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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
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73HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
76HS/02 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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92JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
93
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94JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
95 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
96
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97JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
98 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
99 facility.
100
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101JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
102 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
103 documentation.
104
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105JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
106 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
107 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
108 not do so.
109
59c0959a 110JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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111 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
112 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
113
114JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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115 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
116 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
117 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
118 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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120JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
121 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 123JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 124 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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125 be requested on all coneections.
126
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127JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
128 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
129
6ee11061 130PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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132JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
133 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
134 one for these; the option was ignored.
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136JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
137 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
138 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
139 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
140
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141JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
142 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
143 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
144 standards.
145
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146JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
147 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
148 error ignored was made.
149
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150JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
151
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156JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
157 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
158
159JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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160 non-signal-safe functions being used.
161
162JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
163 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
164 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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166JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
167 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
168 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
169
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170JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
171 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
172 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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173 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
174 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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175 messed with.
176
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177PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
178 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
179
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180JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
181 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
182 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
183 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
184 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
185 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
186 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
187
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188JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
189 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
190
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191JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
192 legitimate.
193
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194JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
195 Previously this would segfault.
196
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197JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
198 segfault.
199
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200JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
201 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
202 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
203 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
204 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
205 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
206
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207JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
208
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209JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
210 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
211 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
212 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
213
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214JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
215
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216JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
217 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
218 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
219 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
220
5054c4fd 221JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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223JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 224
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225JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
226 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
227 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
228
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229JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
230 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
231 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
232
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233PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
234
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235JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
236 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
237 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
238 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
239
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240PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
241 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
242 promised '?' replacement.
243
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244PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
245
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246JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
247 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
248 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
249 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
250 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
251
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252JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
253 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
254 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
255
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256JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
257 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
258 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
259
7ea1237c 260JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 261 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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262 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
263
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264JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
265 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
266 hope that is portable enough.
267
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268JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
269 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
270 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
271 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
272
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273JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
274 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
275 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
276
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277JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
278 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
279 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
280 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
281
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282JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
283 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
284
75c121f0 285JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 286 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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287 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
288 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
289
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290JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
291 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
292 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
293
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294JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
295 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
296 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
297 the previous G, M, k.
298
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299JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
300 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
301 it was unset.
302
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303JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
304 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
305 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
306 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
307
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308JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
309 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
310
de6f74f2 311JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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312 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
313 off past the nul-terimation.
314
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315JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
316 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
317 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
318 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
319 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
320
aa6e77af 321JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 322
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323JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
324 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
325 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
326 actually does fail.
327
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328AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
329 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
330
331JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
332 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
333 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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335JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
336 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
337 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
338
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339JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
340 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
341
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c39c8870 346GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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347 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
348 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
349 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
350 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
351 be defined in redis_servers.
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353GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
354 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
355
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356JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
357 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
358 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
359 extant use locations.
360
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361JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
362 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
363
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364JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
365 Previously only the last row was returned.
366
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367JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
368 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
369 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
370 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
371 input.
372
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373JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
374 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
375 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
376 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
377 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
378 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
379 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
380 Main pool for expansions.
381 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
382 active in the testsuite.
383 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
384
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385JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
386 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
387 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
388 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
389 round-robin DNS.
390
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391JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
392 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
393 failure response.
394
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395JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
396 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
397 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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398
399JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
400 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
401 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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403JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
404 rows affected is given instead).
405
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406JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
407 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
408
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409JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
410 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
411 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
412 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
413 for all multi-message initiating connections.
414
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415JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
416 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
417 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
418
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419JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
420 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
421 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
422 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
423 separate.
424
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425JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
426 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
427 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
428 fake-reject.
429
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430HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
431
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432JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
433 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
434
aab9a843 435PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 436 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 437 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 438
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439JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
440 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
441 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
442 and send a quit.
443
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444JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
445 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
446
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447JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
448 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
449 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
450
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451JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
452 for the build is renamed.
453
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454JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
455 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
456 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
457
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458JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
459 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
460 result replacing the original.
461
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462JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
463 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
464 and the resources needed to be freed.
465
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466JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
467
e6532c4a
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468JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
469 was not propagated.
470
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471JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
472 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
473 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
474 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
475
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476JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
477 length value. Previously this would segfault.
478
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479HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
480 newer versions of the scanner.
481
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482JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
483 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
484 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
485 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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486 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
487 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
488 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 489
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490JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
491 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
492 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
493 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
494 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
495 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
496 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
497 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
498 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
499 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
500
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501JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
502 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
503
b3b37076
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504JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
505
830832c9
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506HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
507 allows proper process termination in container environments.
508
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509JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
510 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
511
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512JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
513 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
514 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
515
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516JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
517 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
518 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 519 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 520
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521JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
522 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
523 would be spooled.
524
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525PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
526 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
527
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528HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
529 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
530 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
531 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
532 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 533
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534JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
535 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
536 lines.
537
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538JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
539 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
540
ddd16464
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541PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
542 suffix list.
543
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544JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
545 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
546 "bare" representation.
547
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548JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
549 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
550 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
551 corrupted the output.
552
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556
557JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
558 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
559 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
560 pairs of long lines into single ones.
561
856d1e16
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562PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
563 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
564
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565JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
566 This permits better logging.
567
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568JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
569 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
570 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
571 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
572 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 573 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 574
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575JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
576 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
577 "exiwhat" output.
578
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579PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
580 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
581 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
582
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583JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
584 than 255 are no longer allowed.
585
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586JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
587 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
588 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
589 client, there is no benefit for these.
590 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
591 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
592 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
593 is used (3.2.4 +).
594
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595PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
596 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
597
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598JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
599 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
600 erroneously found still-pending ones.
601
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602JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
603 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
604
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605JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
606 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
607 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
608 signature and again for transmission.
609
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610JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
611 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 612 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 613
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614JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
615 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
616 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
617 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
618 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
619 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
620 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
621
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622JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
623 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
624 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 625 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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627PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
628 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
629 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
630 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
631 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
632 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
633 processing options.
634
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635JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
636 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
637 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
638 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
639 connections.
925ac8e4 640
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641PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
642 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
643 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
644 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
645 versions.
646
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647JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
648 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
649 inaccessible.
650
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651JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
652 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
653 banner-time rejection.
654
a843a57e
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655JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
656 callout/hold.
657
8e041ae0
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658PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
659 is the name of a transport.
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660 Fixes bug 2140.
661
35a04365
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662HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
663
4226691b
JH
664JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
665 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
666
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667JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
668 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
669 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
670 during compilation.
671
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672JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
673 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
674 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 675 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 676
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677JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
678 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
679 initial verify call returned a defer.
680
ad1a76fe 681JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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682 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
683
ad1a76fe
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684JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
685 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
686
135e9496
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687JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
688 if present. Previously it was ignored.
689
f2ed27cf
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690JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
691 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
692
7eb0e5d2
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693JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
694 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
695 extensible.
696
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697PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
698 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
699
dc4de9cc
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700PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
701 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
702 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
703
ea18931d
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704JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
705 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
706 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
707 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
708
0768462d 709HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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710 and confused the parent.
711
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712JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
713 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
714
9e0ed81f
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715JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
716 for log purposes.
717
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718JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
719 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
720 out-of-order delivery.
721
e5ab0ba9
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722JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
723 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
724 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
725 error for the HELO.
726
e99a3a6c
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727JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
728 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
729 desynchronisation.
730
18067c75
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731JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
732 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
733 one run was done. Bug 2189.
734
72934ba7
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735JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
736 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
737 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
738 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
739 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
740 message is still "Temporary local problem".
741
625667b6
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742JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
743 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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744 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
745
746HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
747 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
748 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 749
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750JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
751 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
752 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
753 though a different problem.
754
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9427e879 759JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 760 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 761
7b283890
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762JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
763
4c57a40e
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764PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
765 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
766
5d036699
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767JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
768 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
769
f4630439
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770JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
771 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
772 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
773 before acknowledging the chunk.
774
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775PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
776 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
777 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
778
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779JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
780 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
781 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
782 should.
783
784JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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785 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
786 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 787
bd8fbe36 788JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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789 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
790
bd8fbe36
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791JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
792 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
793 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
794 body hash calculated value.
795
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796JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
797 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
798 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
799
44e6651b
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800JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
801
802JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
803 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
804
805JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
806 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
807 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
808
809JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
810 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
811 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
812 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
813 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
814 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
815
816JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
817 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
818 past that check, despite the cost.
819
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820JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
821 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
822 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
823
f700ea4d
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824PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
825 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
826 TLS library to consume.
827
da88acae
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828PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
829
f6ef9370
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830PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
831
90341c71
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832JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
833 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
834 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
835 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
836 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
837 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
838 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
839
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840PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
841
842PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
843
844PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
845 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
846 should be warning-free.
847
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848JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
849
850HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
851 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
852
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853HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
854 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
855 general solution here.
856
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857PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
858 already-broken messages in the queue.
859
4bb432cb
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860JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
861
3b1a84c8
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862JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
863
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868JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
869 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 870
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871JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
872 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
873 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
874
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875JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
876 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
877 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
878 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
879 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
880 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
881 if one fails this test.
882 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
883 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
884
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885JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
886 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
887
23bb6982 888JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 889 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 890
0bd1b1ed 891JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 892 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 893
20b9a2dc
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894JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
895 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
896
05392bbc
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897JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
898 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
899
1a6230a3
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900JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
901
cfab9d68
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902JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
903 certificate).
904
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905JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
906 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
907 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
908 connection after a verify cache hit.
909 Do not update it with the verify result either.
910
911JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
912 when routing results in more than one destination address.
913
ae8386f0
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914JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
915 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
916 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
917 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
918 when the cutthrough connection is made).
919
0d9fa8c0
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920JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
921 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
922
3581f321
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923JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
924 Previously they were not counted.
925
ef3a1a30
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926JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
927 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
928 that needed the lookup.
929
4c04137d 930JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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931 distinguished as "(=".
932
1435d4b2
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933JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
934 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
935
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936JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
937
938JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
939 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 940
4c04137d 941JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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942 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
943
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944JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
945 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
946 compatible.
