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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.75
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9NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependancy in version reporting
10 Bugzilla 1073
11
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12TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
13 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
14 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
15
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16TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
17 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
18
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19PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
20 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
21 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
22
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27TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
28 consequences so log it to the panic log.
29
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30TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
31 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
32
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33TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
34
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35DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
36 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
37 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
38
39PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
40 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
41 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
42
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43PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
44 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
45 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
46 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
47
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48PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
49 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
50 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
51 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
52
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53PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
54 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
55 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
56 arbitrary files.
57
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58PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
59 (Wolfgang Breyha)
60
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61PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
62 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
63 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
64 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
65 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
66
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71PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
72 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
73 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
74
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75PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
76 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
77
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78JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
79
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80PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
81
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82PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
83
ec5a0394 84PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 85
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86PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
87
453a6645 88PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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89 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
90 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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91 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
92
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93PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
94 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
95 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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96 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
97 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 98
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99PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
100
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101PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
102
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103PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
104
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105PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
106
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107PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
108
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109PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
110
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111PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
112
6a8de854 113PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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114 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
115 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 116
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117JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
118
119JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
120 "exim" to be used
55c75993 121
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122PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
123 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
124
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125PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
126 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
127 Notification from John Horne.
128
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129PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
130 compatible.
131
132PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
133 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
134 it normally works.
135
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136DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
137 access.
138
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139DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
140 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
141 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
142
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143DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
144 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
145 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
146 configuration file.
147
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148DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
149 option (effectively making it always true).
150
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151DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
152 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
153
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154DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
155 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
156
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157PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
158 run-time user, instead of root.
159
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160PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
161 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
162
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163DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
164 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
165 arguments.
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167DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
168 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
169 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
170
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171DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
172
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173NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
174
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176Exim version 4.72
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178
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179JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
180 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
181 typos
465e92cf 182
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183JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
184 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
185 (Finput)
edae0343 186
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187NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
188 Patch from Alain Williams
189
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190NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
191
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192NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
193 Patch from Andreas Metzler
194
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195NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
196 Patch from Kirill Miazine
197
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198NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
199
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200JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
201
a466095c 202NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 203 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 204
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205TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
206
207TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
208
209MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
210 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
211 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
212
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213NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
214 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 215
b26eacf1 216NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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217 Patch by Simon Arlott
218
179c5980 219PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 220 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 221
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223Exim version 4.71
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225
7d9f747b 226TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 227
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228NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
229
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230NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
231
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232NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
233
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234NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
235
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237Exim version 4.70
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239
cdd3bb85 240TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 241 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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243TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
244 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 245 Hirsch).
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247TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
248 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 249 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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251TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
252 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
253
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254NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
255 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
256 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
257 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
258
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259NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
260 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 261 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 262
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263TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
264
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265TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
266
dae9d94e 267NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 268 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 269
7d9f747b 270NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 271
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272TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
273 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
274 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
275 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
276
65a7d8c3 277NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 278 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 279
23510047 280TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 281
7d9f747b 282NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 283
7d8eec3a 284NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 285 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 286
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287TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
288 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 289
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290TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
291 that they are available at delivery time.
292
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293TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
294
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295TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
296 incoming_port log selectors.
297
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298TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
299 setting expands to an empty string.
300
ce552449 301NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 302 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 303
e765a0f1 304NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 305 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 306
4f054c63 307NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 308 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 309
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310NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
311 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 312
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313NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
314 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
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b52bc06e 316NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 317 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 318
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319NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
320
4c69d561 321NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 322 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 323
d5c39246 324NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 325 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 326
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327TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
328
8f3414a1 329NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 330 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 331
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332NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
333
334NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 335
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336NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
337 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 338
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339NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
340 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 341
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342NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
343 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 344
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345NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
346 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 347
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348NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
349 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 350
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351NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
352 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 353
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354NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
355 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 356
7d9f747b 357NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 358 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 359
7d9f747b 360NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 361
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362NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
363 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 364
7d9f747b 365NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 366
7d9f747b 367NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 368
7d9f747b 369NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 370
7d9f747b 371NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 372
17792b53 373NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 374 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 375
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376NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
377 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 378
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379NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
380 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 381
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382NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
383 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 384
7d9f747b 385NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 386
7d9f747b 387NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 388
7d9f747b 389NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 390
7d9f747b 391NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
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396
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397TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
398 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
399 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
400
401 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
402 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
403 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
404 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
405 build errors in sieve.c.
406
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407NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
408 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
409 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
410
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411SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
412
7d9f747b 413NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 414
7d9f747b 415NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 416
7d9f747b 417NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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423PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
424
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425PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
426 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
427 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
428 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
429 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
430 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
431 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
432 for iplsearch lookups.
433
434 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
435 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
436 previously such lookups could never work.
437
438 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
439 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
440 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
441
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442TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
443 version.
444
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445MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
446 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
447 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
448 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
449 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
450 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
451
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452TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
453 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
454
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455MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
456 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
457 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
458 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
459 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
460 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
461
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462PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
463 local_scan API.
464
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465PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
466
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467PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
468 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
469 encrypted.
470
471PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
472 by clients under certain conditions.
473
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474PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
475 "_responses" off the end of the name.
476
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477PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
478
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479PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
480 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
481
482PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
483
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484PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
485
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486PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
487
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488PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
489 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
490
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491PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
492
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493PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
494 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
495
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496PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
497
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498PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
499
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500PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
501 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
502 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
503 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 504
ddea74fa 505PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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506 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
507 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
508
ddea74fa 509PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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510 and InterBase are left for another time.)
511
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512PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
513
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514PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
515
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516PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
517
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518PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
519 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
520 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
521
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525
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526MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
527 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
528 Jan Srzednicki.
529
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530PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
531 issue a MAIL command.
532
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533PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
534
535 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
536
537 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
538 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
539 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
540 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
541 item. This has been fixed.
542
543PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
544 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
545
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546PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
547 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
548
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549PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
550 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
551 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
552
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553SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
554
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555PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
556 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
557 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
558 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
559 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
560
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561MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
562 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
563 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
564
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565PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
566 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
567 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
568 the server_setid option was incorrect.
569
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570PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
571
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572PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
573
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574PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
575 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
576 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
577 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
578 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
579
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580PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
581
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582PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
583 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
584 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
585 values).
586
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587PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
588
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589PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
590
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591PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
592
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593PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
594
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595PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
596
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597PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
598 no_callout_flush is set.
599
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600PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
601 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
602 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
603 fixed.
604
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605PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
606
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607PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
608 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
609 other ACL rejections are.
610
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611PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
612 with slight modification.
613
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614PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
615 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
616
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617PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
618 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
619 connection.
620
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621PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
622 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
623
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624SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
625
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626PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
627 expansion side effects.
628
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629PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
630 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
631 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
632 be the same.
633
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634MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
635 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
636 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
637
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638PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
639 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
640 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
641 were accidentally chopped off.
642
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643PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
644 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
645 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
646 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
647 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
648 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
649 pipelining has not been advertised.
650
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651PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
652
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653PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
654 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
655 This has been fixed.
656
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657PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
658 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
659 reported on Solaris.
660
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661PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
662 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
663 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
664 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
665 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
666 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
667 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
668
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669PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
670 cpus.
671
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672PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
673
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674PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
675
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676PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
677 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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678 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
679 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
680 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
681 criteria to be more general.
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683PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
684 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
685 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
686 host_all_ignored option.
687
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688PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
689 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
690 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
691 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
692 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
693 is what is supposed to happen).
694
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695PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
696 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
697 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
698 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
699 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
700 uses the Exim user.
701
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702PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
703 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
704 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
705 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
706 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
707 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
708 users.
709
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710PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
711
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712SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
713 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
714 (Jez Hancock).
715 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
716 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
717
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718SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
719
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720PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
721
58eb016e 722PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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723 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
724 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
725 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
726 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
727 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
728 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
729 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 730 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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731 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
732 least in a lot of common cases.
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734PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
735 advertised in response to EHLO.
736
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740
741PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
742 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
743
744 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
745 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
746
747 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
748 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
749 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
750
751 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
752 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
753 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
754 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
755 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
756
757
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760
761TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
762 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
763 versions. (#438)
764
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765MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
766 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
767 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
768
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769PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
770 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
771 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
772 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
773 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
774 rather than extend the field.
