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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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7Exim version 4.88
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9JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
10 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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12JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
13 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
14 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
15
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16JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
17 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
18 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
19 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
20 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
21 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
22 if one fails this test.
23 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
24 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
25
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26JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
27 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
28
23bb6982 29JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 30 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
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0bd1b1ed 32JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 33 in rewrites and routers.
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35JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
36 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
37
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38JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
39 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
40
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41JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
42
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43JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
44 certificate).
45
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46JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
47 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
48 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
49 connection after a verify cache hit.
50 Do not update it with the verify result either.
51
52JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
53 when routing results in more than one destination address.
54
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55JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
56 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
57 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
58 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
59 when the cutthrough connection is made).
60
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61JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
62 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
63
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64JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
65 Previously they were not counted.
66
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67JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
68 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
69 that needed the lookup.
70
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72 distinguished as "(=".
73
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74JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
75 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
76
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77JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
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79JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
80 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
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82JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
83 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
84
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85JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
86 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
87 compatible.
88
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89JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
90 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
91 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
92 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
93
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94JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
95
f59aaaaa 96JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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97 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
98 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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100JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
101 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
102 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
103 be lost.
104
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105JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
106 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
107 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
108 itself :(
109
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110JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
111 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
112 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
113
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114JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
115 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
116 options.
117
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118JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
119
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120PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
121 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
122
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123PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
124 are not in the system include path.
125
ad7fc6eb 126JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 127 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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128 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
129 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 130
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131JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
132 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
133 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
134
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135JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
136
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137HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
138 an incoming connection.
139
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140HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
141 to rspamd.
142
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143HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
144 fallback to "prime256v1".
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148JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
149 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
150 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
151 client dropping the TLS connection.
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153TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
154 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
155
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156TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
157 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
158 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
159 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
160 outgoing I= field.
161
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162JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
163 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
164 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
165 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
166 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
167 check on the next write.
168
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169HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
170 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
171 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
172 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
173 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
174
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175JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
176 mime_regex ACL conditions.
177
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178JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
179 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
180 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
181
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182JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
183 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
184 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
185 an authenticate fail is not an error.
186
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187HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
188 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
189
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190JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
191 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
192
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193JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
194 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
195 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
196 distinct.
197
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198JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
199
200JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
201
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202JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
203
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204JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
205 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
206
98b98887 207JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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208 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
209
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210JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
211
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212JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
213 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
214
215JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
216
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217JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
218 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
219
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220JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
221
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222JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
223 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
224 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
225 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
226 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
227 they will retry in-clear.
228 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
229 at installation time.
230
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231HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
232 with the $config_file variable.
233
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234JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
235 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
236 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
237 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
238 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
239
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240GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
241 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
242 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
243 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
244 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
245
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246JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
247
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248JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
249 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
250 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
251 list order is no longer honoured.
252
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253JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
254 for DKIM processing.
255
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256JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
257 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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259JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
260 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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261 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
262 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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264JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
265 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
266
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267JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
268 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
269
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270JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
271 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
272
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273JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
274
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275JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
276 cached by the daemon.
277
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278JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
279 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
280
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281JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
282 keys are given for lookup.
283
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284JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
285 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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286 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
287 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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289JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
290 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
291 server-side so match that on older versions.
292
07c73177 293JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 294 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 295 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 296
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297JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
298 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
299
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300JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
301 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
302 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 303 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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304 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
305 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
306 initial truncated version.
307
ab9152ff 308JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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310JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
311
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312JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
313 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
314
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315JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
316
bc3c7bb7 317HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 318
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319JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
320 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
321 induced overflows.
322
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323JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
324 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
325 stage.
326
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327JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
328 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
329
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330JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
331 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
332 former class.
333
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334JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
335 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
336 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
337
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338JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
339 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
340 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
341 extraction. Accept either.
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347JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
348 expanded.
349
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350JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
351
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352JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
353 it.
354
01a4a5c5 355JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 356 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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357 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
358 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
359
cb1d7830 360JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 361 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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362 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
363
610ff438 364JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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365 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
366 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
367 TLS connections
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369JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
370 sites use this now.
371
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372JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
373 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
374 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
375 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
376 have a dsn_lasthop option.
377
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378JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
379 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 380 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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382JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
383
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384JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
385 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
386
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387JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
388 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
389
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390JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
391 /defer_ok option.
392
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393JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
394 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
395
fd4d8871 396JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 397 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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398 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
399
400JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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401 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
402 specify a port-range.
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404JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
405 timeout value per server.
406
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407JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
408 now have the list separator specified.
409
8a512ed5 410JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 411 option values.
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82c0c8ea 413JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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414 under OpenSSL.
415
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416JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
417
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418JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
419 rather than the verbs used.
420
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421JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
422 from 255 to 1024 chars.
423
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424JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
425
cfab9d68 426HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 427 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 428
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429JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
430 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
431
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432HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
433 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
434
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435JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
436
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437JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
438
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439JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
440 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
441 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
442 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
443
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444JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
445
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446JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
447 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
448
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449JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
450 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
451
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452JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
453
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454JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
455
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456JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
457
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458JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
459 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
460
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461JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
462 added for tls authenticator.
463
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464HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
465
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469TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
470 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
471 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
472 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
473 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
474 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
475 the script parsing/test process like normal.
476
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477TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
478 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
479 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
480 function when detected.
481
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482JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
483 cause callback expansion.
484
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485TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
486 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
487 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
488 instead of bool when processing it.
489
0f06b4f2 490JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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491 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
492
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493JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
494
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495JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
496
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497TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
498
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499TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
500 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 501
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502JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
503 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
504 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
505 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
506 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
507 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
508
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509JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
510 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
511 exceeded it.
512
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513JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
514 version 3.3.6 or later.
515
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516JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
517 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
518 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 519 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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520 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
521 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
522 option is defined.
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524TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
525 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
526
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527JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
528 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
529 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
530 matches.
531
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532JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
533 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
534 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
535
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536JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
537 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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538
539JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
540 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
541 syntax errors.
542
3394b36a 543JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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544
545JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
546 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
547
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548TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
549 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
550 tarball.
551
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552JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
553
554JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
555 Bug 1561.
556
557JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
558 output list separator was used.
559
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561Exim version 4.84
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563TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
564 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
565 return.
1f0ebb98 566
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567JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
568 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
569
570JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
571
572TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 573 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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578
579TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
580
581 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
582 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
583 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
584 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
585 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
586 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
587
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588TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
589 utilities have not been installed.
590
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591JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
592 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
593
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594TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
595 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
596
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597TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
598 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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599 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
600 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 601
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602JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
603
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604TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
605 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
606
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607PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
608 not dns_use_dnssec.
609
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610JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
611
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612TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
613 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
614 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
615
8ddef691 616TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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617 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
618 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
619 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
620 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 621 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 622
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623JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
624
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625JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
626 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
627
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628JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
629 failed delivery.
630
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631JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
632
511a6c14 633JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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634
635JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
636 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 637
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638JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
639 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
640
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641TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
642
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643JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
644
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645JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
646 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
647
648 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
649 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
650 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
651
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652TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
653 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
654 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
655 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 656
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657JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
658
8c51eead 659JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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660 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
661 lookup).
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663TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
664 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
665 Schlichting.
35aba663 666
fd3b6a4a 667JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 668 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 669
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670TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
671 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
672
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673JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
674
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675TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
676 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
677 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
678
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679JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
680 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
681
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682JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
683 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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684 hosts_request_ocsp.
685
ed3bba5f 686JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 687 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 688 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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690JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
691
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692TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
693 Christian Aistleitner.
694
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695JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
696
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697TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
698 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
699
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700JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
701 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
702
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703JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
704 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
705
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706TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
707 support and error reporting did not work properly.
708
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709TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
710 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
711
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712TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
713 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
714 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
715
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716JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
717
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718PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
719 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
720 Jasper Wallace.
721
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722JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
723
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724TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
725 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
726 CVE-2014-2972
727
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731
732PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
733
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734PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
735 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
736
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737PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
738 by GnuTLS.
739
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740PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
741 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
742 routines.
743
13363eba 744PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 745
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747 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
748 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
749 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
750 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 751
a3fb9793 752PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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753 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
754 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
755 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 756 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 757 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 758
d27f98fe 759TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 760
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761TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
762
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763TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
764 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
765
ae0e32ee 766TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 767 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 768 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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770TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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772TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
773
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774TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
775 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
776
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777JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
778
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779JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
780
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781PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
782
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783NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
784 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 785
585121e2 786JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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788PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
789 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
790 function.
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792PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
793 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
794
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795JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
796 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
797 "acl = name arg..."
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799JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
800
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801JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
802
ea722490 803JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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804 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
805
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806JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
807 Bugzilla 884.
808
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809JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
810 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
811
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812JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
813 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
814
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815PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
816 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 817 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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819JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
820 authenticators.
821
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822JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
823 for control.
824
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825PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
826
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827PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
828 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
829 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
830 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
831
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832TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
833
834 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
835 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
836 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
837 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
838 the retry rules.
839
840 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
841 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
842 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
843
844 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
845 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
846 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
847 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
848
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849 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
850 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
851 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
852 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
853 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
854 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
855 delivery, as in LMTP.
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857 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
858 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
859
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860TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
861
862 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
863
864 Resent-From: f
865
866 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
867 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
868 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
869 username as equal to the username.
870
871 This change corrects that bug.
872
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873GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
874 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
875 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
876
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877TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
878
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879PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
880 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
881 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
882 NULL dereference and crash.
883
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884JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
885
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886PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
887 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
888 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
889
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890SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
891
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892JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
893 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
894 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
895 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
896 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
897 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
898 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
899 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
900 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
901 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
902 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
903
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904PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
905 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
906
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907PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
908 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
909 Bugzilla 880.
910
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911PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
912 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
913 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
914 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
915 an empty string is now equivalent.
916
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917PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
918 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
919 not performing validation itself.
920
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921PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
922 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
923
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924JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
925 Bugzilla 321, 823.
926
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927TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
928
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929PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
930 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
931 other false fix of the same issue.
932 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
933 Bugzilla 1363.
934
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935PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
936 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
937
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938PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
939 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
940 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
941
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942PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
943 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
944 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
945
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946TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
947
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948JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
949
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950TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
951 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
952
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953TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
954 Alexander Miroch.
955
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956TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
957 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
958 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
959 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
960 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
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962TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
963 the src/util/ subdirectory.
964
581d7bee 965TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 966 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
967 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
968
969TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
970 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
971 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
972 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
973
237b2cf2
TL
974TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
975
9fc5a352
TL
976TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
977 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
978 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 979
b10e4ec2
TL
980TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
981
e2cebd74
TL
982TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
983 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
984 interaction.
985
986TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
987 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
988
2519e60d
TL
989TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
990 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
991
e78e6ecf 992
4263f395
PP
993Exim version 4.80.1
994-------------------
995
996PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
997 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 998 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 999
ea722490 1000
b1770b6e 1001Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1002-----------------
1003
1004PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1005 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1006 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1007
23c7e742
NM
1008NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1009
b322aac8
NM
1010NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1011 improved.
