Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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b1770b6e 4Exim version 4.80
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6
7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
eae0036b 48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
69
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70PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
71 diagnostics.
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
73
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74PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
77
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78PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 82
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83PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
85
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86PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
90
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91PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
93
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94PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
95
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96PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
97
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98PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
100
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101PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
103
9e45c72b 104JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
106
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107PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 112
53947857 113PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 114
eae0036b 115PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 118
9e45c72b 119JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 120
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121PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
124
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125PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
129
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130PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
131
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132PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
136
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137PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
139
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140PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
143
144PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
147 problems.
3375e053 148
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149PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
151
57eb9e91 152PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
156
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157PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
160
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162Exim version 4.77
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164
165PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
166 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
167
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168TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
169
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170TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
171 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 172
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173TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
174 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
175
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176TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
177 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
178 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
179
180 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
181 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
182 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
183 not safe for signals.
184
185 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
186 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
187 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
188 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
189 exiwhat.
190
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191TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
192
193 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
194 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
195 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
196 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
197 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
198
199 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
200 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
201 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
202 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
203 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
204 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
205
206 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
207 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
208 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
209 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
210
211 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
212 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
213 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
214 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
215
216 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
217 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
218 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
219 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
220 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
221 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
222 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
223 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
224 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
225
226 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
227 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
228 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
229 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
230
231 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
232 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
233 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
234 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
235 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
236 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
237 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
238 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
239 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
240 details in the main documentation.
241
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242TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
243
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244TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
245
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246TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
247 repository when doing development or release builds.
248
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249PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
250 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 251
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252PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
253 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
254 Bugzilla 97.
255
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256PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
257
9e949f00 258PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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259 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
260
261PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
262 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 263
555ae6af 264PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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265 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
266
267PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
268 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 269
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270PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
271 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
272
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273PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
274 Bugzilla 1156.
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275 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
276 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 277
d6cc7c78 278PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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279 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
280 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
281
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282PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
283
3399bb60 284PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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285
286PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
287 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
288
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290Exim version 4.76
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292
293PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
294
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295PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
296 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
297
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298PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
299
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300PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
301
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302PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
303 Bugzilla 1098.
304
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305PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
306 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 307
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308TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
309 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
310
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311PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
312 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
313
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314PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
315 Bugzilla 1104.
316
c8d52a00 317TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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318 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
319
320TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
321 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
322 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
323 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
324
325PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
326 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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329Exim version 4.75
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331
4c9ef03a 332NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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333 Bugzilla 1073
334
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335TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
336 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
337 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
338
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339TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
340 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
341
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342PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
343 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
344 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
345
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346PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
347 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
348
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349PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
350 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
351
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352NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
353 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
354
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355NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
356 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
357
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358PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
359 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 360
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361NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
362 Fixes bug 943.
363
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364PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
365 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
366
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367PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
368 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
369
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370PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
371 SQL string expansion failure details.
372 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
373
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374PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
375 Patch from Simon Arlott.
376
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377PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
378 extern declarations in function scope.
379 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
380
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381PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
382 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
383 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
384 a kernel bug).
385
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386PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
387 Patch from Mark Zealey.
388
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389PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
390 Patch from Mark Zealey.
391
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392PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
393 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
394
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395PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
396 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
397
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398NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
399 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
400 Dennis Davis.
401
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402PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
403
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404PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
405
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406NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
407 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 408
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409TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
410 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
411
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413Exim version 4.74
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415
416TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
417 consequences so log it to the panic log.
418
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419TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
420 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
421
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422TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
423
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424DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
425 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
426 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
427
428PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
429 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
430 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
431
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432PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
433 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
434 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
435 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
436
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437PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
438 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
439 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
440 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
441
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442PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
443 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
444 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
445 arbitrary files.
446
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447PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
448 (Wolfgang Breyha)
449
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450PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
451 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
452 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
453 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
454 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
455
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459
460PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
461 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
462 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
463
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464PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
465 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
466
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467JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
468
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469PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
470
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471PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
472
ec5a0394 473PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 474
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475PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
476
453a6645 477PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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478 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
479 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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480 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
481
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482PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
483 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
484 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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485 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
486 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 487
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488PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
489
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490PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
491
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492PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
493
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494PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
495
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496PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
497
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498PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
499
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500PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
501
6a8de854 502PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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503 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
504 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 505
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506JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
507
508JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
509 "exim" to be used
55c75993 510
3346ab01
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511PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
512 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
513
491fab4c
PP
514PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
515 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
516 Notification from John Horne.
517
13eb9497
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518PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
519 compatible.
520
521PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
522 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
523 it normally works.
524
7f36d675
DW
525DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
526 access.
527
c1d94452
DW
528DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
529 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
530 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
531
e2f5dc15
DW
532DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
533 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
534 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
535 configuration file.
536
cd25e41d
DW
537DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
538 option (effectively making it always true).
539
261dc43e
DW
540DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
541 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
542
fa32850b
DW
543DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
544 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
545
79d4bc3d
PP
546PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
547 run-time user, instead of root.
548
43236f35 549PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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550 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
551
fb08281f
DW
552DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
553 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
554 arguments.
3346ab01 555
74935b98
DW
556DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
557 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
558 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
559
90b6341f
DW
560DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
561
57730b52
ML
562NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
563
66581d1e 564
465e92cf
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565Exim version 4.72
566-----------------
567
453a6645
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568JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
569 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
570 typos
465e92cf 571
453a6645
PP
572JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
573 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
574 (Finput)
edae0343 575
9bd3e22c
NM
576NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
577 Patch from Alain Williams
578
bb576ff7
NM
579NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
580
5a1a5845
NM
581NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
582 Patch from Andreas Metzler
583
981a9fad
NM
584NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
585 Patch from Kirill Miazine
586
7fc497ee
NM
587NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
588
1a41defa
JJ
589JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
590
a466095c 591NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 592 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 593
94a6bd0b
NM
594TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
595
596TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
597
598MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
599 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
600 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
601
c1b141a8
NM
602NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
603 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 604
b26eacf1 605NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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606 Patch by Simon Arlott
607
179c5980 608PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 609 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 610
9bd3e22c 611
7c6d71af
NM
612Exim version 4.71
613-----------------
614
7d9f747b 615TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 616
f013fb92
NM
617NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
618
0eb8eedd
NM
619NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
620
663ee6d9
NM
621NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
622
177ebd9b
NM
623NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
624
7c6d71af 625
210f147e
NM
626Exim version 4.70
627-----------------
628
cdd3bb85 629TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 630 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
631
632TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
633 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 634 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
635
636TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
637 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 638 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
639
640TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
641 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
642
210f147e
NM
643NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
644 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
645 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
646 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
647
deafd5b3
NM
648NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
649 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 650 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 651
089793a4
TF
652TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
653
5f16ca82
TF
654TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
655
dae9d94e 656NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 657 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 658
7d9f747b 659NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 660
06864c44
TF
661TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
662 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
663 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
664 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
665
65a7d8c3 666NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 667 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 668
23510047 669TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 670
7d9f747b 671NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 672
7d8eec3a 673NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 674 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 675
89dec7b6
TF
676TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
677 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 678
a99de90c
TF
679TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
680 that they are available at delivery time.
681
e2803e40
TF
682TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
683
7199e1ee
TF
684TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
685 incoming_port log selectors.
686
e276e04b
TF
687TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
688 setting expands to an empty string.
689
ce552449 690NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 691 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 692
e765a0f1 693NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 694 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 695
4f054c63 696NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 697 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 698
7d9f747b
PP
699NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
700 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 701
7d9f747b
PP
702NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
703 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 704
b52bc06e 705NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 706 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 707
447de4b0
NM
708NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
709
4c69d561 710NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 711 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 712
d5c39246 713NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 714 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 715
0b23848a
TK
716TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
717
8f3414a1 718NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 719 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 720
fb6f955d
NM
721NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
722
723NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 724
7d9f747b
PP
725NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
726 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 727
7d9f747b
PP
728NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
729 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 730
7d9f747b
PP
731NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
732 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 733
7d9f747b
PP
734NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
735 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 736
7d9f747b
PP
737NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
738 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 739
7d9f747b
PP
740NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
741 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 742
7d9f747b
PP
743NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
744 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 745
7d9f747b 746NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 747 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 748
7d9f747b 749NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 750
7d9f747b
PP
751NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
752 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 753
7d9f747b 754NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 755
7d9f747b 756NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 757
7d9f747b 758NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 759
7d9f747b 760NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 761
17792b53 762NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 763 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 764
7d9f747b
PP
765NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
766 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 767
7d9f747b
PP
768NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
769 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 770
7d9f747b
PP
771NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
772 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 773
7d9f747b 774NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 775
7d9f747b 776NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 777
7d9f747b 778NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 779
7d9f747b 780NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 781
deafd5b3 782
47db1125
NM
783Exim version 4.69
784-----------------
785
4b3504d0
TK
786TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
787 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
788 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
789
790 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
791 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
792 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
793 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
794 build errors in sieve.c.