775
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780TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
781 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
782 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
783 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
784 these files.
785
786TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
787 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
788 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
789
790TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
791 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
792 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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793
794TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
795 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
796 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
797 in the field name.
798
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799PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
800 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
801 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
802 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
803 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
804 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
805 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
806 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
807 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
808 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
809 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
810
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811PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
812 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
813
814PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
815 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
816 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
817 ignores EPIPE as well.
818
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819PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
820 (quoted-printable decoding).
821
cc2ed8f7 822PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 823 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 824
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825PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
826
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827PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
828
829PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
830
38a0a95f 831PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 832 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 833
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834JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
835 in 4.64-PH/09.
836
837JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
838 miscellaneous code fixes
839
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840PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
841 rejections.
842
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843PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
844 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
845 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
846 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
847 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
848 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
849 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
850 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 851
14aa5a05 852PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 853 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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854 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
855 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
856 function.
857 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
858 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
859 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
860 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
861 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
862 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
863 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
864 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
865 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
866
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867PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
868 decoding.
869
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870PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
871 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
872 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
873 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
874 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
875 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
876 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
877 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
878
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879PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
880 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
881 list.
882
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883PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
884 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
885 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
886 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
887 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
888 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
889 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
890 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
891 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
892 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
893 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
894 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
895 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
896
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897PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
898 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
899 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
900 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
901 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
902 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
903 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
904
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905PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
906 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
907 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
908 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
909 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
910 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
911 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
912 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
913 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
914 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
915
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916PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
917 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
918 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
919 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
920 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
921
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922PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
923 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
924 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
925 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
926 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
927 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
928 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
929
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930PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
931 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
932 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
933 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
934 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
935 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
936 been verified.
937
48da4259 938PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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939 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
940 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
941 and authorization.)
942
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943PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
944 if any retry times were supplied.
945
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946PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
947 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
948 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
949
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950PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
951
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952PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
953
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954PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
955 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
956 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
957 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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958 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
959 before) are ignored.
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961PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
962 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
963
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964PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
965 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
966 committing the later change.]
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967
968PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
969 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
970 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
971 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
972 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
973 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
974 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
975 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
976 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
977
978 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
979 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
980 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
981 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
982 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
983 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
984 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
985 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
986 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
987
988 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
989 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
990 hammering the server.
991
c1114884
PH
992PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
993 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
994
7a0743eb
PH
995PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
996
0d85fa3f
PH
997PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
998 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
999 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1000
1bf43b78
PH
1001PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1002 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1003 one case where this was not true.
1004
520de300
PH
1005PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1006 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1007 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1008 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1009 fails.
1010
48c7f9e2
PH
1011PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1012 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1013 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1014 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1015 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1016 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1017 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1018 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1019 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1020 smtp transport.
1021
99ea1c86
PH
1022PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1023 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1024 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1025 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1026
a2042e78
PH
1027PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1028 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1029
4fbcfc2e
PH
1030PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1031 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1032 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1033
aa41d2de
PH
1034PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1035
af561417
PH
1036PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1037
3cc66b45
PH
1038PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1039
194cc0e4
PH
1040PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1041 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1042 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1043 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1044
a401ddaa
PH
1045PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1046 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1047
4e88a19f
PH
1048PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1049 be meaningful with "accept".
1050
d7d7b289
SC
1051SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1052 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1053
1054SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1055 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1056 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1057
1058SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1059 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1060 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1061 there is data to show.
1062 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1063
1064SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1065 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1066 as well as the number of messages.
1067
1068SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1069 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1070 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1071
1072SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1073 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1074 have a flag are now skipped.
1075
1076SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1077 Added the -emptyok flag.
1078
1079SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1080 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1081
0ea2a468
JJ
1082JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1083 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1084 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1085
1086JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1087 match 4.64-PH/13
1088
1089JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1090 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1091
1092JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1093
1094JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1095 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1096
8a10f5a4
PH
1097PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1098
30e18802
PH
1099PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1100 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1101 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1102 contravention of the specifications.
1103
55728a4f
PH
1104PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1105 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1106 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1107
d7837193
PH
1108PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1109 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1110 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1111
87054a31
PH
1112PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1113
ea2c01d2
MH
1114MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1115 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1116 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1117 some point in the past.
1118
e4fa6968
PH
1119PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1120 transport during callout processing was broken.
1121
56f5d9bd
PH
1122PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1123 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1124
922e1c28
PH
1125PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1126 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1127
21eb6e72
PH
1128PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1129 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1130
a0540757
PH
1131PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1132
944e9e9c 1133
478be7b0
SC
1134Exim version 4.63
1135-----------------
1136
1137SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1138 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1139
1140SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1141 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1142 there is data to show.
1143 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1144
1145SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1146 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1147
2b965a65
TF
1148TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1149 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1150
45b91596
PH
1151TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1152 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1153
c59f5781
TF
1154TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1155 submissions from trusted users.
1156
90fc3069
TF
1157TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1158 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1159
6083aca0
TF
1160TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1161 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1162 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1163 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1164 there is now a framework to start from.
1165
765b530f
PH
1166PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1167 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1168 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1169
4e167a8c
PH
1170PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1171
4608d683
PH
1172PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1173
b8dc3e4a
PH
1174PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1175
5418e93b
PH
1176PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1177 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1178 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1179
b4a9bda2
PH
1180PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1181 libradius.
1182
45b91596
PH
1183PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1184 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1185 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1186
5547e2c5
PH
1187PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1188 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1189 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1190 its arguments.
1191
dbcef0ea
PH
1192PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1193 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1194 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1195 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1196 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1197
25257489
PH
1198PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1199 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1200
c816d124
PH
1201PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1202
a9ccd69a
PH
1203PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1204 operations in malware.c.
1205
75fa1910
PH
1206PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1207 signatures.
1208
a7d7aa58
PH
1209PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1210 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1211 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1212 all.
1213
42119b09
PH
1214PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1215 statements to "add_header".
1216
41609df5
PH
1217PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1218 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1219
a5bd321b
PH
1220PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1221 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1222 latter.
1223
e85a7ad5 1224PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1225 so that it is now:
1226
e85a7ad5
PH
1227 ${if or { \
1228 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1229 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1230 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1231 }{no}{yes}}
1232
e85a7ad5
PH
1233 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1234 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1235
d8fe1c03
PH
1236PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1237 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1238
16282d2b
PH
1239PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1240 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1241 any possible encoding problems.
1242
35d40a98
PH
1243PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1244 but not after initializing Perl.
1245
034d99ab
PH
1246PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1247 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1248 apparently, which is not desirable.
1249
6ec97b1b
PH
1250PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1251 queries.
1252
e22ca4ac
JJ
1253JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1254 --not options
1255
1256JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1257
33d73e3b
PH
1258PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1259 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1260 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1261 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1262
9ecb03f3
PH
1263PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1264 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1265 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1266
084efe8d
PH
1267PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1268 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1269 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1270 0.12.
1271
366fc9f0
PH
1272PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1273 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1274 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1275 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1276 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1277
c59f5781 1278
c887c79e
TF
1279Exim version 4.62
1280-----------------
1281
1282TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1283 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1284
1cce3af8
PH
1285PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1286 patch).
1287
afb3eaaf
PH
1288PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1289 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1290 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1291 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1292 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1293 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1294 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1295 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1296 451 error is used.
1297
e173618b
PH
1298PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1299
dd16e114
PH
1300PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1301 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1302 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1303
f7fd3850
PH
1304PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1305 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1306 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1307 odd errors.
1308
d87df92c
PH
1309PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1310 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1311
7e9f683d
PH
1312PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1313 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1314 option (which defaults to 0600).
1315
bfad5236
PH
1316PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1317
01c490df
PH
1318PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1319 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1320 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1321 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1322 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1323 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1324 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1325
d6629cdc
PH
1326PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1327
1cce3af8 1328
214e2000
PH
1329Exim version 4.61
1330-----------------
1331
1332PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1333 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1334 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1335 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1336 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1337 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1338 addresses as local.
1339
f9daeae0
PH
1340PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1341 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1342
7e66e54d
PH
1343PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1344
c8ea1597
PH
1345PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1346 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1347 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1348 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1349 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1350 grumble.
