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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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c39c8870 11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 17
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18GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
19 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
20
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21JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
22 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
23 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
24 extant use locations.
25
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26JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
27 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
28
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29JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
30 Previously only the last row was returned.
31
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32JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
33 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
34 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
35 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
36 input.
37
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38JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
39 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
40 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
41 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
42 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
43 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
44 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
45 Main pool for expansions.
46 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
47 active in the testsuite.
48 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
49
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50JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
51 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
52 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
53 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
54 round-robin DNS.
55
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56JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
57 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
58 failure response.
59
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60JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
61 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
62 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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64JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
65 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
66 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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68JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
69 rows affected is given instead).
70
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71JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
72 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
73
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74JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
75 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
76 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
77 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
78 for all multi-message initiating connections.
79
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80JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
81 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
82 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
83
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84JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
85 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
86 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
87 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
88 separate.
89
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90JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
91 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
92 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
93 fake-reject.
94
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95HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
96
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97JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
98 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
99
aab9a843 100PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 101 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 102 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 103
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104JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
105 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
106 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
107 and send a quit.
108
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109JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
110 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
111
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112JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
113 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
114 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
115
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116JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
117 for the build is renamed.
118
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119JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
120 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
121 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
122
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123JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
124 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
125 result replacing the original.
126
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127JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
128 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
129 and the resources needed to be freed.
130
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131JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
132
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133JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
134 was not propagated.
135
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136JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
137 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
138 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
139 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
140
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141JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
142 length value. Previously this would segfault.
143
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144HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
145 newer versions of the scanner.
146
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147JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
148 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
149 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
150 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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151 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
152 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
153 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 154
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155JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
156 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
157 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
158 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
159 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
160 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
161 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
162 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
163 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
164 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
165
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166JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
167 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
168
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169JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
170
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171HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
172 allows proper process termination in container environments.
173
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174JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
175 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
176
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177JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
178 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
179 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
180
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181JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
182 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
183 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 184 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 185
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186JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
187 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
188 would be spooled.
189
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190PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
191 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
192
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193HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
194 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
195 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
196 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
197 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 198
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199JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
200 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
201 lines.
202
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203JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
204 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
205
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206PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
207 suffix list.
208
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212
213JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
214 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
215 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
216 pairs of long lines into single ones.
217
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218PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
219 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
220
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221JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
222 This permits better logging.
223
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224JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
225 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
226 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
227 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
228 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 229 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 230
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231JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
232 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
233 "exiwhat" output.
234
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235PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
236 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
237 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
238
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239JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
240 than 255 are no longer allowed.
241
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242JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
243 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
244 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
245 client, there is no benefit for these.
246 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
247 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
248 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
249 is used (3.2.4 +).
250
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251PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
252 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
253
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254JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
255 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
256 erroneously found still-pending ones.
257
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258JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
259 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
260
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261JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
262 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
263 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
264 signature and again for transmission.
265
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266JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
267 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 268 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 269
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270JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
271 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
272 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
273 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
274 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
275 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
276 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
277
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278JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
279 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
280 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 281 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 282
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283PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
284 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
285 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
286 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
287 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
288 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
289 processing options.
290
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291JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
292 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
293 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
294 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
295 connections.
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297PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
298 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
299 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
300 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
301 versions.
302
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303JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
304 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
305 inaccessible.
306
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307JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
308 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
309 banner-time rejection.
310
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311JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
312 callout/hold.
313
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314PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
315 is the name of a transport.
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316 Fixes bug 2140.
317
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318HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
319
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320JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
321 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
322
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323JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
324 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
325 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
326 during compilation.
327
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328JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
329 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
330 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 331 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 332
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333JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
334 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
335 initial verify call returned a defer.
336
ad1a76fe 337JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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338 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
339
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340JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
341 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
342
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343JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
344 if present. Previously it was ignored.
345
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346JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
347 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
348
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349JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
350 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
351 extensible.
352
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353PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
354 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
355
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356PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
357 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
358 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
359
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360JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
361 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
362 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
363 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
364
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365HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
366 and confused the parent.
367
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368JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
369 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
370
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371JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
372 for log purposes.
373
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374JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
375 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
376 out-of-order delivery.
377
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378JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
379 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
380 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
381 error for the HELO.
382
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383JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
384 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
385 desynchronisation.
386
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387JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
388 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
389 one run was done. Bug 2189.
390
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391JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
392 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
393 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
394 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
395 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
396 message is still "Temporary local problem".
397
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398JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
399 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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400 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
401
402HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
403 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
404 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 405
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406JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
407 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
408 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
409 though a different problem.
410
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9427e879 415JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 416 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 417
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418JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
419
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420PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
421 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
422
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423JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
424 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
425
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426JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
427 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
428 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
429 before acknowledging the chunk.
430
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431PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
432 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
433 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
434
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435JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
436 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
437 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
438 should.
439
440JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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441 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
442 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 444JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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445 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
446
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447JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
448 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
449 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
450 body hash calculated value.
451
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452JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
453 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
454 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
455
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456JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
457
458JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
459 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
460
461JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
462 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
463 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
464
465JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
466 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
467 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
468 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
469 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
470 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
471
472JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
473 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
474 past that check, despite the cost.
475
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476JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
477 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
478 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
479
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480PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
481 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
482 TLS library to consume.
483
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484PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
485
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486PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
487
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488JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
489 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
490 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
491 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
492 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
493 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
494 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
495
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496PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
497
498PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
499
500PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
501 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
502 should be warning-free.
503
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504JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
505
506HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
507 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
508
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509HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
510 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
511 general solution here.
512
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513PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
514 already-broken messages in the queue.
515
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516JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
517
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518JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
519
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521Exim version 4.88
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524JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
525 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 526
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527JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
528 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
529 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
530
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531JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
532 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
533 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
534 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
535 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
536 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
537 if one fails this test.
538 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
539 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
540
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541JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
542 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
543
23bb6982 544JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 545 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 546
0bd1b1ed 547JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 548 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 549
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550JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
551 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
552
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553JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
554 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
555
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556JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
557
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558JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
559 certificate).
560
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561JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
562 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
563 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
564 connection after a verify cache hit.
565 Do not update it with the verify result either.
566
567JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
568 when routing results in more than one destination address.
569
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570JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
571 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
572 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
573 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
574 when the cutthrough connection is made).
575
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576JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
577 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
578
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579JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
580 Previously they were not counted.
581
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582JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
583 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
584 that needed the lookup.
585
4c04137d 586JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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587 distinguished as "(=".
588
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589JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
590 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
591
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592JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
593
594JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
595 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 596
4c04137d 597JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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598 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
599
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600JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
601 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
602 compatible.
603
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604JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
605 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
606 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
607 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
608
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609JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
610
f59aaaaa 611JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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612 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
613 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 614
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615JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
616 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
617 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
618 be lost.
619
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620JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
621 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
622 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
623 itself :(
624
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625JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
626 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
627 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
628
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629JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
630 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
631 options.
632
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633JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
634
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635PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
636 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
637
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638PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
639 are not in the system include path.
640
ad7fc6eb 641JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 642 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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643 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
644 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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646JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
647 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
648 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
649
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650JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
651
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652HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
653 an incoming connection.
654
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655HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
656 to rspamd.
657
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658HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
659 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 660
87cb4a16 661JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 662 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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663
664
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668JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
669 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
670 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
671 client dropping the TLS connection.
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673TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
674 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
675
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676TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
677 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
678 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
679 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
680 outgoing I= field.
681
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682JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
683 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
684 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
685 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
686 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
687 check on the next write.
688
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689HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
690 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
691 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
692 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
693 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
694
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695JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
696 mime_regex ACL conditions.
697
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698JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
699 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
700 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
701
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702JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
703 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
704 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
705 an authenticate fail is not an error.
706
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707HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
708 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
709
4c04137d 710JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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711 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
712
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713JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
714 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
715 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
716 distinct.
717
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718JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
719
720JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
721
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722JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
723
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724JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
725 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
726
98b98887 727JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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728 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
729
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730JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
731
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732JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
733 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
734
735JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
736
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737JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
738 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
739
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740JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
741
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742JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
743 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 744 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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745 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
746 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
747 they will retry in-clear.
748 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
749 at installation time.
750
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751HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
752 with the $config_file variable.
753
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754JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
755 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
756 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
757 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 758 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 759
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760GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
761 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
762 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
763 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
764 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
765
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766JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
767
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768JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
769 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
770 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
771 list order is no longer honoured.
772
4c04137d 773JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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774 for DKIM processing.
775
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776JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
777 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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779JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
780 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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781 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
782 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 783
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784JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
785 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
786
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787JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
788 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
789
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790JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
791 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
792
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793JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
794
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795JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
796 cached by the daemon.
797
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798JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
799 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
800
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801JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
802 keys are given for lookup.
803
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804JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
805 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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806 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
807 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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809JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
810 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
811 server-side so match that on older versions.
812
07c73177 813JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 814 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 815 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 816
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817JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
818 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
819
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820JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
821 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
822 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 823 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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824 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
825 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
826 initial truncated version.
827
ab9152ff 828JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 829
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830JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
831
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832JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
833 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
834
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835JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
836
bc3c7bb7 837HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 838
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839JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
840 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
841 induced overflows.
842
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843JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
844 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
845 stage.
846
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847JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
848 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
849
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850JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
851 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
852 former class.
853
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854JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
855 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
856 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
857
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858JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
859 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
860 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
861 extraction. Accept either.
862
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867JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
868 expanded.
869
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870JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
871
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872JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
873 it.
874
01a4a5c5 875JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 876 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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877 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
878 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
879
cb1d7830 880JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 881 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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882 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
883
610ff438 884JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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885 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
886 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
887 TLS connections
610ff438 888
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889JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
890 sites use this now.
891
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892JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
893 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
894 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
895 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
896 have a dsn_lasthop option.
897
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898JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
899 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 900 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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902JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
903
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904JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
905 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
906
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907JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
908 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
909
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910JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
911 /defer_ok option.
912
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913JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
914 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
915
fd4d8871 916JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 917 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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918 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
919
920JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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921 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
922 specify a port-range.
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924JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
925 timeout value per server.
926
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927JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
928 now have the list separator specified.
929
8a512ed5 930JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 931 option values.
8a512ed5 932
82c0c8ea 933JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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935
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936JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
937
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938JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
939 rather than the verbs used.
940
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941JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
942 from 255 to 1024 chars.
943
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944JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
945
cfab9d68 946HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 947 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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949JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
950 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
951
fd4c285c
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952HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
953 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
954
4c04137d 955JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 956
d2a2c69b
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957JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
958
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959JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
960 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 961 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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962 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
963
1f12df4d
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964JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
965
1f155f8e
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966JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
967 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
968
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969JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
970 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
971
038597d2
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972JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
973
474f71bf
JH
974JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
975
7137ca4b
JH
976JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
977
dcb1095c
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978JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
979 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
980
2f460950
JH
981JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
982 added for tls authenticator.
983
2f680c0c
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984HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
985
9c695f6d 986
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987Exim version 4.85
988-----------------
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990TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
991 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
992 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
993 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
994 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
995 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
996 the script parsing/test process like normal.
997
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998TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
999 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1000 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1001 function when detected.
1002
a9b8ec8b
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1003JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1004 cause callback expansion.
1005
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1006TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1007 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1008 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1009 instead of bool when processing it.
1010
0f06b4f2 1011JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1012 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1013
be36e572
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1014JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1015
ac4ef9bd
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1016JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1017
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1018TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1019
c713ca4b
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1020TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1021 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1022
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1023JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1024 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1025 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1026 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1027 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1028 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1029
8bc732e8
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1030JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1031 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1032 exceeded it.
1033
a7fec7a7
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1034JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1035 version 3.3.6 or later.
1036
4c04137d 1037JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1038 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1039 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1040 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1041 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1042 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1043 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1044
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1045TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1046 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1047
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1048JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1049 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1050 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1051 matches.
1052
e9477a08
JH
1053JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1054 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1055 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1056
ad4c5ff9
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1057JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1058 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1059
1060JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1061 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1062 syntax errors.