947
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948JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
949 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
950 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
951 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
952
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953JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
954
f59aaaaa 955JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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956 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
957 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 958
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959JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
960 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
961 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
962 be lost.
963
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964JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
965 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
966 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
967 itself :(
968
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969JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
970 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
971 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
972
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973JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
974 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
975 options.
976
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977JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
978
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979PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
980 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
981
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982PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
983 are not in the system include path.
984
ad7fc6eb 985JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 986 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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987 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
988 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 989
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990JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
991 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
992 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
993
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994JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
995
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996HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
997 an incoming connection.
998
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999HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1000 to rspamd.
1001
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1002HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1003 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1004
87cb4a16 1005JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1006 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1007
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1012JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1013 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1014 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1015 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1016
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1017TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1018 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1019
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1020TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1021 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1022 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1023 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1024 outgoing I= field.
1025
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1026JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1027 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1028 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1029 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1030 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1031 check on the next write.
1032
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1033HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1034 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1035 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1036 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1037 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1038
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1039JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1040 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1041
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1042JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1043 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1044 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1045
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1046JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1047 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1048 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1049 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1050
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1051HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1052 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1053
4c04137d 1054JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1055 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1056
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1057JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1058 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1059 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1060 distinct.
1061
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1062JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1063
1064JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1065
ec0eb1a3
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1066JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1067
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1068JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1069 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1070
98b98887 1071JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1072 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1073
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1074JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1075
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1076JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1077 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1078
1079JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1080
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1081JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1082 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1083
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1084JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1085
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1086JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1087 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1088 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1089 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1090 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1091 they will retry in-clear.
1092 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1093 at installation time.
1094
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1095HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1096 with the $config_file variable.
1097
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1098JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1099 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1100 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1101 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1102 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1103
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1104GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1105 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1106 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1107 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1108 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1109
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1110JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1111
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1112JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1113 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1114 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1115 list order is no longer honoured.
1116
4c04137d 1117JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1118 for DKIM processing.
1119
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1120JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1121 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1122
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1123JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1124 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1125 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1126 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1127
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1128JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1129 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1130
2d8d625b
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1131JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1132 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1133
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1134JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1135 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1136
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1137JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1138
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1139JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1140 cached by the daemon.
1141
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1142JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1143 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1144
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1145JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1146 keys are given for lookup.
1147
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1148JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1149 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1150 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1151 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1152
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1153JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1154 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1155 server-side so match that on older versions.
1156
07c73177 1157JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1158 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1159 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1160
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1161JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1162 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1163
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1164JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1165 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1166 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1167 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1168 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1169 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1170 initial truncated version.
1171
ab9152ff 1172JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1173
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1174JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1175
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1176JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1177 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1178
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1179JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1180
bc3c7bb7 1181HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1182
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1183JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1184 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1185 induced overflows.
1186
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1187JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1188 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1189 stage.
1190
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1191JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1192 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1193
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1194JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1195 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1196 former class.
1197
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1198JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1199 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1200 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1201
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1202JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1203 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1204 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1205 extraction. Accept either.
1206
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1211JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1212 expanded.
1213
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1214JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1215
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1216JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1217 it.
1218
01a4a5c5 1219JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1220 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1221 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1222 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1223
cb1d7830 1224JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1225 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1226 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1227
610ff438 1228JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1229 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1230 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1231 TLS connections
610ff438 1232
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1233JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1234 sites use this now.
1235
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1236JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1237 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1238 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1239 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1240 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1241
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1242JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1243 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1244 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1245
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1246JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1247
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1248JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1249 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1250
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1251JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1252 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1253
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1254JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1255 /defer_ok option.
1256
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1257JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1258 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1259
fd4d8871 1260JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1261 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1262 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1263
1264JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1265 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1266 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1267
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1268JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1269 timeout value per server.
1270
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1271JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1272 now have the list separator specified.
1273
8a512ed5 1274JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1275 option values.
8a512ed5 1276
82c0c8ea 1277JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1278 under OpenSSL.
1279
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1280JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1281
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1282JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1283 rather than the verbs used.
1284
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1285JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1286 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1287
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1288JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1289
cfab9d68 1290HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1291 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1292
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1293JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1294 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1295
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1296HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1297 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1298
4c04137d 1299JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1300
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1301JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1302
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1303JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1304 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1305 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1306 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1307
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1308JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1309
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1310JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1311 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1312
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1313JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1314 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1315
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1316JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1317
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1318JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1319
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1320JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1321
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1322JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1323 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1324
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1325JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1326 added for tls authenticator.
1327
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1328HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1329
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1334TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1335 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1336 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1337 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1338 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1339 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1340 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1341
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1342TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1343 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1344 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1345 function when detected.
1346
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1347JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1348 cause callback expansion.
1349
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1350TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1351 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1352 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1353 instead of bool when processing it.
1354
0f06b4f2 1355JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1356 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1357
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1358JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1359
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1360JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1361
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1362TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1363
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1364TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1365 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1367JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1368 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1369 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1370 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1371 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1372 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1373
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1374JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1375 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1376 exceeded it.
1377
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1378JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1379 version 3.3.6 or later.
1380
4c04137d 1381JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1382 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1383 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1384 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1385 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1386 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1387 option is defined.
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eca4debb
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1389TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1390 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1391
8d692470
JH
1392JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1393 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1394 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1395 matches.
1396
e9477a08
JH
1397JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1398 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1399 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1400
ad4c5ff9
JH
1401JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1402 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1403
1404JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1405 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1406 syntax errors.
1407
3394b36a 1408JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1409
1410JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1411 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1412
3394b36a
TL
1413TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1414 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1415 tarball.
1416
ad4c5ff9
JH
1417JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1418
4c04137d 1419JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1420 Bug 1561.
1421
1422JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1423 output list separator was used.
1424
8bc732e8 1425
1f0ebb98
TL
1426Exim version 4.84
1427-----------------
09728d20
TL
1428TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1429 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1430 return.
1f0ebb98 1431
a612424f 1432JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1433 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1434
1435JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1436
1437TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1438 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1439
1f0ebb98 1440
c0e56233
TF
1441Exim version 4.83
1442-----------------
1443
1444TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1445
1446 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1447 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1448 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1449 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1450 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1451 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1452
7245734e
TF
1453TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1454 utilities have not been installed.
1455
fd5dad68
JH
1456JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1457 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1458
5428a946
TL
1459TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1460 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1461
a3c86431
TL
1462TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1463 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1464 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1465 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1466
aa26e137
JH
1467JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1468
5a1b8443
WB
1469TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1470 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1471
72c9e342
PP
1472PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1473 not dns_use_dnssec.
1474
76f44207
WB
1475JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1476
770747fd
MFM
1477TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1478 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1479 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1480
8ddef691 1481TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1482 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1483 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1484 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1485 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1486 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1487
b9c2e32f
AR
1488JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1489
e45a1c37
JH
1490JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1491 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1492
67d81c10
JH
1493JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1494 failed delivery.
1495
b1f8e4f8
JH
1496JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1497
511a6c14 1498JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1499
1500JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1501 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1502
51c7471d
JH
1503JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1504 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1505
3695be34
TL
1506TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1507
1e06383a
TL
1508JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1509
76146973
JH
1510JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1511 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1512
1513 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1514 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1515 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1516
8c8b8274
TL
1517TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1518 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1519 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1520 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1521
35aba663
JH
1522JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1523
8c51eead 1524JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1525 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1526 lookup).
8c51eead 1527
deae092e
HS
1528TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1529 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1530 Schlichting.
35aba663 1531
fd3b6a4a 1532JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1533 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1534
8d91c6dc
LT
1535TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1536 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1537
2b4a568d
JH
1538JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1539
d2af03f4
HS
1540TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1541 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1542 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1543
9d1c15ef
JH
1544JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1545 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1546
44662487
JH
1547JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1548 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1549 hosts_request_ocsp.
1550
ed3bba5f 1551JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1552 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1553 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1554
8ccd00b1
JH
1555JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1556
8ded8589
TL
1557TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1558 Christian Aistleitner.
1559
f2de3a33
JH
1560JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1561
6eb02f88
TL
1562TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1563 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1564
00bff6f6
JH
1565JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1566 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1567
071c51f7
JH
1568JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1569 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1570
a6d4c44e
TF
1571TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1572 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1573
3ae173e7
ACK
1574TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1575 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1576
c13d09b8
TL
1577TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1578 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1579 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1580
0df4ab80
JH
1581JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1582
66be95e0
PP
1583PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1584 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1585 Jasper Wallace.
1586
1bd0d12b
JH
1587JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1588
0de7239e
TL
1589TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1590 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1591 CVE-2014-2972
1592
fd3b6a4a 1593
2c422e6f 1594Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1595-----------------
1596
1597PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1598
12f69989
PP
1599PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1600 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1601
54c90be1
PP
1602PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1603 by GnuTLS.
1604
1f4a55da
PP
1605PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1606 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1607 routines.
1608
13363eba 1609PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1610
66645890 1611PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1612 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1613 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1614 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1615 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1616
a3fb9793 1617PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1618 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1619 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1620 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1621 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1622 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1623
d27f98fe 1624TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1625
6822b909
TL
1626TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1627
e7568d51
TL
1628TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1629 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1630
ae0e32ee 1631TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1632 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1633 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1634
1635TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1636
e2658fff
TL
1637TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1638
83712b39
TL
1639TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1640 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1641
976b7e9f
JH
1642JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1643
be4a1376
JH
1644JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1645
ec4b68e5
PP
1646PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1647
d7148a07
NM
1648NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1649 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1650
585121e2 1651JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1652
2519e60d
TL
1653PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1654 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1655 function.
a5f239e4 1656
13d08c90
PP
1657PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1658 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1659
bef3ea7f
JH
1660JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1661 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1662 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1663
846726c5
JH
1664JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1665
3a796370
JH
1666JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1667
ea722490 1668JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1669 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1670
b1b05573
JH
1671JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1672 Bugzilla 884.
1673
362145b5
JH
1674JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1675 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1676
3c0a92dc
JH
1677JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1678 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1679
6d7c6175
PP
1680PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1681 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1682 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1683
6f123593
JH
1684JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1685 authenticators.