1351
911f6fde
PH
1352PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1353 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1354
47ca6d6c
PH
1355PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1356 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1357 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1358 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1359 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1360
ed0e9820
PH
1361PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1362 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1363 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1364 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1365
eff37e47
PH
1366PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1367 be the same on different OS.
1368
1921d2ea
PH
1369PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1370 testing.
1371
b3f69ca8
JJ
1372JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1373 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1374
1375JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1376 in 4.61-PH/06
1377
424a1c63
PH
1378PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1379 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1380 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1381 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1382 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1383 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1384 bounce message.
1385
7a100415
PH
1386PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1387 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1388 when Exim was called.
1389
19b9dc85
PH
1390PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1391 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1392
309bd837
PH
1393PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1394 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1395 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1396 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1397
59e82a2a
PH
1398PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1399 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1400 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1401 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1402 changes:
1403
1404 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1405 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1406 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1407
1408 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1409 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1410 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1411
9edc04ce
PH
1412PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1413 feature).
1414
1349e1e5
PH
1415PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1416 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1417 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1418 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1419 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1420 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1421 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1422 values from the SRV records were lost.
1423
ea49d0e1
PH
1424PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1425 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1426 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1427
064a94c9
PH
1428PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1429 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1430 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1431
727071f8
PH
1432PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1433 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1434 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1435 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1436 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1437 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1438 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1439 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1440 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1441 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1442
f78eb7c6
PH
1443PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1444 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1445 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1446
21c28500
PH
1447PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1448 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1449
1450PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1451 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1452 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1453 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1454 is given.
1455
1688f43b
PH
1456PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1457 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1458 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1459
1460PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1461 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1462 PH/23 above applies.
1463
9675b384
PH
1464PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1465 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1466 (for which there is an explicit test).
1467
6a3f1455
PH
1468PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1469
dac79d3e
PH
1470PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1471 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1472 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1473 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1474 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1475
5977a0b3
PH
1476PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1477 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1478 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1479 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1480
c91535f3
PH
1481PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1482 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1483 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1484
0d46a8c8
PH
1485PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1486
278c6e6c
PH
1487PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1488
2cbb4081
PH
1489PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1490 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1491 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1492
3eef829e
PH
1493PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1494 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1495 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1496 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1497 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1498
1ab95fa6
PH
1499PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1500 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1501 the message gets confusing).
1502
230205fc
PH
1503PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1504 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1505 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1506 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1507
75e0e026
PH
1508PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1509 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1510 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1511 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1512 same order.
1513
1514PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1515 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1516 the different processes.
1517
145396a6
PH
1518PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1519
3cd34f13
PH
1520PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1521
11121d3d
JJ
1522JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1523 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1524
1525JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1526 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1527
1528JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1529 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1530 messages matching specified criteria.
1531
8def5aaf
PH
1532PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1533
929ba01c
PH
1534PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1535 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1536
2632889e
PH
1537PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1538 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1539 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1540 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1541 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1542 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1543 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1544 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1545 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1546 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1547
944a9c55
PH
1548PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1549 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1550 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1551
4a23603b
PH
1552PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1553
4730f942
PH
1554PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1555 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1556 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1557 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1558 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1559 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1560 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1561 the variable.
1562
30dba1e6
PH
1563PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1564 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1565
382afc6b
PH
1566PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1567
a86229cf
PH
1568PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1569
50c99ba6
PH
1570PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1571
d35e429d
PH
1572PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1573 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1574 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1575 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1576 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1577 size of the count of files.
1578
f90d018c
PH
1579PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1580
75def545
PH
1581PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1582 used in LMTP mode:
1583
1584 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1585 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1586 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1587 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1588
1589 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1590 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1591 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1592
1593PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1594 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1595 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1596 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1597 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1598
c46782ef
PH
1599PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1600 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1601
71fafd95
PH
1602PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1603 will now be deprecated.
1604
2c5db4fd
PH
1605PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1606
9cf6b11a
JJ
1607JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1608 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1609 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1610
1611JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1612 with very large, slow to parse queues
1613
1614JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1615
1616JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1617
898d150f
PH
1618PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1619 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1620 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1621 SMTP output lines.
1622
46218253
PH
1623PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1624 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1625 Sieve code now uses this.
1626
e97957bc
PH
1627PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1628 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1629
81e509d7
PH
1630PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1631 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1632
3d240ff7
PH
1633PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1634
b37c4101
PH
1635PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1636 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1637 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1638 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1639 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1640
79378e0f
PH
1641PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1642 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1643 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1644 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1645
e49c7bb4
PH
1646PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1647
d114ec46
PH
1648PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1649
f3d7df6c
PH
1650PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1651 is preferred over IPv4.
1652
715ab376
PH
1653PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1654 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1655 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1656 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1657 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1658 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1659 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1660
6b31b150
PH
1661PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1662 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1663 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1664
1665PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1666
d515a917
PH
1667PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1668 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1669 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1670 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1671 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1672 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1673 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1674 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1675 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1676 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1677 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1678
9b8fadde
PH
1679PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1680 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1681 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1682
214e2000 1683
5de37277
PH
1684Exim version 4.60
1685-----------------
1686
cc38ddbf
PH
1687PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1688
1689 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1690 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1691
1692 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1693 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1694 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1695
72fdd6ae
PH
1696PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1697
1698 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1699 not a single digit.
1700
1701 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1702 string.
1703
1704 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1705 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1706 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1707 silly things.
1708
1709 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1710 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1711
1712 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1713 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1714
cb741023
PH
1715PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1716 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1717 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1718
f174f16e
PH
1719PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1720 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1721
c25242d7
PH
1722PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1723 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1724
1725 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1726
1727 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1728 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1729 this:
1730
1731 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1732
82c19f95
PH
1733PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1734 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1735 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1736 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1737 identical. For example:
1738
1739 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1740
1741 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1742 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1743 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1744
d7ffbc12
PH
1745PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1746 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1747 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1748 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1749
9f526266
PH
1750PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1751 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1752 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1753 message.
1754
87fcc8b9
PH
1755PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1756
1757 o fixes some comments
1758 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1759 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1760 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1761 and documents the missing references header update
1762
1763 and most important:
1764
1765 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1766 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1767 result)
1768
456682f5
PH
1769PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1770 Electronic Mail") by including:
1771
1772 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1773
1774 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1775 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1776 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1777 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1778 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1779
1780 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1781
1782 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1783
1784 The auto-replied keyword:
1785
1786 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1787 message by an automatic process,
1788
1789 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1790
1791 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1792 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1793
1794 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1795 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1796 other messages.
1797
3e46c1aa
PH
1798PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1799 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1800
49826d12
PH
1801PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1802
eba0c039
PH
1803PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1804 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1805 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1806
a0d6ba8a
PH
1807PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1808 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1809 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1810
f0917727
PH
1811PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1812 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1813 and treats the condition as false.
1814
096fee00
PH
1815PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1816
024bd3c2
PH
1817PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1818 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1819 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1820 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1821 not changing the active code.
1822
1823 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1824 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1825
1826 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1827 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1828
df199fec
PH
1829PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1830 (Bugzilla #53).
1831
d27f1df3
PH
1832PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1833 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1834 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1835 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1836 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1837 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1838 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1839 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1840 the text comparison.
1841
96776534
PH
1842PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1843 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1844 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1845 The same fix has been applied.
1846
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PH
1848Exim version 4.54
1849-----------------
1850
1851PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1852 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1853 It now does.
1854
99a4b039
PH
1855PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1856 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1857
1858PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1859
4b233853
PH
1860PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1861 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1862 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1863 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1864 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1865
8857ccfd
PH
1866TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1867 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1868 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1869 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1870 or /domain=).
1871
433a2980
PH
1872PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1873 testing suite.
1874
3e46c1aa 1875
9a799bc0 1876
e3a311ba
TK
1877Exim version 4.53
1878-----------------
1879
1880TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1881 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1882
13b685f9
PH
1883PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1884
395ff96d
PH
1885PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1886
5b68f6e4
PH
1887PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1888 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1889 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1890
1ab52c69
PH
1891PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1892 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1893 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1894
b07e6aa3
PH
1895PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1896 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1897 operating systems.
1898
254e032f
PH
1899PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1900 ${stat: expansion item.
1901
3af76a81
PH
1902PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1903 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1904
2548ba04
PH
1905PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1906 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1907 file for comments.