1063
3394b36a 1064JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1065
1066JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1067 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1068
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1069TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1070 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1071 tarball.
1072
ad4c5ff9
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1073JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1074
4c04137d 1075JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1076 Bug 1561.
1077
1078JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1079 output list separator was used.
1080
8bc732e8 1081
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1082Exim version 4.84
1083-----------------
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1084TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1085 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1086 return.
1f0ebb98 1087
a612424f 1088JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1089 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1090
1091JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1092
1093TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1094 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1095
1f0ebb98 1096
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1098-----------------
1099
1100TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1101
1102 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1103 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1104 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1105 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1106 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1107 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1108
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1109TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1110 utilities have not been installed.
1111
fd5dad68
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1112JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1113 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1114
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1115TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1116 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1117
a3c86431
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1118TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1119 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1120 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1121 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1122
aa26e137
JH
1123JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1124
5a1b8443
WB
1125TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1126 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1127
72c9e342
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1128PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1129 not dns_use_dnssec.
1130
76f44207
WB
1131JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1132
770747fd
MFM
1133TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1134 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1135 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1136
8ddef691 1137TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1138 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1139 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1140 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1141 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1142 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1143
b9c2e32f
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1144JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1145
e45a1c37
JH
1146JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1147 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1148
67d81c10
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1149JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1150 failed delivery.
1151
b1f8e4f8
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1152JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1153
511a6c14 1154JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1155
1156JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1157 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1158
51c7471d
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1159JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1160 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1161
3695be34
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1162TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1163
1e06383a
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1164JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1165
76146973
JH
1166JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1167 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1168
1169 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1170 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1171 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1172
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1173TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1174 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1175 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1176 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1177
35aba663
JH
1178JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1179
8c51eead 1180JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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1181 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1182 lookup).
8c51eead 1183
deae092e
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1184TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1185 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1186 Schlichting.
35aba663 1187
fd3b6a4a 1188JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1189 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1190
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1191TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1192 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1193
2b4a568d
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1194JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1195
d2af03f4
HS
1196TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1197 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1198 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1199
9d1c15ef
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1200JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1201 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1202
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1203JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1204 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1205 hosts_request_ocsp.
1206
ed3bba5f 1207JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1208 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1209 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1210
8ccd00b1
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1211JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1212
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1213TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1214 Christian Aistleitner.
1215
f2de3a33
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1216JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1217
6eb02f88
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1218TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1219 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1220
00bff6f6
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1221JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1222 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1223
071c51f7
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1224JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1225 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1226
a6d4c44e
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1227TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1228 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1229
3ae173e7
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1230TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1231 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1232
c13d09b8
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1233TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1234 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1235 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1236
0df4ab80
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1237JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1238
66be95e0
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1239PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1240 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1241 Jasper Wallace.
1242
1bd0d12b
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1243JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1244
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1245TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1246 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1247 CVE-2014-2972
1248
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1252
1253PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1254
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1255PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1256 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1257
54c90be1
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1258PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1259 by GnuTLS.
1260
1f4a55da
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1261PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1262 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1263 routines.
1264
13363eba 1265PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1266
66645890 1267PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1268 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1269 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1270 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1271 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1272
a3fb9793 1273PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1274 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1275 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1276 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1277 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1278 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1279
d27f98fe 1280TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1281
6822b909
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1282TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1283
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1284TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1285 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1286
ae0e32ee 1287TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1288 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1289 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1290
1291TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1292
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1293TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1294
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1295TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1296 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1297
976b7e9f
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1298JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1299
be4a1376
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1300JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1301
ec4b68e5
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1302PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1303
d7148a07
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1304NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1305 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1306
585121e2 1307JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1308
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1309PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1310 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1311 function.
a5f239e4 1312
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1313PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1314 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1315
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1316JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1317 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1318 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1319
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1320JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1321
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1322JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1323
ea722490 1324JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1325 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1326
b1b05573
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1327JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1328 Bugzilla 884.
1329
362145b5
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1330JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1331 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1332
3c0a92dc
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1333JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1334 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1335
6d7c6175
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1336PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1337 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1338 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1339
6f123593
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1340JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1341 authenticators.
1342
c8e2fc1e
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1343JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1344 for control.
1345
005ac57f
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1346PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1347
3f1df0e3
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1348PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1349 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1350 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1351 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1352
67bd1ab3
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1353TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1354
1355 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1356 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1357 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1358 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1359 the retry rules.
1360
1361 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1362 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1363 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1364
1365 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1366 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1367 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1368 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1369
1ddeb334
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1370 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1371 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1372 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1373 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1374 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1375 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1376 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1377
1378 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1379 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1380
326cdc37
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1381TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1382
1383 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1384
1385 Resent-From: f
1386
1387 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1388 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1389 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1390 username as equal to the username.
1391
1392 This change corrects that bug.
1393
f62514b3
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1394GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1395 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1396 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1397
eb505532
TF
1398TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1399
14c7b357
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1400PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1401 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1402 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1403 NULL dereference and crash.
1404
94eaf700
PP
1405JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1406
6f5a440a
PP
1407PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1408 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1409 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1410
514ee161
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1411SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1412
fd98a5c6
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1413JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1414 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1415 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1416 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1417 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1418 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1419 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1420 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1421 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1422 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1423 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1424
035c7f1e
PP
1425PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1426 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1427
ff284120
PP
1428PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1429 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1430 Bugzilla 880.
1431
26e72755
PP
1432PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1433 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1434 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1435 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1436 an empty string is now equivalent.
1437
0fbd9bff
PP
1438PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1439 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1440 not performing validation itself.
1441
700d22f3
PP
1442PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1443 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1444
fcc8e047
JH
1445JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1446 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1447
4c04137d 1448TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1449
8c020188
PP
1450PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1451 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1452 other false fix of the same issue.
1453 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1454 Bugzilla 1363.
1455
d13cdd30
PP
1456PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1457 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1458
e2fbf4a2
PP
1459PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1460 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1461 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1462
f4c1088b
PP
1463PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1464 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1465 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1466
c5c2182f
PP
1467TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1468
73431ca9
JH
1469JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1470
2d07a215
TL
1471TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1472 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1473
a30a8861
TL
1474TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1475 Alexander Miroch.
1476
33382dd9
TL
1477TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1478 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1479 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1480 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1481 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1482
046172e6
TL
1483TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1484 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1485
581d7bee 1486TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1487 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1488 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1489
1490TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1491 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1492 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1493 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1494
237b2cf2
TL
1495TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1496
9fc5a352
TL
1497TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1498 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1499 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1500
b10e4ec2
TL
1501TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1502
e2cebd74
TL
1503TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1504 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1505 interaction.
1506
1507TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1508 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1509
2519e60d
TL
1510TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1511 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1512
e78e6ecf 1513
4263f395
PP
1514Exim version 4.80.1
1515-------------------
1516
1517PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1518 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1519 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1520
ea722490 1521
b1770b6e 1522Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1523-----------------
1524
1525PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1526 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1527 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1528
23c7e742
NM
1529NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1530
b322aac8
NM
1531NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1532 improved.
1533
4a891427
NM
1534NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1535
c1e794ba 1536PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1537
97753960
PP
1538PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1539
1540PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1541 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1542
df6303fa
PP
1543PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1544 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1545
7e6a8985
PP
1546PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1547 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1548
f1e05cc7 1549PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1550 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1551 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1552
4c287009
PP
1553PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1554
b98bb9ac
PP
1555PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1556 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1557
4a6a987a
PP
1558PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1559
c45dd180 1560PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1561
7db8d074
PP
1562PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1563 non-compliant senders.
1564 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1565
eae0036b 1566NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1567 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1568 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1569
dec5017e
PP
1570PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1571 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1572 in spool file corruption.
1573
c80c5570
PP
1574PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1575 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1576 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1577 "Got SSL error 2".
1578
076b11e2
PP
1579TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1580 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1581 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1582
5407bfff
JH
1583JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1584 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1585
9e45c72b
PP
1586JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1587
e74376d8
PP
1588PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1589 diagnostics.
1590 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1591
4c04137d 1592PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1593 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1594 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1595
7be682ca
PP
1596PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1597 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1598 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1599 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1600
ef840681
PP
1601PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1602 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1603
5bfb4cdf
PP
1604PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1605 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1606 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1607 resolver implementation change.
1608
c6e95d22
PP
1609PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1610 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1611
9cbad13b
PP
1612PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1613
9ee44efb
PP
1614PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1615
6a6084f8
PP
1616PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1617 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1618
12dd53c7
PP
1619PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1620 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1621
9e45c72b 1622JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1623 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1624
17c76198
PP
1625PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1626 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1627 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1628 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1629 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1630
53947857 1631PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1632
eae0036b 1633PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1634 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1635 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1636
9e45c72b 1637JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1638
7390e768
PP
1639PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1640 read-only, out of scope).
1641 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1642
08488c86
PP
1643PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1644 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1645 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1646 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1647
6475bd82
PP
1648PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1649
81f91683
PP
1650PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1651 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1652 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1653 real issues in debug logging.
1654
5779e6aa
PP
1655PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1656 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1657
3375e053
PP
1658PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1659 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1660 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1661
1662PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1663 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1664 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1665 problems.
3375e053 1666
9d26b8c0
PP
1667PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1668 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1669
57eb9e91 1670PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1671 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1672 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1673 needs to override this, it can.
1674
16880d1a
PP
1675PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1676 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1677 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1678
a799883d
PP
1679PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1680 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1681 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1682 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1683
3ecab157 1684PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1685
0599f9cf 1686
867fcbf5
PP
1687Exim version 4.77
1688-----------------
1689
1690PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1691 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1692
f1a29782
TF
1693TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1694
ab42bd23
TK
1695TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1696 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1697
0ca0cf52
TF
1698TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1699 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1700
921b12ca
TF
1701TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1702 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1703 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1704
1705 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1706 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1707 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1708 not safe for signals.
1709
1710 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1711 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1712 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1713 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1714 exiwhat.
1715
c99ce5c9
TF
1716TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1717
1718 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1719 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1720 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1721 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1722 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1723
1724 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1725 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1726 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1727 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1728 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1729 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1730
1731 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1732 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1733 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1734 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1735
1736 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1737 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1738 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1739 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1740
1741 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1742 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1743 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1744 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1745 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1746 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1747 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1748 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1749 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1750
1751 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1752 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1753 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1754 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1755
1756 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1757 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1758 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1759 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1760 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1761 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1762 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1763 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1764 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1765 details in the main documentation.
1766
3634fc25
TF
1767TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1768
792e8a19
TF
1769TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1770
5901f0ab
TF
1771TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1772 repository when doing development or release builds.
1773
7f2a2a43
PP
1774PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1775 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1776
061b7ebd
PP
1777PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1778 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1779 Bugzilla 97.
1780
e12f8c32
PP
1781PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1782
9e949f00 1783PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1784 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1785
1786PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1787 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1788
555ae6af 1789PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1790 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1791
1792PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1793 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1794
6f7fe114
PP
1795PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1796 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1797
c566dd90
PP
1798PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1799 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1800 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1801 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1802
d6cc7c78 1803PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1804 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1805 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1806
0d0e4455
PP
1807PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1808
3399bb60 1809PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1810
1811PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1812 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1813
0ca0cf52 1814
10906672
PP
1815Exim version 4.76
1816-----------------
1817
1818PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1819
754a0503
PP
1820PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1821 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1822
c0c7b2da
PP
1823PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1824
e97d1f08
PP
1825PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1826
084c1d8c
PP
1827PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1828 Bugzilla 1098.
1829
4e7ee012
PP
1830PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1831 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1832
c8d52a00
PP
1833TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1834 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1835
54e7ce4a
PP
1836PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1837 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1838
5ee6f336
PP
1839PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1840 Bugzilla 1104.