1686
c8e2fc1e
JH
1687JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1688 for control.
1689
005ac57f
PP
1690PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1691
3f1df0e3
PP
1692PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1693 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1694 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1695 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1696
67bd1ab3
TF
1697TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1698
1699 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1700 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1701 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1702 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1703 the retry rules.
1704
1705 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1706 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1707 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1708
1709 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1710 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1711 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1712 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1713
1ddeb334
TF
1714 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1715 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1716 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1717 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1718 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1719 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1720 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1721
1722 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1723 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1724
326cdc37
TF
1725TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1726
1727 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1728
1729 Resent-From: f
1730
1731 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1732 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1733 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1734 username as equal to the username.
1735
1736 This change corrects that bug.
1737
f62514b3
GF
1738GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1739 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1740 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1741
eb505532
TF
1742TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1743
14c7b357
PP
1744PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1745 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1746 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1747 NULL dereference and crash.
1748
94eaf700
PP
1749JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1750
6f5a440a
PP
1751PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1752 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1753 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1754
514ee161
SC
1755SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1756
fd98a5c6
JH
1757JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1758 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1759 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1760 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1761 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1762 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1763 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1764 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1765 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1766 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1767 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1768
035c7f1e
PP
1769PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1770 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1771
ff284120
PP
1772PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1773 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1774 Bugzilla 880.
1775
26e72755
PP
1776PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1777 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1778 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1779 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1780 an empty string is now equivalent.
1781
0fbd9bff
PP
1782PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1783 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1784 not performing validation itself.
1785
700d22f3
PP
1786PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1787 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1788
fcc8e047
JH
1789JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1790 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1791
4c04137d 1792TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1793
8c020188
PP
1794PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1795 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1796 other false fix of the same issue.
1797 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1798 Bugzilla 1363.
1799
d13cdd30
PP
1800PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1801 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1802
e2fbf4a2
PP
1803PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1804 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1805 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1806
f4c1088b
PP
1807PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1808 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1809 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1810
c5c2182f
PP
1811TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1812
73431ca9
JH
1813JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1814
2d07a215
TL
1815TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1816 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1817
a30a8861
TL
1818TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1819 Alexander Miroch.
1820
33382dd9
TL
1821TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1822 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1823 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1824 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1825 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1826
046172e6
TL
1827TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1828 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1829
581d7bee 1830TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1831 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1832 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1833
1834TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1835 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1836 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1837 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1838
237b2cf2
TL
1839TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1840
9fc5a352
TL
1841TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1842 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1843 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1844
b10e4ec2
TL
1845TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1846
e2cebd74
TL
1847TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1848 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1849 interaction.
1850
1851TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1852 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1853
2519e60d
TL
1854TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1855 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1856
e78e6ecf 1857
4263f395
PP
1858Exim version 4.80.1
1859-------------------
1860
1861PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1862 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1863 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1864
ea722490 1865
b1770b6e 1866Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1867-----------------
1868
1869PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1870 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1871 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1872
23c7e742
NM
1873NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1874
b322aac8
NM
1875NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1876 improved.
1877
4a891427
NM
1878NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1879
c1e794ba 1880PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1881
97753960
PP
1882PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1883
1884PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1885 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1886
df6303fa
PP
1887PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1888 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1889
7e6a8985
PP
1890PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1891 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1892
f1e05cc7 1893PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1894 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1895 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1896
4c287009
PP
1897PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1898
b98bb9ac
PP
1899PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1900 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1901
4a6a987a
PP
1902PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1903
c45dd180 1904PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1905
7db8d074
PP
1906PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1907 non-compliant senders.
1908 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1909
eae0036b 1910NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1911 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1912 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1913
dec5017e
PP
1914PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1915 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1916 in spool file corruption.
1917
c80c5570
PP
1918PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1919 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1920 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1921 "Got SSL error 2".
1922
076b11e2
PP
1923TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1924 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1925 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1926
5407bfff
JH
1927JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1928 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1929
9e45c72b
PP
1930JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1931
e74376d8
PP
1932PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1933 diagnostics.
1934 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1935
4c04137d 1936PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1937 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1938 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1939
7be682ca
PP
1940PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1941 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1942 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1943 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1944
ef840681
PP
1945PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1946 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1947
5bfb4cdf
PP
1948PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1949 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1950 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1951 resolver implementation change.
1952
c6e95d22
PP
1953PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1954 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1955
9cbad13b
PP
1956PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1957
9ee44efb
PP
1958PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1959
6a6084f8
PP
1960PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1961 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1962
12dd53c7
PP
1963PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1964 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1965
9e45c72b 1966JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1967 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1968
17c76198
PP
1969PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1970 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1971 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1972 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1973 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1974
53947857 1975PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1976
eae0036b 1977PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1978 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1979 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1980
9e45c72b 1981JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1982
7390e768
PP
1983PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1984 read-only, out of scope).
1985 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1986
08488c86
PP
1987PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1988 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1989 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1990 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1991
6475bd82
PP
1992PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1993
81f91683
PP
1994PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1995 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1996 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1997 real issues in debug logging.
1998
5779e6aa
PP
1999PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2000 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2001
3375e053
PP
2002PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2003 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2004 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2005
2006PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2007 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2008 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2009 problems.
3375e053 2010
9d26b8c0
PP
2011PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2012 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2013
57eb9e91 2014PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2015 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2016 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2017 needs to override this, it can.
2018
16880d1a
PP
2019PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2020 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2021 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2022
a799883d
PP
2023PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2024 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2025 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2026 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2027
3ecab157 2028PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2029
0599f9cf 2030
867fcbf5
PP
2031Exim version 4.77
2032-----------------
2033
2034PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2035 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2036
f1a29782
TF
2037TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2038
ab42bd23
TK
2039TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2040 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2041
0ca0cf52
TF
2042TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2043 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2044
921b12ca
TF
2045TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2046 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2047 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2048
2049 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2050 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2051 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2052 not safe for signals.
2053
2054 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2055 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2056 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2057 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2058 exiwhat.
2059
c99ce5c9
TF
2060TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2061
2062 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2063 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2064 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2065 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2066 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2067
2068 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2069 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2070 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2071 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2072 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2073 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2074
2075 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2076 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2077 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2078 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2079
2080 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2081 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2082 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2083 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2084
2085 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2086 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2087 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2088 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2089 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2090 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2091 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2092 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2093 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2094
2095 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2096 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2097 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2098 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2099
2100 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2101 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2102 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2103 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2104 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2105 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2106 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2107 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2108 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2109 details in the main documentation.
2110
3634fc25
TF
2111TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2112
792e8a19
TF
2113TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2114
5901f0ab
TF
2115TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2116 repository when doing development or release builds.
2117
7f2a2a43
PP
2118PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2119 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2120
061b7ebd
PP
2121PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2122 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2123 Bugzilla 97.
2124
e12f8c32
PP
2125PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2126
9e949f00 2127PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2128 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2129
2130PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2131 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2132
555ae6af 2133PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2134 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2135
2136PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2137 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2138
6f7fe114
PP
2139PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2140 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2141
c566dd90
PP
2142PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2143 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2144 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2145 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2146
d6cc7c78 2147PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2148 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2149 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2150
0d0e4455
PP
2151PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2152
3399bb60 2153PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2154
2155PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2156 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2157
0ca0cf52 2158
10906672
PP
2159Exim version 4.76
2160-----------------
2161
2162PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2163
754a0503
PP
2164PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2165 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2166
c0c7b2da
PP
2167PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2168
e97d1f08
PP
2169PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2170
084c1d8c
PP
2171PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2172 Bugzilla 1098.
2173
4e7ee012
PP
2174PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2175 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2176
c8d52a00
PP
2177TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2178 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2179
54e7ce4a
PP
2180PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2181 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2182
5ee6f336
PP
2183PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2184 Bugzilla 1104.
2185
c8d52a00 2186TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2187 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2188
2189TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2190 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2191 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2192 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2193
2194PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2195 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2196
10906672 2197
aa097c4c
NM
2198Exim version 4.75
2199-----------------
2200
4c04137d 2201NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2202 Bugzilla 1073
2203
7f3d9eff
TF
2204TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2205 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2206 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2207
159f52d2
TF
2208TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2209 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2210
0cc9542a
PP
2211PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2212 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2213 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2214
f7274286
PP
2215PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2216 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2217
7b797365
PP
2218PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2219 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2220
caacae52
NM
2221NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2222 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2223
09dcaba9
NM
2224NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2225 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2226
bc19a55b
PP
2227PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2228 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2229
bd4c9759
NM
2230NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2231 Fixes bug 943.
2232
b72aab72
PP
2233PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2234 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2235
2fe76745
PP
2236PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2237 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2238
76aa570c
PP
2239PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2240 SQL string expansion failure details.
2241 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2242
f1e5fef5
PP
2243PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2244 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2245
4d805ee9
PP
2246PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2247 extern declarations in function scope.
2248 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2249
cd59ab18
PP
2250PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2251 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2252 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2253 a kernel bug).
2254
332f5cf3
PP
2255PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2256 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2257
29cfeb94
PP
2258PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2259 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2260
660242ad
PP
2261PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2262 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2263
bc4bc4c5
PP
2264PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2265 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2266
2e64baa9
NM
2267NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2268 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2269 Dennis Davis.
2270
4c04137d 2271PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2272
6bac1a9a
PP
2273PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2274
552193f0
NM
2275NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2276 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2277
1b587e48
TF
2278TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2279 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2280
aa097c4c 2281
8c07b69f
TF
2282Exim version 4.74
2283-----------------
2284
2285TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2286 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2287
c0ea85ab
TF
2288TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2289 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2290
0761d44e
TF
2291TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2292
0a349494
PP
2293DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2294 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2295 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2296
2297PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2298 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2299 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2300
fea24b2e
PP
2301PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2302 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2303 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2304 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2305
6545de78
PP
2306PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2307 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2308 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2309 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2310
1670ef10
PP
2311PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2312 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2313 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2314 arbitrary files.