1908
b6c6011d
PH
1909PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1910
cf39cf57
PH
1911PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1912 setting.
1913
f1513293
PH
1914PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1915 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1916
727549a4
PH
1917TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1918
af46795e
PH
1919PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1920 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1921 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1922 the end of the subprocess.
1923
d7b47fd0
PH
1924PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1925 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1926 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1927 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1928 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1929
ee744174
JJ
1930JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1931
b582ab87
PH
1932TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1933
41a13e0a
PH
1934PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1935 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1936
f625cc5a
PH
1937PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1938
1939PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1940
21f7af35
PH
1941PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1942 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1943 HP-UX compiler.
1944
31480e42
PH
1945PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1946
2d280592
PH
1947PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1948 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1949 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1950
7cd1141b
PH
1951PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1952 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1953
1954PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1955 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1956
750af86e
PH
1957PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1958 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1959
1960 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1961 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1962
1963 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1964 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1965 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1966 contributed by a Radius user.
1967
1968PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1969 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1970
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1971TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1972 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1973
750af86e
PH
1974PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1975 available.
1976
64ffc24f
PH
1977PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1978 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1979 received.
1980
5dd9625b
PH
1981PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1982 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1983 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1984 header lines when this was not necessary.
1985
5591031b
PH
1986PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1987
ba18e66a
PH
1988PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1989 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1990 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1991 exists".
1992
9cec981f
PH
1993PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1994 -bV or -d is used.
1995
aa2b5c79
PH
1996PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1997 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1998 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1999 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2000
48a53b7f
PH
2001PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2002
1c59d63b
PH
2003PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2004
671012da
TK
2005TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2006
1509d3a8
PH
2007PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2008
2009PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2010 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2011 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2012 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2013 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2014 settings.
2015
2016PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2017
2fe1a124
PH
2018PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2019 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2020 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2021 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2022 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2023 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2024 which is clearly wrong.
2025
8800895a
PH
2026PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2027
ccfdb010
PH
2028PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2029 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2030 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2031 subsequently added.
2032
1130bfb0
PH
2033PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2034 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2035
ebcb507f
PH
2036PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2037
c35e155c
PH
2038PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2039 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2040
95d1f782
PH
2041PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2042 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2043
fd6de02e
PH
2044PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2045 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2046
58de37c5
PH
2047PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2048 recipients, not senders.
2049
261cf466
TF
2050TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2051 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2052
3ee512ff
PH
2053PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2054
e08c430f
PH
2055PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2056
bef5a11f
PH
2057PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2058 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2059 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2060 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2061
7546de58
TF
2062TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2063
e5d5a95f
TF
2064TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2065 clock is set back in time.
2066
2e88a017
TF
2067TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2068 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2069
a5f65aa4
TF
2070TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2071 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2072
e7726cbf
PH
2073PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2074 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2075 (see PH/47 above).
2076
a7fdad5b
TF
2077TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2078 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2079 header rewrites.
2080
6af56900
PH
2081PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2082 type ("H").
2083
0925ede6
PH
2084PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2085
66afa403
TF
2086TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2087 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2088 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2089
0154e85a
TF
2090TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2091 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2092 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2093 helo verification defer as a failure.
2094
16f12c76
PH
2095PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2096 actual error message.
2097
bbe902f0 2098
e5a9dba6
PH
2099Exim version 4.52
2100-----------------
2101
2102TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2103
22c3b60b
PH
2104PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2105 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2106 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2107 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2108
06a9b4b5
PH
2109TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2110
c1ac6996
PH
2111PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2112 can still be requested.
2113
9c7a242c
PH
2114PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2115 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2116 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2117 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2118
87ba3f5f
PH
2119TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2120 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2121 circumstances, but probably never did.
2122
2123PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2124 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2125 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2126 in the header line.
2127
29aba418
TF
2128TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2129
fe0dab11
TF
2130TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2131 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2132
11d337a4
TK
2133TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2134
2135TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2136
415c8f3b
PH
2137PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2138 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2139 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2140 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2141 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2142 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2143
958541e9
PH
2144PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2145 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2146 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2147 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2148 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2149 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2150
c206415f
TK
2151TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2152 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2153
2a4be8f9
PH
2154PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2155 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2156
1cba11c5
SC
2157SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2158 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2159
2160SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2161
2162SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2163
2164SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2165
2166SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2167
2168SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2169
2170SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2171
1005d00e
TK
2172TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2173
2174TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2175 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2176 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2177
2178TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2179 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2180 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2181 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2182
9b4768fa
PH
2183PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2184 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2185 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2186
2187PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2188 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2189 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2190 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2191
0d7eb84a
PH
2192PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2193 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2194 to be made).
2195
2196PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2197 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2198 should work with maildirs and everything.
2199
40727bee
TK
2200TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2201 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2202
554d2369
TF
2203TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2204 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2205
1f922db1
PH
2206PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2207 function for BDB 4.3.
2208
ef213c3b
PH
2209PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2210
8ac170f3
PH
2211PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2212 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2213 involved.
2214
b1c749bb
PH
2215PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2216 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2217 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2218 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2219 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2220 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2221
4aac9b49
PH
2222PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2223 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2224 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2225 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2226 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2227 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2228 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2229 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2230
294520c8
TK
2231TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2232 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2233 details.
2234
5bd022fe
PH
2235PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2236 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2237
90e9ce59
PH
2238PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2239 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2240 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2241 test. It is now used for both.
2242
5ea81592
PH
2243PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2244 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2245 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2246 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2247 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2248 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2249
c6c2dc1d
PH
2250PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2251 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2252 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2253 string_vformat().
2254
fffffe4c
PH
2255PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2256 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2257 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2258
9a26b6b2
PH
2259PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2260 experimental DomainKeys support:
2261
2262 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2263 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2264 the control was given.
2265
2266 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2267
4aee0225
PH
2268PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2269
32d668a5
PH
2270PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2271
8187c3f3
PH
2272PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2273 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2274 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2275 db.h files).
2276
ff790e47 2277PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2278 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2279 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2280 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2281 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2282 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2283 course.
ff790e47 2284
5417f6d1
PH
2285PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2286 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2287 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2288 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2289 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2290 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2291
59cf8544
PH
2292PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2293 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2294 do -d+all out of habit.
2295
e7ad8a65
PH
2296PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2297 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2298 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2299
ade42478
PH
2300PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2301 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2302 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2303 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2304 record types that Exim uses.
2305
182ad5cf
PH
2306PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2307 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2308 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2309 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2310 non-existent file that was broken.
2311
b0d9fc80
TK
2312TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2313 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2314
2315TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2316 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2317 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2318
2319TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2320
47c7a64a
PH
2321PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2322 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2323 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2324 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2325 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2326 same time.
2327
a388bce4
SC
2328SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2329 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2330 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2331 at a slight CPU cost.
2332
2333SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2334 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2335
2336SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2337 by Marc Sherman.
2338
0793e4ed
SC
2339SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2340
c58b88df
PH
2341PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2342 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2343
e7ad8a65 2344
7982096b
PH
2345Exim version 4.51
2346-----------------
2347
1a46a8c5
PH
2348TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2349 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2350
2f079f46 2351TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2352
2353TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2354
2355PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2356 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2357
2358PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2359 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2360 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2361 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2362 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2363 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2364 file.
2365
2366PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2367 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2368 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2369 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2370 these two options.
2371
2372PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2373 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2374 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2375 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2376 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2377 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2378 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2379 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2380
2381PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2382 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2383
2384PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2385 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2386 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2387 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2388 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2389 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2390
2391PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2392 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2393 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2394 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2395
2396PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2397 Finch).
2398
2399PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2400 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2401
49c2d5ea
PH
2402PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2403 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2404 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2405 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2406 message.
49c2d5ea 2407
bf759a8b
PH
2408PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2409
83364d30
PH
2410PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2411 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2412
7999bbd7
PH
2413PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2414 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2415 to what was transported.)
2416
7dbf77c9
PH
2417TF/01 Added $received_time.
2418
74e0617f
PH
2419PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2420 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2421 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2422 spamd_address settings.