1841
c8d52a00 1842TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1843 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1844
1845TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1846 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1847 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1848 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1849
1850PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1851 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1852
10906672 1853
aa097c4c
NM
1854Exim version 4.75
1855-----------------
1856
4c04137d 1857NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1858 Bugzilla 1073
1859
7f3d9eff
TF
1860TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1861 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1862 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1863
159f52d2
TF
1864TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1865 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1866
0cc9542a
PP
1867PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1868 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1869 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1870
f7274286
PP
1871PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1872 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1873
7b797365
PP
1874PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1875 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1876
caacae52
NM
1877NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1878 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1879
09dcaba9
NM
1880NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1881 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1882
bc19a55b
PP
1883PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1884 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1885
bd4c9759
NM
1886NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1887 Fixes bug 943.
1888
b72aab72
PP
1889PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1890 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1891
2fe76745
PP
1892PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1893 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1894
76aa570c
PP
1895PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1896 SQL string expansion failure details.
1897 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1898
f1e5fef5
PP
1899PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1900 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1901
4d805ee9
PP
1902PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1903 extern declarations in function scope.
1904 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1905
cd59ab18
PP
1906PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1907 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1908 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1909 a kernel bug).
1910
332f5cf3
PP
1911PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1912 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1913
29cfeb94
PP
1914PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1915 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1916
660242ad
PP
1917PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1918 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1919
bc4bc4c5
PP
1920PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1921 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1922
2e64baa9
NM
1923NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1924 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1925 Dennis Davis.
1926
4c04137d 1927PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1928
6bac1a9a
PP
1929PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1930
552193f0
NM
1931NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1932 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1933
1b587e48
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1934TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1935 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1936
aa097c4c 1937
8c07b69f
TF
1938Exim version 4.74
1939-----------------
1940
1941TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1942 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1943
c0ea85ab
TF
1944TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1945 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1946
0761d44e
TF
1947TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1948
0a349494
PP
1949DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1950 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1951 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1952
1953PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1954 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1955 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1956
fea24b2e
PP
1957PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1958 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1959 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1960 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1961
6545de78
PP
1962PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1963 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1964 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1965 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1966
1670ef10
PP
1967PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1968 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1969 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1970 arbitrary files.
1971
c0886197
PP
1972PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1973 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1974
b7487bce
PP
1975PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1976 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1977 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1978 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1979 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1980
8c07b69f 1981
97fd1e48 1982Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1983-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1984
1985PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1986 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1987 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1988
6901c596
PP
1989PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1990 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1991
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1992JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1993
77bb000f
PP
1994PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1995
a29e5231
PP
1996PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1997
ec5a0394 1998PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1999
55c75993
PP
2000PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2001
453a6645 2002PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2003 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2004 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2005 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2006
8544e77a
PP
2007PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2008 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2009 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2010 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2011 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2012
83e029d5
PP
2013PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2014
ed7f7860
PP
2015PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2016
7d9f747b
PP
2017PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2018
4b2241d2
PP
2019PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2020
10385c15
PP
2021PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2022
dbc4b90d
PP
2023PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2024
532be449
PP
2025PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2026
6a8de854 2027PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2028 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2029 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2030
5dc43717
JJ
2031JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2032
2033JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2034 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2035
3346ab01
PP
2036PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2037 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2038
491fab4c
PP
2039PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2040 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2041 Notification from John Horne.
2042
13eb9497
PP
2043PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2044 compatible.
2045
2046PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2047 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2048 it normally works.
2049
7f36d675
DW
2050DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2051 access.
2052
c1d94452
DW
2053DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2054 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2055 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2056
e2f5dc15
DW
2057DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2058 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2059 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2060 configuration file.
2061
cd25e41d
DW
2062DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2063 option (effectively making it always true).
2064
261dc43e
DW
2065DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2066 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2067
fa32850b
DW
2068DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2069 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2070
79d4bc3d
PP
2071PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2072 run-time user, instead of root.
2073
43236f35 2074PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2075 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2076
fb08281f
DW
2077DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2078 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2079 arguments.
3346ab01 2080
74935b98
DW
2081DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2082 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2083 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2084
90b6341f
DW
2085DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2086
57730b52
ML
2087NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2088
66581d1e 2089
465e92cf
JJ
2090Exim version 4.72
2091-----------------
2092
453a6645
PP
2093JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2094 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2095 typos
465e92cf 2096
453a6645
PP
2097JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2098 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2099 (Finput)
edae0343 2100
9bd3e22c
NM
2101NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2102 Patch from Alain Williams
2103
bb576ff7
NM
2104NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2105
5a1a5845
NM
2106NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2107 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2108
981a9fad
NM
2109NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2110 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2111
7fc497ee
NM
2112NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2113
1a41defa
JJ
2114JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2115
a466095c 2116NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2117 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2118
94a6bd0b
NM
2119TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2120
2121TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2122
2123MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2124 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2125 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2126
c1b141a8
NM
2127NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2128 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2129
b26eacf1 2130NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2131 Patch by Simon Arlott
2132
179c5980 2133PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2134 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2135
9bd3e22c 2136
7c6d71af
NM
2137Exim version 4.71
2138-----------------
2139
7d9f747b 2140TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2141
f013fb92
NM
2142NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2143
0eb8eedd
NM
2144NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2145
663ee6d9
NM
2146NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2147
177ebd9b
NM
2148NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2149
7c6d71af 2150
210f147e
NM
2151Exim version 4.70
2152-----------------
2153
cdd3bb85 2154TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2155 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2156
2157TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2158 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2159 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2160
2161TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2162 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2163 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2164
2165TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2166 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2167
210f147e
NM
2168NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2169 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2170 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2171 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2172
deafd5b3
NM
2173NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2174 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2175 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2176
089793a4
TF
2177TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2178
5f16ca82
TF
2179TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2180
dae9d94e 2181NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2182 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2183
7d9f747b 2184NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2185
06864c44
TF
2186TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2187 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2188 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2189 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2190
65a7d8c3 2191NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2192 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2193
23510047 2194TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2195
7d9f747b 2196NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2197
7d8eec3a 2198NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2199 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2200
89dec7b6
TF
2201TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2202 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2203
a99de90c
TF
2204TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2205 that they are available at delivery time.
2206
e2803e40
TF
2207TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2208
7199e1ee
TF
2209TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2210 incoming_port log selectors.
2211
e276e04b
TF
2212TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2213 setting expands to an empty string.
2214
ce552449 2215NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2216 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2217
e765a0f1 2218NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2219 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2220
4f054c63 2221NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2222 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2223
7d9f747b
PP
2224NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2225 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2226
7d9f747b
PP
2227NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2228 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2229
b52bc06e 2230NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2231 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2232
447de4b0
NM
2233NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2234
4c69d561 2235NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2236 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2237
d5c39246 2238NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2239 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2240
0b23848a
TK
2241TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2242
8f3414a1 2243NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2244 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2245
fb6f955d
NM
2246NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2247
2248NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2249
7d9f747b
PP
2250NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2251 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2252
7d9f747b
PP
2253NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2254 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2255
7d9f747b
PP
2256NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2257 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2258
7d9f747b
PP
2259NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2260 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2261
7d9f747b
PP
2262NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2263 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2264
7d9f747b
PP
2265NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2266 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2267
7d9f747b
PP
2268NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2269 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2270
7d9f747b 2271NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2272 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2273
7d9f747b 2274NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2275
7d9f747b
PP
2276NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2277 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2278
7d9f747b 2279NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2280
7d9f747b 2281NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2282
7d9f747b 2283NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2284
7d9f747b 2285NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2286
17792b53 2287NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2288 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2289
7d9f747b
PP
2290NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2291 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2292
91576cec 2293NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2294 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2295
7d9f747b
PP
2296NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2297 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2298
7d9f747b 2299NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2300
7d9f747b 2301NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2302
7d9f747b 2303NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2304
7d9f747b 2305NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2306
deafd5b3 2307
47db1125
NM
2308Exim version 4.69
2309-----------------
2310
4b3504d0
TK
2311TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2312 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2313 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2314
2315 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2316 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2317 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2318 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2319 build errors in sieve.c.
2320
81ea09ca
NM
2321NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2322 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2323 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2324
f13cddcb
SC
2325SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2326
7d9f747b 2327NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2328
7d9f747b 2329NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2330
7d9f747b 2331NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2332
2333
eb4c0de6
PH
2334Exim version 4.68
2335-----------------
2336
2337PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2338
6a3bceb1
PH
2339PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2340 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2341 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2342 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2343 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2344 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2345 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2346 for iplsearch lookups.
2347
2348 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2349 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2350 previously such lookups could never work.
2351
4c04137d 2352 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2353 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2354 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2355
2e30fa9d
TK
2356TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2357 version.
2358
0806a9c5
MH
2359MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2360 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2361 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2362 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2363 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2364 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2365
ae276964
TK
2366TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2367 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2368
0f2cbd1b
MH
2369MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2370 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2371 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2372 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2373 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2374 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2375
2b85bce7
PH
2376PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2377 local_scan API.
2378
93655c46
PH
2379PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2380
6c512171
PH
2381PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2382 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2383 encrypted.
2384
2385PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2386 by clients under certain conditions.
2387
aa6dc513
PH
2388PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2389 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2390
a96603a0
PH
2391PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2392
8f240103
PH
2393PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2394 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2395
2396PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2397
d677b2f2
PH
2398PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2399
d52120f2
PH
2400PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2401
64f2600a
PH
2402PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2403 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2404
8669f003
PH
2405PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2406
a4dc33a8
PH
2407PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2408 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2409
d6a60c0f
PH
2410PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2411
8f128379
PH
2412PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2413
8932dffe
PH
2414PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2415 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2416 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2417 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2418
ddea74fa 2419PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2420 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2421 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2422
ddea74fa 2423PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2424 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2425
ddea74fa
PH
2426PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2427
ce9f225c
PH
2428PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2429
19897d52
PH
2430PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2431
bc64a74d
PH
2432PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2433 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2434 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2435
eb4c0de6 2436
b4ed4da0
PH
2437Exim version 4.67
2438-----------------
2439
22ad45c9
MH
2440MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2441 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2442 Jan Srzednicki.
2443
b4ed4da0
PH
2444PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2445 issue a MAIL command.
2446
431b7361
PH
2447PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2448
2449 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2450
2451 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2452 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2453 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2454 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2455 item. This has been fixed.
2456
2457PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2458 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2459
83da1223
PH
2460PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2461 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2462
54fc8428
PH
2463PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2464 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2465 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2466
34c5e8dd
SC
2467SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2468
bbe15da8
PH
2469PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2470 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2471 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2472 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2473 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2474
0e8a9471
MH
2475MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2476 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2477 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2478
f0872424
PH
2479PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2480 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2481 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2482 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2483
b01dd148
PH
2484PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2485
6bf342e1
PH
2486PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2487
273f34d0
PH
2488PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2489 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2490 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2491 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2492 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2493
cf8b11a5
PH
2494PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2495
41c7c167
PH
2496PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2497 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2498 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2499 values).
2500
9c57cbc0
PH
2501PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2502
f3f065bb
PH
2503PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2504
047bdd8c
PH
2505PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2506
0ce9abe6
PH
2507PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2508
0e22dfd1
PH
2509PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2510
4c590bd1
PH
2511PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2512 no_callout_flush is set.
2513
09945f1e
PH
2514PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2515 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2516 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2517 fixed.
2518
c51b8e75
PH
2519PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2520
e28326d8 2521PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2522 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2523 other ACL rejections are.
2524
75b1493f
PH
2525PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2526 with slight modification.
2527
7c5214ec
PH
2528PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2529 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2530
4311097e
PH
2531PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2532 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2533 connection.
2534
29f89cad
PH
2535PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2536 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2537
5e687460
SC
2538SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2539
c3611384
PH
2540PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2541 expansion side effects.
2542
5a11a7b4
PH
2543PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2544 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2545 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2546 be the same.
2547
0e20aff9
MH
2548MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2549 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2550 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2551
ca86f471
PH
2552PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2553 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2554 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2555 were accidentally chopped off.
2556
a14e5636
PH
2557PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2558 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2559 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2560 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2561 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2562 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2563 pipelining has not been advertised.
2564
ec95d1a6
PH
2565PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2566
42855d71
PH
2567PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2568 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2569 This has been fixed.
