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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
23 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
24 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
25 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
26 input.
27
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28JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
29 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
30 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
31 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
32 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
33 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
34 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
35 Main pool for expansions.
36 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
37 active in the testsuite.
38 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
39
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40JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
41 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
42 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
43 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
44 round-robin DNS.
45
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46JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
47 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
48 failure response.
49
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50JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
51 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
52 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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54JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
55 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
56 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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58JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
59 rows affected is given instead).
60
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61JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
62 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
63
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64JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
65 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
66 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
67 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
68 for all multi-message initiating connections.
69
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70JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
71 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
72 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
73
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74JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
75 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
76 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
77 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
78 separate.
79
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80JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
81 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
82 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
83 fake-reject.
84
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85HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
86
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87JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
88 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
89
aab9a843 90PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 91 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 92 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 93
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94JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
95 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
96 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
97 and send a quit.
98
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99JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
100 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
101
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102JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
103 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
104 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
105
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106JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
107 for the build is renamed.
108
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109JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
110 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
111 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
112
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113JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
114 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
115 result replacing the original.
116
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117JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
118 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
119 and the resources needed to be freed.
120
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121JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
122
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123JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
124 was not propagated.
125
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129
130JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
131 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
132 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
133 pairs of long lines into single ones.
134
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135PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
136 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
137
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138JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
139 This permits better logging.
140
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141JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
142 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
143 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
144 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
145 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 146 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 147
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148JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
149 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
150 "exiwhat" output.
151
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152PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
153 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
154 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
155
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156JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
157 than 255 are no longer allowed.
158
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159JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
160 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
161 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
162 client, there is no benefit for these.
163 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
164 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
165 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
166 is used (3.2.4 +).
167
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168PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
169 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
170
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171JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
172 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
173 erroneously found still-pending ones.
174
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175JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
176 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
177
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178JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
179 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
180 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
181 signature and again for transmission.
182
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183JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
184 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 185 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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187JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
188 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
189 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
190 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
191 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
192 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
193 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
194
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195JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
196 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
197 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 198 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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200PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
201 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
202 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
203 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
204 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
205 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
206 processing options.
207
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208JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
209 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
210 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
211 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
212 connections.
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214PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
215 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
216 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
217 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
218 versions.
219
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220JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
221 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
222 inaccessible.
223
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224JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
225 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
226 banner-time rejection.
227
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228JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
229 callout/hold.
230
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231PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
232 is the name of a transport.
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233 Fixes bug 2140.
234
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235HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
236
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237JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
238 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
239
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240JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
241 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
242 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
243 during compilation.
244
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245JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
246 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
247 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 248 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 249
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250JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
251 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
252 initial verify call returned a defer.
253
ad1a76fe 254JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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255 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
256
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257JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
258 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
259
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260JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
261 if present. Previously it was ignored.
262
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263JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
264 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
265
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266JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
267 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
268 extensible.
269
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270PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
271 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
272
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273PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
274 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
275 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
276
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277JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
278 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
279 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
280 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
281
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282HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
283 and confused the parent.
284
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285JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
286 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
287
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288JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
289 for log purposes.
290
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291JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
292 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
293 out-of-order delivery.
294
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295JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
296 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
297 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
298 error for the HELO.
299
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300JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
301 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
302 desynchronisation.
303
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304JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
305 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
306 one run was done. Bug 2189.
307
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308JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
309 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
310 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
311 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
312 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
313 message is still "Temporary local problem".
314
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315JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
316 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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317 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
318
319HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
320 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
321 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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323JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
324 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
325 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
326 though a different problem.
327
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9427e879 332JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 333 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 334
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335JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
336
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337PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
338 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
339
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340JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
341 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
342
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343JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
344 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
345 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
346 before acknowledging the chunk.
347
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348PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
349 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
350 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
351
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352JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
353 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
354 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
355 should.
356
357JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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358 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
359 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 361JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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362 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
363
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364JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
365 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
366 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
367 body hash calculated value.
368
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369JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
370 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
371 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
372
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373JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
374
375JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
376 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
377
378JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
379 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
380 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
381
382JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
383 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
384 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
385 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
386 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
387 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
388
389JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
390 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
391 past that check, despite the cost.
392
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393JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
394 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
395 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
396
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397PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
398 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
399 TLS library to consume.
400
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401PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
402
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403PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
404
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405JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
406 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
407 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
408 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
409 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
410 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
411 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
412
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413PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
414
415PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
416
417PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
418 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
419 should be warning-free.
420
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421JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
422
423HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
424 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
425
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426HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
427 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
428 general solution here.
429
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430PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
431 already-broken messages in the queue.
432
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433JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
434
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435JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
436
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441JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
442 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 443
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444JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
445 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
446 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
447
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448JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
449 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
450 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
451 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
452 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
453 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
454 if one fails this test.
455 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
456 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
457
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458JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
459 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
460
23bb6982 461JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 462 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 463
0bd1b1ed 464JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 465 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 466
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467JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
468 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
469
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470JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
471 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
472
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473JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
474
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475JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
476 certificate).
477
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478JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
479 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
480 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
481 connection after a verify cache hit.
482 Do not update it with the verify result either.
483
484JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
485 when routing results in more than one destination address.
486
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487JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
488 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
489 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
490 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
491 when the cutthrough connection is made).
492
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493JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
494 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
495
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496JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
497 Previously they were not counted.
498
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499JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
500 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
501 that needed the lookup.
502
4c04137d 503JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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504 distinguished as "(=".
505
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506JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
507 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
508
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509JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
510
511JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
512 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 513
4c04137d 514JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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515 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
516
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517JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
518 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
519 compatible.
520
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521JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
522 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
523 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
524 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
525
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526JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
527
f59aaaaa 528JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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529 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
530 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 531
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532JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
533 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
534 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
535 be lost.
536
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537JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
538 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
539 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
540 itself :(
541
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542JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
543 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
544 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
545
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546JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
547 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
548 options.
549
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550JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
551
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552PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
553 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
554
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555PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
556 are not in the system include path.
557
ad7fc6eb 558JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 559 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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560 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
561 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 562
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563JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
564 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
565 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
566
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567JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
568
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569HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
570 an incoming connection.
571
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572HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
573 to rspamd.
574
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575HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
576 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 577
87cb4a16 578JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 579 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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581
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585JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
586 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
587 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
588 client dropping the TLS connection.
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590TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
591 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
592
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593TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
594 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
595 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
596 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
597 outgoing I= field.
598
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599JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
600 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
601 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
602 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
603 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
604 check on the next write.
605
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606HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
607 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
608 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
609 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
610 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
611
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612JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
613 mime_regex ACL conditions.
614
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615JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
616 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
617 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
618
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619JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
620 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
621 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
622 an authenticate fail is not an error.
623
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624HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
625 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
626
4c04137d 627JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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628 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
629
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630JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
631 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
632 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
633 distinct.
634
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635JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
636
637JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
638
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639JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
640
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641JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
642 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
643
98b98887 644JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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645 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
646
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647JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
648
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649JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
650 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
651
652JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
653
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654JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
655 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
656
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657JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
658
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659JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
660 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 661 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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662 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
663 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
664 they will retry in-clear.
665 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
666 at installation time.
667
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668HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
669 with the $config_file variable.
670
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671JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
672 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
673 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
674 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 675 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 676
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677GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
678 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
679 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
680 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
681 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
682
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683JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
684
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685JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
686 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
687 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
688 list order is no longer honoured.
689
4c04137d 690JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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691 for DKIM processing.
692
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693JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
694 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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696JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
697 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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698 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
699 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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701JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
702 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
703
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704JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
705 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
706
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707JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
708 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
709
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710JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
711
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712JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
713 cached by the daemon.
714
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715JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
716 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
717
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718JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
719 keys are given for lookup.
720
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721JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
722 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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723 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
724 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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726JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
727 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
728 server-side so match that on older versions.
729
07c73177 730JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 731 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 732 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 733
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734JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
735 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
736
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737JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
738 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
739 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 740 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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741 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
742 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
743 initial truncated version.
744
ab9152ff 745JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 746
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747JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
748
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749JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
750 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
751
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752JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
753
bc3c7bb7 754HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 755
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756JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
757 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
758 induced overflows.
759
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760JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
761 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
762 stage.
763
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764JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
765 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
766
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767JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
768 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
769 former class.
770
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771JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
772 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
773 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
774
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775JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
776 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
777 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
778 extraction. Accept either.
779
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784JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
785 expanded.
786
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787JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
788
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789JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
790 it.
791
01a4a5c5 792JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 793 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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794 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
795 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
796
cb1d7830 797JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 798 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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800
610ff438 801JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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802 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
803 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
804 TLS connections
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806JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
807 sites use this now.
808
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809JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
810 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
811 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
812 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
813 have a dsn_lasthop option.
814
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815JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
816 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 817 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 818
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819JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
820
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821JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
822 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
823
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824JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
825 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
826
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827JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
828 /defer_ok option.
829
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830JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
831 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
832
fd4d8871 833JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 834 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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835 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
836
837JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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838 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
839 specify a port-range.
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841JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
842 timeout value per server.
843
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844JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
845 now have the list separator specified.
846
8a512ed5 847JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 848 option values.
8a512ed5 849
82c0c8ea 850JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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851 under OpenSSL.
852
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853JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
854
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855JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
856 rather than the verbs used.
857
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858JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
859 from 255 to 1024 chars.
860
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861JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
862
cfab9d68 863HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 864 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 865
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866JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
867 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
868
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869HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
870 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
871
4c04137d 872JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 873
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874JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
875
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876JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
877 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 878 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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879 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
880
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881JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
882
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883JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
884 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
885
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886JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
887 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
888
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889JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
890
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891JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
892
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893JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
894
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895JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
896 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
897
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898JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
899 added for tls authenticator.
900
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901HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
902
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907TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
908 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
909 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
910 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
911 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
912 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
913 the script parsing/test process like normal.
914
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915TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
916 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
917 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
918 function when detected.
919
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920JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
921 cause callback expansion.
922
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923TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
924 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
925 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
926 instead of bool when processing it.
927
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930
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931JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
932
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933JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
934
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935TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
936
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937TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
938 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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940JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
941 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
942 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
943 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 944 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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945 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
946
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947JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
948 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
949 exceeded it.
950
a7fec7a7
JH
951JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
952 version 3.3.6 or later.
953
4c04137d 954JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
955 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
956 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 957 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
958 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
959 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
960 option is defined.
774ef2d7 961
eca4debb
TL
962TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
963 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
964
8d692470
JH
965JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
966 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
967 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
968 matches.
969
e9477a08
JH
970JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
971 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
972 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
973
ad4c5ff9
JH
974JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
975 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
976
977JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
978 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
979 syntax errors.
980
3394b36a 981JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
982
983JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
984 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
985
3394b36a
TL
986TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
987 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
988 tarball.
989
ad4c5ff9
JH
990JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
991
4c04137d 992JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
993 Bug 1561.
994
995JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
996 output list separator was used.
997
8bc732e8 998
1f0ebb98
TL
999Exim version 4.84
1000-----------------
09728d20
TL
1001TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1002 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1003 return.
1f0ebb98 1004
a612424f 1005JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1006 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1007
1008JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1009
1010TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1011 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1012
1f0ebb98 1013
c0e56233
TF
1014Exim version 4.83
1015-----------------
1016
1017TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1018
1019 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1020 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1021 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1022 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1023 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1024 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1025
7245734e
TF
1026TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1027 utilities have not been installed.
1028
fd5dad68
JH
1029JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1030 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1031
5428a946
TL
1032TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1033 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1034
a3c86431
TL
1035TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1036 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1037 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1038 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1039
aa26e137
JH
1040JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1041
5a1b8443
WB
1042TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1043 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1044
72c9e342
PP
1045PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1046 not dns_use_dnssec.