795
81ea09ca
NM
796NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
797 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
798 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
799
f13cddcb
SC
800SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
801
7d9f747b 802NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 803
7d9f747b 804NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 805
7d9f747b 806NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
807
808
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809Exim version 4.68
810-----------------
811
812PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
813
6a3bceb1
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814PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
815 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
816 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
817 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
818 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
819 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
820 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
821 for iplsearch lookups.
822
823 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
824 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
825 previously such lookups could never work.
826
827 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
828 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
829 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
830
2e30fa9d
TK
831TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
832 version.
833
0806a9c5
MH
834MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
835 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
836 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
837 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
838 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
839 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
840
ae276964
TK
841TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
842 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
843
0f2cbd1b
MH
844MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
845 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
846 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
847 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
848 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
849 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
850
2b85bce7
PH
851PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
852 local_scan API.
853
93655c46
PH
854PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
855
6c512171
PH
856PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
857 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
858 encrypted.
859
860PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
861 by clients under certain conditions.
862
aa6dc513
PH
863PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
864 "_responses" off the end of the name.
865
a96603a0
PH
866PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
867
8f240103
PH
868PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
869 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
870
871PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
872
d677b2f2
PH
873PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
874
d52120f2
PH
875PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
876
64f2600a
PH
877PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
878 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
879
8669f003
PH
880PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
881
a4dc33a8
PH
882PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
883 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
884
d6a60c0f
PH
885PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
886
8f128379
PH
887PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
888
8932dffe
PH
889PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
890 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
891 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
892 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 893
ddea74fa 894PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
895 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
896 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
897
ddea74fa 898PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
899 and InterBase are left for another time.)
900
ddea74fa
PH
901PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
902
ce9f225c
PH
903PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
904
19897d52
PH
905PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
906
bc64a74d
PH
907PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
908 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
909 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
910
eb4c0de6 911
b4ed4da0
PH
912Exim version 4.67
913-----------------
914
22ad45c9
MH
915MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
916 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
917 Jan Srzednicki.
918
b4ed4da0
PH
919PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
920 issue a MAIL command.
921
431b7361
PH
922PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
923
924 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
925
926 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
927 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
928 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
929 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
930 item. This has been fixed.
931
932PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
933 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
934
83da1223
PH
935PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
936 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
937
54fc8428
PH
938PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
939 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
940 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
941
34c5e8dd
SC
942SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
943
bbe15da8
PH
944PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
945 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
946 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
947 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
948 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
949
0e8a9471
MH
950MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
951 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
952 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
953
f0872424
PH
954PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
955 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
956 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
957 the server_setid option was incorrect.
958
b01dd148
PH
959PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
960
6bf342e1
PH
961PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
962
273f34d0
PH
963PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
964 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
965 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
966 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
967 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
968
cf8b11a5
PH
969PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
970
41c7c167
PH
971PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
972 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
973 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
974 values).
975
9c57cbc0
PH
976PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
977
f3f065bb
PH
978PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
979
047bdd8c
PH
980PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
981
0ce9abe6
PH
982PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
983
0e22dfd1
PH
984PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
985
4c590bd1
PH
986PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
987 no_callout_flush is set.
988
09945f1e
PH
989PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
990 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
991 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
992 fixed.
993
c51b8e75
PH
994PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
995
e28326d8
PH
996PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
997 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
998 other ACL rejections are.
999
75b1493f
PH
1000PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1001 with slight modification.
1002
7c5214ec
PH
1003PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1004 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1005
4311097e
PH
1006PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1007 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1008 connection.
1009
29f89cad
PH
1010PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1011 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1012
5e687460
SC
1013SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1014
c3611384
PH
1015PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1016 expansion side effects.
1017
5a11a7b4
PH
1018PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1019 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1020 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1021 be the same.
1022
0e20aff9
MH
1023MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1024 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1025 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1026
ca86f471
PH
1027PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1028 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1029 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1030 were accidentally chopped off.
1031
a14e5636
PH
1032PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1033 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1034 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1035 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1036 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1037 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1038 pipelining has not been advertised.
1039
ec95d1a6
PH
1040PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1041
42855d71
PH
1042PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1043 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1044 This has been fixed.
1045
57c2c631
PH
1046PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1047 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1048 reported on Solaris.
1049
58c01c94
PH
1050PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1051 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1052 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1053 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1054 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1055 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1056 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1057
dee5a20a
PH
1058PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1059 cpus.
1060
d2ee6114
PH
1061PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1062
b2d5182b
PH
1063PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1064
79749a79
PH
1065PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1066 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1067 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1068 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1069 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1070 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1071
c456d9bb
PH
1072PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1073 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1074 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1075 host_all_ignored option.
1076
cd9868ec
PH
1077PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1078 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1079 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1080 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1081 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1082 is what is supposed to happen).
1083
ebeaf996
PH
1084PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1085 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1086 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1087 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1088 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1089 uses the Exim user.
1090
2679d413
PH
1091PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1092 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1093 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1094 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1095 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1096 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1097 users.
1098
84024b72
PH
1099PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1100
8005d38e
SC
1101SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1102 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1103 (Jez Hancock).
1104 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1105 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1106
3298c6c6
SC
1107SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1108
a43a27c5
PH
1109PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1110
58eb016e 1111PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1112 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1113 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1114 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1115 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1116 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1117 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1118 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1119 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1120 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1121 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1122
b43a74ea
PH
1123PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1124 advertised in response to EHLO.
1125
b4ed4da0 1126
5dd1517f
PH
1127Exim version 4.66
1128-----------------
1129
1130PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1131 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1132
1133 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1134 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1135
1136 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1137 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1138 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1139
1140 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1141 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1142 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1143 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1144 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1145
1146
93cfa765
TK
1147Exim version 4.65
1148-----------------
1149
1150TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1151 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1152 versions. (#438)
1153
d6066548
MH
1154MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1155 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1156 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1157
4362ff0d
PH
1158PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1159 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1160 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1161 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1162 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1163 rather than extend the field.
1164
93cfa765 1165
944e9e9c
TF
1166Exim version 4.64
1167-----------------
aa41d2de 1168
21d74bd9
TK
1169TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1170 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1171 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1172 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1173 these files.
1174
1175TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1176 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1177 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1178
1179TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1180 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1181 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1182
1183TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1184 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1185 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1186 in the field name.
1187
2b1c6e3a
PH
1188PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1189 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1190 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1191 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1192 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1193 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1194 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1195 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1196 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1197 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1198 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1199
1f872c80
PH
1200PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1201 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1202
1203PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1204 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1205 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1206 ignores EPIPE as well.
1207
d203e649
PH
1208PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1209 (quoted-printable decoding).
1210
cc2ed8f7 1211PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1212 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1213
ddfcd446
PH
1214PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1215
d45b1de8
PH
1216PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1217
1218PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1219
38a0a95f 1220PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1221 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1222
a2405d83
JJ
1223JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1224 in 4.64-PH/09.
1225
1226JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1227 miscellaneous code fixes
1228
6ea85e9a
PH
1229PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1230 rejections.
1231
26da7e20
PH
1232PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1233 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1234 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1235 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1236 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1237 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1238 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1239 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1240
14aa5a05 1241PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1242 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1243 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1244 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1245 function.
1246 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1247 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1248 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1249 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1250 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1251 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1252 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1253 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1254 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1255
ff75a1f7
PH
1256PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1257 decoding.
1258
e6f6568e
PH
1259PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1260 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1261 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1262 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1263 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1264 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1265 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1266 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1267
d6f6e0dc
PH
1268PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1269 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1270 list.
1271
322050c2
PH
1272PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1273 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1274 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1275 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1276 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1277 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1278 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1279 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1280 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1281 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1282 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1283 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1284 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1285
08955dd3
PH
1286PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1287 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1288 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1289 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1290 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1291 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1292 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1293
1eccaa59
PH
1294PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1295 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1296 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1297 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1298 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1299 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1300 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1301 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1302 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1303 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1304
602e59e5
PH
1305PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1306 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1307 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1308 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1309 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1310
411ef850
PH
1311PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1312 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1313 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1314 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1315 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1316 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1317 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1318
7befa435
PH
1319PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1320 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1321 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1322 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1323 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1324 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1325 been verified.
1326
48da4259 1327PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1328 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1329 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1330 and authorization.)
1331
48da4259
PH
1332PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1333 if any retry times were supplied.
1334
d1d5595c
PH
1335PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1336 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1337 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1338
0ef732d9
PH
1339PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1340
328895cc
PH
1341PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1342
fd700877
PH
1343PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1344 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1345 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1346 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1347 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1348 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1349
8dce1a6f
PH
1350PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1351 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1352
17af4a17
PH
1353PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1354 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1355 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1356
1357PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1358 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1359 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1360 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1361 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1362 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1363 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1364 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1365 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1366
1367 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1368 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1369 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1370 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1371 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1372 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1373 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1374 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1375 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1376
1377 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1378 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1379 hammering the server.
1380
c1114884
PH
1381PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1382 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1383
7a0743eb
PH
1384PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1385
0d85fa3f
PH
1386PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1387 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1388 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1389
1bf43b78
PH
1390PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1391 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1392 one case where this was not true.
1393
520de300
PH
1394PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1395 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1396 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1397 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1398 fails.
1399
48c7f9e2
PH
1400PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1401 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1402 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1403 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1404 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1405 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1406 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1407 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1408 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1409 smtp transport.