2570
57c2c631
PH
2571PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2572 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2573 reported on Solaris.
2574
58c01c94
PH
2575PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2576 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2577 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2578 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2579 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2580 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2581 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2582
dee5a20a
PH
2583PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2584 cpus.
2585
d2ee6114
PH
2586PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2587
b2d5182b
PH
2588PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2589
79749a79
PH
2590PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2591 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2592 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2593 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2594 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2595 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2596
c456d9bb
PH
2597PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2598 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2599 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2600 host_all_ignored option.
2601
cd9868ec
PH
2602PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2603 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2604 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2605 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2606 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2607 is what is supposed to happen).
2608
ebeaf996
PH
2609PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2610 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2611 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2612 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2613 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2614 uses the Exim user.
2615
2679d413
PH
2616PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2617 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2618 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2619 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2620 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2621 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2622 users.
2623
84024b72
PH
2624PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2625
8005d38e
SC
2626SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2627 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2628 (Jez Hancock).
2629 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2630 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2631
3298c6c6
SC
2632SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2633
a43a27c5
PH
2634PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2635
58eb016e 2636PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2637 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2638 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2639 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2640 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2641 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2642 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2643 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2644 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2645 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2646 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2647
b43a74ea
PH
2648PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2649 advertised in response to EHLO.
2650
b4ed4da0 2651
5dd1517f
PH
2652Exim version 4.66
2653-----------------
2654
2655PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2656 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2657
2658 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2659 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2660
2661 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2662 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2663 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2664
2665 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2666 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2667 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2668 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2669 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2670
2671
93cfa765
TK
2672Exim version 4.65
2673-----------------
2674
2675TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2676 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2677 versions. (#438)
2678
d6066548
MH
2679MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2680 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2681 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2682
4362ff0d
PH
2683PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2684 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2685 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2686 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2687 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2688 rather than extend the field.
2689
93cfa765 2690
944e9e9c
TF
2691Exim version 4.64
2692-----------------
aa41d2de 2693
21d74bd9
TK
2694TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2695 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2696 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2697 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2698 these files.
2699
2700TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2701 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2702 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2703
2704TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2705 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2706 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2707
2708TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2709 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2710 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2711 in the field name.
2712
2b1c6e3a
PH
2713PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2714 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2715 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2716 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2717 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2718 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2719 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2720 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2721 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2722 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2723 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2724
1f872c80
PH
2725PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2726 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2727
2728PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2729 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2730 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2731 ignores EPIPE as well.
2732
d203e649
PH
2733PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2734 (quoted-printable decoding).
2735
cc2ed8f7 2736PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2737 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2738
ddfcd446
PH
2739PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2740
d45b1de8
PH
2741PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2742
2743PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2744
38a0a95f 2745PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2746 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2747
a2405d83
JJ
2748JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2749 in 4.64-PH/09.
2750
2751JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2752 miscellaneous code fixes
2753
6ea85e9a
PH
2754PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2755 rejections.
2756
26da7e20
PH
2757PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2758 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2759 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2760 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2761 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2762 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2763 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2764 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2765
14aa5a05 2766PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2767 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2768 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2769 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2770 function.
2771 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2772 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2773 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2774 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2775 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2776 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2777 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2778 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2779 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2780
ff75a1f7
PH
2781PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2782 decoding.
2783
e6f6568e
PH
2784PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2785 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2786 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2787 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2788 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2789 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2790 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2791 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2792
d6f6e0dc
PH
2793PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2794 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2795 list.
2796
322050c2
PH
2797PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2798 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2799 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2800 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2801 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2802 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2803 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2804 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2805 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2806 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2807 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2808 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2809 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2810
08955dd3
PH
2811PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2812 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2813 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2814 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2815 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2816 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2817 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2818
1eccaa59
PH
2819PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2820 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2821 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2822 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2823 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2824 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2825 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2826 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2827 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2828 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2829
602e59e5
PH
2830PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2831 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2832 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2833 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2834 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2835
411ef850
PH
2836PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2837 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2838 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2839 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2840 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2841 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2842 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2843
7befa435
PH
2844PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2845 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2846 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2847 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2848 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2849 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2850 been verified.
2851
48da4259 2852PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2853 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2854 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2855 and authorization.)
2856
48da4259
PH
2857PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2858 if any retry times were supplied.
2859
d1d5595c
PH
2860PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2861 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2862 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2863
0ef732d9
PH
2864PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2865
328895cc
PH
2866PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2867
fd700877
PH
2868PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2869 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2870 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2871 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2872 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2873 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2874
8dce1a6f
PH
2875PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2876 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2877
17af4a17
PH
2878PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2879 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2880 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2881
2882PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2883 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2884 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2885 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2886 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2887 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2888 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2889 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2890 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2891
2892 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2893 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2894 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2895 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2896 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2897 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2898 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2899 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2900 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2901
2902 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2903 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2904 hammering the server.
2905
c1114884
PH
2906PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2907 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2908
7a0743eb
PH
2909PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2910
0d85fa3f
PH
2911PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2912 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2913 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2914
1bf43b78
PH
2915PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2916 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2917 one case where this was not true.
2918
520de300
PH
2919PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2920 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2921 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2922 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2923 fails.
2924
48c7f9e2
PH
2925PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2926 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2927 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2928 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2929 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2930 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2931 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2932 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2933 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2934 smtp transport.
2935
99ea1c86
PH
2936PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2937 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2938 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2939 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2940
a2042e78
PH
2941PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2942 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2943
4fbcfc2e
PH
2944PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2945 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2946 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2947
aa41d2de
PH
2948PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2949
af561417
PH
2950PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2951
3cc66b45
PH
2952PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2953
194cc0e4
PH
2954PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2955 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2956 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2957 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2958
a401ddaa
PH
2959PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2960 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2961
4e88a19f
PH
2962PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2963 be meaningful with "accept".
2964
d7d7b289
SC
2965SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2966 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2967
2968SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2969 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2970 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2971
2972SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2973 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2974 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2975 there is data to show.
2976 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2977
2978SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2979 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2980 as well as the number of messages.
2981
2982SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2983 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2984 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2985
2986SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2987 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2988 have a flag are now skipped.
2989
2990SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2991 Added the -emptyok flag.
2992
2993SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2994 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2995
0ea2a468
JJ
2996JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2997 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2998 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2999
3000JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3001 match 4.64-PH/13
3002
3003JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3004 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3005
3006JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3007
3008JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3009 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3010
8a10f5a4
PH
3011PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3012
30e18802
PH
3013PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3014 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3015 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3016 contravention of the specifications.
3017
55728a4f
PH
3018PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3019 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3020 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3021
d7837193
PH
3022PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3023 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3024 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3025
87054a31
PH
3026PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3027
ea2c01d2
MH
3028MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3029 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3030 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3031 some point in the past.
3032
e4fa6968
PH
3033PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3034 transport during callout processing was broken.
3035
56f5d9bd
PH
3036PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3037 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3038
922e1c28
PH
3039PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3040 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3041
21eb6e72
PH
3042PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3043 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3044
a0540757
PH
3045PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3046
944e9e9c 3047
478be7b0
SC
3048Exim version 4.63
3049-----------------
3050
3051SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3052 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3053
3054SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3055 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3056 there is data to show.
3057 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3058
3059SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3060 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3061
2b965a65
TF
3062TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3063 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3064
45b91596
PH
3065TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3066 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3067
c59f5781
TF
3068TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3069 submissions from trusted users.
3070
90fc3069
TF
3071TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3072 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3073
6083aca0
TF
3074TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3075 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3076 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3077 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3078 there is now a framework to start from.
3079
765b530f
PH
3080PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3081 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3082 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3083
4e167a8c
PH
3084PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3085
4608d683
PH
3086PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3087
b8dc3e4a
PH
3088PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3089
5418e93b
PH
3090PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3091 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3092 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3093
b4a9bda2
PH
3094PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3095 libradius.
3096
45b91596
PH
3097PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3098 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3099 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3100
5547e2c5
PH
3101PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3102 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3103 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3104 its arguments.
3105
dbcef0ea
PH
3106PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3107 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3108 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3109 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3110 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3111
25257489
PH
3112PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3113 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3114
c816d124
PH
3115PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3116
a9ccd69a
PH
3117PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3118 operations in malware.c.
3119
75fa1910
PH
3120PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3121 signatures.
3122
a7d7aa58
PH
3123PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3124 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3125 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3126 all.
3127
42119b09
PH
3128PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3129 statements to "add_header".
3130
41609df5
PH
3131PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3132 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3133
a5bd321b
PH
3134PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3135 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3136 latter.
3137
e85a7ad5 3138PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3139 so that it is now:
3140
e85a7ad5
PH
3141 ${if or { \
3142 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3143 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3144 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3145 }{no}{yes}}
3146
e85a7ad5
PH
3147 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3148 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3149
d8fe1c03
PH
3150PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3151 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3152
16282d2b
PH
3153PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3154 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3155 any possible encoding problems.
3156
35d40a98
PH
3157PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3158 but not after initializing Perl.
3159
034d99ab
PH
3160PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3161 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3162 apparently, which is not desirable.
3163
6ec97b1b
PH
3164PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3165 queries.
3166
e22ca4ac
JJ
3167JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3168 --not options
3169
3170JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3171
33d73e3b
PH
3172PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3173 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3174 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3175 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3176
9ecb03f3
PH
3177PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3178 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3179 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3180
084efe8d
PH
3181PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3182 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3183 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3184 0.12.
3185
366fc9f0
PH
3186PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3187 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3188 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3189 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3190 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3191
c59f5781 3192
c887c79e
TF
3193Exim version 4.62
3194-----------------
3195
3196TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3197 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3198
1cce3af8
PH
3199PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3200 patch).
3201
afb3eaaf
PH
3202PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3203 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3204 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3205 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3206 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3207 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3208 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3209 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3210 451 error is used.
3211
e173618b
PH
3212PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3213
dd16e114
PH
3214PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3215 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3216 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3217
f7fd3850
PH
3218PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3219 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3220 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3221 odd errors.
3222
d87df92c
PH
3223PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3224 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3225
7e9f683d
PH
3226PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3227 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3228 option (which defaults to 0600).
3229
bfad5236
PH
3230PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3231
01c490df
PH
3232PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3233 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3234 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3235 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3236 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3237 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3238 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3239
d6629cdc
PH
3240PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3241
1cce3af8 3242
214e2000
PH
3243Exim version 4.61
3244-----------------
3245
3246PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3247 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3248 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3249 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3250 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3251 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3252 addresses as local.
3253
f9daeae0
PH
3254PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3255 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3256
7e66e54d
PH
3257PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3258
c8ea1597
PH
3259PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3260 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3261 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3262 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3263 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3264 grumble.
3265
911f6fde
PH
3266PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3267 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3268
47ca6d6c
PH
3269PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3270 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3271 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3272 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3273 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3274
ed0e9820
PH
3275PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3276 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3277 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3278 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3279
eff37e47
PH
3280PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3281 be the same on different OS.
3282
1921d2ea
PH
3283PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3284 testing.
3285
b3f69ca8
JJ
3286JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3287 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3288
3289JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3290 in 4.61-PH/06
3291
424a1c63
PH
3292PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3293 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3294 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3295 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3296 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3297 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3298 bounce message.
3299
7a100415
PH
3300PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3301 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3302 when Exim was called.
3303
19b9dc85
PH
3304PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3305 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3306
309bd837
PH
3307PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3308 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3309 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3310 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3311
59e82a2a
PH
3312PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3313 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3314 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3315 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3316 changes:
3317
3318 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3319 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3320 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3321
3322 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3323 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3324 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3325
9edc04ce
PH
3326PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3327 feature).
3328
1349e1e5
PH
3329PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3330 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3331 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3332 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3333 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3334 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3335 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3336 values from the SRV records were lost.