1047
76f44207
WB
1048JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1049
770747fd
MFM
1050TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1051 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1052 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1053
8ddef691 1054TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1055 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1056 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1057 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1058 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1059 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1060
b9c2e32f
AR
1061JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1062
e45a1c37
JH
1063JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1064 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1065
67d81c10
JH
1066JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1067 failed delivery.
1068
b1f8e4f8
JH
1069JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1070
511a6c14 1071JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1072
1073JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1074 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1075
51c7471d
JH
1076JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1077 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1078
3695be34
TL
1079TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1080
1e06383a
TL
1081JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1082
76146973
JH
1083JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1084 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1085
1086 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1087 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1088 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1089
8c8b8274
TL
1090TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1091 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1092 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1093 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1094
35aba663
JH
1095JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1096
8c51eead 1097JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1098 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1099 lookup).
8c51eead 1100
deae092e
HS
1101TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1102 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1103 Schlichting.
35aba663 1104
fd3b6a4a 1105JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1106 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1107
8d91c6dc
LT
1108TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1109 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1110
2b4a568d
JH
1111JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1112
d2af03f4
HS
1113TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1114 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1115 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1116
9d1c15ef
JH
1117JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1118 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1119
44662487
JH
1120JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1121 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1122 hosts_request_ocsp.
1123
ed3bba5f 1124JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1125 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1126 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1127
8ccd00b1
JH
1128JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1129
8ded8589
TL
1130TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1131 Christian Aistleitner.
1132
f2de3a33
JH
1133JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1134
6eb02f88
TL
1135TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1136 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1137
00bff6f6
JH
1138JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1139 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1140
071c51f7
JH
1141JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1142 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1143
a6d4c44e
TF
1144TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1145 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1146
3ae173e7
ACK
1147TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1148 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1149
c13d09b8
TL
1150TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1151 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1152 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1153
0df4ab80
JH
1154JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1155
66be95e0
PP
1156PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1157 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1158 Jasper Wallace.
1159
1bd0d12b
JH
1160JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1161
0de7239e
TL
1162TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1163 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1164 CVE-2014-2972
1165
fd3b6a4a 1166
2c422e6f 1167Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1168-----------------
1169
1170PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1171
12f69989
PP
1172PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1173 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1174
54c90be1
PP
1175PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1176 by GnuTLS.
1177
1f4a55da
PP
1178PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1179 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1180 routines.
1181
13363eba 1182PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1183
66645890 1184PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1185 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1186 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1187 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1188 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1189
a3fb9793 1190PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1191 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1192 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1193 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1194 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1195 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1196
d27f98fe 1197TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1198
6822b909
TL
1199TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1200
e7568d51
TL
1201TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1202 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1203
ae0e32ee 1204TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1205 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1206 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1207
1208TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1209
e2658fff
TL
1210TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1211
83712b39
TL
1212TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1213 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1214
976b7e9f
JH
1215JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1216
be4a1376
JH
1217JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1218
ec4b68e5
PP
1219PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1220
d7148a07
NM
1221NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1222 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1223
585121e2 1224JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1225
2519e60d
TL
1226PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1227 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1228 function.
a5f239e4 1229
13d08c90
PP
1230PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1231 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1232
bef3ea7f
JH
1233JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1234 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1235 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1236
846726c5
JH
1237JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1238
3a796370
JH
1239JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1240
ea722490 1241JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1242 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1243
b1b05573
JH
1244JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1245 Bugzilla 884.
1246
362145b5
JH
1247JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1248 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1249
3c0a92dc
JH
1250JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1251 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1252
6d7c6175
PP
1253PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1254 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1255 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1256
6f123593
JH
1257JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1258 authenticators.
1259
c8e2fc1e
JH
1260JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1261 for control.
1262
005ac57f
PP
1263PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1264
3f1df0e3
PP
1265PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1266 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1267 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1268 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1269
67bd1ab3
TF
1270TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1271
1272 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1273 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1274 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1275 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1276 the retry rules.
1277
1278 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1279 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1280 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1281
1282 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1283 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1284 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1285 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1286
1ddeb334
TF
1287 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1288 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1289 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1290 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1291 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1292 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1293 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1294
1295 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1296 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1297
326cdc37
TF
1298TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1299
1300 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1301
1302 Resent-From: f
1303
1304 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1305 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1306 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1307 username as equal to the username.
1308
1309 This change corrects that bug.
1310
f62514b3
GF
1311GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1312 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1313 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1314
eb505532
TF
1315TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1316
14c7b357
PP
1317PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1318 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1319 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1320 NULL dereference and crash.
1321
94eaf700
PP
1322JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1323
6f5a440a
PP
1324PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1325 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1326 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1327
514ee161
SC
1328SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1329
fd98a5c6
JH
1330JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1331 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1332 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1333 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1334 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1335 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1336 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1337 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1338 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1339 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1340 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1341
035c7f1e
PP
1342PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1343 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1344
ff284120
PP
1345PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1346 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1347 Bugzilla 880.
1348
26e72755
PP
1349PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1350 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1351 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1352 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1353 an empty string is now equivalent.
1354
0fbd9bff
PP
1355PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1356 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1357 not performing validation itself.
1358
700d22f3
PP
1359PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1360 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1361
fcc8e047
JH
1362JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1363 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1364
4c04137d 1365TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1366
8c020188
PP
1367PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1368 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1369 other false fix of the same issue.
1370 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1371 Bugzilla 1363.
1372
d13cdd30
PP
1373PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1374 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1375
e2fbf4a2
PP
1376PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1377 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1378 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1379
f4c1088b
PP
1380PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1381 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1382 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1383
c5c2182f
PP
1384TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1385
73431ca9
JH
1386JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1387
2d07a215
TL
1388TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1389 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1390
a30a8861
TL
1391TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1392 Alexander Miroch.
1393
33382dd9
TL
1394TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1395 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1396 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1397 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1398 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1399
046172e6
TL
1400TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1401 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1402
581d7bee 1403TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1404 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1405 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1406
1407TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1408 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1409 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1410 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1411
237b2cf2
TL
1412TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1413
9fc5a352
TL
1414TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1415 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1416 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1417
b10e4ec2
TL
1418TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1419
e2cebd74
TL
1420TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1421 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1422 interaction.
1423
1424TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1425 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1426
2519e60d
TL
1427TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1428 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1429
e78e6ecf 1430
4263f395
PP
1431Exim version 4.80.1
1432-------------------
1433
1434PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1435 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1436 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1437
ea722490 1438
b1770b6e 1439Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1440-----------------
1441
1442PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1443 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1444 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1445
23c7e742
NM
1446NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1447
b322aac8
NM
1448NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1449 improved.
1450
4a891427
NM
1451NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1452
c1e794ba 1453PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1454
97753960
PP
1455PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1456
1457PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1458 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1459
df6303fa
PP
1460PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1461 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1462
7e6a8985
PP
1463PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1464 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1465
f1e05cc7 1466PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1467 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1468 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1469
4c287009
PP
1470PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1471
b98bb9ac
PP
1472PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1473 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1474
4a6a987a
PP
1475PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1476
c45dd180 1477PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1478
7db8d074
PP
1479PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1480 non-compliant senders.
1481 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1482
eae0036b 1483NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1484 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1485 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1486
dec5017e
PP
1487PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1488 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1489 in spool file corruption.
1490
c80c5570
PP
1491PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1492 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1493 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1494 "Got SSL error 2".
1495
076b11e2
PP
1496TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1497 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1498 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1499
5407bfff
JH
1500JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1501 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1502
9e45c72b
PP
1503JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1504
e74376d8
PP
1505PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1506 diagnostics.
1507 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1508
4c04137d 1509PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1510 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1511 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1512
7be682ca
PP
1513PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1514 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1515 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1516 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1517
ef840681
PP
1518PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1519 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1520
5bfb4cdf
PP
1521PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1522 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1523 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1524 resolver implementation change.
1525
c6e95d22
PP
1526PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1527 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1528
9cbad13b
PP
1529PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1530
9ee44efb
PP
1531PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1532
6a6084f8
PP
1533PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1534 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1535
12dd53c7
PP
1536PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1537 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1538
9e45c72b 1539JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1540 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1541
17c76198
PP
1542PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1543 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1544 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1545 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1546 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1547
53947857 1548PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1549
eae0036b 1550PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1551 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1552 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1553
9e45c72b 1554JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1555
7390e768
PP
1556PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1557 read-only, out of scope).
1558 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1559
08488c86
PP
1560PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1561 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1562 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1563 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1564
6475bd82
PP
1565PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1566
81f91683
PP
1567PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1568 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1569 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1570 real issues in debug logging.
1571
5779e6aa
PP
1572PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1573 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1574
3375e053
PP
1575PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1576 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1577 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1578
1579PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1580 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1581 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1582 problems.
3375e053 1583
9d26b8c0
PP
1584PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1585 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1586
57eb9e91 1587PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1588 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1589 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1590 needs to override this, it can.
1591
16880d1a
PP
1592PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1593 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1594 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1595
a799883d
PP
1596PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1597 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1598 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1599 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1600
3ecab157 1601PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1602
0599f9cf 1603
867fcbf5
PP
1604Exim version 4.77
1605-----------------
1606
1607PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1608 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1609
f1a29782
TF
1610TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1611
ab42bd23
TK
1612TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1613 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1614
0ca0cf52
TF
1615TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1616 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1617
921b12ca
TF
1618TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1619 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1620 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1621
1622 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1623 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1624 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1625 not safe for signals.
1626
1627 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1628 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1629 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1630 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1631 exiwhat.
1632
c99ce5c9
TF
1633TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1634
1635 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1636 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1637 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1638 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1639 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1640
1641 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1642 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1643 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1644 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1645 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1646 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1647
1648 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1649 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1650 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1651 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1652
1653 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1654 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1655 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1656 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1657
1658 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1659 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1660 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1661 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1662 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1663 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1664 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1665 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1666 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1667
1668 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1669 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1670 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1671 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1672
1673 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1674 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1675 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1676 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1677 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1678 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1679 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1680 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1681 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1682 details in the main documentation.
1683
3634fc25
TF
1684TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1685
792e8a19
TF
1686TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1687
5901f0ab
TF
1688TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1689 repository when doing development or release builds.
1690
7f2a2a43
PP
1691PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1692 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1693
061b7ebd
PP
1694PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1695 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1696 Bugzilla 97.
1697
e12f8c32
PP
1698PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1699
9e949f00 1700PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1701 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1702
1703PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1704 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1705
555ae6af 1706PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1707 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1708
1709PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1710 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1711
6f7fe114
PP
1712PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1713 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1714
c566dd90
PP
1715PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1716 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1717 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1718 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1719
d6cc7c78 1720PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1721 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1722 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1723
0d0e4455
PP
1724PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1725
3399bb60 1726PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1727
1728PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1729 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1730
0ca0cf52 1731
10906672
PP
1732Exim version 4.76
1733-----------------
1734
1735PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1736
754a0503
PP
1737PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1738 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1739
c0c7b2da
PP
1740PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1741
e97d1f08
PP
1742PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1743
084c1d8c
PP
1744PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1745 Bugzilla 1098.
1746
4e7ee012
PP
1747PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1748 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1749
c8d52a00
PP
1750TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1751 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1752
54e7ce4a
PP
1753PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1754 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1755
5ee6f336
PP
1756PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1757 Bugzilla 1104.
1758
c8d52a00 1759TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1760 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1761
1762TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1763 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1764 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1765 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1766
1767PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1768 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1769
10906672 1770
aa097c4c
NM
1771Exim version 4.75
1772-----------------
1773
4c04137d 1774NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1775 Bugzilla 1073
1776
7f3d9eff
TF
1777TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1778 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1779 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1780
159f52d2
TF
1781TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1782 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1783
0cc9542a
PP
1784PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1785 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1786 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1787
f7274286
PP
1788PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1789 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1790
7b797365
PP
1791PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1792 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1793
caacae52
NM
1794NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1795 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1796
09dcaba9
NM
1797NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1798 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1799
bc19a55b
PP
1800PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1801 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1802
bd4c9759
NM
1803NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1804 Fixes bug 943.