2315
c0886197
PP
2316PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2317 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2318
b7487bce
PP
2319PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2320 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2321 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2322 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2323 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2324
8c07b69f 2325
97fd1e48 2326Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2327-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2328
2329PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2330 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2331 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2332
6901c596
PP
2333PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2334 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2335
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2336JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2337
77bb000f
PP
2338PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2339
a29e5231
PP
2340PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2341
ec5a0394 2342PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2343
55c75993
PP
2344PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2345
453a6645 2346PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2347 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2348 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2349 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2350
8544e77a
PP
2351PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2352 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2353 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2354 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2355 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2356
83e029d5
PP
2357PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2358
ed7f7860
PP
2359PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2360
7d9f747b
PP
2361PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2362
4b2241d2
PP
2363PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2364
10385c15
PP
2365PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2366
dbc4b90d
PP
2367PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2368
532be449
PP
2369PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2370
6a8de854 2371PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2372 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2373 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2374
5dc43717
JJ
2375JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2376
2377JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2378 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2379
3346ab01
PP
2380PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2381 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2382
491fab4c
PP
2383PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2384 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2385 Notification from John Horne.
2386
13eb9497
PP
2387PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2388 compatible.
2389
2390PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2391 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2392 it normally works.
2393
7f36d675
DW
2394DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2395 access.
2396
c1d94452
DW
2397DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2398 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2399 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2400
e2f5dc15
DW
2401DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2402 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2403 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2404 configuration file.
2405
cd25e41d
DW
2406DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2407 option (effectively making it always true).
2408
261dc43e
DW
2409DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2410 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2411
fa32850b
DW
2412DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2413 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2414
79d4bc3d
PP
2415PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2416 run-time user, instead of root.
2417
43236f35 2418PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2419 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2420
fb08281f
DW
2421DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2422 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2423 arguments.
3346ab01 2424
74935b98
DW
2425DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2426 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2427 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2428
90b6341f
DW
2429DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2430
57730b52
ML
2431NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2432
66581d1e 2433
465e92cf
JJ
2434Exim version 4.72
2435-----------------
2436
453a6645
PP
2437JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2438 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2439 typos
465e92cf 2440
453a6645
PP
2441JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2442 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2443 (Finput)
edae0343 2444
9bd3e22c
NM
2445NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2446 Patch from Alain Williams
2447
bb576ff7
NM
2448NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2449
5a1a5845
NM
2450NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2451 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2452
981a9fad
NM
2453NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2454 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2455
7fc497ee
NM
2456NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2457
1a41defa
JJ
2458JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2459
a466095c 2460NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2461 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2462
94a6bd0b
NM
2463TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2464
2465TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2466
2467MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2468 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2469 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2470
c1b141a8
NM
2471NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2472 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2473
b26eacf1 2474NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2475 Patch by Simon Arlott
2476
179c5980 2477PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2478 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2479
9bd3e22c 2480
7c6d71af
NM
2481Exim version 4.71
2482-----------------
2483
7d9f747b 2484TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2485
f013fb92
NM
2486NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2487
0eb8eedd
NM
2488NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2489
663ee6d9
NM
2490NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2491
177ebd9b
NM
2492NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2493
7c6d71af 2494
210f147e
NM
2495Exim version 4.70
2496-----------------
2497
cdd3bb85 2498TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2499 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2500
2501TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2502 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2503 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2504
2505TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2506 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2507 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2508
2509TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2510 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2511
210f147e
NM
2512NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2513 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2514 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2515 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2516
deafd5b3
NM
2517NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2518 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2519 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2520
089793a4
TF
2521TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2522
5f16ca82
TF
2523TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2524
dae9d94e 2525NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2526 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2527
7d9f747b 2528NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2529
06864c44
TF
2530TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2531 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2532 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2533 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2534
65a7d8c3 2535NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2536 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2537
23510047 2538TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2539
7d9f747b 2540NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2541
7d8eec3a 2542NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2543 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2544
89dec7b6
TF
2545TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2546 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2547
a99de90c
TF
2548TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2549 that they are available at delivery time.
2550
e2803e40
TF
2551TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2552
7199e1ee
TF
2553TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2554 incoming_port log selectors.
2555
e276e04b
TF
2556TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2557 setting expands to an empty string.
2558
ce552449 2559NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2560 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2561
e765a0f1 2562NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2563 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2564
4f054c63 2565NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2566 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2567
7d9f747b
PP
2568NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2569 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2570
7d9f747b
PP
2571NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2572 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2573
b52bc06e 2574NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2575 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2576
447de4b0
NM
2577NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2578
4c69d561 2579NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2580 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2581
d5c39246 2582NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2583 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2584
0b23848a
TK
2585TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2586
8f3414a1 2587NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2588 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2589
fb6f955d
NM
2590NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2591
2592NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2593
7d9f747b
PP
2594NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2595 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2596
7d9f747b
PP
2597NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2598 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2599
7d9f747b
PP
2600NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2601 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2602
7d9f747b
PP
2603NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2604 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2605
7d9f747b
PP
2606NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2607 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2608
7d9f747b
PP
2609NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2610 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2611
7d9f747b
PP
2612NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2613 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2614
7d9f747b 2615NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2616 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2617
7d9f747b 2618NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2619
7d9f747b
PP
2620NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2621 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2622
7d9f747b 2623NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2624
7d9f747b 2625NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2626
7d9f747b 2627NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2628
7d9f747b 2629NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2630
17792b53 2631NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2632 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2633
7d9f747b
PP
2634NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2635 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2636
91576cec 2637NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2638 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2639
7d9f747b
PP
2640NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2641 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2642
7d9f747b 2643NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2644
7d9f747b 2645NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2646
7d9f747b 2647NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2648
7d9f747b 2649NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2650
deafd5b3 2651
47db1125
NM
2652Exim version 4.69
2653-----------------
2654
4b3504d0
TK
2655TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2656 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2657 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2658
2659 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2660 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2661 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2662 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2663 build errors in sieve.c.
2664
81ea09ca
NM
2665NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2666 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2667 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2668
f13cddcb
SC
2669SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2670
7d9f747b 2671NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2672
7d9f747b 2673NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2674
7d9f747b 2675NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2676
2677
eb4c0de6
PH
2678Exim version 4.68
2679-----------------
2680
2681PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2682
6a3bceb1
PH
2683PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2684 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2685 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2686 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2687 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2688 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2689 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2690 for iplsearch lookups.
2691
2692 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2693 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2694 previously such lookups could never work.
2695
4c04137d 2696 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2697 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2698 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2699
2e30fa9d
TK
2700TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2701 version.
2702
0806a9c5
MH
2703MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2704 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2705 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2706 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2707 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2708 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2709
ae276964
TK
2710TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2711 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2712
0f2cbd1b
MH
2713MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2714 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2715 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2716 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2717 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2718 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2719
2b85bce7
PH
2720PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2721 local_scan API.
2722
93655c46
PH
2723PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2724
6c512171
PH
2725PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2726 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2727 encrypted.
2728
2729PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2730 by clients under certain conditions.
2731
aa6dc513
PH
2732PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2733 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2734
a96603a0
PH
2735PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2736
8f240103
PH
2737PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2738 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2739
2740PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2741
d677b2f2
PH
2742PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2743
d52120f2
PH
2744PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2745
64f2600a
PH
2746PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2747 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2748
8669f003
PH
2749PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2750
a4dc33a8
PH
2751PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2752 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2753
d6a60c0f
PH
2754PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2755
8f128379
PH
2756PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2757
8932dffe
PH
2758PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2759 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2760 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2761 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2762
ddea74fa 2763PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2764 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2765 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2766
ddea74fa 2767PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2768 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2769
ddea74fa
PH
2770PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2771
ce9f225c
PH
2772PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2773
19897d52
PH
2774PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2775
bc64a74d
PH
2776PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2777 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2778 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2779
eb4c0de6 2780
b4ed4da0
PH
2781Exim version 4.67
2782-----------------
2783
22ad45c9
MH
2784MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2785 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2786 Jan Srzednicki.
2787
b4ed4da0
PH
2788PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2789 issue a MAIL command.
2790
431b7361
PH
2791PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2792
2793 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2794
2795 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2796 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2797 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2798 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2799 item. This has been fixed.
2800
2801PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2802 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2803
83da1223
PH
2804PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2805 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2806
54fc8428
PH
2807PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2808 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2809 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2810
34c5e8dd
SC
2811SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2812
bbe15da8
PH
2813PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2814 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2815 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2816 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2817 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2818
0e8a9471
MH
2819MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2820 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2821 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2822
f0872424
PH
2823PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2824 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2825 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2826 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2827
b01dd148
PH
2828PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2829
6bf342e1
PH
2830PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2831
273f34d0
PH
2832PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2833 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2834 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2835 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2836 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2837
cf8b11a5
PH
2838PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2839
41c7c167
PH
2840PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2841 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2842 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2843 values).
2844
9c57cbc0
PH
2845PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2846
f3f065bb
PH
2847PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2848
047bdd8c
PH
2849PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2850
0ce9abe6
PH
2851PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2852
0e22dfd1
PH
2853PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2854
4c590bd1
PH
2855PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2856 no_callout_flush is set.
2857
09945f1e
PH
2858PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2859 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2860 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2861 fixed.
2862
c51b8e75
PH
2863PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2864
e28326d8 2865PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2866 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2867 other ACL rejections are.
2868
75b1493f
PH
2869PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2870 with slight modification.
2871
7c5214ec
PH
2872PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2873 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2874
4311097e
PH
2875PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2876 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2877 connection.
2878
29f89cad
PH
2879PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2880 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2881
5e687460
SC
2882SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2883
c3611384
PH
2884PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2885 expansion side effects.
2886
5a11a7b4
PH
2887PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2888 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2889 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2890 be the same.
2891
0e20aff9
MH
2892MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2893 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2894 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2895
ca86f471
PH
2896PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2897 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2898 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2899 were accidentally chopped off.
2900
a14e5636
PH
2901PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2902 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2903 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2904 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2905 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2906 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2907 pipelining has not been advertised.
2908
ec95d1a6
PH
2909PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2910
42855d71
PH
2911PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2912 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2913 This has been fixed.