3337
ea49d0e1
PH
3338PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3339 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3340 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3341
064a94c9
PH
3342PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3343 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3344 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3345
727071f8
PH
3346PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3347 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3348 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3349 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3350 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3351 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3352 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3353 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3354 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3355 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3356
f78eb7c6
PH
3357PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3358 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3359 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3360
21c28500
PH
3361PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3362 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3363
3364PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3365 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3366 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3367 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3368 is given.
3369
1688f43b
PH
3370PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3371 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3372 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3373
3374PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3375 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3376 PH/23 above applies.
3377
9675b384
PH
3378PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3379 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3380 (for which there is an explicit test).
3381
6a3f1455
PH
3382PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3383
dac79d3e
PH
3384PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3385 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3386 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3387 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3388 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3389
5977a0b3
PH
3390PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3391 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3392 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3393 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3394
c91535f3
PH
3395PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3396 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3397 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3398
0d46a8c8
PH
3399PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3400
278c6e6c
PH
3401PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3402
2cbb4081
PH
3403PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3404 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3405 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3406
3eef829e
PH
3407PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3408 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3409 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3410 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3411 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3412
1ab95fa6
PH
3413PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3414 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3415 the message gets confusing).
3416
230205fc
PH
3417PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3418 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3419 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3420 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3421
75e0e026
PH
3422PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3423 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3424 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3425 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3426 same order.
3427
3428PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3429 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3430 the different processes.
3431
145396a6
PH
3432PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3433
3cd34f13
PH
3434PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3435
11121d3d
JJ
3436JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3437 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3438
3439JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3440 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3441
3442JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3443 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3444 messages matching specified criteria.
3445
8def5aaf
PH
3446PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3447
929ba01c
PH
3448PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3449 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3450
2632889e
PH
3451PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3452 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3453 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3454 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3455 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3456 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3457 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3458 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3459 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3460 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3461
944a9c55
PH
3462PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3463 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3464 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3465
4a23603b
PH
3466PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3467
4730f942
PH
3468PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3469 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3470 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3471 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3472 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3473 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3474 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3475 the variable.
3476
30dba1e6
PH
3477PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3478 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3479
382afc6b
PH
3480PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3481
a86229cf
PH
3482PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3483
50c99ba6
PH
3484PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3485
d35e429d
PH
3486PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3487 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3488 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3489 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3490 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3491 size of the count of files.
3492
f90d018c
PH
3493PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3494
75def545
PH
3495PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3496 used in LMTP mode:
3497
3498 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3499 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3500 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3501 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3502
3503 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3504 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3505 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3506
3507PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3508 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3509 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3510 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3511 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3512
c46782ef
PH
3513PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3514 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3515
71fafd95
PH
3516PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3517 will now be deprecated.
3518
2c5db4fd
PH
3519PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3520
9cf6b11a
JJ
3521JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3522 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3523 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3524
3525JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3526 with very large, slow to parse queues
3527
3528JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3529
3530JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3531
898d150f
PH
3532PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3533 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3534 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3535 SMTP output lines.
3536
46218253
PH
3537PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3538 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3539 Sieve code now uses this.
3540
e97957bc
PH
3541PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3542 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3543
81e509d7
PH
3544PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3545 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3546
3d240ff7
PH
3547PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3548
b37c4101
PH
3549PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3550 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3551 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3552 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3553 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3554
79378e0f
PH
3555PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3556 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3557 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3558 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3559
e49c7bb4
PH
3560PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3561
d114ec46
PH
3562PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3563
f3d7df6c
PH
3564PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3565 is preferred over IPv4.
3566
715ab376
PH
3567PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3568 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3569 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3570 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3571 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3572 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3573 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3574
6b31b150
PH
3575PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3576 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3577 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3578
3579PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3580
d515a917
PH
3581PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3582 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3583 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3584 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3585 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3586 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3587 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3588 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3589 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3590 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3591 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3592
9b8fadde
PH
3593PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3594 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3595 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3596
214e2000 3597
5de37277
PH
3598Exim version 4.60
3599-----------------
3600
cc38ddbf
PH
3601PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3602
3603 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3604 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3605
3606 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3607 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3608 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3609
72fdd6ae
PH
3610PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3611
3612 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3613 not a single digit.
3614
3615 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3616 string.
3617
3618 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3619 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3620 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3621 silly things.
3622
3623 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3624 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3625
3626 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3627 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3628
cb741023
PH
3629PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3630 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3631 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3632
f174f16e
PH
3633PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3634 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3635
c25242d7
PH
3636PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3637 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3638
3639 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3640
3641 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3642 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3643 this:
3644
3645 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3646
82c19f95
PH
3647PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3648 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3649 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3650 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3651 identical. For example:
3652
3653 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3654
3655 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3656 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3657 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3658
d7ffbc12
PH
3659PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3660 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3661 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3662 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3663
9f526266
PH
3664PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3665 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3666 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3667 message.
3668
87fcc8b9
PH
3669PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3670
3671 o fixes some comments
3672 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3673 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3674 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3675 and documents the missing references header update
3676
3677 and most important:
3678
3679 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3680 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3681 result)
3682
456682f5
PH
3683PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3684 Electronic Mail") by including:
3685
3686 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3687
3688 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3689 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3690 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3691 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3692 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3693
3694 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3695
3696 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3697
3698 The auto-replied keyword:
3699
3700 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3701 message by an automatic process,
3702
3703 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3704
3705 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3706 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3707
3708 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3709 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3710 other messages.
3711
3e46c1aa
PH
3712PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3713 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3714
49826d12
PH
3715PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3716
eba0c039
PH
3717PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3718 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3719 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3720
a0d6ba8a
PH
3721PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3722 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3723 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3724
f0917727
PH
3725PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3726 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3727 and treats the condition as false.
3728
096fee00
PH
3729PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3730
024bd3c2
PH
3731PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3732 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3733 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3734 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3735 not changing the active code.
3736
3737 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3738 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3739
3740 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3741 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3742
df199fec
PH
3743PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3744 (Bugzilla #53).
3745
d27f1df3
PH
3746PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3747 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3748 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3749 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3750 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3751 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3752 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3753 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3754 the text comparison.
3755
96776534
PH
3756PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3757 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3758 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3759 The same fix has been applied.
3760
5de37277 3761
9a799bc0
PH
3762Exim version 4.54
3763-----------------
3764
3765PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3766 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3767 It now does.
3768
99a4b039
PH
3769PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3770 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3771
3772PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3773
4b233853
PH
3774PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3775 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3776 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3777 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3778 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3779
8857ccfd
PH
3780TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3781 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3782 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3783 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3784 or /domain=).
3785
433a2980
PH
3786PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3787 testing suite.
3788
3e46c1aa 3789
9a799bc0 3790
e3a311ba
TK
3791Exim version 4.53
3792-----------------
3793
3794TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3795 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3796
13b685f9
PH
3797PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3798
395ff96d
PH
3799PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3800
5b68f6e4
PH
3801PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3802 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3803 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3804
1ab52c69
PH
3805PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3806 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3807 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3808
b07e6aa3
PH
3809PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3810 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3811 operating systems.
3812
254e032f
PH
3813PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3814 ${stat: expansion item.
3815
3af76a81
PH
3816PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3817 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3818
2548ba04
PH
3819PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3820 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3821 file for comments.
3822
b6c6011d
PH
3823PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3824
cf39cf57
PH
3825PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3826 setting.
3827
f1513293
PH
3828PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3829 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3830
727549a4
PH
3831TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3832
af46795e
PH
3833PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3834 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3835 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3836 the end of the subprocess.
3837
d7b47fd0
PH
3838PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3839 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3840 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3841 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3842 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3843
ee744174
JJ
3844JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3845
b582ab87
PH
3846TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3847
41a13e0a
PH
3848PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3849 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3850
f625cc5a
PH
3851PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3852
3853PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3854
21f7af35
PH
3855PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3856 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3857 HP-UX compiler.
3858
31480e42
PH
3859PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3860
2d280592
PH
3861PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3862 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3863 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3864
7cd1141b
PH
3865PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3866 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3867
3868PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3869 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3870
750af86e
PH
3871PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3872 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3873
3874 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3875 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3876
3877 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3878 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3879 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3880 contributed by a Radius user.
3881
3882PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3883 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3884
4304270b
TK
3885TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3886 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3887
750af86e
PH
3888PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3889 available.
3890
64ffc24f
PH
3891PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3892 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3893 received.
3894
5dd9625b
PH
3895PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3896 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3897 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3898 header lines when this was not necessary.
3899
5591031b
PH
3900PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3901
ba18e66a
PH
3902PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3903 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3904 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3905 exists".
3906
9cec981f
PH
3907PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3908 -bV or -d is used.
3909
aa2b5c79
PH
3910PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3911 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3912 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3913 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3914
48a53b7f
PH
3915PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3916
1c59d63b
PH
3917PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3918
671012da
TK
3919TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3920
1509d3a8
PH
3921PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3922
3923PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3924 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3925 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3926 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3927 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3928 settings.
3929
3930PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3931
2fe1a124
PH
3932PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3933 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3934 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3935 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3936 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3937 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3938 which is clearly wrong.
3939
8800895a
PH
3940PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3941
ccfdb010
PH
3942PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3943 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3944 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3945 subsequently added.
3946
1130bfb0
PH
3947PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3948 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3949
ebcb507f
PH
3950PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3951
c35e155c
PH
3952PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3953 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3954
95d1f782
PH
3955PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3956 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3957
fd6de02e
PH
3958PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3959 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3960
58de37c5
PH
3961PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3962 recipients, not senders.
3963
261cf466
TF
3964TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3965 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3966
3ee512ff
PH
3967PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3968
e08c430f
PH
3969PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3970
bef5a11f
PH
3971PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3972 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3973 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3974 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3975
7546de58
TF
3976TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3977
e5d5a95f
TF
3978TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3979 clock is set back in time.
3980
2e88a017
TF
3981TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3982 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3983
a5f65aa4
TF
3984TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3985 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3986
e7726cbf
PH
3987PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3988 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3989 (see PH/47 above).
3990
a7fdad5b
TF
3991TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3992 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3993 header rewrites.
3994
6af56900
PH
3995PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3996 type ("H").
3997
0925ede6
PH
3998PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3999
66afa403
TF
4000TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4001 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4002 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4003
0154e85a
TF
4004TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4005 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4006 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4007 helo verification defer as a failure.
4008
16f12c76
PH
4009PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4010 actual error message.
4011
bbe902f0 4012
e5a9dba6
PH
4013Exim version 4.52
4014-----------------
4015
4016TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4017
22c3b60b
PH
4018PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4019 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4020 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4021 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4022
06a9b4b5
PH
4023TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4024
c1ac6996
PH
4025PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4026 can still be requested.
4027
9c7a242c
PH
4028PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4029 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4030 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4031 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4032
87ba3f5f
PH
4033TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4034 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4035 circumstances, but probably never did.
4036
4037PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4038 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4039 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4040 in the header line.
4041
29aba418
TF
4042TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4043
fe0dab11
TF
4044TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4045 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4046
11d337a4
TK
4047TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4048
4049TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4050
415c8f3b
PH
4051PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4052 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4053 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4054 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4055 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4056 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4057
958541e9
PH
4058PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4059 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4060 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4061 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4062 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4063 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4064
c206415f
TK
4065TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4066 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4067
2a4be8f9
PH
4068PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4069 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4070
1cba11c5
SC
4071SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4072 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4073
4c04137d 4074SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4075
4076SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4077
4078SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4079
4080SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4081
4082SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4083
4084SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4085
1005d00e
TK
4086TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4087
4088TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4089 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4090 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4091
4092TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4093 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4094 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4095 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4096
9b4768fa
PH
4097PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4098 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4099 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4100
4101PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4102 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4103 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4104 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4105
0d7eb84a
PH
4106PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4107 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4108 to be made).
4109
4110PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4111 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4112 should work with maildirs and everything.
4113
40727bee
TK
4114TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4115 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4116
554d2369
TF
4117TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4118 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4119
1f922db1
PH
4120PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4121 function for BDB 4.3.
4122
ef213c3b
PH
4123PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4124
8ac170f3
PH
4125PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4126 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4127 involved.