1805
b72aab72
PP
1806PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1807 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1808
2fe76745
PP
1809PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1810 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1811
76aa570c
PP
1812PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1813 SQL string expansion failure details.
1814 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1815
f1e5fef5
PP
1816PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1817 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1818
4d805ee9
PP
1819PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1820 extern declarations in function scope.
1821 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1822
cd59ab18
PP
1823PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1824 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1825 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1826 a kernel bug).
1827
332f5cf3
PP
1828PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1829 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1830
29cfeb94
PP
1831PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1832 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1833
660242ad
PP
1834PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1835 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1836
bc4bc4c5
PP
1837PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1838 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1839
2e64baa9
NM
1840NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1841 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1842 Dennis Davis.
1843
4c04137d 1844PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1845
6bac1a9a
PP
1846PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1847
552193f0
NM
1848NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1849 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1850
1b587e48
TF
1851TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1852 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1853
aa097c4c 1854
8c07b69f
TF
1855Exim version 4.74
1856-----------------
1857
1858TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1859 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1860
c0ea85ab
TF
1861TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1862 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1863
0761d44e
TF
1864TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1865
0a349494
PP
1866DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1867 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1868 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1869
1870PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1871 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1872 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1873
fea24b2e
PP
1874PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1875 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1876 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1877 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1878
6545de78
PP
1879PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1880 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1881 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1882 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1883
1670ef10
PP
1884PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1885 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1886 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1887 arbitrary files.
1888
c0886197
PP
1889PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1890 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1891
b7487bce
PP
1892PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1893 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1894 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1895 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1896 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1897
8c07b69f 1898
97fd1e48 1899Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1900-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1901
1902PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1903 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1904 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1905
6901c596
PP
1906PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1907 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1908
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1909JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1910
77bb000f
PP
1911PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1912
a29e5231
PP
1913PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1914
ec5a0394 1915PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1916
55c75993
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1917PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1918
453a6645 1919PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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1920 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1921 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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1922 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1923
8544e77a
PP
1924PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1925 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1926 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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1927 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1928 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1929
83e029d5
PP
1930PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1931
ed7f7860
PP
1932PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1933
7d9f747b
PP
1934PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1935
4b2241d2
PP
1936PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1937
10385c15
PP
1938PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1939
dbc4b90d
PP
1940PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1941
532be449
PP
1942PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1943
6a8de854 1944PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1945 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1946 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1947
5dc43717
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1948JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1949
1950JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1951 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1952
3346ab01
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1953PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1954 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1955
491fab4c
PP
1956PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1957 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1958 Notification from John Horne.
1959
13eb9497
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1960PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1961 compatible.
1962
1963PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1964 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1965 it normally works.
1966
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DW
1967DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1968 access.
1969
c1d94452
DW
1970DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1971 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1972 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1973
e2f5dc15
DW
1974DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1975 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1976 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1977 configuration file.
1978
cd25e41d
DW
1979DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1980 option (effectively making it always true).
1981
261dc43e
DW
1982DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1983 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1984
fa32850b
DW
1985DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1986 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1987
79d4bc3d
PP
1988PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1989 run-time user, instead of root.
1990
43236f35 1991PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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1992 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1993
fb08281f
DW
1994DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1995 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1996 arguments.
3346ab01 1997
74935b98
DW
1998DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1999 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2000 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2001
90b6341f
DW
2002DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2003
57730b52
ML
2004NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2005
66581d1e 2006
465e92cf
JJ
2007Exim version 4.72
2008-----------------
2009
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2010JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2011 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2012 typos
465e92cf 2013
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PP
2014JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2015 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2016 (Finput)
edae0343 2017
9bd3e22c
NM
2018NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2019 Patch from Alain Williams
2020
bb576ff7
NM
2021NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2022
5a1a5845
NM
2023NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2024 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2025
981a9fad
NM
2026NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2027 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2028
7fc497ee
NM
2029NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2030
1a41defa
JJ
2031JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2032
a466095c 2033NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2034 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2035
94a6bd0b
NM
2036TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2037
2038TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2039
2040MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2041 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2042 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2043
c1b141a8
NM
2044NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2045 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2046
b26eacf1 2047NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2048 Patch by Simon Arlott
2049
179c5980 2050PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2051 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2052
9bd3e22c 2053
7c6d71af
NM
2054Exim version 4.71
2055-----------------
2056
7d9f747b 2057TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2058
f013fb92
NM
2059NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2060
0eb8eedd
NM
2061NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2062
663ee6d9
NM
2063NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2064
177ebd9b
NM
2065NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2066
7c6d71af 2067
210f147e
NM
2068Exim version 4.70
2069-----------------
2070
cdd3bb85 2071TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2072 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2073
2074TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2075 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2076 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2077
2078TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2079 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2080 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2081
2082TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2083 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2084
210f147e
NM
2085NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2086 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2087 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2088 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2089
deafd5b3
NM
2090NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2091 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2092 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2093
089793a4
TF
2094TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2095
5f16ca82
TF
2096TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2097
dae9d94e 2098NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2099 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2100
7d9f747b 2101NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2102
06864c44
TF
2103TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2104 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2105 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2106 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2107
65a7d8c3 2108NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2109 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2110
23510047 2111TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2112
7d9f747b 2113NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2114
7d8eec3a 2115NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2116 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2117
89dec7b6
TF
2118TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2119 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2120
a99de90c
TF
2121TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2122 that they are available at delivery time.
2123
e2803e40
TF
2124TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2125
7199e1ee
TF
2126TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2127 incoming_port log selectors.
2128
e276e04b
TF
2129TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2130 setting expands to an empty string.
2131
ce552449 2132NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2133 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2134
e765a0f1 2135NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2136 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2137
4f054c63 2138NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2139 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2140
7d9f747b
PP
2141NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2142 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2143
7d9f747b
PP
2144NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2145 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2146
b52bc06e 2147NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2148 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2149
447de4b0
NM
2150NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2151
4c69d561 2152NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2153 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2154
d5c39246 2155NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2156 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2157
0b23848a
TK
2158TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2159
8f3414a1 2160NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2161 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2162
fb6f955d
NM
2163NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2164
2165NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2166
7d9f747b
PP
2167NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2168 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2169
7d9f747b
PP
2170NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2171 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2172
7d9f747b
PP
2173NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2174 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2175
7d9f747b
PP
2176NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2177 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2178
7d9f747b
PP
2179NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2180 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2181
7d9f747b
PP
2182NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2183 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2184
7d9f747b
PP
2185NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2186 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2187
7d9f747b 2188NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2189 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2190
7d9f747b 2191NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2192
7d9f747b
PP
2193NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2194 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2195
7d9f747b 2196NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2197
7d9f747b 2198NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2199
7d9f747b 2200NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2201
7d9f747b 2202NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2203
17792b53 2204NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2205 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2206
7d9f747b
PP
2207NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2208 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2209
91576cec 2210NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2211 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2212
7d9f747b
PP
2213NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2214 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2215
7d9f747b 2216NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2217
7d9f747b 2218NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2219
7d9f747b 2220NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2221
7d9f747b 2222NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2223
deafd5b3 2224
47db1125
NM
2225Exim version 4.69
2226-----------------
2227
4b3504d0
TK
2228TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2229 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2230 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2231
2232 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2233 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2234 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2235 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2236 build errors in sieve.c.
2237
81ea09ca
NM
2238NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2239 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2240 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2241
f13cddcb
SC
2242SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2243
7d9f747b 2244NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2245
7d9f747b 2246NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2247
7d9f747b 2248NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2249
2250
eb4c0de6
PH
2251Exim version 4.68
2252-----------------
2253
2254PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2255
6a3bceb1
PH
2256PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2257 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2258 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2259 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2260 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2261 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2262 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2263 for iplsearch lookups.
2264
2265 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2266 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2267 previously such lookups could never work.
2268
4c04137d 2269 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2270 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2271 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2272
2e30fa9d
TK
2273TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2274 version.
2275
0806a9c5
MH
2276MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2277 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2278 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2279 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2280 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2281 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2282
ae276964
TK
2283TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2284 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2285
0f2cbd1b
MH
2286MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2287 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2288 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2289 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2290 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2291 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2292
2b85bce7
PH
2293PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2294 local_scan API.
2295
93655c46
PH
2296PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2297
6c512171
PH
2298PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2299 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2300 encrypted.
2301
2302PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2303 by clients under certain conditions.
2304
aa6dc513
PH
2305PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2306 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2307
a96603a0
PH
2308PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2309
8f240103
PH
2310PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2311 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2312
2313PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2314
d677b2f2
PH
2315PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2316
d52120f2
PH
2317PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2318
64f2600a
PH
2319PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2320 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2321
8669f003
PH
2322PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2323
a4dc33a8
PH
2324PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2325 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2326
d6a60c0f
PH
2327PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2328
8f128379
PH
2329PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2330
8932dffe
PH
2331PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2332 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2333 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2334 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2335
ddea74fa 2336PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2337 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2338 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2339
ddea74fa 2340PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2341 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2342
ddea74fa
PH
2343PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2344
ce9f225c
PH
2345PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2346
19897d52
PH
2347PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2348
bc64a74d
PH
2349PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2350 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2351 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2352
eb4c0de6 2353
b4ed4da0
PH
2354Exim version 4.67
2355-----------------
2356
22ad45c9
MH
2357MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2358 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2359 Jan Srzednicki.
2360
b4ed4da0
PH
2361PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2362 issue a MAIL command.
2363
431b7361
PH
2364PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2365
2366 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2367
2368 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2369 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2370 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2371 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2372 item. This has been fixed.
2373
2374PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2375 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2376
83da1223
PH
2377PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2378 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2379
54fc8428
PH
2380PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2381 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2382 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2383
34c5e8dd
SC
2384SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2385
bbe15da8
PH
2386PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2387 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2388 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2389 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2390 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2391
0e8a9471
MH
2392MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2393 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2394 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2395
f0872424
PH
2396PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2397 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2398 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2399 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2400
b01dd148
PH
2401PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2402
6bf342e1
PH
2403PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2404
273f34d0
PH
2405PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2406 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2407 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2408 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2409 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2410
cf8b11a5
PH
2411PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2412
41c7c167
PH
2413PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2414 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2415 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2416 values).
2417
9c57cbc0
PH
2418PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2419
f3f065bb
PH
2420PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2421
047bdd8c
PH
2422PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2423
0ce9abe6
PH
2424PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2425
0e22dfd1
PH
2426PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2427
4c590bd1
PH
2428PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2429 no_callout_flush is set.
2430
09945f1e
PH
2431PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2432 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2433 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2434 fixed.
2435
c51b8e75
PH
2436PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2437
e28326d8 2438PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2439 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2440 other ACL rejections are.
2441
75b1493f
PH
2442PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2443 with slight modification.
2444
7c5214ec
PH
2445PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2446 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2447
4311097e
PH
2448PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2449 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2450 connection.
2451
29f89cad
PH
2452PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2453 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2454
5e687460
SC
2455SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2456
c3611384
PH
2457PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2458 expansion side effects.
2459
5a11a7b4
PH
2460PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2461 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2462 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2463 be the same.
2464
0e20aff9
MH
2465MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2466 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2467 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2468
ca86f471
PH
2469PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2470 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2471 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2472 were accidentally chopped off.
2473
a14e5636
PH
2474PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2475 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2476 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2477 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2478 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2479 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2480 pipelining has not been advertised.
2481
ec95d1a6
PH
2482PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2483
42855d71
PH
2484PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2485 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2486 This has been fixed.
2487
57c2c631
PH
2488PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2489 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2490 reported on Solaris.
2491
58c01c94
PH
2492PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2493 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2494 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2495 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2496 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2497 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2498 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2499
dee5a20a
PH
2500PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2501 cpus.
2502
d2ee6114
PH
2503PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2504
b2d5182b
PH
2505PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2506
79749a79
PH
2507PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2508 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2509 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2510 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2511 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2512 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2513
c456d9bb
PH
2514PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2515 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2516 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2517 host_all_ignored option.