1410
99ea1c86
PH
1411PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1412 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1413 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1414 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1415
a2042e78
PH
1416PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1417 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1418
4fbcfc2e
PH
1419PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1420 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1421 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1422
aa41d2de
PH
1423PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1424
af561417
PH
1425PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1426
3cc66b45
PH
1427PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1428
194cc0e4
PH
1429PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1430 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1431 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1432 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1433
a401ddaa
PH
1434PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1435 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1436
4e88a19f
PH
1437PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1438 be meaningful with "accept".
1439
d7d7b289
SC
1440SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1441 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1442
1443SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1444 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1445 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1446
1447SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1448 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1449 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1450 there is data to show.
1451 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1452
1453SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1454 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1455 as well as the number of messages.
1456
1457SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1458 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1459 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1460
1461SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1462 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1463 have a flag are now skipped.
1464
1465SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1466 Added the -emptyok flag.
1467
1468SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1469 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1470
0ea2a468
JJ
1471JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1472 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1473 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1474
1475JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1476 match 4.64-PH/13
1477
1478JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1479 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1480
1481JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1482
1483JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1484 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1485
8a10f5a4
PH
1486PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1487
30e18802
PH
1488PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1489 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1490 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1491 contravention of the specifications.
1492
55728a4f
PH
1493PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1494 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1495 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1496
d7837193
PH
1497PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1498 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1499 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1500
87054a31
PH
1501PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1502
ea2c01d2
MH
1503MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1504 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1505 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1506 some point in the past.
1507
e4fa6968
PH
1508PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1509 transport during callout processing was broken.
1510
56f5d9bd
PH
1511PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1512 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1513
922e1c28
PH
1514PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1515 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1516
21eb6e72
PH
1517PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1518 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1519
a0540757
PH
1520PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1521
944e9e9c 1522
478be7b0
SC
1523Exim version 4.63
1524-----------------
1525
1526SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1527 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1528
1529SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1530 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1531 there is data to show.
1532 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1533
1534SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1535 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1536
2b965a65
TF
1537TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1538 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1539
45b91596
PH
1540TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1541 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1542
c59f5781
TF
1543TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1544 submissions from trusted users.
1545
90fc3069
TF
1546TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1547 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1548
6083aca0
TF
1549TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1550 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1551 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1552 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1553 there is now a framework to start from.
1554
765b530f
PH
1555PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1556 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1557 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1558
4e167a8c
PH
1559PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1560
4608d683
PH
1561PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1562
b8dc3e4a
PH
1563PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1564
5418e93b
PH
1565PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1566 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1567 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1568
b4a9bda2
PH
1569PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1570 libradius.
1571
45b91596
PH
1572PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1573 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1574 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1575
5547e2c5
PH
1576PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1577 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1578 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1579 its arguments.
1580
dbcef0ea
PH
1581PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1582 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1583 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1584 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1585 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1586
25257489
PH
1587PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1588 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1589
c816d124
PH
1590PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1591
a9ccd69a
PH
1592PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1593 operations in malware.c.
1594
75fa1910
PH
1595PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1596 signatures.
1597
a7d7aa58
PH
1598PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1599 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1600 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1601 all.
1602
42119b09
PH
1603PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1604 statements to "add_header".
1605
41609df5
PH
1606PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1607 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1608
a5bd321b
PH
1609PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1610 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1611 latter.
1612
e85a7ad5 1613PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1614 so that it is now:
1615
e85a7ad5
PH
1616 ${if or { \
1617 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1618 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1619 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1620 }{no}{yes}}
1621
e85a7ad5
PH
1622 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1623 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1624
d8fe1c03
PH
1625PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1626 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1627
16282d2b
PH
1628PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1629 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1630 any possible encoding problems.
1631
35d40a98
PH
1632PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1633 but not after initializing Perl.
1634
034d99ab
PH
1635PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1636 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1637 apparently, which is not desirable.
1638
6ec97b1b
PH
1639PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1640 queries.
1641
e22ca4ac
JJ
1642JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1643 --not options
1644
1645JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1646
33d73e3b
PH
1647PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1648 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1649 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1650 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1651
9ecb03f3
PH
1652PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1653 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1654 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1655
084efe8d
PH
1656PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1657 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1658 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1659 0.12.
1660
366fc9f0
PH
1661PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1662 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1663 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1664 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1665 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1666
c59f5781 1667
c887c79e
TF
1668Exim version 4.62
1669-----------------
1670
1671TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1672 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1673
1cce3af8
PH
1674PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1675 patch).
1676
afb3eaaf
PH
1677PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1678 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1679 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1680 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1681 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1682 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1683 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1684 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1685 451 error is used.
1686
e173618b
PH
1687PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1688
dd16e114
PH
1689PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1690 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1691 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1692
f7fd3850
PH
1693PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1694 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1695 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1696 odd errors.
1697
d87df92c
PH
1698PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1699 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1700
7e9f683d
PH
1701PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1702 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1703 option (which defaults to 0600).
1704
bfad5236
PH
1705PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1706
01c490df
PH
1707PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1708 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1709 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1710 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1711 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1712 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1713 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1714
d6629cdc
PH
1715PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1716
1cce3af8 1717
214e2000
PH
1718Exim version 4.61
1719-----------------
1720
1721PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1722 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1723 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1724 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1725 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1726 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1727 addresses as local.
1728
f9daeae0
PH
1729PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1730 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1731
7e66e54d
PH
1732PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1733
c8ea1597
PH
1734PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1735 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1736 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1737 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1738 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1739 grumble.
1740
911f6fde
PH
1741PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1742 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1743
47ca6d6c
PH
1744PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1745 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1746 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1747 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1748 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1749
ed0e9820
PH
1750PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1751 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1752 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1753 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1754
eff37e47
PH
1755PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1756 be the same on different OS.
1757
1921d2ea
PH
1758PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1759 testing.
1760
b3f69ca8
JJ
1761JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1762 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1763
1764JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1765 in 4.61-PH/06
1766
424a1c63
PH
1767PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1768 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1769 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1770 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1771 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1772 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1773 bounce message.
1774
7a100415
PH
1775PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1776 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1777 when Exim was called.
1778
19b9dc85
PH
1779PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1780 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1781
309bd837
PH
1782PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1783 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1784 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1785 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1786
59e82a2a
PH
1787PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1788 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1789 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1790 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1791 changes:
1792
1793 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1794 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1795 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1796
1797 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1798 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1799 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1800
9edc04ce
PH
1801PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1802 feature).
1803
1349e1e5
PH
1804PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1805 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1806 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1807 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1808 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1809 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1810 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1811 values from the SRV records were lost.
1812
ea49d0e1
PH
1813PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1814 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1815 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1816
064a94c9
PH
1817PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1818 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1819 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1820
727071f8
PH
1821PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1822 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1823 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1824 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1825 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1826 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1827 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1828 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1829 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1830 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1831
f78eb7c6
PH
1832PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1833 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1834 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1835
21c28500
PH
1836PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1837 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1838
1839PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1840 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1841 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1842 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1843 is given.
1844
1688f43b
PH
1845PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1846 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1847 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1848
1849PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1850 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1851 PH/23 above applies.
1852
9675b384
PH
1853PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1854 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1855 (for which there is an explicit test).
1856
6a3f1455
PH
1857PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1858
dac79d3e
PH
1859PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1860 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1861 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1862 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1863 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1864
5977a0b3
PH
1865PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1866 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1867 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1868 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1869
c91535f3
PH
1870PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1871 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1872 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1873
0d46a8c8
PH
1874PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1875
278c6e6c
PH
1876PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1877
2cbb4081
PH
1878PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1879 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1880 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1881
3eef829e
PH
1882PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1883 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1884 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1885 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1886 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1887
1ab95fa6
PH
1888PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1889 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1890 the message gets confusing).
1891
230205fc
PH
1892PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1893 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1894 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1895 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1896
75e0e026
PH
1897PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1898 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1899 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1900 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1901 same order.
1902
1903PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1904 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1905 the different processes.
1906
145396a6
PH
1907PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1908
3cd34f13
PH
1909PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1910
11121d3d
JJ
1911JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1912 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1913
1914JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1915 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1916
1917JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1918 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1919 messages matching specified criteria.
1920
8def5aaf
PH
1921PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1922
929ba01c
PH
1923PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1924 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1925
2632889e
PH
1926PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1927 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1928 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1929 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1930 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1931 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1932 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1933 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1934 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1935 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1936
944a9c55
PH
1937PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1938 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1939 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1940
4a23603b
PH
1941PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1942
4730f942
PH
1943PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1944 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1945 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1946 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1947 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1948 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1949 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1950 the variable.
1951
30dba1e6
PH
1952PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1953 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1954
382afc6b
PH
1955PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1956
a86229cf
PH
1957PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1958
50c99ba6
PH
1959PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1960
d35e429d
PH
1961PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1962 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1963 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1964 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1965 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1966 size of the count of files.
1967
f90d018c
PH
1968PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1969
75def545
PH
1970PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1971 used in LMTP mode:
1972
1973 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1974 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1975 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1976 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1977
1978 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1979 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1980 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1981
1982PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1983 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1984 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1985 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1986 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1987
c46782ef
PH
1988PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1989 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1990
71fafd95
PH
1991PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1992 will now be deprecated.