1012
4a891427
NM
1013NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1014
c1e794ba 1015PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1016
97753960
PP
1017PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1018
1019PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1020 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1021
df6303fa
PP
1022PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1023 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1024
7e6a8985
PP
1025PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1026 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1027
f1e05cc7 1028PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1029 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1030 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1031
4c287009
PP
1032PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1033
b98bb9ac
PP
1034PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1035 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1036
4a6a987a
PP
1037PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1038
c45dd180 1039PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1040
7db8d074
PP
1041PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1042 non-compliant senders.
1043 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1044
eae0036b 1045NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1046 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1047 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1048
dec5017e
PP
1049PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1050 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1051 in spool file corruption.
1052
c80c5570
PP
1053PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1054 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1055 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1056 "Got SSL error 2".
1057
076b11e2
PP
1058TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1059 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1060 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1061
5407bfff
JH
1062JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1063 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1064
9e45c72b
PP
1065JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1066
e74376d8
PP
1067PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1068 diagnostics.
1069 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1070
da3ad30d
PP
1071PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1072 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1073 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1074
7be682ca
PP
1075PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1076 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1077 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1078 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1079
ef840681
PP
1080PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1081 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1082
5bfb4cdf
PP
1083PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1084 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1085 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1086 resolver implementation change.
1087
c6e95d22
PP
1088PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1089 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1090
9cbad13b
PP
1091PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1092
9ee44efb
PP
1093PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1094
6a6084f8
PP
1095PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1096 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1097
12dd53c7
PP
1098PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1099 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1100
9e45c72b 1101JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1102 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1103
17c76198
PP
1104PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1105 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1106 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1107 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1108 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1109
53947857 1110PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1111
eae0036b 1112PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1113 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1114 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1115
9e45c72b 1116JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1117
7390e768
PP
1118PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1119 read-only, out of scope).
1120 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1121
08488c86
PP
1122PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1123 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1124 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1125 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1126
6475bd82
PP
1127PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1128
81f91683
PP
1129PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1130 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1131 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1132 real issues in debug logging.
1133
5779e6aa
PP
1134PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1135 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1136
3375e053
PP
1137PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1138 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1139 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1140
1141PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1142 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1143 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1144 problems.
3375e053 1145
9d26b8c0
PP
1146PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1147 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1148
57eb9e91 1149PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1150 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1151 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1152 needs to override this, it can.
1153
16880d1a
PP
1154PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1155 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1156 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1157
a799883d
PP
1158PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1159 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1160 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1161 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1162
3ecab157 1163PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1164
0599f9cf 1165
867fcbf5
PP
1166Exim version 4.77
1167-----------------
1168
1169PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1170 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1171
f1a29782
TF
1172TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1173
ab42bd23
TK
1174TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1175 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1176
0ca0cf52
TF
1177TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1178 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1179
921b12ca
TF
1180TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1181 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1182 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1183
1184 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1185 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1186 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1187 not safe for signals.
1188
1189 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1190 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1191 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1192 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1193 exiwhat.
1194
c99ce5c9
TF
1195TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1196
1197 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1198 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1199 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1200 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1201 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1202
1203 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1204 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1205 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1206 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1207 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1208 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1209
1210 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1211 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1212 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1213 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1214
1215 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1216 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1217 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1218 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1219
1220 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1221 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1222 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1223 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1224 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1225 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1226 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1227 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1228 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1229
1230 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1231 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1232 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1233 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1234
1235 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1236 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1237 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1238 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1239 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1240 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1241 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1242 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1243 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1244 details in the main documentation.
1245
3634fc25
TF
1246TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1247
792e8a19
TF
1248TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1249
5901f0ab
TF
1250TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1251 repository when doing development or release builds.
1252
7f2a2a43
PP
1253PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1254 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1255
061b7ebd
PP
1256PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1257 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1258 Bugzilla 97.
1259
e12f8c32
PP
1260PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1261
9e949f00 1262PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1263 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1264
1265PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1266 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1267
555ae6af 1268PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1269 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1270
1271PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1272 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1273
6f7fe114
PP
1274PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1275 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1276
c566dd90
PP
1277PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1278 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1279 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1280 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1281
d6cc7c78 1282PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1283 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1284 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1285
0d0e4455
PP
1286PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1287
3399bb60 1288PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1289
1290PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1291 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1292
0ca0cf52 1293
10906672
PP
1294Exim version 4.76
1295-----------------
1296
1297PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1298
754a0503
PP
1299PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1300 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1301
c0c7b2da
PP
1302PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1303
e97d1f08
PP
1304PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1305
084c1d8c
PP
1306PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1307 Bugzilla 1098.
1308
4e7ee012
PP
1309PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1310 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1311
c8d52a00
PP
1312TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1313 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1314
54e7ce4a
PP
1315PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1316 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1317
5ee6f336
PP
1318PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1319 Bugzilla 1104.
1320
c8d52a00 1321TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1322 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1323
1324TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1325 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1326 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1327 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1328
1329PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1330 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1331
10906672 1332
aa097c4c
NM
1333Exim version 4.75
1334-----------------
1335
4c9ef03a 1336NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1337 Bugzilla 1073
1338
7f3d9eff
TF
1339TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1340 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1341 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1342
159f52d2
TF
1343TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1344 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1345
0cc9542a
PP
1346PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1347 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1348 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1349
f7274286
PP
1350PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1351 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1352
7b797365
PP
1353PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1354 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1355
caacae52
NM
1356NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1357 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1358
09dcaba9
NM
1359NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1360 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1361
bc19a55b
PP
1362PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1363 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1364
bd4c9759
NM
1365NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1366 Fixes bug 943.
1367
b72aab72
PP
1368PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1369 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1370
2fe76745
PP
1371PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1372 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1373
76aa570c
PP
1374PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1375 SQL string expansion failure details.
1376 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1377
f1e5fef5
PP
1378PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1379 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1380
4d805ee9
PP
1381PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1382 extern declarations in function scope.
1383 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1384
cd59ab18
PP
1385PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1386 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1387 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1388 a kernel bug).
1389
332f5cf3
PP
1390PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1391 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1392
29cfeb94
PP
1393PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1394 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1395
660242ad
PP
1396PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1397 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1398
bc4bc4c5
PP
1399PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1400 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1401
2e64baa9
NM
1402NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1403 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1404 Dennis Davis.
1405
bddd7526
PP
1406PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1407
6bac1a9a
PP
1408PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1409
552193f0
NM
1410NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1411 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1412
1b587e48
TF
1413TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1414 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1415
aa097c4c 1416
8c07b69f
TF
1417Exim version 4.74
1418-----------------
1419
1420TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1421 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1422
c0ea85ab
TF
1423TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1424 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1425
0761d44e
TF
1426TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1427
0a349494
PP
1428DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1429 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1430 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1431
1432PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1433 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1434 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1435
fea24b2e
PP
1436PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1437 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1438 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1439 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1440
6545de78
PP
1441PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1442 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1443 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1444 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1445
1670ef10
PP
1446PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1447 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1448 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1449 arbitrary files.
1450
c0886197
PP
1451PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1452 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1453
b7487bce
PP
1454PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1455 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1456 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1457 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1458 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1459
8c07b69f 1460
97fd1e48 1461Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1462-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1463
1464PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1465 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1466 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1467
6901c596
PP
1468PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1469 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1470
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1471JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1472
77bb000f
PP
1473PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1474
a29e5231
PP
1475PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1476
ec5a0394 1477PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1478
55c75993
PP
1479PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1480
453a6645 1481PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1482 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1483 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1484 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1485
8544e77a
PP
1486PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1487 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1488 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1489 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1490 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1491
83e029d5
PP
1492PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1493
ed7f7860
PP
1494PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1495
7d9f747b
PP
1496PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1497
4b2241d2
PP
1498PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1499
10385c15
PP
1500PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1501
dbc4b90d
PP
1502PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1503
532be449
PP
1504PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1505
6a8de854 1506PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1507 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1508 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1509
5dc43717
JJ
1510JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1511
1512JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1513 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1514
3346ab01
PP
1515PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1516 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1517
491fab4c
PP
1518PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1519 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1520 Notification from John Horne.
1521
13eb9497
PP
1522PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1523 compatible.
1524
1525PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1526 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1527 it normally works.
1528
7f36d675
DW
1529DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1530 access.
1531
c1d94452
DW
1532DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1533 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1534 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1535
e2f5dc15
DW
1536DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1537 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1538 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1539 configuration file.
1540
cd25e41d
DW
1541DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1542 option (effectively making it always true).
1543
261dc43e
DW
1544DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1545 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1546
fa32850b
DW
1547DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1548 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1549
79d4bc3d
PP
1550PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1551 run-time user, instead of root.
1552
43236f35 1553PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1554 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1555
fb08281f
DW
1556DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1557 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1558 arguments.
3346ab01 1559
74935b98
DW
1560DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1561 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1562 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1563
90b6341f
DW
1564DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1565
57730b52
ML
1566NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1567
66581d1e 1568
465e92cf
JJ
1569Exim version 4.72
1570-----------------
1571
453a6645
PP
1572JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1573 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1574 typos
465e92cf 1575
453a6645
PP
1576JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1577 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1578 (Finput)
edae0343 1579
9bd3e22c
NM
1580NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1581 Patch from Alain Williams
1582
bb576ff7
NM
1583NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1584
5a1a5845
NM
1585NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1586 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1587
981a9fad
NM
1588NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1589 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1590
7fc497ee
NM
1591NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1592
1a41defa
JJ
1593JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1594
a466095c 1595NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1596 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1597
94a6bd0b
NM
1598TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1599
1600TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1601
1602MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1603 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1604 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1605
c1b141a8
NM
1606NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1607 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1608
b26eacf1 1609NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1610 Patch by Simon Arlott
1611
179c5980 1612PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1613 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1614
9bd3e22c 1615
7c6d71af
NM
1616Exim version 4.71
1617-----------------
1618
7d9f747b 1619TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1620
f013fb92
NM
1621NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1622
0eb8eedd
NM
1623NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1624
663ee6d9
NM
1625NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1626
177ebd9b
NM
1627NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1628
7c6d71af 1629
210f147e
NM
1630Exim version 4.70
1631-----------------
1632
cdd3bb85 1633TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1634 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1635
1636TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1637 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1638 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1639
1640TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1641 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1642 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1643
1644TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1645 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1646
210f147e
NM
1647NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1648 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1649 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1650 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1651
deafd5b3
NM
1652NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1653 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1654 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1655
089793a4
TF
1656TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1657
5f16ca82
TF
1658TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1659
dae9d94e 1660NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1661 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1662
7d9f747b 1663NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1664
06864c44
TF
1665TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1666 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1667 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1668 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1669
65a7d8c3 1670NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1671 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1672
23510047 1673TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1674
7d9f747b 1675NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1676
7d8eec3a 1677NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1678 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1679
89dec7b6
TF
1680TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1681 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1682
a99de90c
TF
1683TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1684 that they are available at delivery time.