2518
cd9868ec
PH
2519PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2520 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2521 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2522 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2523 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2524 is what is supposed to happen).
2525
ebeaf996
PH
2526PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2527 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2528 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2529 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2530 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2531 uses the Exim user.
2532
2679d413
PH
2533PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2534 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2535 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2536 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2537 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2538 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2539 users.
2540
84024b72
PH
2541PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2542
8005d38e
SC
2543SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2544 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2545 (Jez Hancock).
2546 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2547 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2548
3298c6c6
SC
2549SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2550
a43a27c5
PH
2551PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2552
58eb016e 2553PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2554 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2555 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2556 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2557 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2558 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2559 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2560 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2561 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2562 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2563 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2564
b43a74ea
PH
2565PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2566 advertised in response to EHLO.
2567
b4ed4da0 2568
5dd1517f
PH
2569Exim version 4.66
2570-----------------
2571
2572PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2573 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2574
2575 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2576 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2577
2578 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2579 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2580 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2581
2582 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2583 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2584 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2585 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2586 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2587
2588
93cfa765
TK
2589Exim version 4.65
2590-----------------
2591
2592TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2593 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2594 versions. (#438)
2595
d6066548
MH
2596MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2597 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2598 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2599
4362ff0d
PH
2600PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2601 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2602 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2603 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2604 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2605 rather than extend the field.
2606
93cfa765 2607
944e9e9c
TF
2608Exim version 4.64
2609-----------------
aa41d2de 2610
21d74bd9
TK
2611TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2612 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2613 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2614 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2615 these files.
2616
2617TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2618 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2619 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2620
2621TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2622 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2623 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2624
2625TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2626 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2627 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2628 in the field name.
2629
2b1c6e3a
PH
2630PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2631 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2632 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2633 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2634 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2635 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2636 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2637 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2638 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2639 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2640 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2641
1f872c80
PH
2642PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2643 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2644
2645PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2646 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2647 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2648 ignores EPIPE as well.
2649
d203e649
PH
2650PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2651 (quoted-printable decoding).
2652
cc2ed8f7 2653PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2654 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2655
ddfcd446
PH
2656PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2657
d45b1de8
PH
2658PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2659
2660PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2661
38a0a95f 2662PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2663 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2664
a2405d83
JJ
2665JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2666 in 4.64-PH/09.
2667
2668JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2669 miscellaneous code fixes
2670
6ea85e9a
PH
2671PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2672 rejections.
2673
26da7e20
PH
2674PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2675 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2676 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2677 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2678 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2679 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2680 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2681 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2682
14aa5a05 2683PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2684 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2685 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2686 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2687 function.
2688 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2689 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2690 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2691 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2692 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2693 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2694 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2695 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2696 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2697
ff75a1f7
PH
2698PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2699 decoding.
2700
e6f6568e
PH
2701PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2702 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2703 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2704 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2705 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2706 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2707 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2708 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2709
d6f6e0dc
PH
2710PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2711 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2712 list.
2713
322050c2
PH
2714PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2715 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2716 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2717 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2718 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2719 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2720 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2721 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2722 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2723 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2724 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2725 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2726 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2727
08955dd3
PH
2728PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2729 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2730 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2731 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2732 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2733 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2734 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2735
1eccaa59
PH
2736PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2737 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2738 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2739 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2740 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2741 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2742 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2743 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2744 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2745 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2746
602e59e5
PH
2747PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2748 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2749 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2750 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2751 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2752
411ef850
PH
2753PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2754 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2755 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2756 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2757 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2758 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2759 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2760
7befa435
PH
2761PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2762 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2763 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2764 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2765 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2766 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2767 been verified.
2768
48da4259 2769PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2770 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2771 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2772 and authorization.)
2773
48da4259
PH
2774PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2775 if any retry times were supplied.
2776
d1d5595c
PH
2777PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2778 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2779 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2780
0ef732d9
PH
2781PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2782
328895cc
PH
2783PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2784
fd700877
PH
2785PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2786 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2787 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2788 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2789 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2790 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2791
8dce1a6f
PH
2792PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2793 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2794
17af4a17
PH
2795PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2796 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2797 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2798
2799PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2800 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2801 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2802 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2803 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2804 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2805 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2806 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2807 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2808
2809 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2810 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2811 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2812 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2813 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2814 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2815 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2816 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2817 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2818
2819 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2820 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2821 hammering the server.
2822
c1114884
PH
2823PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2824 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2825
7a0743eb
PH
2826PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2827
0d85fa3f
PH
2828PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2829 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2830 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2831
1bf43b78
PH
2832PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2833 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2834 one case where this was not true.
2835
520de300
PH
2836PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2837 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2838 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2839 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2840 fails.
2841
48c7f9e2
PH
2842PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2843 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2844 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2845 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2846 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2847 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2848 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2849 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2850 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2851 smtp transport.
2852
99ea1c86
PH
2853PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2854 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2855 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2856 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2857
a2042e78
PH
2858PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2859 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2860
4fbcfc2e
PH
2861PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2862 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2863 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2864
aa41d2de
PH
2865PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2866
af561417
PH
2867PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2868
3cc66b45
PH
2869PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2870
194cc0e4
PH
2871PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2872 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2873 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2874 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2875
a401ddaa
PH
2876PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2877 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2878
4e88a19f
PH
2879PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2880 be meaningful with "accept".
2881
d7d7b289
SC
2882SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2883 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2884
2885SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2886 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2887 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2888
2889SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2890 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2891 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2892 there is data to show.
2893 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2894
2895SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2896 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2897 as well as the number of messages.
2898
2899SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2900 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2901 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2902
2903SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2904 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2905 have a flag are now skipped.
2906
2907SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2908 Added the -emptyok flag.
2909
2910SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2911 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2912
0ea2a468
JJ
2913JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2914 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2915 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2916
2917JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2918 match 4.64-PH/13
2919
2920JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2921 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2922
2923JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2924
2925JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2926 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2927
8a10f5a4
PH
2928PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2929
30e18802
PH
2930PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2931 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2932 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2933 contravention of the specifications.
2934
55728a4f
PH
2935PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2936 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2937 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2938
d7837193
PH
2939PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2940 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2941 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2942
87054a31
PH
2943PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2944
ea2c01d2
MH
2945MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2946 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2947 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2948 some point in the past.
2949
e4fa6968
PH
2950PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2951 transport during callout processing was broken.
2952
56f5d9bd
PH
2953PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2954 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2955
922e1c28
PH
2956PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2957 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2958
21eb6e72
PH
2959PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2960 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2961
a0540757
PH
2962PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2963
944e9e9c 2964
478be7b0
SC
2965Exim version 4.63
2966-----------------
2967
2968SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2969 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2970
2971SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2972 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2973 there is data to show.
2974 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2975
2976SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2977 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2978
2b965a65
TF
2979TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2980 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2981
45b91596
PH
2982TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2983 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2984
c59f5781
TF
2985TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2986 submissions from trusted users.
2987
90fc3069
TF
2988TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2989 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2990
6083aca0
TF
2991TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2992 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2993 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2994 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2995 there is now a framework to start from.
2996
765b530f
PH
2997PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2998 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2999 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3000
4e167a8c
PH
3001PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3002
4608d683
PH
3003PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3004
b8dc3e4a
PH
3005PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3006
5418e93b
PH
3007PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3008 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3009 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3010
b4a9bda2
PH
3011PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3012 libradius.
3013
45b91596
PH
3014PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3015 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3016 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3017
5547e2c5
PH
3018PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3019 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3020 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3021 its arguments.
3022
dbcef0ea
PH
3023PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3024 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3025 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3026 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3027 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3028
25257489
PH
3029PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3030 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3031
c816d124
PH
3032PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3033
a9ccd69a
PH
3034PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3035 operations in malware.c.
3036
75fa1910
PH
3037PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3038 signatures.
3039
a7d7aa58
PH
3040PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3041 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3042 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3043 all.
3044
42119b09
PH
3045PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3046 statements to "add_header".
3047
41609df5
PH
3048PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3049 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3050
a5bd321b
PH
3051PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3052 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3053 latter.
3054
e85a7ad5 3055PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3056 so that it is now:
3057
e85a7ad5
PH
3058 ${if or { \
3059 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3060 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3061 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3062 }{no}{yes}}
3063
e85a7ad5
PH
3064 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3065 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3066
d8fe1c03
PH
3067PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3068 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3069
16282d2b
PH
3070PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3071 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3072 any possible encoding problems.
3073
35d40a98
PH
3074PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3075 but not after initializing Perl.
3076
034d99ab
PH
3077PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3078 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3079 apparently, which is not desirable.
3080
6ec97b1b
PH
3081PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3082 queries.
3083
e22ca4ac
JJ
3084JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3085 --not options
3086
3087JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3088
33d73e3b
PH
3089PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3090 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3091 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3092 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3093
9ecb03f3
PH
3094PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3095 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3096 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3097
084efe8d
PH
3098PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3099 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3100 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3101 0.12.
3102
366fc9f0
PH
3103PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3104 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3105 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3106 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3107 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3108
c59f5781 3109
c887c79e
TF
3110Exim version 4.62
3111-----------------
3112
3113TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3114 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3115
1cce3af8
PH
3116PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3117 patch).
3118
afb3eaaf
PH
3119PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3120 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3121 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3122 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3123 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3124 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3125 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3126 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3127 451 error is used.
3128
e173618b
PH
3129PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3130
dd16e114
PH
3131PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3132 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3133 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3134
f7fd3850
PH
3135PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3136 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3137 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3138 odd errors.
3139
d87df92c
PH
3140PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3141 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3142
7e9f683d
PH
3143PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3144 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3145 option (which defaults to 0600).
3146
bfad5236
PH
3147PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3148
01c490df
PH
3149PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3150 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3151 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3152 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3153 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3154 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3155 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3156
d6629cdc
PH
3157PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3158
1cce3af8 3159
214e2000
PH
3160Exim version 4.61
3161-----------------
3162
3163PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3164 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3165 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3166 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3167 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3168 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3169 addresses as local.
3170
f9daeae0
PH
3171PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3172 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3173
7e66e54d
PH
3174PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3175
c8ea1597
PH
3176PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3177 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3178 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3179 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3180 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3181 grumble.
3182
911f6fde
PH
3183PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3184 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3185
47ca6d6c
PH
3186PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3187 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3188 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3189 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3190 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3191
ed0e9820
PH
3192PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3193 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3194 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3195 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3196
eff37e47
PH
3197PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3198 be the same on different OS.
3199
1921d2ea
PH
3200PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3201 testing.
3202
b3f69ca8
JJ
3203JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3204 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3205
3206JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3207 in 4.61-PH/06
3208
424a1c63
PH
3209PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3210 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3211 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3212 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3213 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3214 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3215 bounce message.
3216
7a100415
PH
3217PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3218 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3219 when Exim was called.
3220
19b9dc85
PH
3221PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3222 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3223
309bd837
PH
3224PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3225 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3226 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3227 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3228
59e82a2a
PH
3229PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3230 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3231 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3232 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3233 changes:
3234
3235 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3236 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3237 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3238
3239 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3240 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3241 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3242
9edc04ce
PH
3243PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3244 feature).
3245
1349e1e5
PH
3246PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3247 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3248 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3249 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3250 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3251 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3252 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3253 values from the SRV records were lost.
3254
ea49d0e1
PH
3255PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3256 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3257 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3258
064a94c9
PH
3259PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3260 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3261 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3262
727071f8
PH
3263PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3264 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3265 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3266 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3267 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3268 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3269 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3270 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3271 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3272 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3273
f78eb7c6
PH
3274PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3275 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3276 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3277
21c28500
PH
3278PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3279 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3280
3281PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3282 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3283 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3284 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3285 is given.
3286
1688f43b
PH
3287PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3288 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3289 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3290
3291PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3292 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3293 PH/23 above applies.