2914
57c2c631
PH
2915PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2916 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2917 reported on Solaris.
2918
58c01c94
PH
2919PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2920 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2921 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2922 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2923 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2924 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2925 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2926
dee5a20a
PH
2927PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2928 cpus.
2929
d2ee6114
PH
2930PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2931
b2d5182b
PH
2932PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2933
79749a79
PH
2934PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2935 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2936 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2937 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2938 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2939 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2940
c456d9bb
PH
2941PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2942 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2943 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2944 host_all_ignored option.
2945
cd9868ec
PH
2946PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2947 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2948 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2949 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2950 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2951 is what is supposed to happen).
2952
ebeaf996
PH
2953PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2954 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2955 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2956 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2957 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2958 uses the Exim user.
2959
2679d413
PH
2960PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2961 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2962 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2963 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2964 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2965 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2966 users.
2967
84024b72
PH
2968PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2969
8005d38e
SC
2970SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2971 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2972 (Jez Hancock).
2973 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2974 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2975
3298c6c6
SC
2976SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2977
a43a27c5
PH
2978PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2979
58eb016e 2980PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2981 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2982 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2983 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2984 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2985 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2986 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2987 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2988 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2989 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2990 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2991
b43a74ea
PH
2992PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2993 advertised in response to EHLO.
2994
b4ed4da0 2995
5dd1517f
PH
2996Exim version 4.66
2997-----------------
2998
2999PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3000 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3001
3002 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3003 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3004
3005 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3006 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3007 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3008
3009 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3010 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3011 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3012 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3013 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3014
3015
93cfa765
TK
3016Exim version 4.65
3017-----------------
3018
3019TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3020 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3021 versions. (#438)
3022
d6066548
MH
3023MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3024 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3025 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3026
4362ff0d
PH
3027PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3028 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3029 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3030 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3031 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3032 rather than extend the field.
3033
93cfa765 3034
944e9e9c
TF
3035Exim version 4.64
3036-----------------
aa41d2de 3037
21d74bd9
TK
3038TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3039 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3040 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3041 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3042 these files.
3043
3044TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3045 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3046 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3047
3048TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3049 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3050 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3051
3052TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3053 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3054 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3055 in the field name.
3056
2b1c6e3a
PH
3057PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3058 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3059 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3060 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3061 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3062 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3063 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3064 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3065 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3066 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3067 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3068
1f872c80
PH
3069PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3070 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3071
3072PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3073 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3074 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3075 ignores EPIPE as well.
3076
d203e649
PH
3077PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3078 (quoted-printable decoding).
3079
cc2ed8f7 3080PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3081 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3082
ddfcd446
PH
3083PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3084
d45b1de8
PH
3085PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3086
3087PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3088
38a0a95f 3089PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3090 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3091
a2405d83
JJ
3092JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3093 in 4.64-PH/09.
3094
3095JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3096 miscellaneous code fixes
3097
6ea85e9a
PH
3098PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3099 rejections.
3100
26da7e20
PH
3101PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3102 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3103 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3104 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3105 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3106 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3107 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3108 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3109
14aa5a05 3110PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3111 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3112 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3113 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3114 function.
3115 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3116 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3117 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3118 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3119 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3120 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3121 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3122 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3123 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3124
ff75a1f7
PH
3125PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3126 decoding.
3127
e6f6568e
PH
3128PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3129 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3130 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3131 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3132 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3133 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3134 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3135 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3136
d6f6e0dc
PH
3137PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3138 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3139 list.
3140
322050c2
PH
3141PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3142 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3143 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3144 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3145 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3146 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3147 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3148 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3149 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3150 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3151 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3152 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3153 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3154
08955dd3
PH
3155PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3156 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3157 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3158 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3159 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3160 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3161 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3162
1eccaa59
PH
3163PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3164 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3165 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3166 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3167 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3168 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3169 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3170 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3171 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3172 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3173
602e59e5
PH
3174PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3175 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3176 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3177 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3178 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3179
411ef850
PH
3180PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3181 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3182 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3183 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3184 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3185 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3186 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3187
7befa435
PH
3188PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3189 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3190 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3191 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3192 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3193 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3194 been verified.
3195
48da4259 3196PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3197 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3198 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3199 and authorization.)
3200
48da4259
PH
3201PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3202 if any retry times were supplied.
3203
d1d5595c
PH
3204PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3205 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3206 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3207
0ef732d9
PH
3208PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3209
328895cc
PH
3210PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3211
fd700877
PH
3212PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3213 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3214 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3215 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3216 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3217 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3218
8dce1a6f
PH
3219PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3220 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3221
17af4a17
PH
3222PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3223 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3224 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3225
3226PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3227 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3228 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3229 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3230 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3231 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3232 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3233 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3234 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3235
3236 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3237 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3238 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3239 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3240 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3241 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3242 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3243 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3244 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3245
3246 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3247 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3248 hammering the server.
3249
c1114884
PH
3250PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3251 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3252
7a0743eb
PH
3253PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3254
0d85fa3f
PH
3255PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3256 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3257 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3258
1bf43b78
PH
3259PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3260 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3261 one case where this was not true.
3262
520de300
PH
3263PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3264 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3265 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3266 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3267 fails.
3268
48c7f9e2
PH
3269PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3270 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3271 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3272 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3273 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3274 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3275 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3276 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3277 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3278 smtp transport.
3279
99ea1c86
PH
3280PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3281 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3282 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3283 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3284
a2042e78
PH
3285PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3286 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3287
4fbcfc2e
PH
3288PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3289 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3290 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3291
aa41d2de
PH
3292PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3293
af561417
PH
3294PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3295
3cc66b45
PH
3296PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3297
194cc0e4
PH
3298PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3299 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3300 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3301 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3302
a401ddaa
PH
3303PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3304 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3305
4e88a19f
PH
3306PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3307 be meaningful with "accept".
3308
d7d7b289
SC
3309SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3310 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3311
3312SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3313 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3314 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3315
3316SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3317 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3318 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3319 there is data to show.
3320 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3321
3322SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3323 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3324 as well as the number of messages.
3325
3326SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3327 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3328 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3329
3330SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3331 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3332 have a flag are now skipped.
3333
3334SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3335 Added the -emptyok flag.
3336
3337SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3338 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3339
0ea2a468
JJ
3340JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3341 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3342 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3343
3344JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3345 match 4.64-PH/13
3346
3347JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3348 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3349
3350JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3351
3352JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3353 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3354
8a10f5a4
PH
3355PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3356
30e18802
PH
3357PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3358 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3359 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3360 contravention of the specifications.
3361
55728a4f
PH
3362PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3363 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3364 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3365
d7837193
PH
3366PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3367 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3368 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3369
87054a31
PH
3370PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3371
ea2c01d2
MH
3372MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3373 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3374 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3375 some point in the past.
3376
e4fa6968
PH
3377PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3378 transport during callout processing was broken.
3379
56f5d9bd
PH
3380PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3381 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3382
922e1c28
PH
3383PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3384 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3385
21eb6e72
PH
3386PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3387 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3388
a0540757
PH
3389PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3390
944e9e9c 3391
478be7b0
SC
3392Exim version 4.63
3393-----------------
3394
3395SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3396 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3397
3398SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3399 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3400 there is data to show.
3401 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3402
3403SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3404 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3405
2b965a65
TF
3406TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3407 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3408
45b91596
PH
3409TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3410 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3411
c59f5781
TF
3412TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3413 submissions from trusted users.
3414
90fc3069
TF
3415TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3416 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3417
6083aca0
TF
3418TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3419 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3420 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3421 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3422 there is now a framework to start from.
3423
765b530f
PH
3424PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3425 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3426 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3427
4e167a8c
PH
3428PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3429
4608d683
PH
3430PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3431
b8dc3e4a
PH
3432PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3433
5418e93b
PH
3434PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3435 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3436 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3437
b4a9bda2
PH
3438PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3439 libradius.
3440
45b91596
PH
3441PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3442 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3443 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3444
5547e2c5
PH
3445PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3446 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3447 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3448 its arguments.
3449
dbcef0ea
PH
3450PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3451 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3452 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3453 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3454 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3455
25257489
PH
3456PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3457 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3458
c816d124
PH
3459PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3460
a9ccd69a
PH
3461PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3462 operations in malware.c.
3463
75fa1910
PH
3464PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3465 signatures.
3466
a7d7aa58
PH
3467PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3468 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3469 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3470 all.
3471
42119b09
PH
3472PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3473 statements to "add_header".
3474
41609df5
PH
3475PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3476 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3477
a5bd321b
PH
3478PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3479 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3480 latter.
3481
e85a7ad5 3482PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3483 so that it is now:
3484
e85a7ad5
PH
3485 ${if or { \
3486 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3487 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3488 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3489 }{no}{yes}}
3490
e85a7ad5
PH
3491 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3492 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3493
d8fe1c03
PH
3494PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3495 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3496
16282d2b
PH
3497PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3498 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3499 any possible encoding problems.
3500
35d40a98
PH
3501PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3502 but not after initializing Perl.
3503
034d99ab
PH
3504PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3505 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3506 apparently, which is not desirable.
3507
6ec97b1b
PH
3508PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3509 queries.
3510
e22ca4ac
JJ
3511JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3512 --not options
3513
3514JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3515
33d73e3b
PH
3516PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3517 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3518 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3519 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3520
9ecb03f3
PH
3521PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3522 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3523 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3524
084efe8d
PH
3525PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3526 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3527 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3528 0.12.
3529
366fc9f0
PH
3530PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3531 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3532 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3533 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3534 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3535
c59f5781 3536
c887c79e
TF
3537Exim version 4.62
3538-----------------
3539
3540TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3541 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3542
1cce3af8
PH
3543PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3544 patch).
3545
afb3eaaf
PH
3546PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3547 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3548 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3549 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3550 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3551 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3552 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3553 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3554 451 error is used.
3555
e173618b
PH
3556PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3557
dd16e114
PH
3558PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3559 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3560 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3561
f7fd3850
PH
3562PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3563 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3564 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3565 odd errors.
3566
d87df92c
PH
3567PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3568 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3569
7e9f683d
PH
3570PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3571 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3572 option (which defaults to 0600).