1685
e2803e40
TF
1686TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1687
7199e1ee
TF
1688TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1689 incoming_port log selectors.
1690
e276e04b
TF
1691TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1692 setting expands to an empty string.
1693
ce552449 1694NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1695 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1696
e765a0f1 1697NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1698 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1699
4f054c63 1700NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1701 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1702
7d9f747b
PP
1703NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1704 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1705
7d9f747b
PP
1706NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1707 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1708
b52bc06e 1709NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1710 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1711
447de4b0
NM
1712NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1713
4c69d561 1714NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1715 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1716
d5c39246 1717NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1718 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1719
0b23848a
TK
1720TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1721
8f3414a1 1722NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1723 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1724
fb6f955d
NM
1725NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1726
1727NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1728
7d9f747b
PP
1729NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1730 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1731
7d9f747b
PP
1732NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1733 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1734
7d9f747b
PP
1735NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1736 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1737
7d9f747b
PP
1738NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1739 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1740
7d9f747b
PP
1741NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1742 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1743
7d9f747b
PP
1744NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1745 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1746
7d9f747b
PP
1747NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1748 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1749
7d9f747b 1750NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1751 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1752
7d9f747b 1753NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1754
7d9f747b
PP
1755NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1756 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1757
7d9f747b 1758NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1759
7d9f747b 1760NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1761
7d9f747b 1762NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1763
7d9f747b 1764NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1765
17792b53 1766NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1767 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1768
7d9f747b
PP
1769NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1770 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1771
91576cec 1772NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1773 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1774
7d9f747b
PP
1775NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1776 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1777
7d9f747b 1778NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1779
7d9f747b 1780NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1781
7d9f747b 1782NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1783
7d9f747b 1784NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1785
deafd5b3 1786
47db1125
NM
1787Exim version 4.69
1788-----------------
1789
4b3504d0
TK
1790TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1791 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1792 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1793
1794 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1795 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1796 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1797 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1798 build errors in sieve.c.
1799
81ea09ca
NM
1800NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1801 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1802 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1803
f13cddcb
SC
1804SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1805
7d9f747b 1806NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1807
7d9f747b 1808NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1809
7d9f747b 1810NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1811
1812
eb4c0de6
PH
1813Exim version 4.68
1814-----------------
1815
1816PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1817
6a3bceb1
PH
1818PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1819 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1820 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1821 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1822 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1823 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1824 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1825 for iplsearch lookups.
1826
1827 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1828 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1829 previously such lookups could never work.
1830
1831 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1832 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1833 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1834
2e30fa9d
TK
1835TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1836 version.
1837
0806a9c5
MH
1838MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1839 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1840 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1841 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1842 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1843 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1844
ae276964
TK
1845TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1846 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1847
0f2cbd1b
MH
1848MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1849 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1850 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1851 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1852 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1853 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1854
2b85bce7
PH
1855PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1856 local_scan API.
1857
93655c46
PH
1858PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1859
6c512171
PH
1860PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1861 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1862 encrypted.
1863
1864PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1865 by clients under certain conditions.
1866
aa6dc513
PH
1867PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1868 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1869
a96603a0
PH
1870PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1871
8f240103
PH
1872PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1873 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1874
1875PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1876
d677b2f2
PH
1877PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1878
d52120f2
PH
1879PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1880
64f2600a
PH
1881PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1882 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1883
8669f003
PH
1884PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1885
a4dc33a8
PH
1886PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1887 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1888
d6a60c0f
PH
1889PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1890
8f128379
PH
1891PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1892
8932dffe
PH
1893PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1894 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1895 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1896 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1897
ddea74fa 1898PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1899 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1900 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1901
ddea74fa 1902PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1903 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1904
ddea74fa
PH
1905PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1906
ce9f225c
PH
1907PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1908
19897d52
PH
1909PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1910
bc64a74d
PH
1911PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1912 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1913 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1914
eb4c0de6 1915
b4ed4da0
PH
1916Exim version 4.67
1917-----------------
1918
22ad45c9
MH
1919MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1920 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1921 Jan Srzednicki.
1922
b4ed4da0
PH
1923PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1924 issue a MAIL command.
1925
431b7361
PH
1926PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1927
1928 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1929
1930 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1931 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1932 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1933 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1934 item. This has been fixed.
1935
1936PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1937 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1938
83da1223
PH
1939PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1940 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1941
54fc8428
PH
1942PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1943 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1944 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1945
34c5e8dd
SC
1946SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1947
bbe15da8
PH
1948PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1949 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1950 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1951 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1952 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1953
0e8a9471
MH
1954MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1955 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1956 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1957
f0872424
PH
1958PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1959 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1960 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1961 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1962
b01dd148
PH
1963PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1964
6bf342e1
PH
1965PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1966
273f34d0
PH
1967PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1968 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1969 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1970 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1971 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1972
cf8b11a5
PH
1973PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1974
41c7c167
PH
1975PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1976 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1977 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1978 values).
1979
9c57cbc0
PH
1980PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1981
f3f065bb
PH
1982PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1983
047bdd8c
PH
1984PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1985
0ce9abe6
PH
1986PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1987
0e22dfd1
PH
1988PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1989
4c590bd1
PH
1990PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1991 no_callout_flush is set.
1992
09945f1e
PH
1993PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1994 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1995 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1996 fixed.
1997
c51b8e75
PH
1998PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1999
e28326d8
PH
2000PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2001 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2002 other ACL rejections are.
2003
75b1493f
PH
2004PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2005 with slight modification.
2006
7c5214ec
PH
2007PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2008 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2009
4311097e
PH
2010PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2011 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2012 connection.
2013
29f89cad
PH
2014PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2015 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2016
5e687460
SC
2017SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2018
c3611384
PH
2019PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2020 expansion side effects.
2021
5a11a7b4
PH
2022PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2023 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2024 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2025 be the same.
2026
0e20aff9
MH
2027MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2028 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2029 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2030
ca86f471
PH
2031PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2032 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2033 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2034 were accidentally chopped off.
2035
a14e5636
PH
2036PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2037 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2038 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2039 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2040 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2041 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2042 pipelining has not been advertised.
2043
ec95d1a6
PH
2044PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2045
42855d71
PH
2046PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2047 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2048 This has been fixed.
2049
57c2c631
PH
2050PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2051 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2052 reported on Solaris.
2053
58c01c94
PH
2054PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2055 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2056 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2057 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2058 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2059 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2060 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2061
dee5a20a
PH
2062PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2063 cpus.
2064
d2ee6114
PH
2065PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2066
b2d5182b
PH
2067PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2068
79749a79
PH
2069PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2070 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2071 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2072 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2073 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2074 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2075
c456d9bb
PH
2076PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2077 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2078 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2079 host_all_ignored option.
2080
cd9868ec
PH
2081PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2082 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2083 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2084 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2085 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2086 is what is supposed to happen).
2087
ebeaf996
PH
2088PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2089 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2090 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2091 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2092 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2093 uses the Exim user.
2094
2679d413
PH
2095PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2096 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2097 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2098 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2099 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2100 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2101 users.
2102
84024b72
PH
2103PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2104
8005d38e
SC
2105SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2106 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2107 (Jez Hancock).
2108 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2109 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2110
3298c6c6
SC
2111SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2112
a43a27c5
PH
2113PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2114
58eb016e 2115PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2116 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2117 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2118 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2119 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2120 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2121 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2122 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2123 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2124 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2125 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2126
b43a74ea
PH
2127PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2128 advertised in response to EHLO.
2129
b4ed4da0 2130
5dd1517f
PH
2131Exim version 4.66
2132-----------------
2133
2134PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2135 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2136
2137 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2138 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2139
2140 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2141 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2142 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2143
2144 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2145 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2146 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2147 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2148 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2149
2150
93cfa765
TK
2151Exim version 4.65
2152-----------------
2153
2154TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2155 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2156 versions. (#438)
2157
d6066548
MH
2158MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2159 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2160 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2161
4362ff0d
PH
2162PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2163 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2164 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2165 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2166 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2167 rather than extend the field.
2168
93cfa765 2169
944e9e9c
TF
2170Exim version 4.64
2171-----------------
aa41d2de 2172
21d74bd9
TK
2173TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2174 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2175 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2176 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2177 these files.
2178
2179TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2180 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2181 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2182
2183TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2184 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2185 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2186
2187TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2188 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2189 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2190 in the field name.
2191
2b1c6e3a
PH
2192PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2193 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2194 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2195 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2196 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2197 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2198 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2199 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2200 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2201 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2202 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2203
1f872c80
PH
2204PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2205 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2206
2207PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2208 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2209 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2210 ignores EPIPE as well.
2211
d203e649
PH
2212PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2213 (quoted-printable decoding).
2214
cc2ed8f7 2215PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2216 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2217
ddfcd446
PH
2218PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2219
d45b1de8
PH
2220PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2221
2222PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2223
38a0a95f 2224PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2225 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2226
a2405d83
JJ
2227JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2228 in 4.64-PH/09.
2229
2230JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2231 miscellaneous code fixes
2232
6ea85e9a
PH
2233PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2234 rejections.
2235
26da7e20
PH
2236PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2237 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2238 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2239 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2240 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2241 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2242 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2243 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2244
14aa5a05 2245PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2246 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2247 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2248 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2249 function.
2250 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2251 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2252 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2253 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2254 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2255 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2256 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2257 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2258 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2259
ff75a1f7
PH
2260PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2261 decoding.
2262
e6f6568e
PH
2263PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2264 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2265 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2266 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2267 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2268 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2269 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2270 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2271
d6f6e0dc
PH
2272PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2273 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2274 list.
2275
322050c2
PH
2276PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2277 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2278 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2279 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2280 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2281 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2282 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2283 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2284 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2285 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2286 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2287 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2288 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2289
08955dd3
PH
2290PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2291 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2292 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2293 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2294 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2295 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2296 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2297
1eccaa59
PH
2298PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2299 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2300 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2301 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2302 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2303 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2304 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2305 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2306 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2307 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2308
602e59e5
PH
2309PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2310 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2311 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2312 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2313 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2314
411ef850
PH
2315PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2316 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2317 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2318 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2319 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2320 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2321 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2322
7befa435
PH
2323PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2324 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2325 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2326 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2327 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2328 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2329 been verified.
2330
48da4259 2331PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2332 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2333 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2334 and authorization.)
2335
48da4259
PH
2336PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2337 if any retry times were supplied.
2338
d1d5595c
PH
2339PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2340 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2341 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2342
0ef732d9
PH
2343PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2344
328895cc
PH
2345PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2346
fd700877
PH
2347PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2348 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2349 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2350 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2351 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2352 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2353
8dce1a6f
PH
2354PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2355 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2356
17af4a17
PH
2357PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2358 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2359 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2360
2361PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2362 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2363 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2364 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2365 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2366 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2367 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2368 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2369 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2370
2371 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2372 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2373 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2374 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2375 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2376 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2377 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2378 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2379 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2380
2381 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2382 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2383 hammering the server.
2384
c1114884
PH
2385PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2386 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2387
7a0743eb
PH
2388PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2389
0d85fa3f
PH
2390PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2391 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2392 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2393
1bf43b78
PH
2394PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2395 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2396 one case where this was not true.