3294
9675b384
PH
3295PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3296 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3297 (for which there is an explicit test).
3298
6a3f1455
PH
3299PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3300
dac79d3e
PH
3301PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3302 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3303 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3304 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3305 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3306
5977a0b3
PH
3307PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3308 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3309 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3310 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3311
c91535f3
PH
3312PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3313 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3314 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3315
0d46a8c8
PH
3316PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3317
278c6e6c
PH
3318PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3319
2cbb4081
PH
3320PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3321 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3322 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3323
3eef829e
PH
3324PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3325 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3326 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3327 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3328 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3329
1ab95fa6
PH
3330PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3331 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3332 the message gets confusing).
3333
230205fc
PH
3334PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3335 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3336 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3337 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3338
75e0e026
PH
3339PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3340 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3341 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3342 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3343 same order.
3344
3345PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3346 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3347 the different processes.
3348
145396a6
PH
3349PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3350
3cd34f13
PH
3351PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3352
11121d3d
JJ
3353JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3354 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3355
3356JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3357 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3358
3359JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3360 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3361 messages matching specified criteria.
3362
8def5aaf
PH
3363PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3364
929ba01c
PH
3365PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3366 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3367
2632889e
PH
3368PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3369 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3370 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3371 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3372 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3373 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3374 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3375 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3376 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3377 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3378
944a9c55
PH
3379PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3380 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3381 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3382
4a23603b
PH
3383PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3384
4730f942
PH
3385PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3386 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3387 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3388 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3389 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3390 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3391 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3392 the variable.
3393
30dba1e6
PH
3394PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3395 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3396
382afc6b
PH
3397PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3398
a86229cf
PH
3399PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3400
50c99ba6
PH
3401PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3402
d35e429d
PH
3403PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3404 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3405 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3406 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3407 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3408 size of the count of files.
3409
f90d018c
PH
3410PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3411
75def545
PH
3412PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3413 used in LMTP mode:
3414
3415 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3416 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3417 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3418 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3419
3420 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3421 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3422 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3423
3424PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3425 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3426 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3427 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3428 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3429
c46782ef
PH
3430PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3431 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3432
71fafd95
PH
3433PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3434 will now be deprecated.
3435
2c5db4fd
PH
3436PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3437
9cf6b11a
JJ
3438JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3439 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3440 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3441
3442JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3443 with very large, slow to parse queues
3444
3445JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3446
3447JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3448
898d150f
PH
3449PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3450 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3451 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3452 SMTP output lines.
3453
46218253
PH
3454PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3455 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3456 Sieve code now uses this.
3457
e97957bc
PH
3458PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3459 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3460
81e509d7
PH
3461PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3462 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3463
3d240ff7
PH
3464PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3465
b37c4101
PH
3466PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3467 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3468 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3469 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3470 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3471
79378e0f
PH
3472PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3473 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3474 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3475 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3476
e49c7bb4
PH
3477PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3478
d114ec46
PH
3479PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3480
f3d7df6c
PH
3481PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3482 is preferred over IPv4.
3483
715ab376
PH
3484PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3485 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3486 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3487 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3488 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3489 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3490 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3491
6b31b150
PH
3492PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3493 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3494 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3495
3496PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3497
d515a917
PH
3498PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3499 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3500 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3501 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3502 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3503 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3504 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3505 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3506 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3507 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3508 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3509
9b8fadde
PH
3510PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3511 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3512 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3513
214e2000 3514
5de37277
PH
3515Exim version 4.60
3516-----------------
3517
cc38ddbf
PH
3518PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3519
3520 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3521 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3522
3523 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3524 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3525 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3526
72fdd6ae
PH
3527PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3528
3529 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3530 not a single digit.
3531
3532 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3533 string.
3534
3535 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3536 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3537 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3538 silly things.
3539
3540 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3541 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3542
3543 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3544 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3545
cb741023
PH
3546PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3547 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3548 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3549
f174f16e
PH
3550PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3551 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3552
c25242d7
PH
3553PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3554 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3555
3556 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3557
3558 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3559 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3560 this:
3561
3562 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3563
82c19f95
PH
3564PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3565 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3566 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3567 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3568 identical. For example:
3569
3570 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3571
3572 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3573 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3574 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3575
d7ffbc12
PH
3576PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3577 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3578 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3579 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3580
9f526266
PH
3581PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3582 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3583 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3584 message.
3585
87fcc8b9
PH
3586PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3587
3588 o fixes some comments
3589 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3590 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3591 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3592 and documents the missing references header update
3593
3594 and most important:
3595
3596 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3597 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3598 result)
3599
456682f5
PH
3600PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3601 Electronic Mail") by including:
3602
3603 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3604
3605 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3606 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3607 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3608 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3609 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3610
3611 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3612
3613 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3614
3615 The auto-replied keyword:
3616
3617 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3618 message by an automatic process,
3619
3620 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3621
3622 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3623 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3624
3625 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3626 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3627 other messages.
3628
3e46c1aa
PH
3629PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3630 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3631
49826d12
PH
3632PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3633
eba0c039
PH
3634PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3635 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3636 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3637
a0d6ba8a
PH
3638PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3639 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3640 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3641
f0917727
PH
3642PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3643 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3644 and treats the condition as false.
3645
096fee00
PH
3646PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3647
024bd3c2
PH
3648PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3649 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3650 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3651 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3652 not changing the active code.
3653
3654 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3655 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3656
3657 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3658 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3659
df199fec
PH
3660PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3661 (Bugzilla #53).
3662
d27f1df3
PH
3663PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3664 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3665 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3666 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3667 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3668 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3669 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3670 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3671 the text comparison.
3672
96776534
PH
3673PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3674 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3675 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3676 The same fix has been applied.
3677
5de37277 3678
9a799bc0
PH
3679Exim version 4.54
3680-----------------
3681
3682PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3683 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3684 It now does.
3685
99a4b039
PH
3686PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3687 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3688
3689PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3690
4b233853
PH
3691PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3692 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3693 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3694 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3695 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3696
8857ccfd
PH
3697TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3698 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3699 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3700 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3701 or /domain=).
3702
433a2980
PH
3703PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3704 testing suite.
3705
3e46c1aa 3706
9a799bc0 3707
e3a311ba
TK
3708Exim version 4.53
3709-----------------
3710
3711TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3712 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3713
13b685f9
PH
3714PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3715
395ff96d
PH
3716PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3717
5b68f6e4
PH
3718PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3719 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3720 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3721
1ab52c69
PH
3722PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3723 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3724 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3725
b07e6aa3
PH
3726PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3727 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3728 operating systems.
3729
254e032f
PH
3730PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3731 ${stat: expansion item.
3732
3af76a81
PH
3733PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3734 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3735
2548ba04
PH
3736PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3737 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3738 file for comments.
3739
b6c6011d
PH
3740PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3741
cf39cf57
PH
3742PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3743 setting.
3744
f1513293
PH
3745PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3746 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3747
727549a4
PH
3748TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3749
af46795e
PH
3750PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3751 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3752 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3753 the end of the subprocess.
3754
d7b47fd0
PH
3755PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3756 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3757 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3758 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3759 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3760
ee744174
JJ
3761JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3762
b582ab87
PH
3763TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3764
41a13e0a
PH
3765PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3766 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3767
f625cc5a
PH
3768PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3769
3770PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3771
21f7af35
PH
3772PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3773 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3774 HP-UX compiler.
3775
31480e42
PH
3776PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3777
2d280592
PH
3778PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3779 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3780 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3781
7cd1141b
PH
3782PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3783 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3784
3785PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3786 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3787
750af86e
PH
3788PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3789 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3790
3791 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3792 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3793
3794 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3795 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3796 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3797 contributed by a Radius user.
3798
3799PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3800 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3801
4304270b
TK
3802TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3803 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3804
750af86e
PH
3805PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3806 available.
3807
64ffc24f
PH
3808PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3809 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3810 received.
3811
5dd9625b
PH
3812PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3813 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3814 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3815 header lines when this was not necessary.
3816
5591031b
PH
3817PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3818
ba18e66a
PH
3819PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3820 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3821 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3822 exists".
3823
9cec981f
PH
3824PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3825 -bV or -d is used.
3826
aa2b5c79
PH
3827PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3828 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3829 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3830 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3831
48a53b7f
PH
3832PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3833
1c59d63b
PH
3834PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3835
671012da
TK
3836TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3837
1509d3a8
PH
3838PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3839
3840PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3841 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3842 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3843 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3844 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3845 settings.
3846
3847PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3848
2fe1a124
PH
3849PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3850 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3851 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3852 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3853 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3854 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3855 which is clearly wrong.
3856
8800895a
PH
3857PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3858
ccfdb010
PH
3859PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3860 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3861 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3862 subsequently added.
3863
1130bfb0
PH
3864PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3865 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3866
ebcb507f
PH
3867PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3868
c35e155c
PH
3869PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3870 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3871
95d1f782
PH
3872PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3873 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3874
fd6de02e
PH
3875PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3876 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3877
58de37c5
PH
3878PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3879 recipients, not senders.
3880
261cf466
TF
3881TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3882 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3883
3ee512ff
PH
3884PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3885
e08c430f
PH
3886PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3887
bef5a11f
PH
3888PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3889 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3890 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3891 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3892
7546de58
TF
3893TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3894
e5d5a95f
TF
3895TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3896 clock is set back in time.
3897
2e88a017
TF
3898TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3899 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3900
a5f65aa4
TF
3901TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3902 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3903
e7726cbf
PH
3904PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3905 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3906 (see PH/47 above).
3907
a7fdad5b
TF
3908TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3909 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3910 header rewrites.
3911
6af56900
PH
3912PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3913 type ("H").
3914
0925ede6
PH
3915PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3916
66afa403
TF
3917TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3918 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3919 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3920
0154e85a
TF
3921TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3922 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3923 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3924 helo verification defer as a failure.
3925
16f12c76
PH
3926PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3927 actual error message.
3928
bbe902f0 3929
e5a9dba6
PH
3930Exim version 4.52
3931-----------------
3932
3933TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3934
22c3b60b
PH
3935PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3936 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3937 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3938 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3939
06a9b4b5
PH
3940TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3941
c1ac6996
PH
3942PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3943 can still be requested.
3944
9c7a242c
PH
3945PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3946 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3947 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3948 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3949
87ba3f5f
PH
3950TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3951 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3952 circumstances, but probably never did.
3953
3954PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3955 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3956 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3957 in the header line.
3958
29aba418
TF
3959TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3960
fe0dab11
TF
3961TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3962 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3963
11d337a4
TK
3964TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3965
3966TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3967
415c8f3b
PH
3968PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3969 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3970 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3971 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3972 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3973 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3974
958541e9
PH
3975PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3976 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3977 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3978 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3979 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3980 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3981
c206415f
TK
3982TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3983 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3984
2a4be8f9
PH
3985PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3986 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3987
1cba11c5
SC
3988SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3989 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3990
4c04137d 3991SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3992
3993SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3994
3995SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3996
3997SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3998
3999SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4000
4001SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4002
1005d00e
TK
4003TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4004
4005TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4006 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4007 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4008
4009TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4010 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4011 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4012 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4013
9b4768fa
PH
4014PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4015 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4016 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4017
4018PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4019 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4020 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4021 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4022
0d7eb84a
PH
4023PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4024 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4025 to be made).
4026
4027PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4028 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4029 should work with maildirs and everything.
4030
40727bee
TK
4031TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4032 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4033
554d2369
TF
4034TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4035 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4036
1f922db1
PH
4037PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4038 function for BDB 4.3.
4039
ef213c3b
PH
4040PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4041
8ac170f3
PH
4042PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4043 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4044 involved.
4045
b1c749bb
PH
4046PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4047 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4048 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4049 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4050 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4051 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4052
4aac9b49
PH
4053PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4054 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4055 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4056 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4057 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4058 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4059 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4060 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4061
294520c8
TK
4062TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4063 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4064 details.