4128
b1c749bb
PH
4129PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4130 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4131 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4132 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4133 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4134 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4135
4aac9b49
PH
4136PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4137 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4138 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4139 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4140 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4141 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4142 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4143 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4144
294520c8
TK
4145TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4146 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4147 details.
4148
5bd022fe
PH
4149PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4150 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4151
90e9ce59
PH
4152PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4153 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4154 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4155 test. It is now used for both.
4156
5ea81592
PH
4157PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4158 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4159 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4160 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4161 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4162 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4163
c6c2dc1d
PH
4164PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4165 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4166 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4167 string_vformat().
4168
fffffe4c
PH
4169PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4170 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4171 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4172
9a26b6b2
PH
4173PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4174 experimental DomainKeys support:
4175
4176 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4177 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4178 the control was given.
4179
4180 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4181
4aee0225
PH
4182PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4183
32d668a5
PH
4184PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4185
8187c3f3
PH
4186PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4187 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4188 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4189 db.h files).
4190
ff790e47 4191PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4192 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4193 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4194 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4195 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4196 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4197 course.
ff790e47 4198
5417f6d1
PH
4199PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4200 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4201 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4202 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4203 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4204 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4205
59cf8544
PH
4206PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4207 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4208 do -d+all out of habit.
4209
e7ad8a65
PH
4210PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4211 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4212 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4213
ade42478
PH
4214PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4215 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4216 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4217 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4218 record types that Exim uses.
4219
182ad5cf
PH
4220PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4221 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4222 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4223 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4224 non-existent file that was broken.
4225
b0d9fc80
TK
4226TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4227 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4228
4229TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4230 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4231 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4232
4233TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4234
47c7a64a
PH
4235PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4236 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4237 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4238 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4239 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4240 same time.
4241
a388bce4
SC
4242SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4243 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4244 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4245 at a slight CPU cost.
4246
4247SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4248 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4249
4250SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4251 by Marc Sherman.
4252
0793e4ed
SC
4253SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4254
c58b88df
PH
4255PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4256 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4257
e7ad8a65 4258
7982096b
PH
4259Exim version 4.51
4260-----------------
4261
1a46a8c5
PH
4262TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4263 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4264
2f079f46 4265TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4266
4267TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4268
4269PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4270 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4271
4272PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4273 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4274 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4275 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4276 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4277 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4278 file.
4279
4280PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4281 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4282 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4283 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4284 these two options.
4285
4286PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4287 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4288 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4289 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4290 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4291 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4292 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4293 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4294
4295PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4296 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4297
4298PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4299 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4300 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4301 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4302 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4303 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4304
4305PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4306 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4307 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4308 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4309
4310PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4311 Finch).
4312
4313PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4314 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4315
49c2d5ea
PH
4316PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4317 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4318 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4319 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4320 message.
49c2d5ea 4321
bf759a8b
PH
4322PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4323
83364d30
PH
4324PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4325 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4326
7999bbd7
PH
4327PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4328 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4329 to what was transported.)
4330
7dbf77c9
PH
4331TF/01 Added $received_time.
4332
74e0617f
PH
4333PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4334 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4335 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4336 spamd_address settings.
4337
2f079f46
PH
4338PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4339 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4340 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4341 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4342 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4343
8c841523
PH
4344PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4345
7766a4f0
PH
4346PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4347 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4348 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4349 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4350 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4351
8b417f2c
PH
4352PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4353 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4354
901f42cb
PH
4355PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4356 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4357 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4358 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4359 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4360 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4361 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4362 for failure.
4363
f9b9210e
PH
4364PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4365 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4366 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4367 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4368 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4369 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4370 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4371 "input=".
4372
54cdb463
PH
4373PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4374
cf00dad6
PH
4375PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4376 driver and ACL definitions.
4377
acb1b346
PH
4378PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4379 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4380
c5ddb310
PH
4381PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4382 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4383 understands it better than I do:
4384
4385 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4386 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4387
4388 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4389 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4390 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4391 => three warnings about OTP not working
4392 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4393
4394 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4395 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4396 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4397 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4398 for each call.)
4399 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4400 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4401
4402 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4403 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4404 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4405
31619da6
PH
4406PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4407 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4408 specified.
4409
bebaf0fc
PH
4410PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4411 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4412 "Linux".
4413
475fe28a
PH
4414PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4415 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4416 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4417
4418 warn !verify = sender
4419 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4420
4421 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4422 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4423
7e8bec7a
PH
4424PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4425
4426 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4427 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4428
4429 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4430 nomenclature these days.)
4431
e4a89c47
PH
4432PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4433 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4434
5ca2a9a1
PH
4435PH/30 In these circumstances:
4436 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4437 . First host does not offer TLS;
4438 . First host accepts first address;
4439 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4440 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4441 . Second host accepts second address.
4442 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4443 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4444 address.
7e8bec7a 4445
c688b954
PH
4446PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4447 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4448 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4449 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4450 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4451
fed77020
PH
4452PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4453 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4454
7fe1560f
PH
4455PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4456 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4457
ebb6e6d5
PH
4458PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4459 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4460 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4461
9c4e8f60
PH
4462PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4463 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4464 overlooked.
4465
4466PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4467
d7174846
PH
4468PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4469 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4470 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4471 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4472 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4473 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4474 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4475
4476 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4477 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4478 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4479 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4480 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4481
4482 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4483 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4484 routed further.
4485
cfe75fc3
PH
4486PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4487 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4488 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4489 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4490 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4491 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4492
be22d70e
PH
4493PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4494
0612b098
PH
4495PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4496 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4497 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4498 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4499 printable escape sequences.
4500
2e0c1448
PH
4501PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4502 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4503 body only.
4504
447d236c
PH
4505PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4506 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4507 are as follows:
4508
4509 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4510 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4511 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4512 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4513 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4514
4515 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4516 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4517 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4518
d20976dc
PH
4519PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4520
f656d135
PH
4521PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4522 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4523 play with."
4524
2e2a30b4
PH
4525PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4526 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4527 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4528 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4529 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4530 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4531 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4532 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4533 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4534 the log output.
4535
9176e9f0
PH
4536PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4537 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4538 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4539 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4540 "make".
4541
7982096b 4542
bbe902f0
PH
4543A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4544----------------------------------------
4545
4546Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4547changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4548needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4549in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4550that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4551release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4552from 4.43.
4553
4554I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45554.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4556those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4557historical information.
4558
4559
f7b63901 4560Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4561-----------------
4562
5fe762f6
PH
4563 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4564
139059f6 4565 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4566 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4567
7086e875
PH
4568 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4569 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4570 place.
4571
35af9f61
PH
4572 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4573 filter fails to execute.
4574
b668c215
PH
4575 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4576 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4577 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4578 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4579 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4580
a494b1e1
PH
4581 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4582
4583 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4584 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4585 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4586 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4587
c5fcb476
PH
4588 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4589 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4590 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4591 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4592 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4593
69358f02
PH
4594 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4595
5be20824
PH
459610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4597
eb2c0248
PH
459811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4599 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4600 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4601 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4602
2a3eea10
PH
460312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4604 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4605 sender verification.
4606
460713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4608 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4609
23c7ff99
PH
461014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4611
4deaf07d
PH
461215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4613 connection timeout.
4614
926e1192
PH
461516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4616 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4617
650edc6f
PH
461817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4619 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4620
2c7db3f5
PH
462118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4622 information about exactly what failed.
4623
3d235903
PH
462419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4625
7c7ad977
PH
462620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4627 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4628 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4629
981756db
PH
463021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4631 It is now set to "smtps".
4632
d4eb88df
PH
463322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4634 ignore_target_hosts.
4635
463623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4637 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4638 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4639 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4640 "[x.x.x.x]".
4641
7d468ab8
PH
464224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4643 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4644 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4645
464625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4647 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4648 wake it up if nothing else does.
4649
62c0818f
PH
465026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4651 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4652 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4653 end up negative.
4654
26034054
PH
465527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4656 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4657
af66f652
PH
465828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4659
90af77f4
PH
466029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4661 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4662 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4663 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4664 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4665 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4666 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4667 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4668
d8ef3577
PH
466930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4670 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4671 than one IP address.
4672
5cb8cbc6
PH
467331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4674 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4675 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4676 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4677
14702f5b
PH
467832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4679 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4680 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4681 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4682 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4683 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4684
063b1e99
PH
468533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4686 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4687 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4688 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4689
652e1b65
PH
469034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4691 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4692 respected.
4693
6f0c9a4f
PH
469435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4695 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4696 $sender_host_address.
4697
33397d19
PH
469836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4699 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4700 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4701 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4702 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4703 very small.
4704
7bb56e1f
PH
470537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4706
4707 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4708 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4709
ea3bc19b
PH
4710 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4711 just the host names, not the priorities.
4712
4713 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4714 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4715 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4716
ea3bc19b 4717 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4718 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4719
0bcb2a0e
PH
472038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4721 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4722 domain.
4723
2ac0e484
PH
472439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4725
4e1fde53
PH
472640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4727 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4728
de365ded
PH
472941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4730 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4731 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4732
f05da2e8
PH
473342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4734
d6453af2
PH
473543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4736
f7b63901
PH
473744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4738
473945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4740 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4741 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4742 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4743 because the tests only now provoked it.
4744
a444213a
PH
474546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4746 (this can affect the format of dates).
4747
0ec020ea
PH
474847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4749 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4750 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4751 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4752
b1206957
PH
475348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4754
475549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4756 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4757 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4758 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4759
26dd5a95
PH
476050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4761 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4762 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4763
343b2385
PH
476451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4765 autoreply.
4766
1c5466b9
PH
476752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4768 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4769 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4770 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4771 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4772 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4773 is going on).
4774
55ee9ee3
PH
477553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4776 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4777 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4778 the line.
4779
d38f8232
PH
478054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4781 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4782 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4783
4784 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4785 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4786 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4787 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4788 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4789 so I produce this patch..."
4790
3295e65b
PH
4791 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4792 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4793 is not defined.
4794
7102e136
PH
479555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4796 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4797 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4798 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4799 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4800
3ca0ba97
PH
480156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4802
c2bcbe20
PH
480357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4804 long debug lines gets shown.
4805
18ce445d
PH
480658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4807 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4808
1f5b4c3d
PH
480959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4810
4811 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4812 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4813 of $primary_hostname.
4814
b975ba52
PH
481560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4816 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4817 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4818 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4819 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4820 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4821 by change 4.50/55 above.
4822
4823 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4824 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4825 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4826 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4827 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4828 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4829 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4830
483161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4832 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4833 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4834 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4835
17ffcae7
PH
483662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4837 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4838
d95f9fdb
PH
483963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4840 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4841 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4842 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4843 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4844
86b8287f
PH
484564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4846 This has been fixed.
4847
60dc5e56
PH
484865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4849 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4850 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4851 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4852 the caching.)
4853
533244af
PH
485466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4855
a5a28604
PH
485667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4857 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4858 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4859 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4860
7e634d24
PH
486168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4862 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4863
3e11c26b
PH
486469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4865 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4866 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4867
6729cf78
PH
486870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4869 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4870 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4871 message there.
4872
00f00ca5
PH
487371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4874 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4875 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4876
c9bdd01c
PH
487772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4878 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4879 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4880 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4881
d43194df
PH
488273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4883 during host lookups.
4884
fe5b5d0b
PH
488574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4886 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4887
4888 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4889
76a2d7ba
PH
489075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4891 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4892 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4893 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4894 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4895 background.
4896
489776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4898 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4899
04f7d5b9
PH
490077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4901 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4902 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4903
bc60667e
PH
490478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4905
bb6e88ff
PH
490679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4907 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4908 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4909 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4910 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4911 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4912 process earlier.
4913
1e70f85b
PH
491480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4915 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4916 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4917 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4918 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4919
492081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4921 tables).
4922
4e01f9d6
PH
492382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4924
1ee1cef2
PH
492583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4926 "vacation" handling.
4927
6e2b4ccc
PH
492884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4929 OS variants using glibc.