3573
bfad5236
PH
3574PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3575
01c490df
PH
3576PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3577 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3578 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3579 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3580 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3581 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3582 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3583
d6629cdc
PH
3584PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3585
1cce3af8 3586
214e2000
PH
3587Exim version 4.61
3588-----------------
3589
3590PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3591 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3592 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3593 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3594 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3595 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3596 addresses as local.
3597
f9daeae0
PH
3598PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3599 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3600
7e66e54d
PH
3601PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3602
c8ea1597
PH
3603PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3604 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3605 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3606 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3607 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3608 grumble.
3609
911f6fde
PH
3610PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3611 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3612
47ca6d6c
PH
3613PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3614 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3615 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3616 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3617 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3618
ed0e9820
PH
3619PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3620 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3621 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3622 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3623
eff37e47
PH
3624PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3625 be the same on different OS.
3626
1921d2ea
PH
3627PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3628 testing.
3629
b3f69ca8
JJ
3630JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3631 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3632
3633JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3634 in 4.61-PH/06
3635
424a1c63
PH
3636PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3637 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3638 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3639 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3640 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3641 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3642 bounce message.
3643
7a100415
PH
3644PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3645 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3646 when Exim was called.
3647
19b9dc85
PH
3648PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3649 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3650
309bd837
PH
3651PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3652 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3653 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3654 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3655
59e82a2a
PH
3656PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3657 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3658 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3659 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3660 changes:
3661
3662 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3663 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3664 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3665
3666 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3667 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3668 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3669
9edc04ce
PH
3670PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3671 feature).
3672
1349e1e5
PH
3673PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3674 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3675 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3676 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3677 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3678 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3679 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3680 values from the SRV records were lost.
3681
ea49d0e1
PH
3682PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3683 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3684 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3685
064a94c9
PH
3686PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3687 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3688 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3689
727071f8
PH
3690PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3691 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3692 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3693 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3694 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3695 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3696 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3697 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3698 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3699 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3700
f78eb7c6
PH
3701PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3702 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3703 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3704
21c28500
PH
3705PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3706 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3707
3708PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3709 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3710 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3711 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3712 is given.
3713
1688f43b
PH
3714PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3715 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3716 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3717
3718PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3719 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3720 PH/23 above applies.
3721
9675b384
PH
3722PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3723 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3724 (for which there is an explicit test).
3725
6a3f1455
PH
3726PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3727
dac79d3e
PH
3728PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3729 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3730 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3731 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3732 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3733
5977a0b3
PH
3734PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3735 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3736 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3737 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3738
c91535f3
PH
3739PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3740 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3741 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3742
0d46a8c8
PH
3743PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3744
278c6e6c
PH
3745PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3746
2cbb4081
PH
3747PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3748 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3749 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3750
3eef829e
PH
3751PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3752 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3753 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3754 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3755 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3756
1ab95fa6
PH
3757PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3758 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3759 the message gets confusing).
3760
230205fc
PH
3761PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3762 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3763 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3764 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3765
75e0e026
PH
3766PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3767 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3768 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3769 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3770 same order.
3771
3772PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3773 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3774 the different processes.
3775
145396a6
PH
3776PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3777
3cd34f13
PH
3778PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3779
11121d3d
JJ
3780JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3781 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3782
3783JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3784 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3785
3786JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3787 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3788 messages matching specified criteria.
3789
8def5aaf
PH
3790PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3791
929ba01c
PH
3792PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3793 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3794
2632889e
PH
3795PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3796 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3797 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3798 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3799 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3800 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3801 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3802 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3803 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3804 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3805
944a9c55
PH
3806PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3807 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3808 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3809
4a23603b
PH
3810PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3811
4730f942
PH
3812PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3813 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3814 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3815 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3816 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3817 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3818 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3819 the variable.
3820
30dba1e6
PH
3821PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3822 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3823
382afc6b
PH
3824PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3825
a86229cf
PH
3826PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3827
50c99ba6
PH
3828PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3829
d35e429d
PH
3830PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3831 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3832 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3833 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3834 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3835 size of the count of files.
3836
f90d018c
PH
3837PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3838
75def545
PH
3839PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3840 used in LMTP mode:
3841
3842 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3843 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3844 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3845 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3846
3847 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3848 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3849 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3850
3851PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3852 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3853 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3854 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3855 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3856
c46782ef
PH
3857PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3858 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3859
71fafd95
PH
3860PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3861 will now be deprecated.
3862
2c5db4fd
PH
3863PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3864
9cf6b11a
JJ
3865JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3866 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3867 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3868
3869JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3870 with very large, slow to parse queues
3871
3872JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3873
3874JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3875
898d150f
PH
3876PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3877 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3878 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3879 SMTP output lines.
3880
46218253
PH
3881PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3882 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3883 Sieve code now uses this.
3884
e97957bc
PH
3885PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3886 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3887
81e509d7
PH
3888PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3889 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3890
3d240ff7
PH
3891PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3892
b37c4101
PH
3893PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3894 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3895 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3896 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3897 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3898
79378e0f
PH
3899PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3900 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3901 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3902 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3903
e49c7bb4
PH
3904PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3905
d114ec46
PH
3906PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3907
f3d7df6c
PH
3908PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3909 is preferred over IPv4.
3910
715ab376
PH
3911PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3912 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3913 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3914 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3915 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3916 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3917 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3918
6b31b150
PH
3919PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3920 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3921 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3922
3923PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3924
d515a917
PH
3925PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3926 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3927 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3928 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3929 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3930 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3931 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3932 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3933 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3934 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3935 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3936
9b8fadde
PH
3937PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3938 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3939 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3940
214e2000 3941
5de37277
PH
3942Exim version 4.60
3943-----------------
3944
cc38ddbf
PH
3945PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3946
3947 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3948 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3949
3950 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3951 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3952 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3953
72fdd6ae
PH
3954PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3955
3956 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3957 not a single digit.
3958
3959 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3960 string.
3961
3962 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3963 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3964 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3965 silly things.
3966
3967 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3968 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3969
3970 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3971 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3972
cb741023
PH
3973PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3974 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3975 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3976
f174f16e
PH
3977PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3978 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3979
c25242d7
PH
3980PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3981 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3982
3983 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3984
3985 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3986 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3987 this:
3988
3989 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3990
82c19f95
PH
3991PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3992 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3993 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3994 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3995 identical. For example:
3996
3997 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3998
3999 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4000 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4001 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4002
d7ffbc12
PH
4003PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4004 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4005 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4006 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4007
9f526266
PH
4008PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4009 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4010 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4011 message.
4012
87fcc8b9
PH
4013PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4014
4015 o fixes some comments
4016 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4017 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4018 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4019 and documents the missing references header update
4020
4021 and most important:
4022
4023 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4024 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4025 result)
4026
456682f5
PH
4027PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4028 Electronic Mail") by including:
4029
4030 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4031
4032 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4033 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4034 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4035 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4036 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4037
4038 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4039
4040 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4041
4042 The auto-replied keyword:
4043
4044 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4045 message by an automatic process,
4046
4047 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4048
4049 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4050 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4051
4052 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4053 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4054 other messages.
4055
3e46c1aa
PH
4056PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4057 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4058
49826d12
PH
4059PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4060
eba0c039
PH
4061PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4062 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4063 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4064
a0d6ba8a
PH
4065PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4066 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4067 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4068
f0917727
PH
4069PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4070 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4071 and treats the condition as false.
4072
096fee00
PH
4073PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4074
024bd3c2
PH
4075PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4076 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4077 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4078 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4079 not changing the active code.
4080
4081 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4082 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4083
4084 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4085 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4086
df199fec
PH
4087PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4088 (Bugzilla #53).
4089
d27f1df3
PH
4090PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4091 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4092 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4093 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4094 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4095 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4096 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4097 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4098 the text comparison.
4099
96776534
PH
4100PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4101 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4102 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4103 The same fix has been applied.
4104
5de37277 4105
9a799bc0
PH
4106Exim version 4.54
4107-----------------
4108
4109PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4110 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4111 It now does.
4112
99a4b039
PH
4113PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4114 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4115
4116PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4117
4b233853
PH
4118PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4119 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4120 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4121 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4122 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4123
8857ccfd
PH
4124TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4125 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4126 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4127 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4128 or /domain=).
4129
433a2980
PH
4130PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4131 testing suite.
4132
3e46c1aa 4133
9a799bc0 4134
e3a311ba
TK
4135Exim version 4.53
4136-----------------
4137
4138TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4139 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4140
13b685f9
PH
4141PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4142
395ff96d
PH
4143PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4144
5b68f6e4
PH
4145PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4146 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4147 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4148
1ab52c69
PH
4149PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4150 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4151 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4152
b07e6aa3
PH
4153PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4154 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4155 operating systems.
4156
254e032f
PH
4157PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4158 ${stat: expansion item.
4159
3af76a81
PH
4160PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4161 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4162
2548ba04
PH
4163PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4164 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4165 file for comments.
4166
b6c6011d
PH
4167PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4168
cf39cf57
PH
4169PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4170 setting.
4171
f1513293
PH
4172PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4173 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4174
727549a4
PH
4175TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4176
af46795e
PH
4177PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4178 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4179 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4180 the end of the subprocess.
4181
d7b47fd0
PH
4182PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4183 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4184 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4185 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4186 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4187
ee744174
JJ
4188JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4189
b582ab87
PH
4190TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4191
41a13e0a
PH
4192PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4193 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4194
f625cc5a
PH
4195PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4196
4197PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4198
21f7af35
PH
4199PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4200 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4201 HP-UX compiler.
4202
31480e42
PH
4203PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4204
2d280592
PH
4205PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4206 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4207 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4208
7cd1141b
PH
4209PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4210 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4211
4212PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4213 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4214
750af86e
PH
4215PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4216 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4217
4218 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4219 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4220
4221 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4222 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4223 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4224 contributed by a Radius user.
4225
4226PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4227 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4228
4304270b
TK
4229TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4230 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4231
750af86e
PH
4232PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4233 available.
4234
64ffc24f
PH
4235PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4236 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4237 received.