2397
520de300
PH
2398PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2399 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2400 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2401 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2402 fails.
2403
48c7f9e2
PH
2404PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2405 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2406 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2407 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2408 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2409 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2410 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2411 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2412 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2413 smtp transport.
2414
99ea1c86
PH
2415PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2416 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2417 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2418 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2419
a2042e78
PH
2420PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2421 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2422
4fbcfc2e
PH
2423PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2424 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2425 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2426
aa41d2de
PH
2427PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2428
af561417
PH
2429PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2430
3cc66b45
PH
2431PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2432
194cc0e4
PH
2433PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2434 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2435 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2436 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2437
a401ddaa
PH
2438PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2439 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2440
4e88a19f
PH
2441PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2442 be meaningful with "accept".
2443
d7d7b289
SC
2444SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2445 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2446
2447SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2448 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2449 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2450
2451SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2452 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2453 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2454 there is data to show.
2455 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2456
2457SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2458 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2459 as well as the number of messages.
2460
2461SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2462 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2463 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2464
2465SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2466 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2467 have a flag are now skipped.
2468
2469SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2470 Added the -emptyok flag.
2471
2472SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2473 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2474
0ea2a468
JJ
2475JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2476 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2477 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2478
2479JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2480 match 4.64-PH/13
2481
2482JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2483 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2484
2485JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2486
2487JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2488 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2489
8a10f5a4
PH
2490PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2491
30e18802
PH
2492PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2493 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2494 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2495 contravention of the specifications.
2496
55728a4f
PH
2497PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2498 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2499 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2500
d7837193
PH
2501PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2502 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2503 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2504
87054a31
PH
2505PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2506
ea2c01d2
MH
2507MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2508 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2509 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2510 some point in the past.
2511
e4fa6968
PH
2512PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2513 transport during callout processing was broken.
2514
56f5d9bd
PH
2515PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2516 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2517
922e1c28
PH
2518PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2519 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2520
21eb6e72
PH
2521PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2522 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2523
a0540757
PH
2524PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2525
944e9e9c 2526
478be7b0
SC
2527Exim version 4.63
2528-----------------
2529
2530SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2531 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2532
2533SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2534 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2535 there is data to show.
2536 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2537
2538SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2539 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2540
2b965a65
TF
2541TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2542 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2543
45b91596
PH
2544TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2545 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2546
c59f5781
TF
2547TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2548 submissions from trusted users.
2549
90fc3069
TF
2550TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2551 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2552
6083aca0
TF
2553TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2554 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2555 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2556 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2557 there is now a framework to start from.
2558
765b530f
PH
2559PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2560 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2561 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2562
4e167a8c
PH
2563PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2564
4608d683
PH
2565PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2566
b8dc3e4a
PH
2567PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2568
5418e93b
PH
2569PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2570 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2571 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2572
b4a9bda2
PH
2573PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2574 libradius.
2575
45b91596
PH
2576PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2577 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2578 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2579
5547e2c5
PH
2580PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2581 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2582 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2583 its arguments.
2584
dbcef0ea
PH
2585PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2586 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2587 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2588 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2589 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2590
25257489
PH
2591PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2592 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2593
c816d124
PH
2594PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2595
a9ccd69a
PH
2596PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2597 operations in malware.c.
2598
75fa1910
PH
2599PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2600 signatures.
2601
a7d7aa58
PH
2602PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2603 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2604 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2605 all.
2606
42119b09
PH
2607PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2608 statements to "add_header".
2609
41609df5
PH
2610PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2611 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2612
a5bd321b
PH
2613PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2614 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2615 latter.
2616
e85a7ad5 2617PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2618 so that it is now:
2619
e85a7ad5
PH
2620 ${if or { \
2621 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2622 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2623 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2624 }{no}{yes}}
2625
e85a7ad5
PH
2626 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2627 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2628
d8fe1c03
PH
2629PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2630 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2631
16282d2b
PH
2632PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2633 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2634 any possible encoding problems.
2635
35d40a98
PH
2636PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2637 but not after initializing Perl.
2638
034d99ab
PH
2639PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2640 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2641 apparently, which is not desirable.
2642
6ec97b1b
PH
2643PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2644 queries.
2645
e22ca4ac
JJ
2646JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2647 --not options
2648
2649JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2650
33d73e3b
PH
2651PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2652 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2653 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2654 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2655
9ecb03f3
PH
2656PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2657 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2658 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2659
084efe8d
PH
2660PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2661 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2662 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2663 0.12.
2664
366fc9f0
PH
2665PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2666 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2667 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2668 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2669 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2670
c59f5781 2671
c887c79e
TF
2672Exim version 4.62
2673-----------------
2674
2675TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2676 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2677
1cce3af8
PH
2678PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2679 patch).
2680
afb3eaaf
PH
2681PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2682 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2683 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2684 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2685 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2686 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2687 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2688 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2689 451 error is used.
2690
e173618b
PH
2691PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2692
dd16e114
PH
2693PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2694 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2695 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2696
f7fd3850
PH
2697PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2698 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2699 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2700 odd errors.
2701
d87df92c
PH
2702PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2703 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2704
7e9f683d
PH
2705PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2706 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2707 option (which defaults to 0600).
2708
bfad5236
PH
2709PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2710
01c490df
PH
2711PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2712 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2713 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2714 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2715 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2716 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2717 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2718
d6629cdc
PH
2719PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2720
1cce3af8 2721
214e2000
PH
2722Exim version 4.61
2723-----------------
2724
2725PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2726 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2727 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2728 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2729 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2730 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2731 addresses as local.
2732
f9daeae0
PH
2733PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2734 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2735
7e66e54d
PH
2736PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2737
c8ea1597
PH
2738PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2739 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2740 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2741 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2742 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2743 grumble.
2744
911f6fde
PH
2745PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2746 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2747
47ca6d6c
PH
2748PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2749 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2750 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2751 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2752 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2753
ed0e9820
PH
2754PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2755 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2756 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2757 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2758
eff37e47
PH
2759PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2760 be the same on different OS.
2761
1921d2ea
PH
2762PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2763 testing.
2764
b3f69ca8
JJ
2765JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2766 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2767
2768JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2769 in 4.61-PH/06
2770
424a1c63
PH
2771PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2772 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2773 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2774 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2775 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2776 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2777 bounce message.
2778
7a100415
PH
2779PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2780 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2781 when Exim was called.
2782
19b9dc85
PH
2783PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2784 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2785
309bd837
PH
2786PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2787 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2788 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2789 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2790
59e82a2a
PH
2791PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2792 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2793 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2794 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2795 changes:
2796
2797 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2798 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2799 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2800
2801 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2802 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2803 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2804
9edc04ce
PH
2805PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2806 feature).
2807
1349e1e5
PH
2808PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2809 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2810 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2811 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2812 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2813 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2814 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2815 values from the SRV records were lost.
2816
ea49d0e1
PH
2817PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2818 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2819 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2820
064a94c9
PH
2821PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2822 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2823 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2824
727071f8
PH
2825PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2826 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2827 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2828 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2829 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2830 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2831 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2832 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2833 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2834 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2835
f78eb7c6
PH
2836PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2837 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2838 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2839
21c28500
PH
2840PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2841 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2842
2843PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2844 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2845 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2846 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2847 is given.
2848
1688f43b
PH
2849PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2850 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2851 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2852
2853PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2854 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2855 PH/23 above applies.
2856
9675b384
PH
2857PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2858 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2859 (for which there is an explicit test).
2860
6a3f1455
PH
2861PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2862
dac79d3e
PH
2863PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2864 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2865 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2866 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2867 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2868
5977a0b3
PH
2869PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2870 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2871 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2872 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2873
c91535f3
PH
2874PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2875 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2876 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2877
0d46a8c8
PH
2878PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2879
278c6e6c
PH
2880PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2881
2cbb4081
PH
2882PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2883 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2884 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2885
3eef829e
PH
2886PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2887 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2888 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2889 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2890 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2891
1ab95fa6
PH
2892PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2893 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2894 the message gets confusing).
2895
230205fc
PH
2896PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2897 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2898 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2899 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2900
75e0e026
PH
2901PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2902 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2903 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2904 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2905 same order.
2906
2907PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2908 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2909 the different processes.
2910
145396a6
PH
2911PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2912
3cd34f13
PH
2913PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2914
11121d3d
JJ
2915JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2916 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2917
2918JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2919 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2920
2921JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2922 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2923 messages matching specified criteria.
2924
8def5aaf
PH
2925PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2926
929ba01c
PH
2927PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2928 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2929
2632889e
PH
2930PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2931 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2932 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2933 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2934 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2935 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2936 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2937 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2938 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2939 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2940
944a9c55
PH
2941PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2942 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2943 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2944
4a23603b
PH
2945PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2946
4730f942
PH
2947PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2948 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2949 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2950 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2951 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2952 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2953 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2954 the variable.
2955
30dba1e6
PH
2956PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2957 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2958
382afc6b
PH
2959PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2960
a86229cf
PH
2961PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2962
50c99ba6
PH
2963PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2964
d35e429d
PH
2965PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2966 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2967 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2968 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2969 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2970 size of the count of files.
2971
f90d018c
PH
2972PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2973
75def545
PH
2974PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2975 used in LMTP mode:
2976
2977 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2978 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2979 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2980 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2981
2982 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2983 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2984 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2985
2986PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2987 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2988 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2989 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2990 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2991
c46782ef
PH
2992PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2993 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2994
71fafd95
PH
2995PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2996 will now be deprecated.
2997
2c5db4fd
PH
2998PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2999
9cf6b11a
JJ
3000JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3001 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3002 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3003
3004JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3005 with very large, slow to parse queues
3006
3007JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3008
3009JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3010
898d150f
PH
3011PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3012 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3013 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3014 SMTP output lines.
3015
46218253
PH
3016PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3017 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3018 Sieve code now uses this.
3019
e97957bc
PH
3020PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3021 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3022
81e509d7
PH
3023PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3024 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3025
3d240ff7
PH
3026PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3027
b37c4101
PH
3028PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3029 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3030 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3031 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3032 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3033
79378e0f
PH
3034PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3035 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3036 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3037 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3038
e49c7bb4
PH
3039PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3040
d114ec46
PH
3041PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3042
f3d7df6c
PH
3043PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3044 is preferred over IPv4.
3045
715ab376
PH
3046PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3047 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3048 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3049 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3050 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3051 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3052 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3053
6b31b150
PH
3054PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3055 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3056 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3057
3058PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3059
d515a917
PH
3060PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3061 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3062 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3063 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3064 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3065 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3066 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3067 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3068 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3069 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3070 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3071
9b8fadde
PH
3072PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3073 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3074 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3075
214e2000 3076
5de37277
PH
3077Exim version 4.60
3078-----------------
3079
cc38ddbf
PH
3080PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3081
3082 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3083 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3084
3085 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3086 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3087 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3088
72fdd6ae
PH
3089PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3090
3091 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3092 not a single digit.