2423
2f079f46
PH
2424PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2425 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2426 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2427 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2428 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2429
8c841523
PH
2430PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2431
7766a4f0
PH
2432PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2433 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2434 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2435 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2436 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2437
8b417f2c
PH
2438PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2439 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2440
901f42cb
PH
2441PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2442 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2443 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2444 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2445 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2446 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2447 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2448 for failure.
2449
f9b9210e
PH
2450PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2451 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2452 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2453 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2454 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2455 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2456 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2457 "input=".
2458
54cdb463
PH
2459PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2460
cf00dad6
PH
2461PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2462 driver and ACL definitions.
2463
acb1b346
PH
2464PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2465 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2466
c5ddb310
PH
2467PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2468 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2469 understands it better than I do:
2470
2471 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2472 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2473
2474 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2475 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2476 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2477 => three warnings about OTP not working
2478 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2479
2480 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2481 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2482 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2483 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2484 for each call.)
2485 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2486 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2487
2488 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2489 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2490 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2491
31619da6
PH
2492PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2493 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2494 specified.
2495
bebaf0fc
PH
2496PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2497 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2498 "Linux".
2499
475fe28a
PH
2500PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2501 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2502 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2503
2504 warn !verify = sender
2505 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2506
2507 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2508 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2509
7e8bec7a
PH
2510PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2511
2512 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2513 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2514
2515 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2516 nomenclature these days.)
2517
e4a89c47
PH
2518PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2519 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2520
5ca2a9a1
PH
2521PH/30 In these circumstances:
2522 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2523 . First host does not offer TLS;
2524 . First host accepts first address;
2525 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2526 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2527 . Second host accepts second address.
2528 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2529 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2530 address.
7e8bec7a 2531
c688b954
PH
2532PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2533 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2534 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2535 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2536 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2537
fed77020
PH
2538PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2539 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2540
7fe1560f
PH
2541PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2542 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2543
ebb6e6d5
PH
2544PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2545 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2546 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2547
9c4e8f60
PH
2548PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2549 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2550 overlooked.
2551
2552PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2553
d7174846
PH
2554PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2555 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2556 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2557 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2558 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2559 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2560 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2561
2562 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2563 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2564 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2565 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2566 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2567
2568 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2569 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2570 routed further.
2571
cfe75fc3
PH
2572PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2573 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2574 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2575 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2576 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2577 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2578
be22d70e
PH
2579PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2580
0612b098
PH
2581PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2582 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2583 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2584 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2585 printable escape sequences.
2586
2e0c1448
PH
2587PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2588 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2589 body only.
2590
447d236c
PH
2591PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2592 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2593 are as follows:
2594
2595 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2596 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2597 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2598 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2599 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2600
2601 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2602 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2603 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2604
d20976dc
PH
2605PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2606
f656d135
PH
2607PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2608 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2609 play with."
2610
2e2a30b4
PH
2611PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2612 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2613 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2614 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2615 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2616 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2617 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2618 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2619 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2620 the log output.
2621
9176e9f0
PH
2622PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2623 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2624 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2625 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2626 "make".
2627
7982096b 2628
bbe902f0
PH
2629A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2630----------------------------------------
2631
2632Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2633changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2634needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2635in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2636that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2637release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2638from 4.43.
2639
2640I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
26414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2642those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2643historical information.
2644
2645
f7b63901 2646Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2647-----------------
2648
5fe762f6
PH
2649 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2650
139059f6 2651 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2652 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2653
7086e875
PH
2654 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2655 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2656 place.
2657
35af9f61
PH
2658 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2659 filter fails to execute.
2660
b668c215
PH
2661 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2662 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2663 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2664 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2665 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2666
a494b1e1
PH
2667 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2668
2669 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2670 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2671 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2672 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2673
c5fcb476
PH
2674 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2675 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2676 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2677 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2678 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2679
69358f02
PH
2680 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2681
5be20824
PH
268210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2683
eb2c0248
PH
268411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2685 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2686 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2687 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2688
2a3eea10
PH
268912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2690 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2691 sender verification.
2692
269313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2694 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2695
23c7ff99
PH
269614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2697
4deaf07d
PH
269815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2699 connection timeout.
2700
926e1192
PH
270116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2702 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2703
650edc6f
PH
270417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2705 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2706
2c7db3f5
PH
270718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2708 information about exactly what failed.
2709
3d235903
PH
271019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2711
7c7ad977
PH
271220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2713 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2714 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2715
981756db
PH
271621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2717 It is now set to "smtps".
2718
d4eb88df
PH
271922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2720 ignore_target_hosts.
2721
272223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2723 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2724 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2725 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2726 "[x.x.x.x]".
2727
7d468ab8
PH
272824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2729 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2730 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2731
273225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2733 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2734 wake it up if nothing else does.
2735
62c0818f
PH
273626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2737 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2738 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2739 end up negative.
2740
26034054
PH
274127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2742 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2743
af66f652
PH
274428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2745
90af77f4
PH
274629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2747 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2748 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2749 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2750 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2751 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2752 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2753 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2754
d8ef3577
PH
275530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2756 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2757 than one IP address.
2758
5cb8cbc6
PH
275931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2760 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2761 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2762 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2763
14702f5b
PH
276432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2765 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2766 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2767 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2768 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2769 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2770
063b1e99
PH
277133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2772 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2773 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2774 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2775
652e1b65
PH
277634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2777 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2778 respected.
2779
6f0c9a4f
PH
278035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2781 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2782 $sender_host_address.
2783
33397d19
PH
278436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2785 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2786 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2787 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2788 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2789 very small.
2790
7bb56e1f
PH
279137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2792
2793 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2794 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2795
ea3bc19b
PH
2796 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2797 just the host names, not the priorities.
2798
2799 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2800 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2801 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2802
ea3bc19b 2803 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2804 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2805
0bcb2a0e
PH
280638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2807 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2808 domain.
2809
2ac0e484
PH
281039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2811
4e1fde53
PH
281240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2813 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2814
de365ded
PH
281541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2816 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2817 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2818
f05da2e8
PH
281942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2820
d6453af2
PH
282143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2822
f7b63901
PH
282344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2824
282545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2826 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2827 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2828 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2829 because the tests only now provoked it.
2830
a444213a
PH
283146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2832 (this can affect the format of dates).
2833
0ec020ea
PH
283447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2835 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2836 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2837 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2838
b1206957
PH
283948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2840
284149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2842 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2843 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2844 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2845
26dd5a95
PH
284650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2847 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2848 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2849
343b2385
PH
285051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2851 autoreply.
2852
1c5466b9
PH
285352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2854 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2855 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2856 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2857 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2858 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2859 is going on).
2860
55ee9ee3
PH
286153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2862 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2863 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2864 the line.
2865
d38f8232
PH
286654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2867 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2868 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2869
2870 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2871 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2872 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2873 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2874 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2875 so I produce this patch..."
2876
3295e65b
PH
2877 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2878 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2879 is not defined.
2880
7102e136
PH
288155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2882 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2883 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2884 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2885 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2886
3ca0ba97
PH
288756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2888
c2bcbe20
PH
288957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2890 long debug lines gets shown.
2891
18ce445d
PH
289258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2893 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2894
1f5b4c3d
PH
289559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2896
2897 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2898 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2899 of $primary_hostname.
2900
b975ba52
PH
290160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2902 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2903 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2904 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2905 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2906 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2907 by change 4.50/55 above.
2908
2909 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2910 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2911 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2912 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2913 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2914 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2915 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2916
291761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2918 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2919 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2920 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2921
17ffcae7
PH
292262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2923 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2924
d95f9fdb
PH
292563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2926 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2927 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2928 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2929 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2930
86b8287f
PH
293164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2932 This has been fixed.
2933
60dc5e56
PH
293465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2935 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2936 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2937 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2938 the caching.)
2939
533244af
PH
294066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2941
a5a28604
PH
294267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2943 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2944 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2945 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2946
7e634d24
PH
294768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2948 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2949
3e11c26b
PH
295069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2951 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2952 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2953
6729cf78
PH
295470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2955 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2956 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2957 message there.
2958
00f00ca5
PH
295971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2960 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2961 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2962
c9bdd01c
PH
296372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2964 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2965 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2966 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2967
d43194df
PH
296873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2969 during host lookups.
2970
fe5b5d0b
PH
297174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2972 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2973
2974 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2975
76a2d7ba
PH
297675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2977 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2978 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2979 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2980 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2981 background.