4238
5dd9625b
PH
4239PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4240 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4241 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4242 header lines when this was not necessary.
4243
5591031b
PH
4244PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4245
ba18e66a
PH
4246PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4247 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4248 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4249 exists".
4250
9cec981f
PH
4251PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4252 -bV or -d is used.
4253
aa2b5c79
PH
4254PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4255 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4256 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4257 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4258
48a53b7f
PH
4259PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4260
1c59d63b
PH
4261PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4262
671012da
TK
4263TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4264
1509d3a8
PH
4265PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4266
4267PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4268 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4269 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4270 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4271 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4272 settings.
4273
4274PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4275
2fe1a124
PH
4276PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4277 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4278 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4279 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4280 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4281 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4282 which is clearly wrong.
4283
8800895a
PH
4284PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4285
ccfdb010
PH
4286PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4287 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4288 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4289 subsequently added.
4290
1130bfb0
PH
4291PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4292 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4293
ebcb507f
PH
4294PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4295
c35e155c
PH
4296PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4297 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4298
95d1f782
PH
4299PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4300 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4301
fd6de02e
PH
4302PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4303 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4304
58de37c5
PH
4305PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4306 recipients, not senders.
4307
261cf466
TF
4308TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4309 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4310
3ee512ff
PH
4311PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4312
e08c430f
PH
4313PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4314
bef5a11f
PH
4315PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4316 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4317 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4318 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4319
7546de58
TF
4320TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4321
e5d5a95f
TF
4322TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4323 clock is set back in time.
4324
2e88a017
TF
4325TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4326 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4327
a5f65aa4
TF
4328TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4329 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4330
e7726cbf
PH
4331PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4332 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4333 (see PH/47 above).
4334
a7fdad5b
TF
4335TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4336 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4337 header rewrites.
4338
6af56900
PH
4339PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4340 type ("H").
4341
0925ede6
PH
4342PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4343
66afa403
TF
4344TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4345 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4346 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4347
0154e85a
TF
4348TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4349 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4350 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4351 helo verification defer as a failure.
4352
16f12c76
PH
4353PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4354 actual error message.
4355
bbe902f0 4356
e5a9dba6
PH
4357Exim version 4.52
4358-----------------
4359
4360TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4361
22c3b60b
PH
4362PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4363 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4364 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4365 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4366
06a9b4b5
PH
4367TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4368
c1ac6996
PH
4369PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4370 can still be requested.
4371
9c7a242c
PH
4372PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4373 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4374 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4375 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4376
87ba3f5f
PH
4377TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4378 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4379 circumstances, but probably never did.
4380
4381PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4382 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4383 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4384 in the header line.
4385
29aba418
TF
4386TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4387
fe0dab11
TF
4388TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4389 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4390
11d337a4
TK
4391TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4392
4393TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4394
415c8f3b
PH
4395PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4396 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4397 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4398 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4399 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4400 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4401
958541e9
PH
4402PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4403 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4404 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4405 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4406 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4407 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4408
c206415f
TK
4409TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4410 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4411
2a4be8f9
PH
4412PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4413 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4414
1cba11c5
SC
4415SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4416 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4417
4c04137d 4418SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4419
4420SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4421
4422SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4423
4424SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4425
4426SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4427
4428SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4429
1005d00e
TK
4430TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4431
4432TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4433 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4434 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4435
4436TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4437 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4438 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4439 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4440
9b4768fa
PH
4441PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4442 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4443 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4444
4445PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4446 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4447 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4448 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4449
0d7eb84a
PH
4450PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4451 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4452 to be made).
4453
4454PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4455 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4456 should work with maildirs and everything.
4457
40727bee
TK
4458TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4459 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4460
554d2369
TF
4461TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4462 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4463
1f922db1
PH
4464PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4465 function for BDB 4.3.
4466
ef213c3b
PH
4467PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4468
8ac170f3
PH
4469PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4470 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4471 involved.
4472
b1c749bb
PH
4473PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4474 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4475 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4476 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4477 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4478 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4479
4aac9b49
PH
4480PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4481 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4482 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4483 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4484 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4485 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4486 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4487 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4488
294520c8
TK
4489TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4490 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4491 details.
4492
5bd022fe
PH
4493PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4494 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4495
90e9ce59
PH
4496PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4497 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4498 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4499 test. It is now used for both.
4500
5ea81592
PH
4501PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4502 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4503 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4504 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4505 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4506 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4507
c6c2dc1d
PH
4508PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4509 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4510 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4511 string_vformat().
4512
fffffe4c
PH
4513PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4514 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4515 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4516
9a26b6b2
PH
4517PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4518 experimental DomainKeys support:
4519
4520 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4521 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4522 the control was given.
4523
4524 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4525
4aee0225
PH
4526PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4527
32d668a5
PH
4528PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4529
8187c3f3
PH
4530PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4531 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4532 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4533 db.h files).
4534
ff790e47 4535PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4536 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4537 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4538 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4539 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4540 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4541 course.
ff790e47 4542
5417f6d1
PH
4543PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4544 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4545 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4546 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4547 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4548 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4549
59cf8544
PH
4550PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4551 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4552 do -d+all out of habit.
4553
e7ad8a65
PH
4554PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4555 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4556 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4557
ade42478
PH
4558PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4559 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4560 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4561 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4562 record types that Exim uses.
4563
182ad5cf
PH
4564PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4565 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4566 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4567 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4568 non-existent file that was broken.
4569
b0d9fc80
TK
4570TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4571 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4572
4573TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4574 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4575 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4576
4577TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4578
47c7a64a
PH
4579PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4580 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4581 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4582 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4583 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4584 same time.
4585
a388bce4
SC
4586SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4587 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4588 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4589 at a slight CPU cost.
4590
4591SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4592 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4593
4594SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4595 by Marc Sherman.
4596
0793e4ed
SC
4597SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4598
c58b88df
PH
4599PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4600 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4601
e7ad8a65 4602
7982096b
PH
4603Exim version 4.51
4604-----------------
4605
1a46a8c5
PH
4606TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4607 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4608
2f079f46 4609TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4610
4611TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4612
4613PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4614 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4615
4616PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4617 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4618 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4619 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4620 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4621 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4622 file.
4623
4624PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4625 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4626 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4627 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4628 these two options.
4629
4630PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4631 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4632 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4633 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4634 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4635 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4636 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4637 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4638
4639PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4640 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4641
4642PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4643 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4644 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4645 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4646 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4647 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4648
4649PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4650 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4651 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4652 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4653
4654PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4655 Finch).
4656
4657PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4658 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4659
49c2d5ea
PH
4660PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4661 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4662 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4663 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4664 message.
49c2d5ea 4665
bf759a8b
PH
4666PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4667
83364d30
PH
4668PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4669 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4670
7999bbd7
PH
4671PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4672 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4673 to what was transported.)
4674
7dbf77c9
PH
4675TF/01 Added $received_time.
4676
74e0617f
PH
4677PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4678 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4679 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4680 spamd_address settings.
4681
2f079f46
PH
4682PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4683 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4684 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4685 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4686 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4687
8c841523
PH
4688PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4689
7766a4f0
PH
4690PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4691 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4692 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4693 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4694 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4695
8b417f2c
PH
4696PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4697 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4698
901f42cb
PH
4699PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4700 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4701 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4702 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4703 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4704 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4705 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4706 for failure.
4707
f9b9210e
PH
4708PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4709 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4710 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4711 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4712 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4713 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4714 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4715 "input=".
4716
54cdb463
PH
4717PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4718
cf00dad6
PH
4719PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4720 driver and ACL definitions.
4721
acb1b346
PH
4722PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4723 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4724
c5ddb310
PH
4725PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4726 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4727 understands it better than I do:
4728
4729 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4730 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4731
4732 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4733 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4734 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4735 => three warnings about OTP not working
4736 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4737
4738 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4739 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4740 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4741 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4742 for each call.)
4743 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4744 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4745
4746 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4747 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4748 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4749
31619da6
PH
4750PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4751 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4752 specified.
4753
bebaf0fc
PH
4754PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4755 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4756 "Linux".
4757
475fe28a
PH
4758PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4759 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4760 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4761
4762 warn !verify = sender
4763 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4764
4765 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4766 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4767
7e8bec7a
PH
4768PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4769
4770 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4771 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4772
4773 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4774 nomenclature these days.)
4775
e4a89c47
PH
4776PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4777 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4778
5ca2a9a1
PH
4779PH/30 In these circumstances:
4780 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4781 . First host does not offer TLS;
4782 . First host accepts first address;
4783 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4784 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4785 . Second host accepts second address.
4786 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4787 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4788 address.
7e8bec7a 4789
c688b954
PH
4790PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4791 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4792 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4793 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4794 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4795
fed77020
PH
4796PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4797 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4798
7fe1560f
PH
4799PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4800 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4801
ebb6e6d5
PH
4802PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4803 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4804 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4805
9c4e8f60
PH
4806PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4807 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4808 overlooked.
4809
4810PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4811
d7174846
PH
4812PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4813 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4814 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4815 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4816 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4817 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4818 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4819
4820 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4821 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4822 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4823 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4824 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4825
4826 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4827 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4828 routed further.
4829
cfe75fc3
PH
4830PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4831 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4832 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4833 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4834 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4835 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4836
be22d70e
PH
4837PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4838
0612b098
PH
4839PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4840 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4841 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4842 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4843 printable escape sequences.
4844
2e0c1448
PH
4845PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4846 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4847 body only.
4848
447d236c
PH
4849PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4850 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4851 are as follows:
4852
4853 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4854 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4855 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4856 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4857 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4858
4859 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4860 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4861 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4862
d20976dc
PH
4863PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4864
f656d135
PH
4865PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4866 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4867 play with."
4868
2e2a30b4
PH
4869PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4870 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4871 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4872 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4873 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4874 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4875 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4876 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4877 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4878 the log output.
4879
9176e9f0
PH
4880PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4881 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4882 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4883 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4884 "make".
4885
7982096b 4886
bbe902f0
PH
4887A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4888----------------------------------------
4889
4890Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4891changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4892needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4893in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4894that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4895release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4896from 4.43.