1993
2c5db4fd
PH
1994PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1995
9cf6b11a
JJ
1996JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1997 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1998 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1999
2000JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2001 with very large, slow to parse queues
2002
2003JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2004
2005JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2006
898d150f
PH
2007PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2008 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2009 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2010 SMTP output lines.
2011
46218253
PH
2012PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2013 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2014 Sieve code now uses this.
2015
e97957bc
PH
2016PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2017 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2018
81e509d7
PH
2019PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2020 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2021
3d240ff7
PH
2022PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2023
b37c4101
PH
2024PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2025 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2026 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2027 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2028 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2029
79378e0f
PH
2030PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2031 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2032 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2033 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2034
e49c7bb4
PH
2035PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2036
d114ec46
PH
2037PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2038
f3d7df6c
PH
2039PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2040 is preferred over IPv4.
2041
715ab376
PH
2042PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2043 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2044 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2045 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2046 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2047 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2048 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2049
6b31b150
PH
2050PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2051 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2052 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2053
2054PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2055
d515a917
PH
2056PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2057 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2058 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2059 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2060 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2061 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2062 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2063 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2064 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2065 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2066 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2067
9b8fadde
PH
2068PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2069 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2070 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2071
214e2000 2072
5de37277
PH
2073Exim version 4.60
2074-----------------
2075
cc38ddbf
PH
2076PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2077
2078 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2079 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2080
2081 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2082 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2083 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2084
72fdd6ae
PH
2085PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2086
2087 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2088 not a single digit.
2089
2090 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2091 string.
2092
2093 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2094 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2095 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2096 silly things.
2097
2098 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2099 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2100
2101 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2102 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2103
cb741023
PH
2104PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2105 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2106 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2107
f174f16e
PH
2108PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2109 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2110
c25242d7
PH
2111PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2112 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2113
2114 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2115
2116 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2117 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2118 this:
2119
2120 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2121
82c19f95
PH
2122PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2123 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2124 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2125 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2126 identical. For example:
2127
2128 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2129
2130 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2131 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2132 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2133
d7ffbc12
PH
2134PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2135 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2136 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2137 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2138
9f526266
PH
2139PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2140 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2141 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2142 message.
2143
87fcc8b9
PH
2144PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2145
2146 o fixes some comments
2147 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2148 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2149 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2150 and documents the missing references header update
2151
2152 and most important:
2153
2154 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2155 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2156 result)
2157
456682f5
PH
2158PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2159 Electronic Mail") by including:
2160
2161 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2162
2163 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2164 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2165 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2166 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2167 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2168
2169 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2170
2171 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2172
2173 The auto-replied keyword:
2174
2175 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2176 message by an automatic process,
2177
2178 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2179
2180 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2181 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2182
2183 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2184 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2185 other messages.
2186
3e46c1aa
PH
2187PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2188 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2189
49826d12
PH
2190PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2191
eba0c039
PH
2192PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2193 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2194 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2195
a0d6ba8a
PH
2196PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2197 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2198 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2199
f0917727
PH
2200PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2201 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2202 and treats the condition as false.
2203
096fee00
PH
2204PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2205
024bd3c2
PH
2206PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2207 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2208 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2209 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2210 not changing the active code.
2211
2212 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2213 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2214
2215 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2216 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2217
df199fec
PH
2218PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2219 (Bugzilla #53).
2220
d27f1df3
PH
2221PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2222 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2223 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2224 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2225 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2226 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2227 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2228 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2229 the text comparison.
2230
96776534
PH
2231PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2232 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2233 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2234 The same fix has been applied.
2235
5de37277 2236
9a799bc0
PH
2237Exim version 4.54
2238-----------------
2239
2240PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2241 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2242 It now does.
2243
99a4b039
PH
2244PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2245 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2246
2247PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2248
4b233853
PH
2249PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2250 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2251 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2252 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2253 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2254
8857ccfd
PH
2255TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2256 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2257 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2258 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2259 or /domain=).
2260
433a2980
PH
2261PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2262 testing suite.
2263
3e46c1aa 2264
9a799bc0 2265
e3a311ba
TK
2266Exim version 4.53
2267-----------------
2268
2269TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2270 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2271
13b685f9
PH
2272PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2273
395ff96d
PH
2274PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2275
5b68f6e4
PH
2276PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2277 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2278 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2279
1ab52c69
PH
2280PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2281 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2282 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2283
b07e6aa3
PH
2284PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2285 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2286 operating systems.
2287
254e032f
PH
2288PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2289 ${stat: expansion item.
2290
3af76a81
PH
2291PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2292 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2293
2548ba04
PH
2294PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2295 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2296 file for comments.
2297
b6c6011d
PH
2298PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2299
cf39cf57
PH
2300PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2301 setting.
2302
f1513293
PH
2303PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2304 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2305
727549a4
PH
2306TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2307
af46795e
PH
2308PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2309 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2310 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2311 the end of the subprocess.
2312
d7b47fd0
PH
2313PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2314 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2315 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2316 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2317 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2318
ee744174
JJ
2319JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2320
b582ab87
PH
2321TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2322
41a13e0a
PH
2323PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2324 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2325
f625cc5a
PH
2326PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2327
2328PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2329
21f7af35
PH
2330PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2331 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2332 HP-UX compiler.
2333
31480e42
PH
2334PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2335
2d280592
PH
2336PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2337 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2338 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2339
7cd1141b
PH
2340PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2341 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2342
2343PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2344 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2345
750af86e
PH
2346PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2347 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2348
2349 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2350 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2351
2352 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2353 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2354 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2355 contributed by a Radius user.
2356
2357PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2358 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2359
4304270b
TK
2360TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2361 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2362
750af86e
PH
2363PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2364 available.
2365
64ffc24f
PH
2366PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2367 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2368 received.
2369
5dd9625b
PH
2370PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2371 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2372 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2373 header lines when this was not necessary.
2374
5591031b
PH
2375PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2376
ba18e66a
PH
2377PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2378 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2379 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2380 exists".
2381
9cec981f
PH
2382PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2383 -bV or -d is used.
2384
aa2b5c79
PH
2385PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2386 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2387 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2388 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2389
48a53b7f
PH
2390PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2391
1c59d63b
PH
2392PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2393
671012da
TK
2394TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2395
1509d3a8
PH
2396PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2397
2398PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2399 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2400 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2401 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2402 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2403 settings.
2404
2405PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2406
2fe1a124
PH
2407PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2408 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2409 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2410 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2411 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2412 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2413 which is clearly wrong.
2414
8800895a
PH
2415PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2416
ccfdb010
PH
2417PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2418 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2419 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2420 subsequently added.
2421
1130bfb0
PH
2422PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2423 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2424
ebcb507f
PH
2425PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2426
c35e155c
PH
2427PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2428 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2429
95d1f782
PH
2430PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2431 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2432
fd6de02e
PH
2433PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2434 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2435
58de37c5
PH
2436PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2437 recipients, not senders.
2438
261cf466
TF
2439TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2440 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2441
3ee512ff
PH
2442PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2443
e08c430f
PH
2444PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2445
bef5a11f
PH
2446PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2447 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2448 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2449 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2450
7546de58
TF
2451TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2452
e5d5a95f
TF
2453TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2454 clock is set back in time.
2455
2e88a017
TF
2456TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2457 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2458
a5f65aa4
TF
2459TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2460 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2461
e7726cbf
PH
2462PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2463 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2464 (see PH/47 above).
2465
a7fdad5b
TF
2466TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2467 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2468 header rewrites.
2469
6af56900
PH
2470PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2471 type ("H").
2472
0925ede6
PH
2473PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2474
66afa403
TF
2475TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2476 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2477 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2478
0154e85a
TF
2479TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2480 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2481 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2482 helo verification defer as a failure.
2483
16f12c76
PH
2484PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2485 actual error message.
2486
bbe902f0 2487
e5a9dba6
PH
2488Exim version 4.52
2489-----------------
2490
2491TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2492
22c3b60b
PH
2493PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2494 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2495 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2496 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2497
06a9b4b5
PH
2498TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2499
c1ac6996
PH
2500PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2501 can still be requested.
2502
9c7a242c
PH
2503PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2504 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2505 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2506 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2507
87ba3f5f
PH
2508TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2509 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2510 circumstances, but probably never did.
2511
2512PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2513 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2514 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2515 in the header line.
2516
29aba418
TF
2517TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2518
fe0dab11
TF
2519TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2520 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2521
11d337a4
TK
2522TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2523
2524TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2525
415c8f3b
PH
2526PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2527 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2528 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2529 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2530 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2531 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2532
958541e9
PH
2533PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2534 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2535 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2536 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2537 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2538 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2539
c206415f
TK
2540TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2541 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2542
2a4be8f9
PH
2543PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2544 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2545
1cba11c5
SC
2546SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2547 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2548
2549SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2550
2551SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2552
2553SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2554
2555SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2556
2557SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2558
2559SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2560
1005d00e
TK
2561TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2562
2563TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2564 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2565 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2566
2567TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2568 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2569 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2570 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2571
9b4768fa
PH
2572PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2573 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2574 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2575
2576PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2577 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2578 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2579 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2580
0d7eb84a
PH
2581PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2582 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2583 to be made).