4065
5bd022fe
PH
4066PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4067 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4068
90e9ce59
PH
4069PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4070 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4071 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4072 test. It is now used for both.
4073
5ea81592
PH
4074PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4075 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4076 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4077 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4078 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4079 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4080
c6c2dc1d
PH
4081PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4082 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4083 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4084 string_vformat().
4085
fffffe4c
PH
4086PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4087 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4088 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4089
9a26b6b2
PH
4090PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4091 experimental DomainKeys support:
4092
4093 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4094 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4095 the control was given.
4096
4097 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4098
4aee0225
PH
4099PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4100
32d668a5
PH
4101PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4102
8187c3f3
PH
4103PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4104 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4105 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4106 db.h files).
4107
ff790e47 4108PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4109 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4110 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4111 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4112 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4113 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4114 course.
ff790e47 4115
5417f6d1
PH
4116PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4117 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4118 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4119 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4120 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4121 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4122
59cf8544
PH
4123PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4124 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4125 do -d+all out of habit.
4126
e7ad8a65
PH
4127PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4128 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4129 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4130
ade42478
PH
4131PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4132 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4133 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4134 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4135 record types that Exim uses.
4136
182ad5cf
PH
4137PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4138 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4139 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4140 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4141 non-existent file that was broken.
4142
b0d9fc80
TK
4143TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4144 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4145
4146TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4147 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4148 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4149
4150TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4151
47c7a64a
PH
4152PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4153 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4154 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4155 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4156 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4157 same time.
4158
a388bce4
SC
4159SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4160 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4161 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4162 at a slight CPU cost.
4163
4164SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4165 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4166
4167SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4168 by Marc Sherman.
4169
0793e4ed
SC
4170SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4171
c58b88df
PH
4172PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4173 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4174
e7ad8a65 4175
7982096b
PH
4176Exim version 4.51
4177-----------------
4178
1a46a8c5
PH
4179TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4180 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4181
2f079f46 4182TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4183
4184TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4185
4186PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4187 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4188
4189PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4190 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4191 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4192 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4193 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4194 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4195 file.
4196
4197PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4198 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4199 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4200 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4201 these two options.
4202
4203PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4204 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4205 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4206 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4207 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4208 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4209 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4210 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4211
4212PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4213 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4214
4215PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4216 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4217 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4218 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4219 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4220 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4221
4222PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4223 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4224 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4225 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4226
4227PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4228 Finch).
4229
4230PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4231 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4232
49c2d5ea
PH
4233PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4234 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4235 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4236 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4237 message.
49c2d5ea 4238
bf759a8b
PH
4239PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4240
83364d30
PH
4241PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4242 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4243
7999bbd7
PH
4244PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4245 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4246 to what was transported.)
4247
7dbf77c9
PH
4248TF/01 Added $received_time.
4249
74e0617f
PH
4250PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4251 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4252 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4253 spamd_address settings.
4254
2f079f46
PH
4255PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4256 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4257 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4258 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4259 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4260
8c841523
PH
4261PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4262
7766a4f0
PH
4263PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4264 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4265 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4266 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4267 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4268
8b417f2c
PH
4269PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4270 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4271
901f42cb
PH
4272PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4273 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4274 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4275 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4276 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4277 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4278 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4279 for failure.
4280
f9b9210e
PH
4281PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4282 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4283 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4284 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4285 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4286 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4287 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4288 "input=".
4289
54cdb463
PH
4290PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4291
cf00dad6
PH
4292PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4293 driver and ACL definitions.
4294
acb1b346
PH
4295PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4296 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4297
c5ddb310
PH
4298PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4299 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4300 understands it better than I do:
4301
4302 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4303 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4304
4305 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4306 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4307 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4308 => three warnings about OTP not working
4309 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4310
4311 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4312 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4313 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4314 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4315 for each call.)
4316 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4317 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4318
4319 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4320 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4321 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4322
31619da6
PH
4323PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4324 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4325 specified.
4326
bebaf0fc
PH
4327PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4328 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4329 "Linux".
4330
475fe28a
PH
4331PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4332 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4333 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4334
4335 warn !verify = sender
4336 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4337
4338 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4339 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4340
7e8bec7a
PH
4341PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4342
4343 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4344 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4345
4346 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4347 nomenclature these days.)
4348
e4a89c47
PH
4349PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4350 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4351
5ca2a9a1
PH
4352PH/30 In these circumstances:
4353 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4354 . First host does not offer TLS;
4355 . First host accepts first address;
4356 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4357 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4358 . Second host accepts second address.
4359 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4360 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4361 address.
7e8bec7a 4362
c688b954
PH
4363PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4364 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4365 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4366 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4367 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4368
fed77020
PH
4369PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4370 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4371
7fe1560f
PH
4372PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4373 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4374
ebb6e6d5
PH
4375PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4376 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4377 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4378
9c4e8f60
PH
4379PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4380 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4381 overlooked.
4382
4383PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4384
d7174846
PH
4385PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4386 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4387 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4388 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4389 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4390 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4391 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4392
4393 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4394 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4395 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4396 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4397 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4398
4399 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4400 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4401 routed further.
4402
cfe75fc3
PH
4403PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4404 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4405 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4406 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4407 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4408 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4409
be22d70e
PH
4410PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4411
0612b098
PH
4412PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4413 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4414 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4415 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4416 printable escape sequences.
4417
2e0c1448
PH
4418PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4419 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4420 body only.
4421
447d236c
PH
4422PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4423 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4424 are as follows:
4425
4426 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4427 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4428 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4429 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4430 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4431
4432 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4433 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4434 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4435
d20976dc
PH
4436PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4437
f656d135
PH
4438PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4439 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4440 play with."
4441
2e2a30b4
PH
4442PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4443 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4444 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4445 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4446 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4447 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4448 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4449 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4450 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4451 the log output.
4452
9176e9f0
PH
4453PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4454 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4455 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4456 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4457 "make".
4458
7982096b 4459
bbe902f0
PH
4460A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4461----------------------------------------
4462
4463Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4464changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4465needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4466in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4467that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4468release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4469from 4.43.
4470
4471I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44724.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4473those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4474historical information.
4475
4476
f7b63901 4477Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4478-----------------
4479
5fe762f6
PH
4480 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4481
139059f6 4482 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4483 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4484
7086e875
PH
4485 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4486 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4487 place.
4488
35af9f61
PH
4489 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4490 filter fails to execute.
4491
b668c215
PH
4492 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4493 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4494 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4495 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4496 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4497
a494b1e1
PH
4498 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4499
4500 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4501 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4502 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4503 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4504
c5fcb476
PH
4505 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4506 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4507 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4508 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4509 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4510
69358f02
PH
4511 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4512
5be20824
PH
451310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4514
eb2c0248
PH
451511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4516 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4517 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4518 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4519
2a3eea10
PH
452012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4521 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4522 sender verification.
4523
452413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4525 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4526
23c7ff99
PH
452714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4528
4deaf07d
PH
452915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4530 connection timeout.
4531
926e1192
PH
453216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4533 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4534
650edc6f
PH
453517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4536 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4537
2c7db3f5
PH
453818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4539 information about exactly what failed.
4540
3d235903
PH
454119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4542
7c7ad977
PH
454320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4544 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4545 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4546
981756db
PH
454721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4548 It is now set to "smtps".
4549
d4eb88df
PH
455022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4551 ignore_target_hosts.
4552
455323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4554 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4555 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4556 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4557 "[x.x.x.x]".
4558
7d468ab8
PH
455924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4560 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4561 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4562
456325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4564 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4565 wake it up if nothing else does.
4566
62c0818f
PH
456726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4568 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4569 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4570 end up negative.
4571
26034054
PH
457227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4573 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4574
af66f652
PH
457528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4576
90af77f4
PH
457729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4578 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4579 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4580 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4581 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4582 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4583 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4584 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4585
d8ef3577
PH
458630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4587 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4588 than one IP address.
4589
5cb8cbc6
PH
459031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4591 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4592 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4593 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4594
14702f5b
PH
459532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4596 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4597 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4598 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4599 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4600 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4601
063b1e99
PH
460233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4603 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4604 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4605 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4606
652e1b65
PH
460734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4608 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4609 respected.
4610
6f0c9a4f
PH
461135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4612 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4613 $sender_host_address.
4614
33397d19
PH
461536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4616 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4617 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4618 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4619 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4620 very small.
4621
7bb56e1f
PH
462237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4623
4624 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4625 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4626
ea3bc19b
PH
4627 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4628 just the host names, not the priorities.
4629
4630 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4631 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4632 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4633
ea3bc19b 4634 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4635 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4636
0bcb2a0e
PH
463738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4638 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4639 domain.
4640
2ac0e484
PH
464139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4642
4e1fde53
PH
464340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4644 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4645
de365ded
PH
464641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4647 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4648 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4649
f05da2e8
PH
465042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4651
d6453af2
PH
465243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4653
f7b63901
PH
465444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4655
465645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4657 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4658 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4659 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4660 because the tests only now provoked it.
4661
a444213a
PH
466246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4663 (this can affect the format of dates).
4664
0ec020ea
PH
466547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4666 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4667 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4668 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4669
b1206957
PH
467048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4671
467249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4673 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4674 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4675 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4676
26dd5a95
PH
467750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4678 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4679 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4680
343b2385
PH
468151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4682 autoreply.
4683
1c5466b9
PH
468452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4685 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4686 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4687 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4688 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4689 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4690 is going on).
4691
55ee9ee3
PH
469253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4693 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4694 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4695 the line.
4696
d38f8232
PH
469754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4698 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4699 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4700
4701 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4702 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4703 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4704 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4705 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4706 so I produce this patch..."
4707
3295e65b
PH
4708 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4709 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4710 is not defined.
4711
7102e136
PH
471255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4713 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4714 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4715 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4716 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4717
3ca0ba97
PH
471856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4719
c2bcbe20
PH
472057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4721 long debug lines gets shown.
4722
18ce445d
PH
472358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4724 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4725
1f5b4c3d
PH
472659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4727
4728 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4729 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4730 of $primary_hostname.
4731
b975ba52
PH
473260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4733 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4734 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4735 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4736 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4737 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4738 by change 4.50/55 above.
4739
4740 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4741 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4742 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4743 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4744 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4745 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4746 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4747
474861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4749 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4750 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4751 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4752
17ffcae7
PH
475362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4754 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4755
d95f9fdb
PH
475663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4757 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4758 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4759 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4760 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4761
86b8287f
PH
476264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4763 This has been fixed.
4764
60dc5e56
PH
476565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4766 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4767 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4768 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4769 the caching.)
4770
533244af
PH
477166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4772
a5a28604
PH
477367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4774 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4775 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4776 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4777
7e634d24
PH
477868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4779 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4780
3e11c26b
PH
478169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4782 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4783 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4784
6729cf78
PH
478570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4786 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4787 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4788 message there.
4789
00f00ca5
PH
479071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4791 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4792 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4793
c9bdd01c
PH
479472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4795 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4796 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4797 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4798
d43194df
PH
479973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4800 during host lookups.
4801
fe5b5d0b
PH
480274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4803 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4804
4805 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4806
76a2d7ba
PH
480775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4808 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4809 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4810 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4811 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4812 background.
4813
481476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4815 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4816
04f7d5b9
PH
481777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4818 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4819 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4820
bc60667e
PH
482178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4822
bb6e88ff
PH
482379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4824 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4825 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4826 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4827 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4828 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4829 process earlier.
4830
1e70f85b
PH
483180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4832 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4833 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4834 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4835 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4836
483781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4838 tables).
4839
4e01f9d6
PH
484082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4841
1ee1cef2
PH
484283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4843 "vacation" handling.
4844
6e2b4ccc
PH
484584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4846 OS variants using glibc.
4847
8e669ac1
PH
484885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4849
495ae4b0 4850
bbe902f0
PH
4851----------------------------------------------------
4852See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4853----------------------------------------------------
4854
4855
4856Exim version 4.44
4857-----------------
4858
4859 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4860 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4861 transport
4862
4863 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4864 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4865 place.