4930
8e669ac1
PH
493185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4932
495ae4b0 4933
bbe902f0
PH
4934----------------------------------------------------
4935See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4936----------------------------------------------------
4937
4938
4939Exim version 4.44
4940-----------------
4941
4942 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4943 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4944 transport
4945
4946 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4947 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4948 place.
4949
4950 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4951 filter fails to execute.
4952
4953 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4954 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4955 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4956 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4957 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4958
4959 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4960 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4961 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4962 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4963
4964 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4965 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4966 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4967 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4968 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4969
4970 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4971
4972 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4973 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4974 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4975 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4976
4977 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4978 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4979 sender verification.
4980
498110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4982 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4983
498411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4985 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4986
498712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4988 ignore_target_hosts.
4989
499013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4991 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4992 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4993 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4994 "[x.x.x.x]".
4995
499614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4997 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4998 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4999
500015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5001 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5002 wake it up if nothing else does.
5003
500416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5005 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5006 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5007 end up negative.
5008
500917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5010 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5011
ea3a6f44 501218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5013
501419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5015 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5016 empty pattern.
5017
501820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5019 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5020 one IP address.
5021
ea3a6f44
NM
502221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5023 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5024 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5025 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5026 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5027 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5028
ea3a6f44
NM
502922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5030 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5031 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5032
503323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5034 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5035 $sender_host_address.
5036
503724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5038
ea3a6f44
NM
503925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5040 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5041 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5042
504326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5044 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5045
ea3a6f44
NM
504627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5047 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5048
ea3a6f44
NM
504928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5050 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5051 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5052 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5053
505429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5055 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5056 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5057
ea3a6f44
NM
505830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5059 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5060 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5061 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5062
ea3a6f44
NM
506331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5064 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5065 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5066
ea3a6f44
NM
506731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5068 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5069
ea3a6f44
NM
507032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5071 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5072 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5073 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5074 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5075 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5076 is going on).
bbe902f0 5077
ea3a6f44
NM
507833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5079 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5080 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5081 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5082 CAN-2005-0021
5083
ea3a6f44
NM
508434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5085 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5086 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5087 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5088 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5089 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5090 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5091
5092 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5093 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5094 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5095 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5096 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5097 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5098 CAN-2005-0021
5099
ea3a6f44
NM
510035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5101 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5102 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5103 CAN-2005-0022
5104
ea3a6f44
NM
510536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5106 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5107 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5108 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5109 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5110
ea3a6f44
NM
511137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5112 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5113 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5114 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5115 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5116
ea3a6f44
NM
511738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5118 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5119 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5120 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5121 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5122
5123
495ae4b0
PH
5124Exim version 4.43
5125-----------------
5126
5127 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5128 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5129 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5130 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5131 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5132 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5133 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5134
5135 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5136 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5137 the delivery.
5138
5139 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5140
5141 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5142
5143 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5144 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5145 to local_scan().
5146
5147 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5148 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5149 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5150 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5151 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5152
5153 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5154 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5155
5156 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5157
5158 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5159
516010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5161 header_sender only.
5162
516311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5164 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5165
516612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5167 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5168 affecting debugging statements).
5169
517013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5171
517214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5173 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5174 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5175 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5176 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5177 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5178 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5179 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5180 after the received time, and all would be well.
5181
518215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5183 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5184 condition in an expansion string.
5185
518616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5187
518817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5189 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5190 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5191 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5192 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5193 job under whatever limits there are.
5194
519518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5196
519719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5198 space).
5199
520020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5201 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5202 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5203 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5204 return path is set.
5205
520621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5207 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5208 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5209 binary data in such strings.
5210
521122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5212
521323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5214 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5215 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5216 failure, which is pointless.
5217
521824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5219
522025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5221
522226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5223 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5224 Sender: header lines.
5225
522627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5227 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5228 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5229
523028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5231 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5232 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5233 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5234 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5235 happens.
5236
523729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5238 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5239 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5240 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5241 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5242
524330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5244 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5245 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5246 1024.
5247
524831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5249 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5250
525132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5252 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5253
525433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5255
525632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5257
525833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5259
526034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5261 syntax error.
5262
526335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5264
526536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5266
526737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5268 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5269 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5270 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5271
527238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5273 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5274
5275
5276Exim version 4.42
5277-----------------
5278
5279 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5280 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5281 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5282 it was not quoted.
5283 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5284 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5285 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5286 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5287 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5288 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5289
5290 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5291 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5292 verification failure".
5293
5294 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5295 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5296 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5297 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5298
5299 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5300 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5301 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5302 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5303 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5304 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5305 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5306 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5307 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5308 treated as a timeout.
5309
5310 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5311 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5312 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5313 not set for Exim filters).
5314
5315 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5316 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5317 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5318
5319 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5320
5321 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5322 try to make them clearer.
5323
5324 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5325 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5326
5327 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5328
5329 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5330
533110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5332 only the Cygwin environment.
5333
533411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5335 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5336 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5337 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5338 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5339
534012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5341 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5342 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5343 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5344 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5345 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5346 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5347
534813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5349 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5350
535114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5352
5353 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5354 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5355 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5356
5357 To: susanne@some.where
5358
5359 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5360 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5361 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5362 of addresses in From: header lines).
5363
5364 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5365 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5366 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5367
5368 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5369 treated as non-personal.
5370
5371 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5372 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5373
537415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5375
537616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5377
537817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5379 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5380 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5381
538218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5383 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5384
538519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5386 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5387 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5388 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5389 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5390 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5391
539220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5393 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5394 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5395 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5396 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5397 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5398 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5399 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5400
5401 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5402
540321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5404 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5405
540622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5407 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5408 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5409
541023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5411 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5412
541324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5414 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5415 rather than long int.
5416
541725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5418
541926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5420
5421
5422Exim version 4.41
5423-----------------
5424
5425 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5426 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5427 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5428 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5429 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5430 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5431
5432
5433Exim version 4.40
5434-----------------
5435
5436 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5437 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5438
5439 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5440 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5441 socklen_t is defined.
5442
5443 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5444 always exist.
5445
5446 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5447 configured.
5448
5449 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5450 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5451 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5452 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5453 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5454
5455 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5456 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5457 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5458 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5459
5460 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5461 of flapping under certain conditions.
5462
5463 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5464 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5465 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5466
5467 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5468
546910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5470
547111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5472 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5473 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5474 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5475
547612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5477 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5478 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5479 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5480 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5481 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5482 preserved with the message after it was received.
5483
548413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5485 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5486 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5487 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5488 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5489 test suite worked just fine.
5490
549114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5492 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5493 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5494
549515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5496 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5497 string.
5498
549916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5500 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5501 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5502 does not fully solve it.
5503
550417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5505 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5506 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5507 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5508 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5509
551018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5511 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5512 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5513
551419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5515 string, for example:
5516
5517 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5518
5519 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5520 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5521 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5522 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5523 the routers could not see them.
5524
552520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5526 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5527
552821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5529 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5530 output).
5531
553222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5533 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5534 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5535 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5536 that needed quoting.
5537
553823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5539 was not being matched caselessly.
5540
554124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5542 backslashes.
5543
554425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5545 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5546 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5547 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5548 when use_sender is false.
5549
555026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5551
555227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5553
555428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5555
555629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5557 the configuration file.
5558
555930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5560 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5561
556231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5563
556432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5565 bytes in the message body.
5566
556733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5568 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5569 delivery.
5570
557134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5572
557335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5574
557536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5576 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5577 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5578 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5579 another IP address.
5580
5581
5582Exim version 4.34
5583-----------------
5584
5585 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5586 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5587
5588 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5589 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5590 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5591 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5592 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5593
5594 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5595 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5596
5597 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5598 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5599 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5600
5601 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5602 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5603 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5604
5605 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5606 for routers.
5607
5608 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5609 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5610 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5611 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5612 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5613 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5614 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5615
5616
5617Exim version 4.33
5618-----------------
5619
5620 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5621 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5622 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5623 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5624 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5625 default (and expected) setting.
5626
5627 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5628 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5629 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5630 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5631
5632 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5633 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5634
5635 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5636 in domain lists.
5637
5638 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5639 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5640 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5641 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5642 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5643 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5644
5645 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5646 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5647 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5648
5649 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5650 part (NOT match_host).
5651
5652 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5653
5654 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5655 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5656 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5657 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5658 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5659 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5660 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5661 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5662 the same named file.
5663
566410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5665 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5666 when Exim is built.
5667
566811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5669 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5670 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5671 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5672 a host name.
5673
567412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5675 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5676 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5677
567813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5679
568014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5681
568215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5683
568416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5685 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5686
568717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5688 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5689 before starting the TLS session.
5690
569118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5692
569319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5694 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5695
569620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5697 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5698 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5699 colon in the middle).
5700
5701
5702Exim version 4.32
5703-----------------
5704
5705 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5706 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5707 multiple configurations are in use.
5708
5709 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5710 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5711 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5712 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5713 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5714 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5715
5716 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5717 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5718
5719 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5720 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5721 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5722
5723 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5724 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5725 occurs.
5726
5727 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5728 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5729
5730 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5731
5732 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5733 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5734
5735 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5736
5737 -prval:sval
5738
5739 is equivalent to
5740
5741 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5742
5743 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5744 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5745 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5746 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5747 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5748
574910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5750 Exim's behaviour:
5751
5752 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5753 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5754 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5755 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5756 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5757 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5758
5759 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5760 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5761 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5762 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5763 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5764 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5765 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5766 string.
5767
5768 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5769 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5770 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5771 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5772 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5773
577411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5775
577612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5777 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5778 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5779
578013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5781
578214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5783 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5784 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5785 information.
5786
578715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5788 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5789
579016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5791 Three changes have been made:
5792
5793 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5794 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5795 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5796 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5797 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5798
5799 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5800 been restored.
5801
5802 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5803 the modified behaviour.
5804
5805
5806Exim version 4.31
5807-----------------
5808
5809 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5810 Larry Rosenman.
5811
5812 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5813 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5814
5815 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5816 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5817 try to track down a specific problem.
5818
5819 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5820 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5821 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5822
5823 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5824 warning.
5825
5826 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5827 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5828 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5829 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5830 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5831 some earlier ones do not.
5832
5833 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5834
5835 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5836 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5837 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5838 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5839 address literals are enabled, of course).
5840
5841 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5842
584310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5844 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5845 by a command such as
5846
5847 exim -f "" ...
5848
5849 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5850
585111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5852
585312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5854 remained set. It is now erased.
5855
585613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5857 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5858
585914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5860 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5861 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5862 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5863 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5864 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5865 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5866 appropriate error code.
5867
586815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5869 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5870 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5871 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5872 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5873 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5874
587516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5876 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5877 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5878
587917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5880 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5881 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5882 terminate the header.
5883
588418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5885 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5886 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5887
588819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5889 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5890 (4.30/29). In particular:
5891
5892 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5893 imposed.
5894
5895 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5896 to write a maildirsize file.
5897
5898 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5899 the transport, the new value overrides.
5900
5901 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5902 count.
5903
590420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5905 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5906 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5907 space or a tab.
5908
590921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5910 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5911 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5912 the fallback hosts.
5913
591422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5915 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5916 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5917
591823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5919 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5920 using a union.
5921
592224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5923 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5924 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5925
592625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5927
592826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5929
593027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5931
593228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5933 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5934 become corrupted.
5935
593629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5937 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5938 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5939 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5940 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5941 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5942 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5943 too great.
5944
594530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5946 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5947 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5948 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5949 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5950 incorrectly.
5951
595231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5953 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5954 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5955 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5956 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5957 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5958 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5959 cached value only when the same options are set.
5960
596132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5962
596333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5964 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5965 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5966 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5967 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5968
596934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5970 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5971 it is clearly obsolete.
5972
597335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5974 transport.
5975
597636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5977 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5978 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5979 times.
5980
598137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5982 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5983 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5984 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5985 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5986
598738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5988 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5989 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5990 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5991
599239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5993
5994 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5995
5996 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5997 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5998 2^31.
5999
600040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6001 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6002 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6003 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6004 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6005 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6006 $localpart_data.