2584
2585PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2586 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2587 should work with maildirs and everything.
2588
40727bee
TK
2589TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2590 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2591
554d2369
TF
2592TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2593 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2594
1f922db1
PH
2595PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2596 function for BDB 4.3.
2597
ef213c3b
PH
2598PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2599
8ac170f3
PH
2600PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2601 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2602 involved.
2603
b1c749bb
PH
2604PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2605 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2606 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2607 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2608 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2609 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2610
4aac9b49
PH
2611PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2612 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2613 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2614 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2615 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2616 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2617 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2618 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2619
294520c8
TK
2620TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2621 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2622 details.
2623
5bd022fe
PH
2624PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2625 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2626
90e9ce59
PH
2627PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2628 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2629 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2630 test. It is now used for both.
2631
5ea81592
PH
2632PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2633 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2634 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2635 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2636 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2637 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2638
c6c2dc1d
PH
2639PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2640 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2641 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2642 string_vformat().
2643
fffffe4c
PH
2644PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2645 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2646 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2647
9a26b6b2
PH
2648PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2649 experimental DomainKeys support:
2650
2651 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2652 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2653 the control was given.
2654
2655 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2656
4aee0225
PH
2657PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2658
32d668a5
PH
2659PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2660
8187c3f3
PH
2661PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2662 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2663 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2664 db.h files).
2665
ff790e47 2666PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2667 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2668 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2669 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2670 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2671 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2672 course.
ff790e47 2673
5417f6d1
PH
2674PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2675 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2676 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2677 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2678 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2679 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2680
59cf8544
PH
2681PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2682 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2683 do -d+all out of habit.
2684
e7ad8a65
PH
2685PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2686 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2687 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2688
ade42478
PH
2689PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2690 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2691 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2692 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2693 record types that Exim uses.
2694
182ad5cf
PH
2695PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2696 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2697 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2698 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2699 non-existent file that was broken.
2700
b0d9fc80
TK
2701TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2702 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2703
2704TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2705 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2706 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2707
2708TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2709
47c7a64a
PH
2710PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2711 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2712 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2713 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2714 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2715 same time.
2716
a388bce4
SC
2717SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2718 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2719 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2720 at a slight CPU cost.
2721
2722SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2723 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2724
2725SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2726 by Marc Sherman.
2727
0793e4ed
SC
2728SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2729
c58b88df
PH
2730PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2731 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2732
e7ad8a65 2733
7982096b
PH
2734Exim version 4.51
2735-----------------
2736
1a46a8c5
PH
2737TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2738 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2739
2f079f46 2740TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2741
2742TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2743
2744PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2745 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2746
2747PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2748 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2749 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2750 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2751 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2752 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2753 file.
2754
2755PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2756 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2757 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2758 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2759 these two options.
2760
2761PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2762 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2763 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2764 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2765 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2766 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2767 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2768 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2769
2770PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2771 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2772
2773PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2774 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2775 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2776 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2777 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2778 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2779
2780PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2781 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2782 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2783 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2784
2785PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2786 Finch).
2787
2788PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2789 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2790
49c2d5ea
PH
2791PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2792 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2793 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2794 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2795 message.
49c2d5ea 2796
bf759a8b
PH
2797PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2798
83364d30
PH
2799PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2800 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2801
7999bbd7
PH
2802PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2803 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2804 to what was transported.)
2805
7dbf77c9
PH
2806TF/01 Added $received_time.
2807
74e0617f
PH
2808PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2809 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2810 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2811 spamd_address settings.
2812
2f079f46
PH
2813PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2814 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2815 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2816 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2817 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2818
8c841523
PH
2819PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2820
7766a4f0
PH
2821PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2822 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2823 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2824 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2825 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2826
8b417f2c
PH
2827PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2828 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2829
901f42cb
PH
2830PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2831 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2832 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2833 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2834 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2835 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2836 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2837 for failure.
2838
f9b9210e
PH
2839PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2840 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2841 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2842 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2843 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2844 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2845 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2846 "input=".
2847
54cdb463
PH
2848PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2849
cf00dad6
PH
2850PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2851 driver and ACL definitions.
2852
acb1b346
PH
2853PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2854 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2855
c5ddb310
PH
2856PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2857 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2858 understands it better than I do:
2859
2860 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2861 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2862
2863 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2864 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2865 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2866 => three warnings about OTP not working
2867 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2868
2869 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2870 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2871 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2872 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2873 for each call.)
2874 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2875 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2876
2877 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2878 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2879 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2880
31619da6
PH
2881PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2882 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2883 specified.
2884
bebaf0fc
PH
2885PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2886 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2887 "Linux".
2888
475fe28a
PH
2889PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2890 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2891 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2892
2893 warn !verify = sender
2894 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2895
2896 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2897 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2898
7e8bec7a
PH
2899PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2900
2901 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2902 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2903
2904 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2905 nomenclature these days.)
2906
e4a89c47
PH
2907PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2908 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2909
5ca2a9a1
PH
2910PH/30 In these circumstances:
2911 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2912 . First host does not offer TLS;
2913 . First host accepts first address;
2914 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2915 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2916 . Second host accepts second address.
2917 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2918 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2919 address.
7e8bec7a 2920
c688b954
PH
2921PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2922 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2923 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2924 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2925 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2926
fed77020
PH
2927PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2928 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2929
7fe1560f
PH
2930PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2931 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2932
ebb6e6d5
PH
2933PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2934 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2935 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2936
9c4e8f60
PH
2937PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2938 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2939 overlooked.
2940
2941PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2942
d7174846
PH
2943PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2944 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2945 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2946 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2947 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2948 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2949 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2950
2951 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2952 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2953 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2954 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2955 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2956
2957 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2958 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2959 routed further.
2960
cfe75fc3
PH
2961PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2962 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2963 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2964 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2965 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2966 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2967
be22d70e
PH
2968PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2969
0612b098
PH
2970PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2971 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2972 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2973 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2974 printable escape sequences.
2975
2e0c1448
PH
2976PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2977 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2978 body only.
2979
447d236c
PH
2980PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2981 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2982 are as follows:
2983
2984 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2985 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2986 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2987 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2988 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2989
2990 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2991 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2992 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2993
d20976dc
PH
2994PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2995
f656d135
PH
2996PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2997 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2998 play with."
2999
2e2a30b4
PH
3000PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3001 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3002 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3003 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3004 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3005 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3006 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3007 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3008 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3009 the log output.
3010
9176e9f0
PH
3011PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3012 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3013 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3014 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3015 "make".
3016
7982096b 3017
bbe902f0
PH
3018A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3019----------------------------------------
3020
3021Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3022changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3023needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3024in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3025that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3026release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3027from 4.43.
3028
3029I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30304.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3031those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3032historical information.
3033
3034
f7b63901 3035Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3036-----------------
3037
5fe762f6
PH
3038 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3039
139059f6 3040 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3041 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3042
7086e875
PH
3043 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3044 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3045 place.
3046
35af9f61
PH
3047 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3048 filter fails to execute.
3049
b668c215
PH
3050 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3051 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3052 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3053 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3054 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3055
a494b1e1
PH
3056 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3057
3058 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3059 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3060 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3061 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3062
c5fcb476
PH
3063 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3064 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3065 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3066 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3067 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3068
69358f02
PH
3069 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3070
5be20824
PH
307110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3072
eb2c0248
PH
307311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3074 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3075 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3076 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3077
2a3eea10
PH
307812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3079 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3080 sender verification.
3081
308213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3083 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3084
23c7ff99
PH
308514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3086
4deaf07d
PH
308715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3088 connection timeout.
3089
926e1192
PH
309016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3091 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3092
650edc6f
PH
309317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3094 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3095
2c7db3f5
PH
309618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3097 information about exactly what failed.
3098
3d235903
PH
309919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3100
7c7ad977
PH
310120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3102 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3103 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3104
981756db
PH
310521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3106 It is now set to "smtps".
3107
d4eb88df
PH
310822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3109 ignore_target_hosts.
3110
311123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3112 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3113 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3114 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3115 "[x.x.x.x]".
3116
7d468ab8
PH
311724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3118 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3119 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3120
312125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3122 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3123 wake it up if nothing else does.
3124
62c0818f
PH
312526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3126 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3127 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3128 end up negative.
3129
26034054
PH
313027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3131 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3132
af66f652
PH
313328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3134
90af77f4
PH
313529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3136 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3137 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3138 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3139 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3140 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3141 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3142 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3143
d8ef3577
PH
314430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3145 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3146 than one IP address.
3147
5cb8cbc6
PH
314831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3149 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3150 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3151 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3152
14702f5b
PH
315332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3154 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3155 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3156 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3157 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3158 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3159
063b1e99
PH
316033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3161 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3162 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3163 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3164
652e1b65
PH
316534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3166 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3167 respected.
3168
6f0c9a4f
PH
316935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3170 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3171 $sender_host_address.
3172
33397d19
PH
317336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3174 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3175 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3176 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3177 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3178 very small.
3179
7bb56e1f
PH
318037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3181
3182 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3183 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3184
ea3bc19b
PH
3185 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3186 just the host names, not the priorities.