3093
3094 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3095 string.
3096
3097 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3098 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3099 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3100 silly things.
3101
3102 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3103 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3104
3105 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3106 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3107
cb741023
PH
3108PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3109 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3110 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3111
f174f16e
PH
3112PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3113 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3114
c25242d7
PH
3115PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3116 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3117
3118 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3119
3120 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3121 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3122 this:
3123
3124 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3125
82c19f95
PH
3126PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3127 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3128 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3129 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3130 identical. For example:
3131
3132 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3133
3134 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3135 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3136 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3137
d7ffbc12
PH
3138PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3139 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3140 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3141 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3142
9f526266
PH
3143PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3144 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3145 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3146 message.
3147
87fcc8b9
PH
3148PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3149
3150 o fixes some comments
3151 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3152 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3153 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3154 and documents the missing references header update
3155
3156 and most important:
3157
3158 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3159 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3160 result)
3161
456682f5
PH
3162PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3163 Electronic Mail") by including:
3164
3165 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3166
3167 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3168 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3169 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3170 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3171 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3172
3173 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3174
3175 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3176
3177 The auto-replied keyword:
3178
3179 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3180 message by an automatic process,
3181
3182 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3183
3184 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3185 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3186
3187 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3188 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3189 other messages.
3190
3e46c1aa
PH
3191PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3192 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3193
49826d12
PH
3194PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3195
eba0c039
PH
3196PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3197 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3198 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3199
a0d6ba8a
PH
3200PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3201 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3202 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3203
f0917727
PH
3204PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3205 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3206 and treats the condition as false.
3207
096fee00
PH
3208PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3209
024bd3c2
PH
3210PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3211 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3212 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3213 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3214 not changing the active code.
3215
3216 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3217 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3218
3219 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3220 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3221
df199fec
PH
3222PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3223 (Bugzilla #53).
3224
d27f1df3
PH
3225PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3226 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3227 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3228 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3229 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3230 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3231 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3232 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3233 the text comparison.
3234
96776534
PH
3235PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3236 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3237 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3238 The same fix has been applied.
3239
5de37277 3240
9a799bc0
PH
3241Exim version 4.54
3242-----------------
3243
3244PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3245 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3246 It now does.
3247
99a4b039
PH
3248PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3249 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3250
3251PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3252
4b233853
PH
3253PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3254 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3255 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3256 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3257 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3258
8857ccfd
PH
3259TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3260 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3261 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3262 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3263 or /domain=).
3264
433a2980
PH
3265PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3266 testing suite.
3267
3e46c1aa 3268
9a799bc0 3269
e3a311ba
TK
3270Exim version 4.53
3271-----------------
3272
3273TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3274 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3275
13b685f9
PH
3276PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3277
395ff96d
PH
3278PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3279
5b68f6e4
PH
3280PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3281 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3282 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3283
1ab52c69
PH
3284PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3285 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3286 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3287
b07e6aa3
PH
3288PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3289 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3290 operating systems.
3291
254e032f
PH
3292PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3293 ${stat: expansion item.
3294
3af76a81
PH
3295PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3296 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3297
2548ba04
PH
3298PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3299 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3300 file for comments.
3301
b6c6011d
PH
3302PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3303
cf39cf57
PH
3304PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3305 setting.
3306
f1513293
PH
3307PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3308 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3309
727549a4
PH
3310TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3311
af46795e
PH
3312PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3313 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3314 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3315 the end of the subprocess.
3316
d7b47fd0
PH
3317PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3318 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3319 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3320 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3321 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3322
ee744174
JJ
3323JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3324
b582ab87
PH
3325TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3326
41a13e0a
PH
3327PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3328 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3329
f625cc5a
PH
3330PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3331
3332PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3333
21f7af35
PH
3334PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3335 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3336 HP-UX compiler.
3337
31480e42
PH
3338PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3339
2d280592
PH
3340PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3341 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3342 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3343
7cd1141b
PH
3344PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3345 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3346
3347PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3348 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3349
750af86e
PH
3350PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3351 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3352
3353 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3354 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3355
3356 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3357 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3358 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3359 contributed by a Radius user.
3360
3361PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3362 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3363
4304270b
TK
3364TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3365 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3366
750af86e
PH
3367PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3368 available.
3369
64ffc24f
PH
3370PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3371 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3372 received.
3373
5dd9625b
PH
3374PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3375 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3376 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3377 header lines when this was not necessary.
3378
5591031b
PH
3379PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3380
ba18e66a
PH
3381PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3382 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3383 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3384 exists".
3385
9cec981f
PH
3386PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3387 -bV or -d is used.
3388
aa2b5c79
PH
3389PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3390 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3391 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3392 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3393
48a53b7f
PH
3394PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3395
1c59d63b
PH
3396PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3397
671012da
TK
3398TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3399
1509d3a8
PH
3400PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3401
3402PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3403 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3404 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3405 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3406 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3407 settings.
3408
3409PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3410
2fe1a124
PH
3411PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3412 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3413 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3414 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3415 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3416 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3417 which is clearly wrong.
3418
8800895a
PH
3419PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3420
ccfdb010
PH
3421PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3422 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3423 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3424 subsequently added.
3425
1130bfb0
PH
3426PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3427 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3428
ebcb507f
PH
3429PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3430
c35e155c
PH
3431PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3432 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3433
95d1f782
PH
3434PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3435 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3436
fd6de02e
PH
3437PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3438 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3439
58de37c5
PH
3440PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3441 recipients, not senders.
3442
261cf466
TF
3443TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3444 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3445
3ee512ff
PH
3446PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3447
e08c430f
PH
3448PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3449
bef5a11f
PH
3450PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3451 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3452 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3453 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3454
7546de58
TF
3455TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3456
e5d5a95f
TF
3457TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3458 clock is set back in time.
3459
2e88a017
TF
3460TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3461 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3462
a5f65aa4
TF
3463TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3464 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3465
e7726cbf
PH
3466PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3467 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3468 (see PH/47 above).
3469
a7fdad5b
TF
3470TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3471 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3472 header rewrites.
3473
6af56900
PH
3474PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3475 type ("H").
3476
0925ede6
PH
3477PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3478
66afa403
TF
3479TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3480 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3481 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3482
0154e85a
TF
3483TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3484 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3485 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3486 helo verification defer as a failure.
3487
16f12c76
PH
3488PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3489 actual error message.
3490
bbe902f0 3491
e5a9dba6
PH
3492Exim version 4.52
3493-----------------
3494
3495TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3496
22c3b60b
PH
3497PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3498 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3499 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3500 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3501
06a9b4b5
PH
3502TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3503
c1ac6996
PH
3504PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3505 can still be requested.
3506
9c7a242c
PH
3507PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3508 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3509 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3510 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3511
87ba3f5f
PH
3512TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3513 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3514 circumstances, but probably never did.
3515
3516PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3517 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3518 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3519 in the header line.
3520
29aba418
TF
3521TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3522
fe0dab11
TF
3523TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3524 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3525
11d337a4
TK
3526TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3527
3528TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3529
415c8f3b
PH
3530PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3531 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3532 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3533 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3534 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3535 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3536
958541e9
PH
3537PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3538 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3539 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3540 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3541 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3542 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3543
c206415f
TK
3544TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3545 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3546
2a4be8f9
PH
3547PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3548 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3549
1cba11c5
SC
3550SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3551 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3552
3553SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3554
3555SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3556
3557SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3558
3559SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3560
3561SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3562
3563SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3564
1005d00e
TK
3565TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3566
3567TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3568 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3569 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3570
3571TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3572 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3573 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3574 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3575
9b4768fa
PH
3576PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3577 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3578 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3579
3580PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3581 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3582 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3583 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3584
0d7eb84a
PH
3585PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3586 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3587 to be made).
3588
3589PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3590 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3591 should work with maildirs and everything.
3592
40727bee
TK
3593TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3594 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3595
554d2369
TF
3596TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3597 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3598
1f922db1
PH
3599PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3600 function for BDB 4.3.
3601
ef213c3b
PH
3602PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3603
8ac170f3
PH
3604PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3605 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3606 involved.
3607
b1c749bb
PH
3608PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3609 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3610 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3611 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3612 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3613 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3614
4aac9b49
PH
3615PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3616 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3617 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3618 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3619 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3620 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3621 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3622 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3623
294520c8
TK
3624TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3625 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3626 details.
3627
5bd022fe
PH
3628PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3629 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3630
90e9ce59
PH
3631PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3632 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3633 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3634 test. It is now used for both.
3635
5ea81592
PH
3636PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3637 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3638 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3639 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3640 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3641 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3642
c6c2dc1d
PH
3643PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3644 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3645 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3646 string_vformat().
3647
fffffe4c
PH
3648PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3649 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3650 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3651
9a26b6b2
PH
3652PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3653 experimental DomainKeys support:
3654
3655 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3656 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3657 the control was given.
3658
3659 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3660
4aee0225
PH
3661PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3662
32d668a5
PH
3663PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3664
8187c3f3
PH
3665PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3666 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3667 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3668 db.h files).
3669
ff790e47 3670PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3671 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3672 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3673 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3674 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3675 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3676 course.
ff790e47 3677
5417f6d1
PH
3678PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3679 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3680 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3681 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3682 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3683 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3684
59cf8544
PH
3685PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3686 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3687 do -d+all out of habit.
3688
e7ad8a65
PH
3689PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3690 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3691 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3692
ade42478
PH
3693PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3694 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3695 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3696 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3697 record types that Exim uses.
3698
182ad5cf
PH
3699PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3700 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3701 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3702 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3703 non-existent file that was broken.
3704
b0d9fc80
TK
3705TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3706 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3707
3708TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3709 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3710 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3711
3712TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3713
47c7a64a
PH
3714PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3715 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3716 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3717 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3718 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3719 same time.
3720
a388bce4
SC
3721SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3722 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3723 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3724 at a slight CPU cost.
3725
3726SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3727 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3728
3729SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3730 by Marc Sherman.
3731
0793e4ed
SC
3732SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3733
c58b88df
PH
3734PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3735 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3736
e7ad8a65 3737
7982096b
PH
3738Exim version 4.51
3739-----------------
3740
1a46a8c5
PH
3741TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3742 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3743
2f079f46 3744TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3745
3746TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3747
3748PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3749 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3750
3751PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3752 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3753 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3754 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3755 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3756 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3757 file.
3758
3759PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3760 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3761 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3762 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3763 these two options.
3764
3765PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3766 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3767 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3768 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3769 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3770 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3771 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3772 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3773
3774PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3775 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3776
3777PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3778 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3779 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3780 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3781 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3782 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3783
3784PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3785 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3786 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3787 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3788
3789PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3790 Finch).
3791
3792PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3793 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3794
49c2d5ea
PH
3795PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3796 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3797 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3798 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3799 message.
49c2d5ea 3800
bf759a8b
PH
3801PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3802
83364d30
PH
3803PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3804 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3805
7999bbd7
PH
3806PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3807 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3808 to what was transported.)
3809
7dbf77c9
PH
3810TF/01 Added $received_time.