4866
4867 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4868 filter fails to execute.
4869
4870 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4871 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4872 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4873 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4874 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4875
4876 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4877 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4878 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4879 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4880
4881 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4882 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4883 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4884 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4885 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4886
4887 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4888
4889 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4890 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4891 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4892 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4893
4894 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4895 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4896 sender verification.
4897
489810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4899 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4900
490111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4902 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4903
490412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4905 ignore_target_hosts.
4906
490713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4908 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4909 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4910 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4911 "[x.x.x.x]".
4912
491314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4914 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4915 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4916
491715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4918 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4919 wake it up if nothing else does.
4920
492116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4922 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4923 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4924 end up negative.
4925
492617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4927 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4928
ea3a6f44 492918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4930
493119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4932 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4933 empty pattern.
4934
493520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4936 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4937 one IP address.
4938
ea3a6f44
NM
493921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4940 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4941 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4942 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4943 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4944 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4945
ea3a6f44
NM
494622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4947 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4948 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4949
495023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4951 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4952 $sender_host_address.
4953
495424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4955
ea3a6f44
NM
495625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4957 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4958 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4959
496026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4961 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4962
ea3a6f44
NM
496327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4964 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4965
ea3a6f44
NM
496628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4967 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4968 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4969 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4970
497129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4972 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4973 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4974
ea3a6f44
NM
497530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4976 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4977 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4978 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4979
ea3a6f44
NM
498031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4981 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4982 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4983
ea3a6f44
NM
498431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4985 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4986
ea3a6f44
NM
498732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4988 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4989 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4990 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4991 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4992 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4993 is going on).
bbe902f0 4994
ea3a6f44
NM
499533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4996 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4997 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4998 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4999 CAN-2005-0021
5000
ea3a6f44
NM
500134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5002 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5003 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5004 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5005 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5006 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5007 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5008
5009 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5010 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5011 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5012 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5013 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5014 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5015 CAN-2005-0021
5016
ea3a6f44
NM
501735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5018 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5019 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5020 CAN-2005-0022
5021
ea3a6f44
NM
502236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5023 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5024 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5025 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5026 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5027
ea3a6f44
NM
502837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5029 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5030 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5031 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5032 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5033
ea3a6f44
NM
503438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5035 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5036 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5037 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5038 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5039
5040
495ae4b0
PH
5041Exim version 4.43
5042-----------------
5043
5044 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5045 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5046 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5047 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5048 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5049 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5050 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5051
5052 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5053 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5054 the delivery.
5055
5056 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5057
5058 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5059
5060 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5061 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5062 to local_scan().
5063
5064 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5065 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5066 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5067 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5068 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5069
5070 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5071 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5072
5073 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5074
5075 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5076
507710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5078 header_sender only.
5079
508011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5081 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5082
508312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5084 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5085 affecting debugging statements).
5086
508713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5088
508914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5090 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5091 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5092 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5093 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5094 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5095 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5096 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5097 after the received time, and all would be well.
5098
509915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5100 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5101 condition in an expansion string.
5102
510316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5104
510517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5106 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5107 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5108 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5109 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5110 job under whatever limits there are.
5111
511218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5113
511419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5115 space).
5116
511720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5118 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5119 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5120 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5121 return path is set.
5122
512321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5124 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5125 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5126 binary data in such strings.
5127
512822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5129
513023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5131 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5132 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5133 failure, which is pointless.
5134
513524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5136
513725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5138
513926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5140 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5141 Sender: header lines.
5142
514327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5144 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5145 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5146
514728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5148 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5149 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5150 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5151 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5152 happens.
5153
515429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5155 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5156 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5157 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5158 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5159
516030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5161 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5162 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5163 1024.
5164
516531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5166 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5167
516832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5169 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5170
517133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5172
517332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5174
517533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5176
517734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5178 syntax error.
5179
518035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5181
518236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5183
518437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5185 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5186 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5187 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5188
518938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5190 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5191
5192
5193Exim version 4.42
5194-----------------
5195
5196 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5197 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5198 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5199 it was not quoted.
5200 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5201 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5202 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5203 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5204 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5205 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5206
5207 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5208 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5209 verification failure".
5210
5211 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5212 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5213 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5214 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5215
5216 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5217 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5218 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5219 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5220 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5221 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5222 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5223 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5224 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5225 treated as a timeout.
5226
5227 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5228 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5229 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5230 not set for Exim filters).
5231
5232 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5233 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5234 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5235
5236 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5237
5238 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5239 try to make them clearer.
5240
5241 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5242 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5243
5244 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5245
5246 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5247
524810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5249 only the Cygwin environment.
5250
525111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5252 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5253 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5254 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5255 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5256
525712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5258 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5259 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5260 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5261 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5262 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5263 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5264
526513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5266 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5267
526814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5269
5270 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5271 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5272 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5273
5274 To: susanne@some.where
5275
5276 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5277 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5278 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5279 of addresses in From: header lines).
5280
5281 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5282 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5283 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5284
5285 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5286 treated as non-personal.
5287
5288 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5289 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5290
529115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5292
529316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5294
529517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5296 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5297 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5298
529918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5300 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5301
530219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5303 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5304 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5305 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5306 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5307 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5308
530920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5310 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5311 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5312 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5313 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5314 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5315 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5316 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5317
5318 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5319
532021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5321 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5322
532322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5324 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5325 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5326
532723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5328 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5329
533024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5331 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5332 rather than long int.
5333
533425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5335
533626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5337
5338
5339Exim version 4.41
5340-----------------
5341
5342 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5343 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5344 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5345 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5346 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5347 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5348
5349
5350Exim version 4.40
5351-----------------
5352
5353 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5354 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5355
5356 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5357 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5358 socklen_t is defined.
5359
5360 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5361 always exist.
5362
5363 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5364 configured.
5365
5366 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5367 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5368 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5369 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5370 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5371
5372 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5373 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5374 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5375 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5376
5377 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5378 of flapping under certain conditions.
5379
5380 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5381 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5382 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5383
5384 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5385
538610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5387
538811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5389 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5390 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5391 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5392
539312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5394 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5395 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5396 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5397 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5398 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5399 preserved with the message after it was received.
5400
540113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5402 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5403 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5404 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5405 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5406 test suite worked just fine.
5407
540814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5409 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5410 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5411
541215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5413 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5414 string.
5415
541616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5417 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5418 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5419 does not fully solve it.
5420
542117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5422 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5423 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5424 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5425 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5426
542718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5428 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5429 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5430
543119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5432 string, for example:
5433
5434 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5435
5436 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5437 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5438 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5439 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5440 the routers could not see them.
5441
544220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5443 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5444
544521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5446 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5447 output).
5448
544922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5450 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5451 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5452 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5453 that needed quoting.
5454
545523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5456 was not being matched caselessly.
5457
545824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5459 backslashes.
5460
546125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5462 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5463 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5464 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5465 when use_sender is false.
5466
546726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5468
546927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5470
547128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5472
547329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5474 the configuration file.
5475
547630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5477 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5478
547931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5480
548132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5482 bytes in the message body.
5483
548433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5485 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5486 delivery.
5487
548834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5489
549035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5491
549236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5493 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5494 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5495 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5496 another IP address.
5497
5498
5499Exim version 4.34
5500-----------------
5501
5502 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5503 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5504
5505 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5506 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5507 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5508 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5509 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5510
5511 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5512 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5513
5514 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5515 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5516 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5517
5518 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5519 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5520 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5521
5522 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5523 for routers.
5524
5525 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5526 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5527 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5528 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5529 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5530 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5531 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5532
5533
5534Exim version 4.33
5535-----------------
5536
5537 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5538 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5539 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5540 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5541 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5542 default (and expected) setting.
5543
5544 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5545 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5546 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5547 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5548
5549 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5550 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5551
5552 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5553 in domain lists.
5554
5555 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5556 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5557 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5558 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5559 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5560 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5561
5562 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5563 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5564 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5565
5566 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5567 part (NOT match_host).
5568
5569 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5570
5571 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5572 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5573 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5574 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5575 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5576 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5577 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5578 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5579 the same named file.
5580
558110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5582 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5583 when Exim is built.
5584
558511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5586 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5587 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5588 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5589 a host name.
5590
559112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5592 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5593 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5594
559513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5596
559714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5598
559915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5600
560116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5602 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5603
560417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5605 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5606 before starting the TLS session.
5607
560818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5609
561019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5611 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5612
561320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5614 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5615 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5616 colon in the middle).
5617
5618
5619Exim version 4.32
5620-----------------
5621
5622 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5623 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5624 multiple configurations are in use.
5625
5626 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5627 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5628 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5629 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5630 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5631 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5632
5633 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5634 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5635
5636 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5637 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5638 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5639
5640 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5641 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5642 occurs.
5643
5644 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5645 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5646
5647 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5648
5649 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5650 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5651
5652 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5653
5654 -prval:sval
5655
5656 is equivalent to
5657
5658 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5659
5660 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5661 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5662 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5663 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5664 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5665
566610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5667 Exim's behaviour:
5668
5669 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5670 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5671 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5672 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5673 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5674 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5675
5676 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5677 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5678 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5679 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5680 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5681 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5682 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5683 string.
5684
5685 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5686 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5687 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5688 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5689 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5690
569111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5692
569312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5694 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5695 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5696
569713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5698
569914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5700 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5701 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5702 information.
5703
570415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5705 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5706
570716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5708 Three changes have been made:
5709
5710 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5711 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5712 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5713 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5714 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5715
5716 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5717 been restored.
5718
5719 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5720 the modified behaviour.
5721
5722
5723Exim version 4.31
5724-----------------
5725
5726 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5727 Larry Rosenman.
5728
5729 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5730 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5731
5732 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5733 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5734 try to track down a specific problem.
5735
5736 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5737 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5738 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5739
5740 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5741 warning.
5742
5743 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5744 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5745 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5746 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5747 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5748 some earlier ones do not.
5749
5750 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5751
5752 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5753 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5754 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5755 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5756 address literals are enabled, of course).
5757
5758 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5759
576010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5761 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5762 by a command such as
5763
5764 exim -f "" ...
5765
5766 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5767
576811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5769
577012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5771 remained set. It is now erased.
5772
577313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5774 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5775
577614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5777 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5778 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5779 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5780 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5781 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5782 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5783 appropriate error code.
5784
578515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5786 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5787 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5788 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5789 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5790 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5791
579216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5793 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5794 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5795
579617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5797 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5798 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5799 terminate the header.
5800
580118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5802 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5803 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5804
580519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5806 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5807 (4.30/29). In particular:
5808
5809 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5810 imposed.
5811
5812 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5813 to write a maildirsize file.
5814
5815 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5816 the transport, the new value overrides.
5817
5818 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5819 count.
5820
582120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5822 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5823 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5824 space or a tab.
5825
582621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5827 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5828 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5829 the fallback hosts.
5830
583122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5832 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5833 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5834
583523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5836 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5837 using a union.
5838
583924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5840 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5841 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5842
584325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5844
584526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5846
584727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5848
584928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5850 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5851 become corrupted.
5852
585329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5854 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5855 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5856 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5857 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5858 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5859 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5860 too great.
5861
586230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5863 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5864 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5865 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5866 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5867 incorrectly.
5868
586931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5870 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5871 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5872 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5873 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5874 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5875 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5876 cached value only when the same options are set.
5877
587832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5879
588033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5881 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5882 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5883 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5884 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5885
588634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5887 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5888 it is clearly obsolete.
5889
589035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5891 transport.
5892
589336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5894 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5895 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5896 times.
5897
589837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5899 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5900 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5901 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5902 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5903
590438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5905 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5906 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5907 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5908
590939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5910
5911 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5912
5913 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5914 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5915 2^31.
5916
591740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5918 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5919 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5920 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5921 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5922 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5923 $localpart_data.
5924
592541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5926 with the -f command-line option.
