
6061
606253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6063 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6064 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6065
606654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6067 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6068 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6069 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6070 local_scan().
6071
607255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6073 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6074 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6075 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6076 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6077 relay addresses has also been removed.
6078
607956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6080
608157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6082 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6083 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6084
608558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6086 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6087 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6088 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6089 processing applies to CR:
6090
6091 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6092 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6093
6094 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6095 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6096 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6097 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6098
609959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6100 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6101 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6102
610360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6104 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6105 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6106 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6107 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6108 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6109 arisen.
6110
611161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6112 program routers.
6113
611462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6115 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6116 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6117 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6118 adds:
6119
6120 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6121
6122 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6123
6124 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6125
612663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6127 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6128 not considered personal.
6129
613064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6131
613265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6133
613466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6135
613667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6137 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6138 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6139 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6140 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6141 header lines, and spool format errors.
6142
614368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6144 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6145 for more flexibility.
6146
614769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6148 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6149 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6150
615170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6152 Sabourenkov.
6153
615471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6155 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6156 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6157 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6158 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6159 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6160 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6161 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6162 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6163
616472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6165 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6166 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6167 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6168 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6169 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6170 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6171
617273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6173 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6174 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6175
617674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6177 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6178 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6179 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6180 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6181 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6182 instead of killing the process with assert().
6183
618475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6185 than Unicode encoding.
6186
618776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6188 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6189 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6190 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6191
619277. Added process_log_path.
6193
619478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6195 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6196
619779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6198 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6199
620080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6201 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6202 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6203
620481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6205 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6206 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6207 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6208 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6209 were applied:
6210
6211 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6212 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6213 as invalid.
6214
621582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6216 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6217 they will be used during message reception.
6218
6219
6220Exim version 4.20
6221-----------------
6222
6223The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6224
6225****