3811
74e0617f
PH
3812PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3813 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3814 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3815 spamd_address settings.
3816
2f079f46
PH
3817PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3818 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3819 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3820 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3821 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3822
8c841523
PH
3823PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3824
7766a4f0
PH
3825PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3826 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3827 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3828 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3829 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3830
8b417f2c
PH
3831PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3832 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3833
901f42cb
PH
3834PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3835 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3836 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3837 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3838 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3839 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3840 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3841 for failure.
3842
f9b9210e
PH
3843PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3844 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3845 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3846 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3847 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3848 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3849 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3850 "input=".
3851
54cdb463
PH
3852PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3853
cf00dad6
PH
3854PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3855 driver and ACL definitions.
3856
acb1b346
PH
3857PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3858 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3859
c5ddb310
PH
3860PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3861 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3862 understands it better than I do:
3863
3864 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3865 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3866
3867 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3868 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3869 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3870 => three warnings about OTP not working
3871 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3872
3873 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3874 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3875 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3876 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3877 for each call.)
3878 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3879 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3880
3881 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3882 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3883 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3884
31619da6
PH
3885PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3886 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3887 specified.
3888
bebaf0fc
PH
3889PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3890 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3891 "Linux".
3892
475fe28a
PH
3893PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3894 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3895 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3896
3897 warn !verify = sender
3898 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3899
3900 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3901 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3902
7e8bec7a
PH
3903PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3904
3905 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3906 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3907
3908 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3909 nomenclature these days.)
3910
e4a89c47
PH
3911PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3912 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3913
5ca2a9a1
PH
3914PH/30 In these circumstances:
3915 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3916 . First host does not offer TLS;
3917 . First host accepts first address;
3918 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3919 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3920 . Second host accepts second address.
3921 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3922 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3923 address.
7e8bec7a 3924
c688b954
PH
3925PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3926 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3927 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3928 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3929 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3930
fed77020
PH
3931PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3932 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3933
7fe1560f
PH
3934PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3935 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3936
ebb6e6d5
PH
3937PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3938 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3939 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3940
9c4e8f60
PH
3941PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3942 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3943 overlooked.
3944
3945PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3946
d7174846
PH
3947PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3948 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3949 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3950 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3951 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3952 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3953 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3954
3955 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3956 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3957 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3958 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3959 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3960
3961 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3962 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3963 routed further.
3964
cfe75fc3
PH
3965PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3966 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3967 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3968 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3969 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3970 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3971
be22d70e
PH
3972PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3973
0612b098
PH
3974PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3975 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3976 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3977 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3978 printable escape sequences.
3979
2e0c1448
PH
3980PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3981 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3982 body only.
3983
447d236c
PH
3984PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3985 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3986 are as follows:
3987
3988 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3989 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3990 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3991 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3992 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3993
3994 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3995 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3996 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3997
d20976dc
PH
3998PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3999
f656d135
PH
4000PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4001 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4002 play with."
4003
2e2a30b4
PH
4004PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4005 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4006 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4007 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4008 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4009 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4010 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4011 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4012 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4013 the log output.
4014
9176e9f0
PH
4015PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4016 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4017 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4018 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4019 "make".
4020
7982096b 4021
bbe902f0
PH
4022A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4023----------------------------------------
4024
4025Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4026changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4027needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4028in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4029that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4030release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4031from 4.43.
4032
4033I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
40344.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4035those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4036historical information.
4037
4038
f7b63901 4039Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4040-----------------
4041
5fe762f6
PH
4042 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4043
139059f6 4044 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4045 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4046
7086e875
PH
4047 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4048 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4049 place.
4050
35af9f61
PH
4051 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4052 filter fails to execute.
4053
b668c215
PH
4054 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4055 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4056 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4057 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4058 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4059
a494b1e1
PH
4060 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4061
4062 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4063 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4064 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4065 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4066
c5fcb476
PH
4067 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4068 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4069 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4070 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4071 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4072
69358f02
PH
4073 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4074
5be20824
PH
407510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4076
eb2c0248
PH
407711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4078 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4079 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4080 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4081
2a3eea10
PH
408212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4083 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4084 sender verification.
4085
408613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4087 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4088
23c7ff99
PH
408914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4090
4deaf07d
PH
409115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4092 connection timeout.
4093
926e1192
PH
409416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4095 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4096
650edc6f
PH
409717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4098 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4099
2c7db3f5
PH
410018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4101 information about exactly what failed.
4102
3d235903
PH
410319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4104
7c7ad977
PH
410520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4106 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4107 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4108
981756db
PH
410921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4110 It is now set to "smtps".
4111
d4eb88df
PH
411222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4113 ignore_target_hosts.
4114
411523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4116 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4117 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4118 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4119 "[x.x.x.x]".
4120
7d468ab8
PH
412124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4122 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4123 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4124
412525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4126 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4127 wake it up if nothing else does.
4128
62c0818f
PH
412926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4130 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4131 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4132 end up negative.
4133
26034054
PH
413427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4135 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4136
af66f652
PH
413728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4138
90af77f4
PH
413929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4140 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4141 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4142 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4143 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4144 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4145 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4146 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4147
d8ef3577
PH
414830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4149 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4150 than one IP address.
4151
5cb8cbc6
PH
415231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4153 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4154 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4155 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4156
14702f5b
PH
415732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4158 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4159 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4160 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4161 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4162 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4163
063b1e99
PH
416433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4165 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4166 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4167 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4168
652e1b65
PH
416934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4170 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4171 respected.
4172
6f0c9a4f
PH
417335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4174 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4175 $sender_host_address.
4176
33397d19
PH
417736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4178 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4179 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4180 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4181 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4182 very small.
4183
7bb56e1f
PH
418437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4185
4186 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4187 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4188
ea3bc19b
PH
4189 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4190 just the host names, not the priorities.
4191
4192 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4193 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4194 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4195
ea3bc19b 4196 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4197 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4198
0bcb2a0e
PH
419938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4200 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4201 domain.
4202
2ac0e484
PH
420339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4204
4e1fde53
PH
420540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4206 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4207
de365ded
PH
420841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4209 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4210 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4211
f05da2e8
PH
421242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4213
d6453af2
PH
421443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4215
f7b63901
PH
421644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4217
421845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4219 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4220 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4221 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4222 because the tests only now provoked it.
4223
a444213a
PH
422446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4225 (this can affect the format of dates).
4226
0ec020ea
PH
422747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4228 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4229 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4230 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4231
b1206957
PH
423248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4233
423449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4235 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4236 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4237 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4238
26dd5a95
PH
423950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4240 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4241 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4242
343b2385
PH
424351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4244 autoreply.
4245
1c5466b9
PH
424652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4247 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4248 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4249 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4250 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4251 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4252 is going on).
4253
55ee9ee3
PH
425453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4255 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4256 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4257 the line.
4258
d38f8232
PH
425954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4260 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4261 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4262
4263 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4264 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4265 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4266 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4267 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4268 so I produce this patch..."
4269
3295e65b
PH
4270 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4271 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4272 is not defined.
4273
7102e136
PH
427455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4275 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4276 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4277 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4278 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4279
3ca0ba97
PH
428056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4281
c2bcbe20
PH
428257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4283 long debug lines gets shown.
4284
18ce445d
PH
428558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4286 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4287
1f5b4c3d
PH
428859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4289
4290 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4291 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4292 of $primary_hostname.
4293
b975ba52
PH
429460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4295 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4296 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4297 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4298 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4299 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4300 by change 4.50/55 above.
4301
4302 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4303 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4304 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4305 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4306 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4307 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4308 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4309
431061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4311 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4312 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4313 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4314
17ffcae7
PH
431562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4316 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4317
d95f9fdb
PH
431863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4319 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4320 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4321 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4322 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4323
86b8287f
PH
432464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4325 This has been fixed.
4326
60dc5e56
PH
432765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4328 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4329 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4330 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4331 the caching.)
4332
533244af
PH
433366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4334
a5a28604
PH
433567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4336 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4337 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4338 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4339
7e634d24
PH
434068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4341 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4342
3e11c26b
PH
434369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4344 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4345 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4346
6729cf78
PH
434770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4348 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4349 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4350 message there.
4351
00f00ca5
PH
435271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4353 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4354 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4355
c9bdd01c
PH
435672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4357 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4358 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4359 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4360
d43194df
PH
436173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4362 during host lookups.
4363
fe5b5d0b
PH
436474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4365 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4366
4367 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4368
76a2d7ba
PH
436975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4370 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4371 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4372 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4373 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4374 background.
4375
437676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4377 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4378
04f7d5b9
PH
437977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4380 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4381 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4382
bc60667e
PH
438378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4384
bb6e88ff
PH
438579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4386 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4387 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4388 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4389 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4390 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4391 process earlier.
4392
1e70f85b
PH
439380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4394 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4395 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4396 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4397 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4398
439981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4400 tables).
4401
4e01f9d6
PH
440282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4403
1ee1cef2
PH
440483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4405 "vacation" handling.
4406
6e2b4ccc
PH
440784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4408 OS variants using glibc.
4409
8e669ac1
PH
441085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4411
495ae4b0 4412
bbe902f0
PH
4413----------------------------------------------------
4414See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4415----------------------------------------------------
4416
4417
4418Exim version 4.44
4419-----------------
4420
4421 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4422 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4423 transport
4424
4425 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4426 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4427 place.
4428
4429 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4430 filter fails to execute.
4431
4432 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4433 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4434 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4435 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4436 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4437
4438 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4439 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4440 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4441 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4442
4443 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4444 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4445 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4446 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4447 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4448
4449 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4450
4451 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4452 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4453 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4454 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4455
4456 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4457 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4458 sender verification.
4459
446010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4461 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4462
446311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4464 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4465
446612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4467 ignore_target_hosts.
4468
446913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4470 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4471 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4472 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4473 "[x.x.x.x]".
4474
447514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4476 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4477 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4478
447915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4480 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4481 wake it up if nothing else does.
4482
448316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4484 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4485 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4486 end up negative.
4487
448817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4489 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4490
ea3a6f44 449118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4492
449319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4494 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4495 empty pattern.
4496
449720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4498 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4499 one IP address.
4500
ea3a6f44
NM
450121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4502 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4503 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4504 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4505 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4506 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4507
ea3a6f44
NM
450822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4509 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4510 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4511
451223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4513 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4514 $sender_host_address.
4515
451624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4517
ea3a6f44
NM
451825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4519 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4520 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4521
452226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4523 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4524
ea3a6f44
NM
452527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4526 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4527
ea3a6f44
NM
452828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4529 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4530 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4531 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4532
453329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4534 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4535 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4536
ea3a6f44
NM
453730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4538 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4539 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4540 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4541
ea3a6f44
NM
454231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4543 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4544 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4545
ea3a6f44
NM
454631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4547 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4548
ea3a6f44
NM
454932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4550 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4551 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4552 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4553 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4554 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4555 is going on).
bbe902f0 4556
ea3a6f44
NM
455733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4558 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4559 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4560 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4561 CAN-2005-0021
4562
ea3a6f44
NM
456334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4564 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4565 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4566 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4567 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4568 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4569 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4570
4571 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4572 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4573 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4574 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4575 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4576 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4577 CAN-2005-0021
4578
ea3a6f44
NM
457935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4580 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4581 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4582 CAN-2005-0022
4583
ea3a6f44
NM
458436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4585 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4586 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4587 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4588 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4589
ea3a6f44
NM
459037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4591 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4592 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4593 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4594 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4595
ea3a6f44
NM
459638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4597 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4598 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4599 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4600 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4601
4602
495ae4b0
PH
4603Exim version 4.43
4604-----------------
4605
4606 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4607 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4608 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4609 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4610 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4611 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4612 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4613
4614 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4615 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4616 the delivery.