3187
3188 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3189 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3190 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3191
ea3bc19b 3192 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3193 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3194
0bcb2a0e
PH
319538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3196 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3197 domain.
3198
2ac0e484
PH
319939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3200
4e1fde53
PH
320140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3202 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3203
de365ded
PH
320441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3205 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3206 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3207
f05da2e8
PH
320842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3209
d6453af2
PH
321043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3211
f7b63901
PH
321244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3213
321445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3215 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3216 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3217 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3218 because the tests only now provoked it.
3219
a444213a
PH
322046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3221 (this can affect the format of dates).
3222
0ec020ea
PH
322347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3224 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3225 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3226 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3227
b1206957
PH
322848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3229
323049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3231 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3232 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3233 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3234
26dd5a95
PH
323550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3236 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3237 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3238
343b2385
PH
323951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3240 autoreply.
3241
1c5466b9
PH
324252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3243 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3244 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3245 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3246 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3247 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3248 is going on).
3249
55ee9ee3
PH
325053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3251 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3252 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3253 the line.
3254
d38f8232
PH
325554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3256 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3257 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3258
3259 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3260 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3261 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3262 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3263 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3264 so I produce this patch..."
3265
3295e65b
PH
3266 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3267 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3268 is not defined.
3269
7102e136
PH
327055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3271 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3272 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3273 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3274 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3275
3ca0ba97
PH
327656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3277
c2bcbe20
PH
327857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3279 long debug lines gets shown.
3280
18ce445d
PH
328158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3282 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3283
1f5b4c3d
PH
328459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3285
3286 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3287 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3288 of $primary_hostname.
3289
b975ba52
PH
329060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3291 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3292 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3293 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3294 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3295 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3296 by change 4.50/55 above.
3297
3298 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3299 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3300 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3301 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3302 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3303 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3304 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3305
330661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3307 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3308 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3309 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3310
17ffcae7
PH
331162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3312 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3313
d95f9fdb
PH
331463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3315 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3316 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3317 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3318 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3319
86b8287f
PH
332064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3321 This has been fixed.
3322
60dc5e56
PH
332365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3324 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3325 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3326 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3327 the caching.)
3328
533244af
PH
332966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3330
a5a28604
PH
333167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3332 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3333 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3334 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3335
7e634d24
PH
333668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3337 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3338
3e11c26b
PH
333969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3340 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3341 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3342
6729cf78
PH
334370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3344 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3345 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3346 message there.
3347
00f00ca5
PH
334871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3349 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3350 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3351
c9bdd01c
PH
335272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3353 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3354 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3355 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3356
d43194df
PH
335773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3358 during host lookups.
3359
fe5b5d0b
PH
336074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3361 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3362
3363 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3364
76a2d7ba
PH
336575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3366 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3367 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3368 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3369 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3370 background.
3371
337276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3373 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3374
04f7d5b9
PH
337577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3376 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3377 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3378
bc60667e
PH
337978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3380
bb6e88ff
PH
338179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3382 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3383 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3384 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3385 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3386 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3387 process earlier.
3388
1e70f85b
PH
338980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3390 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3391 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3392 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3393 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3394
339581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3396 tables).
3397
4e01f9d6
PH
339882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3399
1ee1cef2
PH
340083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3401 "vacation" handling.
3402
6e2b4ccc
PH
340384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3404 OS variants using glibc.
3405
8e669ac1
PH
340685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3407
495ae4b0 3408
bbe902f0
PH
3409----------------------------------------------------
3410See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3411----------------------------------------------------
3412
3413
3414Exim version 4.44
3415-----------------
3416
3417 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3418 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3419 transport
3420
3421 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3422 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3423 place.
3424
3425 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3426 filter fails to execute.
3427
3428 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3429 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3430 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3431 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3432 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3433
3434 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3435 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3436 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3437 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3438
3439 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3440 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3441 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3442 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3443 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3444
3445 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3446
3447 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3448 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3449 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3450 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3451
3452 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3453 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3454 sender verification.
3455
345610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3457 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3458
345911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3460 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3461
346212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3463 ignore_target_hosts.
3464
346513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3466 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3467 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3468 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3469 "[x.x.x.x]".
3470
347114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3472 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3473 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3474
347515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3476 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3477 wake it up if nothing else does.
3478
347916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3480 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3481 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3482 end up negative.
3483
348417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3485 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3486
ea3a6f44 348718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3488
348919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3490 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3491 empty pattern.
3492
349320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3494 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3495 one IP address.
3496
ea3a6f44
NM
349721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3498 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3499 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3500 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3501 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3502 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3503
ea3a6f44
NM
350422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3505 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3506 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3507
350823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3509 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3510 $sender_host_address.
3511
351224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3513
ea3a6f44
NM
351425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3515 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3516 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3517
351826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3519 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3520
ea3a6f44
NM
352127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3522 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3523
ea3a6f44
NM
352428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3525 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3526 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3527 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3528
352929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3530 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3531 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3532
ea3a6f44
NM
353330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3534 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3535 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3536 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3537
ea3a6f44
NM
353831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3539 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3540 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3541
ea3a6f44
NM
354231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3543 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3544
ea3a6f44
NM
354532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3546 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3547 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3548 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3549 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3550 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3551 is going on).
bbe902f0 3552
ea3a6f44
NM
355333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3554 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3555 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3556 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3557 CAN-2005-0021
3558
ea3a6f44
NM
355934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3560 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3561 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3562 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3563 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3564 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3565 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3566
3567 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3568 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3569 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3570 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3571 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3572 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3573 CAN-2005-0021
3574
ea3a6f44
NM
357535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3576 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3577 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3578 CAN-2005-0022
3579
ea3a6f44
NM
358036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3581 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3582 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3583 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3584 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3585
ea3a6f44
NM
358637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3587 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3588 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3589 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3590 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3591
ea3a6f44
NM
359238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3593 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3594 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3595 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3596 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3597
3598
495ae4b0
PH
3599Exim version 4.43
3600-----------------
3601
3602 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3603 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3604 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3605 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3606 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3607 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3608 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3609
3610 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3611 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3612 the delivery.
3613
3614 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3615
3616 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3617
3618 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3619 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3620 to local_scan().
3621
3622 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3623 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3624 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3625 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3626 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3627
3628 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3629 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3630
3631 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3632
3633 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3634
363510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3636 header_sender only.
3637
363811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3639 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3640
364112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3642 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3643 affecting debugging statements).
3644
364513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3646
364714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3648 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3649 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3650 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3651 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3652 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3653 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3654 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3655 after the received time, and all would be well.
3656
365715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3658 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3659 condition in an expansion string.
3660
366116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3662
366317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3664 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3665 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3666 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3667 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3668 job under whatever limits there are.
3669
367018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3671
367219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3673 space).
3674
367520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3676 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3677 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3678 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3679 return path is set.
3680
368121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3682 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3683 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3684 binary data in such strings.
3685
368622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3687
368823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3689 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3690 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3691 failure, which is pointless.
3692
369324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3694
369525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3696
369726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3698 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3699 Sender: header lines.
3700
370127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3702 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3703 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3704
370528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3706 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3707 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3708 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3709 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3710 happens.
3711
371229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3713 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3714 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3715 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3716 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3717
371830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3719 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3720 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3721 1024.
3722
372331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3724 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3725
372632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3727 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3728
372933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3730
373132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3732
373333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3734
373534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3736 syntax error.
3737
373835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3739
374036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3741
374237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3743 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3744 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3745 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3746
374738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3748 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3749
3750
3751Exim version 4.42
3752-----------------
3753
3754 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3755 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3756 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3757 it was not quoted.
3758 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3759 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3760 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3761 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3762 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3763 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3764
3765 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3766 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3767 verification failure".
3768
3769 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3770 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3771 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3772 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3773
3774 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3775 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3776 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3777 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3778 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3779 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3780 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3781 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3782 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3783 treated as a timeout.
3784
3785 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3786 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3787 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3788 not set for Exim filters).
3789
3790 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3791 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3792 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3793
3794 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3795
3796 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3797 try to make them clearer.
3798
3799 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3800 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3801
3802 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3803
3804 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3805
380610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3807 only the Cygwin environment.
3808
380911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3810 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3811 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3812 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3813 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3814
381512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3816 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3817 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3818 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3819 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3820 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3821 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3822
382313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3824 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3825
382614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3827
3828 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3829 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3830 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3831
3832 To: susanne@some.where
3833
3834 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3835 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3836 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3837 of addresses in From: header lines).
3838
3839 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3840 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3841 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3842
3843 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3844 treated as non-personal.
3845
3846 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3847 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3848
384915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3850
385116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3852
385317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3854 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3855 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3856
385718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3858 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3859
386019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3861 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3862 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3863 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3864 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3865 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3866
386720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3868 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3869 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3870 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3871 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3872 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3873 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3874 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3875
3876 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3877
387821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3879 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3880
388122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3882 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3883 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3884
388523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3886 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3887
388824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3889 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3890 rather than long int.
3891
389225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3893
389426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3895
3896
3897Exim version 4.41
3898-----------------
3899
3900 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3901 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3902 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3903 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3904 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3905 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3906
3907
3908Exim version 4.40
3909-----------------
3910
3911 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3912 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3913
3914 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3915 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3916 socklen_t is defined.