2982
298376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2984 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2985
04f7d5b9
PH
298677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2987 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2988 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2989
bc60667e
PH
299078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2991
bb6e88ff
PH
299279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2993 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2994 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2995 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2996 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2997 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2998 process earlier.
2999
1e70f85b
PH
300080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3001 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3002 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3003 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3004 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3005
300681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3007 tables).
3008
4e01f9d6
PH
300982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3010
1ee1cef2
PH
301183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3012 "vacation" handling.
3013
6e2b4ccc
PH
301484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3015 OS variants using glibc.
3016
8e669ac1
PH
301785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3018
495ae4b0 3019
bbe902f0
PH
3020----------------------------------------------------
3021See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3022----------------------------------------------------
3023
3024
3025Exim version 4.44
3026-----------------
3027
3028 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3029 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3030 transport
3031
3032 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3033 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3034 place.
3035
3036 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3037 filter fails to execute.
3038
3039 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3040 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3041 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3042 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3043 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3044
3045 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3046 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3047 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3048 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3049
3050 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3051 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3052 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3053 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3054 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3055
3056 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3057
3058 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3059 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3060 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3061 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3062
3063 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3064 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3065 sender verification.
3066
306710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3068 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3069
307011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3071 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3072
307312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3074 ignore_target_hosts.
3075
307613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3077 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3078 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3079 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3080 "[x.x.x.x]".
3081
308214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3083 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3084 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3085
308615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3087 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3088 wake it up if nothing else does.
3089
309016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3091 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3092 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3093 end up negative.
3094
309517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3096 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3097
ea3a6f44 309818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3099
310019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3101 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3102 empty pattern.
3103
310420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3105 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3106 one IP address.
3107
ea3a6f44
NM
310821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3109 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3110 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3111 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3112 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3113 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3114
ea3a6f44
NM
311522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3116 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3117 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3118
311923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3120 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3121 $sender_host_address.
3122
312324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3124
ea3a6f44
NM
312525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3126 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3127 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3128
312926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3130 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3131
ea3a6f44
NM
313227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3133 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3134
ea3a6f44
NM
313528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3136 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3137 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3138 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3139
314029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3141 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3142 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3143
ea3a6f44
NM
314430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3145 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3146 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3147 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3148
ea3a6f44
NM
314931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3150 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3151 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3152
ea3a6f44
NM
315331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3154 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3155
ea3a6f44
NM
315632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3157 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3158 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3159 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3160 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3161 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3162 is going on).
bbe902f0 3163
ea3a6f44
NM
316433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3165 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3166 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3167 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3168 CAN-2005-0021
3169
ea3a6f44
NM
317034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3171 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3172 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3173 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3174 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3175 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3176 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3177
3178 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3179 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3180 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3181 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3182 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3183 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3184 CAN-2005-0021
3185
ea3a6f44
NM
318635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3187 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3188 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3189 CAN-2005-0022
3190
ea3a6f44
NM
319136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3192 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3193 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3194 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3195 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3196
ea3a6f44
NM
319737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3198 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3199 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3200 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3201 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3202
ea3a6f44
NM
320338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3204 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3205 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3206 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3207 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3208
3209
495ae4b0
PH
3210Exim version 4.43
3211-----------------
3212
3213 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3214 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3215 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3216 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3217 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3218 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3219 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3220
3221 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3222 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3223 the delivery.
3224
3225 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3226
3227 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3228
3229 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3230 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3231 to local_scan().
3232
3233 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3234 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3235 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3236 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3237 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3238
3239 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3240 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3241
3242 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3243
3244 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3245
324610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3247 header_sender only.
3248
324911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3250 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3251
325212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3253 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3254 affecting debugging statements).
3255
325613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3257
325814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3259 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3260 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3261 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3262 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3263 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3264 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3265 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3266 after the received time, and all would be well.
3267
326815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3269 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3270 condition in an expansion string.
3271
327216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3273
327417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3275 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3276 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3277 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3278 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3279 job under whatever limits there are.
3280
328118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3282
328319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3284 space).
3285
328620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3287 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3288 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3289 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3290 return path is set.
3291
329221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3293 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3294 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3295 binary data in such strings.
3296
329722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3298
329923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3300 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3301 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3302 failure, which is pointless.
3303
330424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3305
330625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3307
330826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3309 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3310 Sender: header lines.
3311
331227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3313 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3314 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3315
331628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3317 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3318 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3319 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3320 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3321 happens.
3322
332329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3324 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3325 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3326 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3327 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3328
332930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3330 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3331 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3332 1024.
3333
333431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3335 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3336
333732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3338 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3339
334033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3341
334232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3343
334433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3345
334634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3347 syntax error.
3348
334935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3350
335136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3352
335337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3354 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3355 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3356 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3357
335838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3359 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3360
3361
3362Exim version 4.42
3363-----------------
3364
3365 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3366 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3367 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3368 it was not quoted.
3369 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3370 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3371 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3372 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3373 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3374 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3375
3376 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3377 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3378 verification failure".
3379
3380 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3381 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3382 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3383 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3384
3385 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3386 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3387 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3388 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3389 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3390 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3391 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3392 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3393 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3394 treated as a timeout.
3395
3396 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3397 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3398 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3399 not set for Exim filters).
3400
3401 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3402 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3403 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3404
3405 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3406
3407 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3408 try to make them clearer.
3409
3410 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3411 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3412
3413 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3414
3415 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3416
341710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3418 only the Cygwin environment.
3419
342011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3421 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3422 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3423 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3424 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3425
342612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3427 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3428 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3429 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3430 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3431 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3432 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3433
343413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3435 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3436
343714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3438
3439 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3440 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3441 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3442
3443 To: susanne@some.where
3444
3445 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3446 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3447 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3448 of addresses in From: header lines).
3449
3450 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3451 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3452 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3453
3454 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3455 treated as non-personal.
3456
3457 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3458 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3459
346015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3461
346216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3463
346417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3465 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3466 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3467
346818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3469 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3470
347119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3472 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3473 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3474 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3475 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3476 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3477
347820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3479 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3480 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3481 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3482 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3483 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3484 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3485 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3486
3487 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3488
348921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3490 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3491
349222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3493 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3494 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3495
349623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3497 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3498
349924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3500 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3501 rather than long int.
3502
350325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3504
350526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3506
3507
3508Exim version 4.41
3509-----------------
3510
3511 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3512 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3513 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3514 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3515 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3516 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3517
3518
3519Exim version 4.40
3520-----------------
3521
3522 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3523 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3524
3525 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3526 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3527 socklen_t is defined.
3528
3529 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3530 always exist.
3531
3532 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3533 configured.
3534
3535 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3536 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3537 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3538 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3539 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3540
3541 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3542 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3543 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3544 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3545
3546 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3547 of flapping under certain conditions.
3548
3549 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3550 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3551 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3552
3553 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3554
355510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3556
355711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3558 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3559 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3560 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3561
356212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3563 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3564 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3565 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3566 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3567 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3568 preserved with the message after it was received.
3569
357013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3571 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3572 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3573 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3574 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3575 test suite worked just fine.
3576
357714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3578 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3579 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3580
358115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3582 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3583 string.
3584
358516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3586 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3587 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3588 does not fully solve it.
3589
359017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3591 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3592 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3593 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3594 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3595
359618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3597 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3598 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3599
360019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3601 string, for example:
3602
3603 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3604
3605 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3606 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3607 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3608 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3609 the routers could not see them.
3610
361120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3612 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3613
361421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3615 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3616 output).
3617
361822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3619 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3620 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3621 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3622 that needed quoting.
3623
362423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3625 was not being matched caselessly.
3626
362724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3628 backslashes.
3629
363025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3631 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3632 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3633 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3634 when use_sender is false.
3635
363626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3637
363827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3639
364028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3641
364229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3643 the configuration file.
3644
364530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3646 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3647
364831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3649
365032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3651 bytes in the message body.
3652
365333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3654 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3655 delivery.
3656
365734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3658
365935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3660
366136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3662 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3663 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3664 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3665 another IP address.
3666
3667
3668Exim version 4.34
3669-----------------
3670
3671 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3672 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3673
3674 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3675 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3676 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3677 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3678 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3679
3680 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3681 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3682
3683 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3684 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3685 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3686
3687 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3688 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3689 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3690
3691 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3692 for routers.