4617
4618 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4619
4620 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4621
4622 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4623 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4624 to local_scan().
4625
4626 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4627 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4628 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4629 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4630 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4631
4632 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4633 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4634
4635 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4636
4637 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4638
463910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4640 header_sender only.
4641
464211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4643 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4644
464512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4646 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4647 affecting debugging statements).
4648
464913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4650
465114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4652 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4653 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4654 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4655 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4656 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4657 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4658 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4659 after the received time, and all would be well.
4660
466115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4662 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4663 condition in an expansion string.
4664
466516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4666
466717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4668 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4669 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4670 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4671 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4672 job under whatever limits there are.
4673
467418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4675
467619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4677 space).
4678
467920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4680 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4681 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4682 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4683 return path is set.
4684
468521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4686 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4687 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4688 binary data in such strings.
4689
469022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4691
469223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4693 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4694 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4695 failure, which is pointless.
4696
469724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4698
469925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4700
470126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4702 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4703 Sender: header lines.
4704
470527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4706 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4707 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4708
470928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4710 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4711 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4712 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4713 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4714 happens.
4715
471629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4717 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4718 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4719 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4720 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4721
472230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4723 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4724 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4725 1024.
4726
472731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4728 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4729
473032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4731 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4732
473333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4734
473532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4736
473733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4738
473934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4740 syntax error.
4741
474235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4743
474436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4745
474637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4747 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4748 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4749 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4750
475138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4752 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4753
4754
4755Exim version 4.42
4756-----------------
4757
4758 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4759 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4760 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4761 it was not quoted.
4762 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4763 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4764 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4765 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4766 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4767 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4768
4769 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4770 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4771 verification failure".
4772
4773 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4774 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4775 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4776 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4777
4778 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4779 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4780 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4781 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4782 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4783 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4784 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4785 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4786 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4787 treated as a timeout.
4788
4789 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4790 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4791 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4792 not set for Exim filters).
4793
4794 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4795 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4796 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4797
4798 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4799
4800 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4801 try to make them clearer.
4802
4803 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4804 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4805
4806 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4807
4808 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4809
481010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4811 only the Cygwin environment.
4812
481311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4814 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4815 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4816 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4817 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4818
481912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4820 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4821 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4822 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4823 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4824 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4825 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4826
482713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4828 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4829
483014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4831
4832 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4833 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4834 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4835
4836 To: susanne@some.where
4837
4838 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4839 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4840 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4841 of addresses in From: header lines).
4842
4843 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4844 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4845 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4846
4847 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4848 treated as non-personal.
4849
4850 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4851 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4852
485315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4854
485516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4856
485717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4858 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4859 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4860
486118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4862 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4863
486419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4865 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4866 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4867 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4868 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4869 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4870
487120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4872 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4873 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4874 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4875 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4876 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4877 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4878 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4879
4880 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4881
488221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4883 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4884
488522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4886 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4887 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4888
488923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4890 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4891
489224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4893 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4894 rather than long int.
4895
489625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4897
489826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4899
4900
4901Exim version 4.41
4902-----------------
4903
4904 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4905 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4906 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4907 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4908 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4909 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4910
4911
4912Exim version 4.40
4913-----------------
4914
4915 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4916 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4917
4918 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4919 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4920 socklen_t is defined.
4921
4922 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4923 always exist.
4924
4925 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4926 configured.
4927
4928 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4929 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4930 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4931 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4932 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4933
4934 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4935 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4936 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4937 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4938
4939 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4940 of flapping under certain conditions.
4941
4942 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4943 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4944 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4945
4946 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4947
494810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4949
495011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4951 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4952 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4953 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4954
495512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4956 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4957 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4958 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4959 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4960 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4961 preserved with the message after it was received.
4962
496313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4964 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4965 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4966 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4967 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4968 test suite worked just fine.
4969
497014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4971 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4972 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4973
497415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4975 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4976 string.
4977
497816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4979 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4980 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4981 does not fully solve it.
4982
498317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4984 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4985 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4986 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4987 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4988
498918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4990 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4991 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4992
499319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4994 string, for example:
4995
4996 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4997
4998 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4999 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5000 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5001 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5002 the routers could not see them.
5003
500420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5005 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5006
500721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5008 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5009 output).
5010
501122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5012 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5013 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5014 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5015 that needed quoting.
5016
501723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5018 was not being matched caselessly.
5019
502024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5021 backslashes.
5022
502325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5024 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5025 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5026 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5027 when use_sender is false.
5028
502926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5030
503127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5032
503328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5034
503529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5036 the configuration file.
5037
503830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5039 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5040
504131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5042
504332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5044 bytes in the message body.
5045
504633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5047 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5048 delivery.
5049
505034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5051
505235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5053
505436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5055 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5056 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5057 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5058 another IP address.
5059
5060
5061Exim version 4.34
5062-----------------
5063
5064 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5065 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5066
5067 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5068 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5069 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5070 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5071 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5072
5073 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5074 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5075
5076 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5077 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5078 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5079
5080 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5081 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5082 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5083
5084 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5085 for routers.
5086
5087 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5088 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5089 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5090 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5091 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5092 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5093 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5094
5095
5096Exim version 4.33
5097-----------------
5098
5099 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5100 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5101 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5102 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5103 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5104 default (and expected) setting.
5105
5106 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5107 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5108 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5109 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5110
5111 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5112 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5113
5114 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5115 in domain lists.
5116
5117 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5118 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5119 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5120 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5121 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5122 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5123
5124 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5125 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5126 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5127
5128 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5129 part (NOT match_host).
5130
5131 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5132
5133 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5134 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5135 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5136 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5137 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5138 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5139 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5140 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5141 the same named file.
5142
514310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5144 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5145 when Exim is built.
5146
514711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5148 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5149 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5150 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5151 a host name.
5152
515312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5154 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5155 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5156
515713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5158
515914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5160
516115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5162
516316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5164 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5165
516617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5167 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5168 before starting the TLS session.
5169
517018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5171
517219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5173 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5174
517520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5176 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5177 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5178 colon in the middle).
5179
5180
5181Exim version 4.32
5182-----------------
5183
5184 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5185 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5186 multiple configurations are in use.
5187
5188 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5189 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5190 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5191 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5192 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5193 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5194
5195 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5196 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5197
5198 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5199 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5200 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5201
5202 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5203 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5204 occurs.
5205
5206 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5207 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5208
5209 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5210
5211 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5212 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5213
5214 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5215
5216 -prval:sval
5217
5218 is equivalent to
5219
5220 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5221
5222 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5223 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5224 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5225 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5226 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5227
522810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5229 Exim's behaviour:
5230
5231 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5232 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5233 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5234 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5235 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5236 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5237
5238 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5239 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5240 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5241 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5242 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5243 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5244 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5245 string.
5246
5247 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5248 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5249 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5250 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5251 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5252
525311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5254
525512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5256 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5257 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5258
525913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5260
526114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5262 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5263 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5264 information.
5265
526615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5267 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5268
526916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5270 Three changes have been made:
5271
5272 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5273 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5274 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5275 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5276 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5277
5278 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5279 been restored.
5280
5281 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5282 the modified behaviour.
5283
5284
5285Exim version 4.31
5286-----------------
5287
5288 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5289 Larry Rosenman.
5290
5291 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5292 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5293
5294 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5295 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5296 try to track down a specific problem.
5297
5298 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5299 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5300 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5301
5302 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5303 warning.
5304
5305 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5306 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5307 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5308 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5309 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5310 some earlier ones do not.
5311
5312 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5313
5314 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5315 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5316 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5317 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5318 address literals are enabled, of course).
5319
5320 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5321
532210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5323 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5324 by a command such as
5325
5326 exim -f "" ...
5327
5328 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5329
533011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5331
533212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5333 remained set. It is now erased.
5334
533513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5336 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5337
533814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5339 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5340 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5341 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5342 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5343 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5344 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5345 appropriate error code.
5346
534715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5348 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5349 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5350 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5351 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5352 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5353
535416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5355 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5356 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5357
535817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5359 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5360 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5361 terminate the header.
5362
536318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5364 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5365 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5366
536719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5368 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5369 (4.30/29). In particular:
5370
5371 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5372 imposed.
5373
5374 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5375 to write a maildirsize file.
5376
5377 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5378 the transport, the new value overrides.
5379
5380 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5381 count.
5382
538320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5384 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5385 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5386 space or a tab.
5387
538821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5389 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5390 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5391 the fallback hosts.
5392
539322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5394 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5395 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5396
539723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5398 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5399 using a union.
5400
540124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5402 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5403 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5404
540525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5406
540726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5408
540927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5410
541128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5412 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5413 become corrupted.
5414
541529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5416 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5417 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5418 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5419 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5420 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5421 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5422 too great.
5423
542430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5425 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5426 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5427 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5428 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5429 incorrectly.
5430
543131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5432 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5433 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5434 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5435 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5436 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5437 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5438 cached value only when the same options are set.
5439
544032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5441
544233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5443 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5444 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5445 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5446 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5447
544834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5449 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5450 it is clearly obsolete.
5451
545235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5453 transport.
5454
545536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5456 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5457 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5458 times.
5459
546037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5461 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5462 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5463 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5464 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5465
546638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5467 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5468 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5469 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5470
547139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5472
5473 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5474
5475 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5476 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5477 2^31.
5478
547940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5480 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5481 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5482 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5483 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5484 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5485 $localpart_data.
5486
548741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5488 with the -f command-line option.
5489
549042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5491 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5492 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5493 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5494 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5495 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5496
549743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5498 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5499 line.
5500
550144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5502 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5503 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5504 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5505 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5506 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5507 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5508 buffer is too small.
5509
551045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5511 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5512
551346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5514 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5515 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5516 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5517 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5518 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5519 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5520 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5521 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5522
552347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5524 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5525 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5526
552748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5528 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5529 ACL").
5530
553149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5532 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5533 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5534 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5535 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5536
553750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5538 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5539 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5540 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5541 is set.
5542
554351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5544
554552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5546
554753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5548 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5549
555054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5551 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5552 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5553
555455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5555 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5556 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5557 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5558 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5559
556056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5561 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5562 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5563 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5564 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5565 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5566 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5567
556857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5569 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5570 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5571 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5572 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5573 the test of how many are available.
5574
557558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5576 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5577 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5578 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5579 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5580 new message is started.
5581
558259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5583 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5584
558560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5586 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5587
558861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5589 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5590 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5591 is no long logged.