3917
3918 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3919 always exist.
3920
3921 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3922 configured.
3923
3924 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3925 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3926 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3927 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3928 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3929
3930 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3931 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3932 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3933 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3934
3935 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3936 of flapping under certain conditions.
3937
3938 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3939 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3940 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3941
3942 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3943
394410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3945
394611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3947 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3948 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3949 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3950
395112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3952 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3953 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3954 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3955 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3956 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3957 preserved with the message after it was received.
3958
395913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3960 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3961 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3962 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3963 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3964 test suite worked just fine.
3965
396614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3967 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3968 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3969
397015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3971 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3972 string.
3973
397416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3975 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3976 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3977 does not fully solve it.
3978
397917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3980 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3981 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3982 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3983 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3984
398518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3986 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3987 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3988
398919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3990 string, for example:
3991
3992 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3993
3994 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3995 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3996 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3997 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3998 the routers could not see them.
3999
400020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4001 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4002
400321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4004 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4005 output).
4006
400722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4008 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4009 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4010 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4011 that needed quoting.
4012
401323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4014 was not being matched caselessly.
4015
401624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4017 backslashes.
4018
401925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4020 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4021 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4022 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4023 when use_sender is false.
4024
402526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4026
402727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4028
402928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4030
403129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4032 the configuration file.
4033
403430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4035 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4036
403731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4038
403932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4040 bytes in the message body.
4041
404233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4043 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4044 delivery.
4045
404634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4047
404835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4049
405036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4051 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4052 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4053 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4054 another IP address.
4055
4056
4057Exim version 4.34
4058-----------------
4059
4060 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4061 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4062
4063 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4064 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4065 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4066 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4067 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4068
4069 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4070 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4071
4072 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4073 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4074 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4075
4076 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4077 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4078 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4079
4080 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4081 for routers.
4082
4083 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4084 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4085 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4086 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4087 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4088 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4089 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4090
4091
4092Exim version 4.33
4093-----------------
4094
4095 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4096 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4097 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4098 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4099 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4100 default (and expected) setting.
4101
4102 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4103 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4104 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4105 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4106
4107 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4108 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4109
4110 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4111 in domain lists.
4112
4113 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4114 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4115 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4116 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4117 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4118 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4119
4120 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4121 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4122 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4123
4124 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4125 part (NOT match_host).
4126
4127 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4128
4129 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4130 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4131 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4132 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4133 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4134 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4135 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4136 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4137 the same named file.
4138
413910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4140 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4141 when Exim is built.
4142
414311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4144 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4145 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4146 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4147 a host name.
4148
414912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4150 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4151 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4152
415313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4154
415514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4156
415715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4158
415916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4160 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4161
416217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4163 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4164 before starting the TLS session.
4165
416618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4167
416819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4169 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4170
417120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4172 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4173 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4174 colon in the middle).
4175
4176
4177Exim version 4.32
4178-----------------
4179
4180 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4181 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4182 multiple configurations are in use.
4183
4184 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4185 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4186 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4187 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4188 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4189 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4190
4191 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4192 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4193
4194 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4195 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4196 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4197
4198 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4199 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4200 occurs.
4201
4202 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4203 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4204
4205 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4206
4207 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4208 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4209
4210 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4211
4212 -prval:sval
4213
4214 is equivalent to
4215
4216 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4217
4218 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4219 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4220 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4221 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4222 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4223
422410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4225 Exim's behaviour:
4226
4227 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4228 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4229 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4230 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4231 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4232 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4233
4234 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4235 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4236 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4237 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4238 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4239 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4240 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4241 string.
4242
4243 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4244 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4245 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4246 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4247 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4248
424911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4250
425112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4252 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4253 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4254
425513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4256
425714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4258 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4259 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4260 information.
4261
426215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4263 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4264
426516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4266 Three changes have been made:
4267
4268 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4269 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4270 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4271 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4272 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4273
4274 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4275 been restored.
4276
4277 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4278 the modified behaviour.
4279
4280
4281Exim version 4.31
4282-----------------
4283
4284 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4285 Larry Rosenman.
4286
4287 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4288 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4289
4290 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4291 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4292 try to track down a specific problem.
4293
4294 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4295 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4296 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4297
4298 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4299 warning.
4300
4301 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4302 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4303 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4304 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4305 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4306 some earlier ones do not.
4307
4308 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4309
4310 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4311 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4312 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4313 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4314 address literals are enabled, of course).
4315
4316 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4317
431810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4319 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4320 by a command such as
4321
4322 exim -f "" ...
4323
4324 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4325
432611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4327
432812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4329 remained set. It is now erased.
4330
433113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4332 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4333
433414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4335 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4336 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4337 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4338 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4339 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4340 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4341 appropriate error code.
4342
434315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4344 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4345 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4346 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4347 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4348 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4349
435016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4351 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4352 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4353
435417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4355 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4356 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4357 terminate the header.
4358
435918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4360 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4361 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4362
436319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4364 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4365 (4.30/29). In particular:
4366
4367 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4368 imposed.
4369
4370 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4371 to write a maildirsize file.
4372
4373 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4374 the transport, the new value overrides.
4375
4376 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4377 count.
4378
437920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4380 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4381 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4382 space or a tab.
4383
438421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4385 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4386 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4387 the fallback hosts.
4388
438922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4390 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4391 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4392
439323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4394 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4395 using a union.
4396
439724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4398 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4399 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4400
440125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4402
440326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4404
440527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4406
440728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4408 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4409 become corrupted.
4410
441129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4412 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4413 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4414 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4415 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4416 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4417 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4418 too great.
4419
442030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4421 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4422 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4423 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4424 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4425 incorrectly.
4426
442731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4428 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4429 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4430 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4431 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4432 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4433 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4434 cached value only when the same options are set.
4435
443632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4437
443833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4439 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4440 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4441 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4442 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4443
444434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4445 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4446 it is clearly obsolete.
4447
444835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4449 transport.
4450
445136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4452 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4453 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4454 times.
4455
445637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4457 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4458 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4459 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4460 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4461
446238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4463 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4464 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4465 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4466
446739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4468
4469 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4470
4471 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4472 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4473 2^31.
4474
447540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4476 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4477 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4478 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4479 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4480 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4481 $localpart_data.
4482
448341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4484 with the -f command-line option.
4485
448642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4487 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4488 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4489 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4490 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4491 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4492
449343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4494 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4495 line.
4496
449744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4498 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4499 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4500 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4501 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4502 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4503 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4504 buffer is too small.
4505
450645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4507 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4508
450946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4510 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4511 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4512 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4513 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4514 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4515 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4516 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4517 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4518
451947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4520 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4521 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4522
452348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4524 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4525 ACL").
4526
452749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4528 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4529 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4530 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4531 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4532
453350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4534 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4535 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4536 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4537 is set.
4538
453951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4540
454152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4542
454353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4544 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4545
454654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4547 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4548 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4549
455055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4551 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4552 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4553 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4554 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4555
455656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4557 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4558 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4559 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4560 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4561 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4562 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4563
456457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4565 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4566 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4567 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4568 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4569 the test of how many are available.
4570
457158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4572 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4573 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4574 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4575 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4576 new message is started.
4577
457859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4579 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4580
458160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4582 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4583
458461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4585 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4586 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4587 is no long logged.
4588
458962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4590 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4591 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4592 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4593 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4594 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4595 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4596
459763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4598 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4599 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4600 interpreted as octal.
4601
460264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4603 setting.
4604
460565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4606 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4607 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4608 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4609 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4610 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4611
461266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4613 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4614 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4615 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4616
4617 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4618 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4619 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4620 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4621
4622 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4623 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4624 is a bug fix.
4625
4626 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4627 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4628
462967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4630
463168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4632 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4633 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4634 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4635
463669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4637 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4638 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4639 supplied", which is not helpful.
4640
464170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4642 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4643 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4644
464571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4646 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4647 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4648 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4649 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4650 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4651 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4652 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4653
465472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4655 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4656 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4657 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4658 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4659
466073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4661 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4662 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4663 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4664 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4665 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4666
466774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4668 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4669 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4670
467175. Added write_rejectlog option.
4672
467376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4674 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4675 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4676 variables.
4677
467877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4679
468078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4681 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4682 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4683 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4684 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4685 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4686 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4687 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4688
468979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4690 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4691 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4692 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4693 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4694
469580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4696 Haardt.
4697
469881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4699 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4700 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4701 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4702 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4703 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4704 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4705 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4706 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4707
4708
4709Exim version 4.30
4710-----------------
4711
4712 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4713 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4714 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4715
4716 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4717 fixed.
4718
4719 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4720 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4721 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4722
4723 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4724 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4725 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4726 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4727 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4728 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4729
4730 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4731 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4732 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4733 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4734 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4735 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4736 the Exim test suite.
4737
4738 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4739 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4740 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4741 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4742
4743 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4744 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4745 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4746 specify it in this variable.
4747
4748 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4749 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4750 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4751 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4752
4753 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4754 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4755 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4756 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4757
4758 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4759 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4760 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4761 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4762 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4763
4764 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4765
476610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4767 they are logged.