6007
600841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6009 with the -f command-line option.
6010
601142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6012 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6013 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6014 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6015 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6016 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6017
601843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6019 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6020 line.
6021
602244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6023 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6024 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6025 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6026 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6027 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6028 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6029 buffer is too small.
6030
603145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6032 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6033
603446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6035 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6036 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6037 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6038 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6039 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6040 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6041 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6042 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6043
604447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6045 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6046 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6047
604848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6049 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6050 ACL").
6051
605249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6053 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6054 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6055 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6056 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6057
605850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6059 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6060 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6061 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6062 is set.
6063
606451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6065
606652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6067
606853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6069 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6070
607154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6072 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6073 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6074
607555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6076 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6077 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6078 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6079 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6080
608156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6082 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6083 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6084 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6085 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6086 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6087 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6088
608957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6090 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6091 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6092 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6093 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6094 the test of how many are available.
6095
609658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6097 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6098 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6099 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6100 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6101 new message is started.
6102
610359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6104 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6105
610660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6107 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6108
610961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6110 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6111 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6112 is no long logged.
6113
611462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6115 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6116 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6117 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6118 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6119 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6120 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6121
612263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6123 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6124 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6125 interpreted as octal.
6126
612764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6128 setting.
6129
613065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6131 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6132 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6133 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6134 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6135 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6136
613766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6138 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6139 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6140 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6141
6142 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6143 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6144 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6145 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6146
6147 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6148 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6149 is a bug fix.
6150
6151 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6152 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6153
615467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6155
615668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6157 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6158 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6159 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6160
616169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6162 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6163 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6164 supplied", which is not helpful.
6165
616670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6167 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6168 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6169
617071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6171 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6172 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6173 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6174 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6175 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6176 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6177 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6178
617972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6180 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6181 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6182 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6183 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6184
618573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6186 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6187 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6188 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6189 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6190 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6191
619274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6193 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6194 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6195
619675. Added write_rejectlog option.
6197
619876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6199 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6200 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6201 variables.
6202
620377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6204
620578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6206 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6207 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6208 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6209 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6210 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6211 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6212 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6213
621479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6215 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6216 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6217 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6218 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6219
622080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6221 Haardt.
6222
622381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6224 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6225 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6226 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6227 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6228 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6229 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6230 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6231 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6232
6233
6234Exim version 4.30
6235-----------------
6236
6237 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6238 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6239 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6240
6241 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6242 fixed.
6243
6244 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6245 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6246 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6247
6248 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6249 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6250 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6251 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6252 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6253 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6254
6255 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6256 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6257 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6258 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6259 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6260 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6261 the Exim test suite.
6262
6263 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6264 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6265 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6266 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6267
6268 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6269 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6270 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6271 specify it in this variable.
6272
6273 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6274 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6275 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6276 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6277
6278 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6279 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6280 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6281 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6282
6283 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6284 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6285 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6286 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6287 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6288
6289 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6290
629110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6292 they are logged.
6293
629411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6295 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6296 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6297 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6298 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6299
630012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6301 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6302
630313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6304 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6305 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6306 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6307 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6308
630914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6310 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6311
631215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6313 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6314 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6315
631616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6317 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6318
631917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6320 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6321
632218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6323 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6324 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6325
632619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6327 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6328
632920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6330 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6331 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6332 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6333
633421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6335
633622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6337 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6338 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6339 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6340
634123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6342
634324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6344 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6345
634625. Added .include_if_exists.
6347
634826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6349 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6350 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6351 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6352 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6353 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6354
635527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6356
635728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6358 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6359 this.
6360
636129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6362
636330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6364 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6365
6366 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6367 550 Sender verify failed
6368
6369 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6370 the final line of the response.
6371
637231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6373 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6374 all other user lookups.
6375
637632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6377 delivery time.
6378
637933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6380 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6381 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6382 result into an int without checking.
6383
638434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6385 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6386 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6387
638835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6389 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6390 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6391 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6392
639336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6394 correctly.
6395
639637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6397 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6398
639938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6400 to the empty sender.
6401
640239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6403 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6404 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6405 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6406 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6407 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6408 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6409 panic log.
6410
641140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6412 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6413 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6414 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6415 used.
6416
641741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6418 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6419
642042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6421 timestamps.
6422
642343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6424 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6425
642644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6427
642845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6429 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6430 logs.
6431
643246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6433 as soon as it is encountered.
6434
643547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6436
643748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6438 rewritten to "<>".
6439
644049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6441 recognizes a tab character.
6442
644350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6444 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6445 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6446 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6447
644851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6449
645052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6451 crash.
6452
645353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6454
645554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6456
645755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6458 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6459 2822.
6460
646156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6462 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6463 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6464 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6465 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6466
646757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6468 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6469
647058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6471 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6472 list (.included file names were always shown).
6473
647459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6475 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6476 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6477 root at that time.
6478
647960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6480 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6481
648261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6483
648462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6485
648663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6487
648864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6489 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6490 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6491 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6492 failures to open the logs.
6493
649465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6495 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6496 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6497 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6498 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6499 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6500 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6501
6502
6503Exim version 4.24
6504-----------------
6505
6506 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6507 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6508 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6509 change 4.23/1.
6510
6511 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6512 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6513 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6514
6515 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6516 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6517 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6518
6519 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6520 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6521 causing some misleading effects.
6522
6523 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6524 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6525 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6526
6527 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6528 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6529 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6530 queue-runner function directly.
6531
6532
6533Exim version 4.23
6534-----------------
6535
6536 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6537 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6538
6539 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6540 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6541 was always written to the default place.
6542
6543 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6544 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6545 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6546
6547 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6548
6549 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6550
6551 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6552 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6553 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6554
6555 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6556 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6557 must start.
6558
6559 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6560 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6561 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6562
6563 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6564 command line option is disabled.
6565
6566 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6567 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6568
6569 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6570
6571 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6572
6573 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6574 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6575
657610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6577
657811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6579 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6580 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6581 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6582 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6583 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6584
658512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6586 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6587 timeout.
6588
658913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6590 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6591
659214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6593 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6594
659515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6596 received was valid base64.
6597
659816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6599 name of the variable that was being set.
6600
660117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6602
660318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6604 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6605 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6606 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6607 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6608 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6609
661019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6611
661220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6613 nor realm was specified.
6614
661521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6616 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6617 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6618 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6619
662022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6621 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6622 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6623
662423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6625 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6626 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6627
662824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6629 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6630 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6631 some systems use these upper case variants.
6632
663325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6634 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6635 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6636 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6637
663826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6639
664027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6641 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6642
664328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6644 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6645 expansion variable.
6646
664729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6648
664930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6650 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6651 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6652 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6653
665431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6655 using it.
6656
665732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6658 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6659 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6660
666133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6662 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6663
666434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6665 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6666 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6667 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6668
666935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6670 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6671 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6672
667336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6674
667537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6676 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6677 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6678 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6679 aborted.
6680
668138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6682 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6683 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6684
668539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6686
668740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6688 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6689
669041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6691 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6692
669342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6694 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6695 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6696 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6697 when emails are that large.
6698
6699
6700
6701Exim version 4.22
6702-----------------
6703
6704 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6705 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6706
6707 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6708 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6709 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6710
6711 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6712 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6713 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6714
6715 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6716 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6717 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6718 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6719 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6720
6721 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6722 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6723 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6724 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6725 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6726 ever.
6727
6728 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6729 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6730 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6731 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6732 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6733 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6734 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6735 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6736 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6737 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6738 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6739 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6740 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6741 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6742
6743 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6744 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6745 parameterised it.
6746
6747 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6748 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6749 error should be diagnosed.
6750
6751 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6752 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6753 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6754 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6755 appeared instead of "NULL".
6756
675710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6758 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6759 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6760 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6761 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6762 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6763 proceeds).
6764
6765 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6766 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6767 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6768
6769
6770Exim version 4.21
6771-----------------
6772
6773 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6774 or receiver verification errors.
6775
6776 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6777 name.
6778
6779 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6780 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6781 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6782 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6783
6784 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6785 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6786 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6787 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6788 shouldn't happen again.
6789
6790 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6791 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6792 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6793
6794 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6795 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6796
6797 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6798
6799 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6800 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6801
6802 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6803 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6804 RFC.
6805
680610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6807 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6808 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6809
681011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6811 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6812 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6813 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6814
681512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6816 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6817 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6818 to define what should happen).
6819
682013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6821 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6822 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6823
682414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6825
682615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6827
682816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6829 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6830
4c04137d 683117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6832 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6833 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6834 structure in all cases.
6835
6836 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6837 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6838 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6839 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6840
684118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6842 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6843 domain name.
6844
684519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6846 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6847
684820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6849 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6850
685121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6852 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6853 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6854
685522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6856 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6857 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6858
685923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6860 the book and for uniformity.
6861
686224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6863
686425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6865 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6866 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6867 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6868 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6869 non-existent command as the problem.
6870
687126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6872 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6873 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6874
687527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6876
687728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6878 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6879 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6880
688129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6882 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6883 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6884 timestamps using strftime().
6885
688630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6887 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6888
688932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6890 transport-time rewrites.
6891
689233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6893 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6894 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6895 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6896
689734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6898 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6899
690035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6901 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6902 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6903 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6904 comma and a space.
6905
690636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6907 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6908 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6909 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6910 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6911 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6912 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6913
691437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6915 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6916 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6917 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6918 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6919
692038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6921 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6922 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6923 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6924 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6925 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6926 remaining text gets split now.
6927
692839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6929 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6930 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6931 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6932
693340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6934 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6935 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6936 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6937 $return_path.
6938
693941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6940 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6941 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6942 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6943 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6944 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6945 passed through if needed.
6946
694742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6948 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6949 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6950 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6951 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6952 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6953
695443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6955 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6956 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6957 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6958 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6959
696044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6961 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6962 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6963 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6964 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6965
696645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6967 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6968 noticed.
6969
697046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6971 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6972 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6973 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6974 mayhem of various kinds.
6975
697647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6977 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6978 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6979 the right test for positive values.
6980
698148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6982 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6983 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6984 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6985 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6986 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6987 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6988 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6989 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6990 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6991 envelope.
6992
699349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6994 module.
6995
699650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6997 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6998 forbidding it.
6999
700051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7001 the existing equality matching.
7002
700352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7004 dealing with inode numbers.
7005
700653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7007 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7008 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7009
701054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7011 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7012 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7013 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7014 local_scan().
7015
701655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7017 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7018 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7019 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7020 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7021 relay addresses has also been removed.
7022
702356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7024
702557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7026 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7027 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7028
702958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7030 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7031 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7032 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7033 processing applies to CR:
7034
7035 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7036 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7037
7038 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7039 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7040 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7041 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7042
704359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7044 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7045 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7046
704760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7048 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7049 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7050 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7051 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7052 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7053 arisen.
7054
705561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7056 program routers.
7057
705862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7059 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7060 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7061 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7062 adds:
7063
7064 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7065
7066 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7067
7068 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7069
707063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7071 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7072 not considered personal.
7073
707464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7075
707665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7077
707866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7079
708067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7081 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7082 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7083 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7084 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7085 header lines, and spool format errors.
7086
708768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7088 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7089 for more flexibility.
7090
709169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7092 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7093 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7094
709570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7096 Sabourenkov.
7097
709871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7099 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7100 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7101 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7102 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7103 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7104 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7105 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7106 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7107
710872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7109 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7110 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7111 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7112 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7113 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7114 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7115
711673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7117 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7118 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7119
712074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7121 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7122 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7123 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7124 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7125 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7126 instead of killing the process with assert().
7127
712875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7129 than Unicode encoding.
7130
713176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7132 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7133 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7134 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7135
713677. Added process_log_path.
7137
713878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7139 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7140
714179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7142 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7143
714480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7145 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7146 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7147
714881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7149 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7150 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7151 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7152 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7153 were applied:
7154
7155 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7156 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7157 as invalid.
7158
715982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7160 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7161 they will be used during message reception.
7162
7163
7164Exim version 4.20
7165-----------------
7166
7167The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7168
7169****