5592
559362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5594 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5595 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5596 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5597 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5598 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5599 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5600
560163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5602 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5603 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5604 interpreted as octal.
5605
560664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5607 setting.
5608
560965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5610 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5611 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5612 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5613 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5614 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5615
561666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5617 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5618 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5619 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5620
5621 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5622 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5623 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5624 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5625
5626 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5627 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5628 is a bug fix.
5629
5630 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5631 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5632
563367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5634
563568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5636 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5637 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5638 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5639
564069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5641 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5642 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5643 supplied", which is not helpful.
5644
564570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5646 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5647 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5648
564971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5650 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5651 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5652 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5653 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5654 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5655 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5656 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5657
565872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5659 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5660 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5661 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5662 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5663
566473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5665 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5666 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5667 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5668 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5669 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5670
567174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5672 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5673 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5674
567575. Added write_rejectlog option.
5676
567776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5678 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5679 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5680 variables.
5681
568277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5683
568478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5685 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5686 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5687 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5688 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5689 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5690 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5691 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5692
569379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5694 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5695 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5696 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5697 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5698
569980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5700 Haardt.
5701
570281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5703 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5704 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5705 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5706 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5707 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5708 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5709 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5710 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5711
5712
5713Exim version 4.30
5714-----------------
5715
5716 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5717 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5718 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5719
5720 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5721 fixed.
5722
5723 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5724 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5725 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5726
5727 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5728 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5729 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5730 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5731 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5732 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5733
5734 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5735 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5736 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5737 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5738 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5739 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5740 the Exim test suite.
5741
5742 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5743 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5744 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5745 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5746
5747 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5748 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5749 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5750 specify it in this variable.
5751
5752 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5753 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5754 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5755 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5756
5757 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5758 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5759 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5760 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5761
5762 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5763 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5764 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5765 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5766 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5767
5768 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5769
577010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5771 they are logged.
5772
577311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5774 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5775 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5776 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5777 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5778
577912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5780 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5781
578213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5783 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5784 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5785 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5786 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5787
578814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5789 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5790
579115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5792 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5793 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5794
579516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5796 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5797
579817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5799 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5800
580118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5802 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5803 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5804
580519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5806 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5807
580820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5809 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5810 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5811 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5812
581321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5814
581522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5816 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5817 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5818 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5819
582023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5821
582224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5823 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5824
582525. Added .include_if_exists.
5826
582726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5828 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5829 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5830 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5831 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5832 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5833
583427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5835
583628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5837 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5838 this.
5839
584029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5841
584230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5843 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5844
5845 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5846 550 Sender verify failed
5847
5848 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5849 the final line of the response.
5850
585131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5852 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5853 all other user lookups.
5854
585532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5856 delivery time.
5857
585833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5859 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5860 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5861 result into an int without checking.
5862
586334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5864 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5865 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5866
586735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5868 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5869 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5870 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5871
587236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5873 correctly.
5874
587537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5876 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5877
587838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5879 to the empty sender.
5880
588139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5882 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5883 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5884 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5885 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5886 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5887 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5888 panic log.
5889
589040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5891 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5892 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5893 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5894 used.
5895
589641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5897 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5898
589942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5900 timestamps.
5901
590243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5903 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5904
590544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5906
590745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5908 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5909 logs.
5910
591146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5912 as soon as it is encountered.
5913
591447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5915
591648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5917 rewritten to "<>".
5918
591949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5920 recognizes a tab character.
5921
592250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5923 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5924 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5925 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5926
592751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5928
592952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5930 crash.
5931
593253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5933
593454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5935
593655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5937 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5938 2822.
5939
594056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5941 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5942 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5943 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5944 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5945
594657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5947 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5948
594958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5950 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5951 list (.included file names were always shown).
5952
595359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5954 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5955 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5956 root at that time.
5957
595860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5959 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5960
596161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5962
596362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5964
596563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5966
596764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5968 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5969 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5970 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5971 failures to open the logs.
5972
597365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5974 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5975 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5976 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5977 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5978 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5979 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5980
5981
5982Exim version 4.24
5983-----------------
5984
5985 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5986 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5987 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5988 change 4.23/1.
5989
5990 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5991 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5992 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5993
5994 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5995 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5996 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5997
5998 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5999 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6000 causing some misleading effects.
6001
6002 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6003 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6004 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6005
6006 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6007 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6008 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6009 queue-runner function directly.
6010
6011
6012Exim version 4.23
6013-----------------
6014
6015 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6016 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6017
6018 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6019 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6020 was always written to the default place.
6021
6022 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6023 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6024 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6025
6026 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6027
6028 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6029
6030 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6031 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6032 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6033
6034 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6035 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6036 must start.
6037
6038 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6039 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6040 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6041
6042 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6043 command line option is disabled.
6044
6045 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6046 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6047
6048 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6049
6050 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6051
6052 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6053 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6054
605510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6056
605711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6058 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6059 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6060 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6061 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6062 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6063
606412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6065 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6066 timeout.
6067
606813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6069 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6070
607114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6072 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6073
607415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6075 received was valid base64.
6076
607716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6078 name of the variable that was being set.
6079
608017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6081
608218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6083 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6084 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6085 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6086 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6087 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6088
608919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6090
609120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6092 nor realm was specified.
6093
609421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6095 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6096 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6097 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6098
609922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6100 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6101 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6102
610323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6104 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6105 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6106
610724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6108 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6109 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6110 some systems use these upper case variants.
6111
611225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6113 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6114 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6115 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6116
611726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6118
611927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6120 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6121
612228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6123 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6124 expansion variable.
6125
612629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6127
612830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6129 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6130 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6131 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6132
613331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6134 using it.
6135
613632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6137 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6138 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6139
614033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6141 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6142
614334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6144 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6145 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6146 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6147
614835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6149 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6150 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6151
615236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6153
615437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6155 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6156 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6157 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6158 aborted.
6159
616038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6161 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6162 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6163
616439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6165
616640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6167 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6168
616941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6170 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6171
617242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6173 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6174 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6175 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6176 when emails are that large.
6177
6178
6179
6180Exim version 4.22
6181-----------------
6182
6183 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6184 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6185
6186 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6187 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6188 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6189
6190 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6191 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6192 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6193
6194 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6195 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6196 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6197 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6198 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6199
6200 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6201 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6202 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6203 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6204 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6205 ever.
6206
6207 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6208 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6209 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6210 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6211 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6212 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6213 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6214 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6215 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6216 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6217 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6218 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6219 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6220 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6221
6222 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6223 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6224 parameterised it.
6225
6226 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6227 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6228 error should be diagnosed.
6229
6230 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6231 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6232 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6233 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6234 appeared instead of "NULL".
6235
623610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6237 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6238 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6239 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6240 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6241 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6242 proceeds).
6243
6244 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6245 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6246 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6247
6248
6249Exim version 4.21
6250-----------------
6251
6252 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6253 or receiver verification errors.
6254
6255 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6256 name.
6257
6258 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6259 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6260 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6261 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6262
6263 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6264 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6265 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6266 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6267 shouldn't happen again.
6268
6269 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6270 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6271 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6272
6273 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6274 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6275
6276 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6277
6278 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6279 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6280
6281 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6282 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6283 RFC.
6284
628510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6286 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6287 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6288
628911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6290 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6291 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6292 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6293
629412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6295 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6296 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6297 to define what should happen).
6298
629913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6300 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6301 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6302
630314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6304
630515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6306
630716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6308 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6309
631017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6311 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6312 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6313 structure in all cases.
6314
6315 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6316 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6317 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6318 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6319
632018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6321 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6322 domain name.
6323
632419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6325 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6326
632720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6328 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6329
633021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6331 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6332 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6333
633422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6335 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6336 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6337
633823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6339 the book and for uniformity.
6340
634124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6342
634325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6344 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6345 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6346 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6347 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6348 non-existent command as the problem.
6349
635026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6351 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6352 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6353
635427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6355
635628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6357 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6358 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6359
636029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6361 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6362 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6363 timestamps using strftime().
6364
636530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6366 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6367
636832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6369 transport-time rewrites.
6370
637133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6372 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6373 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6374 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6375
637634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6377 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6378
637935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6380 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6381 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6382 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6383 comma and a space.
6384
638536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6386 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6387 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6388 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6389 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6390 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6391 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6392
639337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6394 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6395 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6396 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6397 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6398
639938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6400 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6401 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6402 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6403 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6404 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6405 remaining text gets split now.
6406
640739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6408 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6409 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6410 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6411
641240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6413 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6414 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6415 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6416 $return_path.
6417
641841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6419 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6420 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6421 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6422 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6423 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6424 passed through if needed.
6425
642642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6427 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6428 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6429 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6430 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6431 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6432
643343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6434 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6435 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6436 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6437 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6438
643944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6440 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6441 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6442 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6443 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6444
644545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6446 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6447 noticed.
6448
644946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6450 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6451 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6452 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6453 mayhem of various kinds.
6454
645547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6456 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6457 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6458 the right test for positive values.
6459
646048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6461 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6462 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6463 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6464 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6465 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6466 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6467 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6468 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6469 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6470 envelope.
6471
647249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6473 module.
6474
647550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6476 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6477 forbidding it.
6478
647951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6480 the existing equality matching.
6481
648252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6483 dealing with inode numbers.
6484
648553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6486 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6487 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6488
648954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6490 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6491 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6492 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6493 local_scan().
6494
649555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6496 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6497 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6498 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6499 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6500 relay addresses has also been removed.
6501
650256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6503
650457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6505 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6506 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6507
650858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6509 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6510 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6511 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6512 processing applies to CR:
6513
6514 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6515 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6516
6517 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6518 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6519 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6520 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6521
652259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6523 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6524 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6525
652660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6527 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6528 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6529 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6530 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6531 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6532 arisen.
6533
653461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6535 program routers.
6536
653762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6538 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6539 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6540 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6541 adds:
6542
6543 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6544
6545 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6546
6547 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6548
654963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6550 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6551 not considered personal.
6552
655364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6554
655565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6556
655766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6558
655967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6560 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6561 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6562 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6563 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6564 header lines, and spool format errors.
6565
656668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6567 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6568 for more flexibility.
6569
657069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6571 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6572 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6573
657470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6575 Sabourenkov.
6576
657771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6578 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6579 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6580 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6581 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6582 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6583 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6584 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6585 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6586
658772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6588 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6589 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6590 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6591 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6592 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6593 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6594
659573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6596 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6597 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6598
659974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6600 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6601 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6602 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6603 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6604 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6605 instead of killing the process with assert().
6606
660775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6608 than Unicode encoding.
6609
661076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6611 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6612 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6613 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6614
661577. Added process_log_path.
6616
661778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6618 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6619
662079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6621 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6622
662380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6624 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6625 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6626
662781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6628 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6629 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6630 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6631 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6632 were applied:
6633
6634 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6635 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6636 as invalid.
6637
663882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6639 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6640 they will be used during message reception.
6641
6642
6643Exim version 4.20
6644-----------------
6645
6646The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6647
6648****