4768
476911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4770 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4771 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4772 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4773 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4774
477512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4776 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4777
477813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4779 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4780 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4781 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4782 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4783
478414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4785 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4786
478715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4788 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4789 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4790
479116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4792 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4793
479417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4795 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4796
479718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4798 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4799 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4800
480119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4802 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4803
480420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4805 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4806 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4807 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4808
480921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4810
481122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4812 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4813 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4814 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4815
481623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4817
481824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4819 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4820
482125. Added .include_if_exists.
4822
482326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4824 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4825 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4826 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4827 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4828 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4829
483027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4831
483228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4833 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4834 this.
4835
483629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4837
483830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4839 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4840
4841 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4842 550 Sender verify failed
4843
4844 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4845 the final line of the response.
4846
484731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4848 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4849 all other user lookups.
4850
485132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4852 delivery time.
4853
485433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4855 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4856 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4857 result into an int without checking.
4858
485934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4860 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4861 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4862
486335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4864 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4865 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4866 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4867
486836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4869 correctly.
4870
487137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4872 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4873
487438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4875 to the empty sender.
4876
487739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4878 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4879 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4880 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4881 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4882 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4883 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4884 panic log.
4885
488640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4887 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4888 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4889 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4890 used.
4891
489241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4893 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4894
489542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4896 timestamps.
4897
489843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4899 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4900
490144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4902
490345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4904 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4905 logs.
4906
490746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4908 as soon as it is encountered.
4909
491047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4911
491248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4913 rewritten to "<>".
4914
491549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4916 recognizes a tab character.
4917
491850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4919 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4920 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4921 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4922
492351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4924
492552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4926 crash.
4927
492853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4929
493054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4931
493255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4933 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4934 2822.
4935
493656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4937 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4938 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4939 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4940 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4941
494257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4943 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4944
494558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4946 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4947 list (.included file names were always shown).
4948
494959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4950 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4951 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4952 root at that time.
4953
495460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4955 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4956
495761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4958
495962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4960
496163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4962
496364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4964 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4965 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4966 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4967 failures to open the logs.
4968
496965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4970 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4971 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4972 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4973 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4974 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4975 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4976
4977
4978Exim version 4.24
4979-----------------
4980
4981 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4982 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4983 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4984 change 4.23/1.
4985
4986 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4987 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4988 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4989
4990 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4991 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4992 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4993
4994 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4995 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4996 causing some misleading effects.
4997
4998 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4999 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5000 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5001
5002 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5003 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5004 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5005 queue-runner function directly.
5006
5007
5008Exim version 4.23
5009-----------------
5010
5011 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5012 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5013
5014 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5015 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5016 was always written to the default place.
5017
5018 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5019 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5020 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5021
5022 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5023
5024 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5025
5026 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5027 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5028 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5029
5030 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5031 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5032 must start.
5033
5034 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5035 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5036 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5037
5038 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5039 command line option is disabled.
5040
5041 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5042 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5043
5044 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5045
5046 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5047
5048 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5049 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5050
505110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5052
505311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5054 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5055 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5056 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5057 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5058 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5059
506012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5061 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5062 timeout.
5063
506413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5065 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5066
506714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5068 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5069
507015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5071 received was valid base64.
5072
507316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5074 name of the variable that was being set.
5075
507617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5077
507818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5079 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5080 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5081 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5082 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5083 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5084
508519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5086
508720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5088 nor realm was specified.
5089
509021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5091 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5092 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5093 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5094
509522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5096 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5097 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5098
509923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5100 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5101 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5102
510324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5104 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5105 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5106 some systems use these upper case variants.
5107
510825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5109 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5110 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5111 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5112
511326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5114
511527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5116 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5117
511828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5119 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5120 expansion variable.
5121
512229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5123
512430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5125 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5126 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5127 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5128
512931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5130 using it.
5131
513232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5133 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5134 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5135
513633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5137 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5138
513934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5140 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5141 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5142 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5143
514435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5145 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5146 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5147
514836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5149
515037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5151 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5152 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5153 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5154 aborted.
5155
515638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5157 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5158 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5159
516039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5161
516240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5163 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5164
516541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5166 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5167
516842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5169 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5170 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5171 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5172 when emails are that large.
5173
5174
5175
5176Exim version 4.22
5177-----------------
5178
5179 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5180 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5181
5182 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5183 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5184 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5185
5186 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5187 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5188 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5189
5190 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5191 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5192 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5193 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5194 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5195
5196 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5197 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5198 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5199 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5200 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5201 ever.
5202
5203 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5204 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5205 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5206 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5207 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5208 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5209 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5210 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5211 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5212 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5213 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5214 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5215 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5216 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5217
5218 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5219 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5220 parameterised it.
5221
5222 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5223 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5224 error should be diagnosed.
5225
5226 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5227 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5228 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5229 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5230 appeared instead of "NULL".
5231
523210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5233 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5234 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5235 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5236 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5237 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5238 proceeds).
5239
5240 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5241 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5242 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5243
5244
5245Exim version 4.21
5246-----------------
5247
5248 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5249 or receiver verification errors.
5250
5251 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5252 name.
5253
5254 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5255 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5256 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5257 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5258
5259 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5260 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5261 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5262 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5263 shouldn't happen again.
5264
5265 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5266 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5267 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5268
5269 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5270 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5271
5272 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5273
5274 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5275 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5276
5277 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5278 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5279 RFC.
5280
528110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5282 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5283 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5284
528511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5286 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5287 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5288 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5289
529012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5291 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5292 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5293 to define what should happen).
5294
529513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5296 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5297 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5298
529914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5300
530115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5302
530316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5304 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5305
530617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5307 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5308 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5309 structure in all cases.
5310
5311 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5312 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5313 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5314 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5315
531618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5317 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5318 domain name.
5319
532019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5321 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5322
532320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5324 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5325
532621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5327 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5328 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5329
533022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5331 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5332 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5333
533423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5335 the book and for uniformity.
5336
533724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5338
533925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5340 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5341 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5342 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5343 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5344 non-existent command as the problem.
5345
534626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5347 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5348 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5349
535027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5351
535228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5353 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5354 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5355
535629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5357 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5358 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5359 timestamps using strftime().
5360
536130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5362 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5363
536432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5365 transport-time rewrites.
5366
536733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5368 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5369 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5370 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5371
537234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5373 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5374
537535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5376 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5377 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5378 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5379 comma and a space.
5380
538136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5382 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5383 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5384 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5385 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5386 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5387 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5388
538937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5390 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5391 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5392 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5393 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5394
539538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5396 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5397 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5398 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5399 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5400 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5401 remaining text gets split now.
5402
540339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5404 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5405 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5406 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5407
540840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5409 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5410 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5411 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5412 $return_path.
5413
541441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5415 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5416 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5417 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5418 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5419 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5420 passed through if needed.
5421
542242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5423 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5424 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5425 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5426 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5427 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5428
542943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5430 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5431 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5432 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5433 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5434
543544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5436 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5437 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5438 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5439 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5440
544145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5442 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5443 noticed.
5444
544546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5446 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5447 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5448 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5449 mayhem of various kinds.
5450
545147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5452 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5453 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5454 the right test for positive values.
5455
545648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5457 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5458 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5459 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5460 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5461 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5462 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5463 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5464 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5465 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5466 envelope.
5467
546849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5469 module.
5470
547150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5472 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5473 forbidding it.
5474
547551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5476 the existing equality matching.
5477
547852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5479 dealing with inode numbers.
5480
548153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5482 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5483 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5484
548554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5486 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5487 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5488 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5489 local_scan().
5490
549155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5492 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5493 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5494 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5495 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5496 relay addresses has also been removed.
5497
549856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5499
550057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5501 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5502 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5503
550458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5505 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5506 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5507 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5508 processing applies to CR:
5509
5510 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5511 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5512
5513 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5514 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5515 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5516 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5517
551859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5519 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5520 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5521
552260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5523 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5524 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5525 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5526 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5527 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5528 arisen.
5529
553061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5531 program routers.
5532
553362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5534 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5535 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5536 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5537 adds:
5538
5539 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5540
5541 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5542
5543 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5544
554563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5546 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5547 not considered personal.
5548
554964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5550
555165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5552
555366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5554
555567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5556 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5557 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5558 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5559 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5560 header lines, and spool format errors.
5561
556268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5563 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5564 for more flexibility.
5565
556669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5567 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5568 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5569
557070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5571 Sabourenkov.
5572
557371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5574 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5575 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5576 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5577 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5578 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5579 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5580 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5581 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5582
558372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5584 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5585 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5586 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5587 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5588 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5589 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5590
559173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5592 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5593 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5594
559574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5596 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5597 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5598 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5599 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5600 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5601 instead of killing the process with assert().
5602
560375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5604 than Unicode encoding.
5605
560676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5607 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5608 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5609 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5610
561177. Added process_log_path.
5612
561378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5614 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5615
561679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5617 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5618
561980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5620 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5621 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5622
562381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5624 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5625 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5626 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5627 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5628 were applied:
5629
5630 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5631 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5632 as invalid.
5633
563482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5635 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5636 they will be used during message reception.
5637
5638
5639Exim version 4.20
5640-----------------
5641
5642The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5643
5644****