3693
3694 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3695 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3696 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3697 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3698 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3699 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3700 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3701
3702
3703Exim version 4.33
3704-----------------
3705
3706 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3707 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3708 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3709 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3710 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3711 default (and expected) setting.
3712
3713 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3714 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3715 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3716 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3717
3718 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3719 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3720
3721 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3722 in domain lists.
3723
3724 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3725 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3726 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3727 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3728 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3729 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3730
3731 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3732 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3733 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3734
3735 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3736 part (NOT match_host).
3737
3738 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3739
3740 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3741 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3742 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3743 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3744 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3745 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3746 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3747 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3748 the same named file.
3749
375010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3751 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3752 when Exim is built.
3753
375411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3755 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3756 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3757 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3758 a host name.
3759
376012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3761 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3762 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3763
376413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3765
376614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3767
376815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3769
377016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3771 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3772
377317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3774 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3775 before starting the TLS session.
3776
377718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3778
377919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3780 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3781
378220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3783 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3784 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3785 colon in the middle).
3786
3787
3788Exim version 4.32
3789-----------------
3790
3791 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3792 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3793 multiple configurations are in use.
3794
3795 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3796 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3797 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3798 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3799 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3800 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3801
3802 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3803 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3804
3805 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3806 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3807 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3808
3809 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3810 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3811 occurs.
3812
3813 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3814 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3815
3816 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3817
3818 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3819 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3820
3821 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3822
3823 -prval:sval
3824
3825 is equivalent to
3826
3827 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3828
3829 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3830 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3831 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3832 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3833 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3834
383510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3836 Exim's behaviour:
3837
3838 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3839 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3840 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3841 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3842 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3843 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3844
3845 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3846 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3847 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3848 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3849 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3850 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3851 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3852 string.
3853
3854 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3855 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3856 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3857 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3858 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3859
386011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3861
386212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3863 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3864 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3865
386613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3867
386814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3869 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3870 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3871 information.
3872
387315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3874 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3875
387616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3877 Three changes have been made:
3878
3879 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3880 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3881 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3882 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3883 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3884
3885 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3886 been restored.
3887
3888 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3889 the modified behaviour.
3890
3891
3892Exim version 4.31
3893-----------------
3894
3895 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3896 Larry Rosenman.
3897
3898 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3899 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3900
3901 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3902 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3903 try to track down a specific problem.
3904
3905 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3906 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3907 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3908
3909 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3910 warning.
3911
3912 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3913 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3914 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3915 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3916 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3917 some earlier ones do not.
3918
3919 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3920
3921 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3922 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3923 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3924 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3925 address literals are enabled, of course).
3926
3927 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3928
392910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3930 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3931 by a command such as
3932
3933 exim -f "" ...
3934
3935 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3936
393711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3938
393912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3940 remained set. It is now erased.
3941
394213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3943 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3944
394514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3946 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3947 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3948 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3949 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3950 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3951 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3952 appropriate error code.
3953
395415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3955 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3956 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3957 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3958 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3959 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3960
396116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3962 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3963 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3964
396517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3966 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3967 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3968 terminate the header.
3969
397018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3971 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3972 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3973
397419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3975 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3976 (4.30/29). In particular:
3977
3978 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3979 imposed.
3980
3981 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3982 to write a maildirsize file.
3983
3984 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3985 the transport, the new value overrides.
3986
3987 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3988 count.
3989
399020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3991 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3992 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3993 space or a tab.
3994
399521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3996 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3997 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3998 the fallback hosts.
3999
400022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4001 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4002 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4003
400423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4005 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4006 using a union.
4007
400824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4009 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4010 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4011
401225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4013
401426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4015
401627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4017
401828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4019 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4020 become corrupted.
4021
402229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4023 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4024 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4025 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4026 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4027 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4028 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4029 too great.
4030
403130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4032 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4033 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4034 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4035 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4036 incorrectly.
4037
403831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4039 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4040 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4041 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4042 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4043 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4044 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4045 cached value only when the same options are set.
4046
404732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4048
404933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4050 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4051 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4052 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4053 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4054
405534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4056 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4057 it is clearly obsolete.
4058
405935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4060 transport.
4061
406236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4063 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4064 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4065 times.
4066
406737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4068 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4069 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4070 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4071 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4072
407338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4074 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4075 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4076 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4077
407839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4079
4080 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4081
4082 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4083 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4084 2^31.
4085
408640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4087 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4088 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4089 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4090 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4091 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4092 $localpart_data.
4093
409441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4095 with the -f command-line option.
4096
409742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4098 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4099 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4100 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4101 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4102 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4103
410443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4105 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4106 line.
4107
410844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4109 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4110 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4111 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4112 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4113 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4114 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4115 buffer is too small.
4116
411745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4118 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4119
412046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4121 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4122 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4123 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4124 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4125 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4126 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4127 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4128 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4129
413047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4131 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4132 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4133
413448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4135 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4136 ACL").
4137
413849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4139 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4140 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4141 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4142 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4143
414450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4145 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4146 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4147 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4148 is set.
4149
415051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4151
415252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4153
415453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4155 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4156
415754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4158 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4159 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4160
416155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4162 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4163 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4164 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4165 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4166
416756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4168 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4169 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4170 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4171 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4172 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4173 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4174
417557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4176 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4177 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4178 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4179 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4180 the test of how many are available.
4181
418258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4183 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4184 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4185 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4186 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4187 new message is started.
4188
418959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4190 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4191
419260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4193 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4194
419561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4196 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4197 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4198 is no long logged.
4199
420062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4201 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4202 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4203 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4204 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4205 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4206 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4207
420863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4209 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4210 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4211 interpreted as octal.
4212
421364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4214 setting.
4215
421665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4217 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4218 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4219 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4220 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4221 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4222
422366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4224 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4225 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4226 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4227
4228 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4229 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4230 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4231 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4232
4233 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4234 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4235 is a bug fix.
4236
4237 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4238 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4239
424067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4241
424268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4243 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4244 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4245 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4246
424769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4248 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4249 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4250 supplied", which is not helpful.
4251
425270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4253 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4254 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4255
425671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4257 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4258 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4259 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4260 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4261 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4262 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4263 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4264
426572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4266 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4267 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4268 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4269 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4270
427173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4272 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4273 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4274 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4275 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4276 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4277
427874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4279 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4280 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4281
428275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4283
428476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4285 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4286 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4287 variables.
4288
428977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4290
429178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4292 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4293 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4294 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4295 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4296 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4297 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4298 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4299
430079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4301 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4302 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4303 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4304 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4305
430680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4307 Haardt.
4308
430981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4310 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4311 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4312 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4313 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4314 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4315 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4316 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4317 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4318
4319
4320Exim version 4.30
4321-----------------
4322
4323 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4324 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4325 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4326
4327 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4328 fixed.
4329
4330 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4331 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4332 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4333
4334 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4335 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4336 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4337 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4338 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4339 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4340
4341 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4342 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4343 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4344 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4345 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4346 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4347 the Exim test suite.
4348
4349 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4350 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4351 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4352 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4353
4354 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4355 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4356 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4357 specify it in this variable.
4358
4359 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4360 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4361 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4362 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4363
4364 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4365 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4366 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4367 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4368
4369 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4370 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4371 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4372 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4373 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4374
4375 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4376
437710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4378 they are logged.
4379
438011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4381 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4382 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4383 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4384 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4385
438612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4387 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4388
438913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4390 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4391 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4392 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4393 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4394
439514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4396 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4397
439815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4399 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4400 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4401
440216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4403 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4404
440517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4406 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4407
440818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4409 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4410 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4411
441219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4413 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4414
441520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4416 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4417 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4418 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4419
442021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4421
442222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4423 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4424 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4425 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4426
442723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4428
442924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4430 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4431
443225. Added .include_if_exists.
4433
443426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4435 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4436 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4437 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4438 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4439 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4440
444127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4442
444328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4444 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4445 this.
4446
444729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4448
444930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4450 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4451
4452 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4453 550 Sender verify failed
4454
4455 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4456 the final line of the response.
4457
445831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4459 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4460 all other user lookups.
4461
446232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4463 delivery time.
4464
446533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4466 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4467 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4468 result into an int without checking.