5927
592842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5929 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5930 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5931 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5932 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5933 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5934
593543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5936 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5937 line.
5938
593944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5940 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5941 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5942 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5943 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5944 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5945 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5946 buffer is too small.
5947
594845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5949 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5950
595146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5952 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5953 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5954 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5955 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5956 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5957 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5958 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5959 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5960
596147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5962 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5963 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5964
596548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5966 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5967 ACL").
5968
596949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5970 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5971 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5972 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5973 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5974
597550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5976 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5977 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5978 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5979 is set.
5980
598151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5982
598352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5984
598553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5986 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5987
598854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5989 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5990 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5991
599255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5993 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5994 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5995 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5996 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5997
599856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5999 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6000 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6001 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6002 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6003 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6004 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6005
600657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6007 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6008 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6009 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6010 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6011 the test of how many are available.
6012
601358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6014 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6015 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6016 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6017 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6018 new message is started.
6019
602059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6021 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6022
602360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6024 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6025
602661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6027 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6028 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6029 is no long logged.
6030
603162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6032 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6033 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6034 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6035 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6036 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6037 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6038
603963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6040 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6041 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6042 interpreted as octal.
6043
604464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6045 setting.
6046
604765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6048 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6049 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6050 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6051 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6052 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6053
605466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6055 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6056 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6057 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6058
6059 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6060 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6061 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6062 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6063
6064 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6065 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6066 is a bug fix.
6067
6068 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6069 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6070
607167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6072
607368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6074 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6075 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6076 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6077
607869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6079 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6080 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6081 supplied", which is not helpful.
6082
608370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6084 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6085 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6086
608771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6088 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6089 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6090 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6091 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6092 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6093 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6094 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6095
609672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6097 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6098 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6099 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6100 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6101
610273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6103 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6104 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6105 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6106 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6107 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6108
610974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6110 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6111 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6112
611375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6114
611576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6116 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6117 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6118 variables.
6119
612077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6121
612278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6123 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6124 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6125 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6126 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6127 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6128 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6129 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6130
613179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6132 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6133 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6134 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6135 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6136
613780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6138 Haardt.
6139
614081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6141 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6142 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6143 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6144 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6145 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6146 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6147 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6148 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6149
6150
6151Exim version 4.30
6152-----------------
6153
6154 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6155 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6156 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6157
6158 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6159 fixed.
6160
6161 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6162 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6163 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6164
6165 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6166 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6167 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6168 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6169 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6170 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6171
6172 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6173 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6174 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6175 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6176 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6177 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6178 the Exim test suite.
6179
6180 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6181 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6182 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6183 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6184
6185 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6186 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6187 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6188 specify it in this variable.
6189
6190 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6191 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6192 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6193 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6194
6195 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6196 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6197 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6198 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6199
6200 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6201 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6202 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6203 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6204 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6205
6206 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6207
620810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6209 they are logged.
6210
621111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6212 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6213 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6214 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6215 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6216
621712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6218 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6219
622013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6221 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6222 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6223 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6224 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6225
622614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6227 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6228
622915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6230 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6231 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6232
623316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6234 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6235
623617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6237 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6238
623918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6240 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6241 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6242
624319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6244 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6245
624620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6247 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6248 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6249 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6250
625121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6252
625322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6254 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6255 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6256 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6257
625823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6259
626024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6261 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6262
626325. Added .include_if_exists.
6264
626526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6266 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6267 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6268 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6269 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6270 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6271
627227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6273
627428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6275 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6276 this.
6277
627829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6279
628030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6281 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6282
6283 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6284 550 Sender verify failed
6285
6286 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6287 the final line of the response.
6288
628931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6290 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6291 all other user lookups.
6292
629332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6294 delivery time.
6295
629633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6297 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6298 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6299 result into an int without checking.
6300
630134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6302 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6303 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6304
630535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6306 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6307 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6308 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6309
631036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6311 correctly.
6312
631337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6314 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6315
631638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6317 to the empty sender.
6318
631939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6320 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6321 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6322 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6323 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6324 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6325 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6326 panic log.
6327
632840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6329 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6330 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6331 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6332 used.
6333
633441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6335 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6336
633742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6338 timestamps.
6339
634043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6341 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6342
634344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6344
634545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6346 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6347 logs.
6348
634946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6350 as soon as it is encountered.
6351
635247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6353
635448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6355 rewritten to "<>".
6356
635749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6358 recognizes a tab character.
6359
636050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6361 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6362 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6363 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6364
636551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6366
636752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6368 crash.
6369
637053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6371
637254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6373
637455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6375 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6376 2822.
6377
637856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6379 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6380 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6381 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6382 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6383
638457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6385 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6386
638758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6388 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6389 list (.included file names were always shown).
6390
639159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6392 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6393 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6394 root at that time.
6395
639660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6397 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6398
639961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6400
640162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6402
640363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6404
640564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6406 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6407 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6408 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6409 failures to open the logs.
6410
641165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6412 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6413 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6414 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6415 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6416 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6417 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6418
6419
6420Exim version 4.24
6421-----------------
6422
6423 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6424 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6425 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6426 change 4.23/1.
6427
6428 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6429 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6430 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6431
6432 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6433 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6434 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6435
6436 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6437 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6438 causing some misleading effects.
6439
6440 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6441 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6442 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6443
6444 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6445 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6446 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6447 queue-runner function directly.
6448
6449
6450Exim version 4.23
6451-----------------
6452
6453 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6454 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6455
6456 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6457 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6458 was always written to the default place.
6459
6460 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6461 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6462 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6463
6464 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6465
6466 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6467
6468 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6469 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6470 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6471
6472 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6473 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6474 must start.
6475
6476 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6477 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6478 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6479
6480 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6481 command line option is disabled.
6482
6483 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6484 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6485
6486 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6487
6488 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6489
6490 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6491 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6492
649310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6494
649511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6496 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6497 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6498 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6499 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6500 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6501
650212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6503 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6504 timeout.
6505
650613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6507 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6508
650914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6510 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6511
651215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6513 received was valid base64.
6514
651516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6516 name of the variable that was being set.
6517
651817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6519
652018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6521 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6522 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6523 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6524 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6525 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6526
652719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6528
652920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6530 nor realm was specified.
6531
653221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6533 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6534 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6535 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6536
653722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6538 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6539 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6540
654123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6542 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6543 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6544
654524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6546 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6547 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6548 some systems use these upper case variants.
6549
655025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6551 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6552 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6553 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6554
655526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6556
655727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6558 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6559
656028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6561 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6562 expansion variable.
6563
656429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6565
656630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6567 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6568 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6569 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6570
657131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6572 using it.
6573
657432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6575 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6576 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6577
657833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6579 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6580
658134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6582 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6583 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6584 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6585
658635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6587 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6588 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6589
659036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6591
659237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6593 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6594 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6595 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6596 aborted.
6597
659838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6599 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6600 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6601
660239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6603
660440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6605 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6606
660741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6608 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6609
661042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6611 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6612 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6613 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6614 when emails are that large.
6615
6616
6617
6618Exim version 4.22
6619-----------------
6620
6621 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6622 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6623
6624 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6625 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6626 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6627
6628 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6629 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6630 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6631
6632 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6633 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6634 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6635 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6636 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6637
6638 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6639 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6640 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6641 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6642 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6643 ever.
6644
6645 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6646 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6647 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6648 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6649 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6650 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6651 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6652 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6653 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6654 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6655 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6656 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6657 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6658 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6659
6660 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6661 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6662 parameterised it.
6663
6664 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6665 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6666 error should be diagnosed.
6667
6668 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6669 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6670 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6671 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6672 appeared instead of "NULL".
6673
667410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6675 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6676 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6677 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6678 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6679 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6680 proceeds).
6681
6682 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6683 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6684 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6685
6686
6687Exim version 4.21
6688-----------------
6689
6690 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6691 or receiver verification errors.
6692
6693 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6694 name.
6695
6696 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6697 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6698 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6699 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6700
6701 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6702 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6703 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6704 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6705 shouldn't happen again.
6706
6707 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6708 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6709 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6710
6711 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6712 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6713
6714 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6715
6716 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6717 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6718
6719 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6720 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6721 RFC.
6722
672310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6724 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6725 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6726
672711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6728 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6729 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6730 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6731
673212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6733 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6734 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6735 to define what should happen).
6736
673713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6738 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6739 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6740
674114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6742
674315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6744
674516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6746 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6747
4c04137d 674817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6749 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6750 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6751 structure in all cases.
6752
6753 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6754 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6755 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6756 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6757
675818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6759 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6760 domain name.
6761
676219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6763 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6764
676520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6766 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6767
676821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6769 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6770 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6771
677222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6773 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6774 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6775
677623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6777 the book and for uniformity.
6778
677924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6780
678125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6782 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6783 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6784 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6785 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6786 non-existent command as the problem.
6787
678826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6789 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6790 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6791
679227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6793
679428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6795 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6796 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6797
679829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6799 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6800 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6801 timestamps using strftime().
6802
680330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6804 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6805
680632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6807 transport-time rewrites.
6808
680933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6810 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6811 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6812 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6813
681434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6815 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6816
681735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6818 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6819 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6820 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6821 comma and a space.
6822
682336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6824 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6825 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6826 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6827 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6828 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6829 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6830
683137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6832 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6833 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6834 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6835 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6836
683738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6838 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6839 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6840 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6841 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6842 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6843 remaining text gets split now.
6844
684539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6846 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6847 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6848 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6849
685040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6851 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6852 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6853 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6854 $return_path.
6855
685641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6857 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6858 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6859 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6860 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6861 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6862 passed through if needed.
6863
686442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6865 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6866 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6867 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6868 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6869 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6870
687143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6872 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6873 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6874 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6875 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6876
687744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6878 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6879 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6880 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6881 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6882
688345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6884 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6885 noticed.
6886
688746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6888 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6889 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6890 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6891 mayhem of various kinds.
6892
689347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6894 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6895 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6896 the right test for positive values.
6897
689848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6899 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6900 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6901 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6902 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6903 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6904 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6905 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6906 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6907 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6908 envelope.
6909
691049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6911 module.
6912
691350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6914 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6915 forbidding it.
6916
691751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6918 the existing equality matching.
6919
692052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6921 dealing with inode numbers.
6922
692353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6924 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6925 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6926
692754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6928 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6929 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6930 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6931 local_scan().
6932
693355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6934 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6935 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6936 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6937 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6938 relay addresses has also been removed.
6939
694056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6941
694257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6943 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6944 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6945
694658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6947 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6948 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6949 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6950 processing applies to CR:
6951
6952 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6953 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6954
6955 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6956 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6957 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6958 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6959
696059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6961 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6962 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6963
696460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6965 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6966 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6967 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6968 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6969 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6970 arisen.
6971
697261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6973 program routers.
6974
697562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6976 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6977 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6978 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6979 adds:
6980
6981 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6982
6983 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6984
6985 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6986
698763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6988 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6989 not considered personal.
6990
699164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6992
699365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6994
699566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6996
699767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6998 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6999 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7000 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7001 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7002 header lines, and spool format errors.
7003
700468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7005 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7006 for more flexibility.
7007
700869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7009 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7010 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7011
701270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7013 Sabourenkov.
7014
701571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7016 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7017 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7018 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7019 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7020 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7021 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7022 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7023 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7024
702572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7026 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7027 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7028 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7029 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7030 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7031 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7032
703373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7034 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7035 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7036
703774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7038 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7039 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7040 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7041 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7042 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7043 instead of killing the process with assert().
7044
704575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7046 than Unicode encoding.
7047
704876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7049 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7050 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7051 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7052
705377. Added process_log_path.
7054
705578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7056 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7057
705879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7059 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7060
706180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7062 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7063 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7064
706581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7066 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7067 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7068 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7069 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7070 were applied:
7071
7072 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7073 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7074 as invalid.
7075
707682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7077 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7078 they will be used during message reception.
7079
7080
7081Exim version 4.20
7082-----------------
7083
7084The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7085
7086****