4469
447034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4471 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4472 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4473
447435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4475 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4476 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4477 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4478
447936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4480 correctly.
4481
448237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4483 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4484
448538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4486 to the empty sender.
4487
448839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4489 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4490 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4491 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4492 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4493 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4494 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4495 panic log.
4496
449740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4498 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4499 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4500 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4501 used.
4502
450341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4504 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4505
450642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4507 timestamps.
4508
450943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4510 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4511
451244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4513
451445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4515 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4516 logs.
4517
451846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4519 as soon as it is encountered.
4520
452147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4522
452348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4524 rewritten to "<>".
4525
452649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4527 recognizes a tab character.
4528
452950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4530 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4531 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4532 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4533
453451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4535
453652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4537 crash.
4538
453953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4540
454154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4542
454355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4544 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4545 2822.
4546
454756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4548 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4549 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4550 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4551 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4552
455357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4554 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4555
455658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4557 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4558 list (.included file names were always shown).
4559
456059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4561 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4562 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4563 root at that time.
4564
456560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4566 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4567
456861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4569
457062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4571
457263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4573
457464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4575 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4576 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4577 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4578 failures to open the logs.
4579
458065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4581 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4582 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4583 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4584 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4585 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4586 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4587
4588
4589Exim version 4.24
4590-----------------
4591
4592 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4593 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4594 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4595 change 4.23/1.
4596
4597 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4598 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4599 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4600
4601 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4602 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4603 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4604
4605 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4606 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4607 causing some misleading effects.
4608
4609 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4610 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4611 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4612
4613 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4614 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4615 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4616 queue-runner function directly.
4617
4618
4619Exim version 4.23
4620-----------------
4621
4622 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4623 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4624
4625 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4626 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4627 was always written to the default place.
4628
4629 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4630 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4631 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4632
4633 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4634
4635 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4636
4637 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4638 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4639 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4640
4641 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4642 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4643 must start.
4644
4645 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4646 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4647 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4648
4649 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4650 command line option is disabled.
4651
4652 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4653 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4654
4655 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4656
4657 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4658
4659 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4660 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4661
466210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4663
466411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4665 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4666 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4667 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4668 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4669 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4670
467112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4672 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4673 timeout.
4674
467513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4676 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4677
467814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4679 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4680
468115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4682 received was valid base64.
4683
468416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4685 name of the variable that was being set.
4686
468717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4688
468918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4690 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4691 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4692 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4693 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4694 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4695
469619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4697
469820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4699 nor realm was specified.
4700
470121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4702 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4703 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4704 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4705
470622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4707 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4708 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4709
471023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4711 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4712 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4713
471424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4715 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4716 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4717 some systems use these upper case variants.
4718
471925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4720 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4721 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4722 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4723
472426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4725
472627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4727 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4728
472928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4730 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4731 expansion variable.
4732
473329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4734
473530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4736 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4737 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4738 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4739
474031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4741 using it.
4742
474332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4744 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4745 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4746
474733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4748 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4749
475034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4751 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4752 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4753 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4754
475535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4756 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4757 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4758
475936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4760
476137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4762 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4763 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4764 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4765 aborted.
4766
476738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4768 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4769 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4770
477139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4772
477340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4774 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4775
477641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4777 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4778
477942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4780 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4781 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4782 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4783 when emails are that large.
4784
4785
4786
4787Exim version 4.22
4788-----------------
4789
4790 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4791 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4792
4793 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4794 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4795 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4796
4797 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4798 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4799 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4800
4801 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4802 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4803 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4804 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4805 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4806
4807 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4808 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4809 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4810 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4811 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4812 ever.
4813
4814 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4815 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4816 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4817 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4818 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4819 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4820 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4821 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4822 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4823 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4824 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4825 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4826 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4827 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4828
4829 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4830 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4831 parameterised it.
4832
4833 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4834 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4835 error should be diagnosed.
4836
4837 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4838 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4839 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4840 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4841 appeared instead of "NULL".
4842
484310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4844 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4845 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4846 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4847 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4848 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4849 proceeds).
4850
4851 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4852 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4853 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4854
4855
4856Exim version 4.21
4857-----------------
4858
4859 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4860 or receiver verification errors.
4861
4862 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4863 name.
4864
4865 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4866 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4867 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4868 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4869
4870 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4871 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4872 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4873 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4874 shouldn't happen again.
4875
4876 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4877 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4878 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4879
4880 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4881 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4882
4883 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4884
4885 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4886 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4887
4888 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4889 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4890 RFC.
4891
489210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4893 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4894 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4895
489611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4897 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4898 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4899 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4900
490112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4902 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4903 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4904 to define what should happen).
4905
490613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4907 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4908 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4909
491014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4911
491215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4913
491416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4915 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4916
491717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4918 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4919 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4920 structure in all cases.
4921
4922 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4923 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4924 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4925 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4926
492718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4928 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4929 domain name.
4930
493119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4932 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4933
493420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4935 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4936
493721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4938 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4939 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4940
494122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4942 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4943 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4944
494523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4946 the book and for uniformity.
4947
494824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4949
495025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4951 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4952 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4953 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4954 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4955 non-existent command as the problem.
4956
495726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4958 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4959 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4960
496127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4962
496328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4964 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4965 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4966
496729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4968 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4969 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4970 timestamps using strftime().
4971
497230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4973 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4974
497532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4976 transport-time rewrites.
4977
497833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4979 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4980 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4981 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4982
498334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4984 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4985
498635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4987 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4988 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4989 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4990 comma and a space.
4991
499236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4993 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4994 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4995 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4996 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4997 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4998 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4999
500037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5001 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5002 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5003 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5004 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5005
500638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5007 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5008 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5009 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5010 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5011 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5012 remaining text gets split now.
5013
501439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5015 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5016 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5017 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5018
501940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5020 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5021 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5022 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5023 $return_path.
5024
502541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5026 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5027 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5028 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5029 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5030 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5031 passed through if needed.
5032
503342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5034 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5035 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5036 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5037 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5038 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5039
504043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5041 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5042 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5043 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5044 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5045
504644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5047 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5048 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5049 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5050 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5051
505245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5053 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5054 noticed.
5055
505646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5057 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5058 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5059 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5060 mayhem of various kinds.
5061
506247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5063 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5064 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5065 the right test for positive values.
5066
506748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5068 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5069 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5070 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5071 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5072 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5073 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5074 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5075 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5076 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5077 envelope.
5078
507949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5080 module.
5081
508250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5083 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5084 forbidding it.
5085
508651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5087 the existing equality matching.
5088
508952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5090 dealing with inode numbers.
5091
509253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5093 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5094 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5095
509654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5097 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5098 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5099 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5100 local_scan().
5101
510255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5103 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5104 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5105 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5106 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5107 relay addresses has also been removed.
5108
510956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5110
511157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5112 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5113 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5114
511558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5116 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5117 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5118 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5119 processing applies to CR:
5120
5121 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5122 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5123
5124 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5125 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5126 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5127 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5128
512959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5130 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5131 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5132
513360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5134 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5135 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5136 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5137 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5138 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5139 arisen.
5140
514161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5142 program routers.
5143
514462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5145 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5146 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5147 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5148 adds:
5149
5150 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5151
5152 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5153
5154 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5155
515663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5157 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5158 not considered personal.
5159
516064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5161
516265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5163
516466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5165
516667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5167 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5168 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5169 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5170 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5171 header lines, and spool format errors.
5172
517368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5174 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5175 for more flexibility.
5176
517769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5178 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5179 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5180
518170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5182 Sabourenkov.
5183
518471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5185 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5186 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5187 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5188 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5189 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5190 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5191 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5192 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5193
519472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5195 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5196 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5197 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5198 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5199 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5200 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5201
520273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5203 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5204 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5205
520674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5207 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5208 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5209 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5210 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5211 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5212 instead of killing the process with assert().
5213
521475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5215 than Unicode encoding.
5216
521776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5218 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5219 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5220 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5221
522277. Added process_log_path.
5223
522478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5225 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5226
522779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5228 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5229
523080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5231 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5232 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5233
523481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5235 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5236 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5237 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5238 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5239 were applied:
5240
5241 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5242 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5243 as invalid.
5244
524582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5246 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5247 they will be used during message reception.
5248
5249
5250Exim version 4.20
5251-----------------
5252
5253The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5254
5255****