4897
4898I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
48994.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4900those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4901historical information.
4902
4903
f7b63901 4904Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4905-----------------
4906
5fe762f6
PH
4907 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4908
139059f6 4909 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4910 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4911
7086e875
PH
4912 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4913 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4914 place.
4915
35af9f61
PH
4916 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4917 filter fails to execute.
4918
b668c215
PH
4919 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4920 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4921 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4922 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4923 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4924
a494b1e1
PH
4925 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4926
4927 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4928 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4929 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4930 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4931
c5fcb476
PH
4932 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4933 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4934 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4935 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4936 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4937
69358f02
PH
4938 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4939
5be20824
PH
494010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4941
eb2c0248
PH
494211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4943 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4944 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4945 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4946
2a3eea10
PH
494712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4948 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4949 sender verification.
4950
495113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4952 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4953
23c7ff99
PH
495414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4955
4deaf07d
PH
495615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4957 connection timeout.
4958
926e1192
PH
495916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4960 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4961
650edc6f
PH
496217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4963 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4964
2c7db3f5
PH
496518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4966 information about exactly what failed.
4967
3d235903
PH
496819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4969
7c7ad977
PH
497020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4971 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4972 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4973
981756db
PH
497421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4975 It is now set to "smtps".
4976
d4eb88df
PH
497722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4978 ignore_target_hosts.
4979
498023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4981 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4982 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4983 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4984 "[x.x.x.x]".
4985
7d468ab8
PH
498624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4987 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4988 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4989
499025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4991 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4992 wake it up if nothing else does.
4993
62c0818f
PH
499426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4995 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4996 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4997 end up negative.
4998
26034054
PH
499927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5000 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5001
af66f652
PH
500228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5003
90af77f4
PH
500429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5005 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5006 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5007 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5008 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5009 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5010 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5011 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5012
d8ef3577
PH
501330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5014 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5015 than one IP address.
5016
5cb8cbc6
PH
501731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5018 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5019 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5020 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5021
14702f5b
PH
502232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5023 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5024 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5025 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5026 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5027 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5028
063b1e99
PH
502933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5030 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5031 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5032 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5033
652e1b65
PH
503434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5035 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5036 respected.
5037
6f0c9a4f
PH
503835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5039 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5040 $sender_host_address.
5041
33397d19
PH
504236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5043 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5044 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5045 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5046 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5047 very small.
5048
7bb56e1f
PH
504937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5050
5051 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5052 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5053
ea3bc19b
PH
5054 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5055 just the host names, not the priorities.
5056
5057 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5058 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5059 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5060
ea3bc19b 5061 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5062 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5063
0bcb2a0e
PH
506438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5065 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5066 domain.
5067
2ac0e484
PH
506839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5069
4e1fde53
PH
507040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5071 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5072
de365ded
PH
507341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5074 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5075 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5076
f05da2e8
PH
507742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5078
d6453af2
PH
507943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5080
f7b63901
PH
508144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5082
508345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5084 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5085 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5086 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5087 because the tests only now provoked it.
5088
a444213a
PH
508946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5090 (this can affect the format of dates).
5091
0ec020ea
PH
509247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5093 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5094 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5095 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5096
b1206957
PH
509748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5098
509949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5100 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5101 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5102 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5103
26dd5a95
PH
510450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5105 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5106 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5107
343b2385
PH
510851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5109 autoreply.
5110
1c5466b9
PH
511152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5112 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5113 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5114 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5115 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5116 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5117 is going on).
5118
55ee9ee3
PH
511953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5120 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5121 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5122 the line.
5123
d38f8232
PH
512454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5125 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5126 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5127
5128 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5129 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5130 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5131 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5132 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5133 so I produce this patch..."
5134
3295e65b
PH
5135 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5136 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5137 is not defined.
5138
7102e136
PH
513955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5140 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5141 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5142 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5143 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5144
3ca0ba97
PH
514556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5146
c2bcbe20
PH
514757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5148 long debug lines gets shown.
5149
18ce445d
PH
515058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5151 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5152
1f5b4c3d
PH
515359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5154
5155 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5156 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5157 of $primary_hostname.
5158
b975ba52
PH
515960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5160 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5161 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5162 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5163 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5164 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5165 by change 4.50/55 above.
5166
5167 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5168 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5169 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5170 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5171 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5172 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5173 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5174
517561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5176 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5177 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5178 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5179
17ffcae7
PH
518062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5181 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5182
d95f9fdb
PH
518363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5184 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5185 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5186 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5187 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5188
86b8287f
PH
518964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5190 This has been fixed.
5191
60dc5e56
PH
519265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5193 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5194 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5195 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5196 the caching.)
5197
533244af
PH
519866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5199
a5a28604
PH
520067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5201 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5202 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5203 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5204
7e634d24
PH
520568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5206 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5207
3e11c26b
PH
520869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5209 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5210 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5211
6729cf78
PH
521270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5213 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5214 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5215 message there.
5216
00f00ca5
PH
521771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5218 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5219 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5220
c9bdd01c
PH
522172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5222 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5223 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5224 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5225
d43194df
PH
522673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5227 during host lookups.
5228
fe5b5d0b
PH
522974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5230 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5231
5232 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5233
76a2d7ba
PH
523475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5235 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5236 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5237 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5238 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5239 background.
5240
524176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5242 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5243
04f7d5b9
PH
524477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5245 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5246 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5247
bc60667e
PH
524878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5249
bb6e88ff
PH
525079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5251 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5252 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5253 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5254 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5255 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5256 process earlier.
5257
1e70f85b
PH
525880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5259 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5260 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5261 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5262 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5263
526481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5265 tables).
5266
4e01f9d6
PH
526782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5268
1ee1cef2
PH
526983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5270 "vacation" handling.
5271
6e2b4ccc
PH
527284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5273 OS variants using glibc.
5274
8e669ac1
PH
527585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5276
495ae4b0 5277
bbe902f0
PH
5278----------------------------------------------------
5279See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5280----------------------------------------------------
5281
5282
5283Exim version 4.44
5284-----------------
5285
5286 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5287 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5288 transport
5289
5290 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5291 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5292 place.
5293
5294 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5295 filter fails to execute.
5296
5297 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5298 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5299 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5300 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5301 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5302
5303 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5304 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5305 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5306 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5307
5308 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5309 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5310 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5311 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5312 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5313
5314 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5315
5316 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5317 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5318 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5319 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5320
5321 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5322 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5323 sender verification.
5324
532510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5326 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5327
532811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5329 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5330
533112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5332 ignore_target_hosts.
5333
533413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5335 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5336 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5337 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5338 "[x.x.x.x]".
5339
534014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5341 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5342 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5343
534415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5345 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5346 wake it up if nothing else does.
5347
534816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5349 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5350 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5351 end up negative.
5352
535317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5354 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5355
ea3a6f44 535618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5357
535819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5359 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5360 empty pattern.
5361
536220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5363 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5364 one IP address.
5365
ea3a6f44
NM
536621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5367 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5368 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5369 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5370 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5371 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5372
ea3a6f44
NM
537322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5374 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5375 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5376
537723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5378 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5379 $sender_host_address.
5380
538124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5382
ea3a6f44
NM
538325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5384 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5385 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5386
538726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5388 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5389
ea3a6f44
NM
539027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5391 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5392
ea3a6f44
NM
539328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5394 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5395 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5396 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5397
539829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5399 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5400 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5401
ea3a6f44
NM
540230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5403 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5404 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5405 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5406
ea3a6f44
NM
540731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5408 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5409 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5410
ea3a6f44
NM
541131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5412 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5413
ea3a6f44
NM
541432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5415 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5416 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5417 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5418 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5419 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5420 is going on).
bbe902f0 5421
ea3a6f44
NM
542233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5423 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5424 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5425 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5426 CAN-2005-0021
5427
ea3a6f44
NM
542834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5429 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5430 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5431 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5432 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5433 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5434 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5435
5436 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5437 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5438 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5439 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5440 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5441 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5442 CAN-2005-0021
5443
ea3a6f44
NM
544435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5445 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5446 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5447 CAN-2005-0022
5448
ea3a6f44
NM
544936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5450 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5451 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5452 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5453 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5454
ea3a6f44
NM
545537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5456 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5457 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5458 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5459 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5460
ea3a6f44
NM
546138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5462 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5463 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5464 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5465 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5466
5467
495ae4b0
PH
5468Exim version 4.43
5469-----------------
5470
5471 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5472 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5473 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5474 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5475 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5476 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5477 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5478
5479 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5480 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5481 the delivery.
5482
5483 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5484
5485 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5486
5487 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5488 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5489 to local_scan().
5490
5491 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5492 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5493 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5494 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5495 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5496
5497 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5498 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5499
5500 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5501
5502 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5503
550410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5505 header_sender only.
5506
550711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5508 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5509
551012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5511 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5512 affecting debugging statements).
5513
551413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5515
551614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5517 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5518 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5519 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5520 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5521 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5522 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5523 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5524 after the received time, and all would be well.
5525
552615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5527 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5528 condition in an expansion string.
5529
553016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5531
553217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5533 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5534 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5535 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5536 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5537 job under whatever limits there are.
5538
553918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5540
554119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5542 space).
5543
554420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5545 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5546 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5547 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5548 return path is set.
5549
555021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5551 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5552 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5553 binary data in such strings.
5554
555522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5556
555723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5558 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5559 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5560 failure, which is pointless.
5561
556224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5563
556425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5565
556626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5567 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5568 Sender: header lines.
5569
557027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5571 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5572 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5573
557428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5575 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5576 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5577 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5578 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5579 happens.
5580
558129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5582 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5583 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5584 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5585 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5586
558730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5588 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5589 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5590 1024.
5591
559231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5593 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5594
559532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5596 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5597
559833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5599
560032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5601
560233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5603
560434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5605 syntax error.
5606
560735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5608
560936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5610
561137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5612 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5613 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5614 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5615
561638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5617 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5618
5619
5620Exim version 4.42
5621-----------------
5622
5623 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5624 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5625 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5626 it was not quoted.
5627 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5628 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5629 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5630 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5631 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5632 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5633
5634 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5635 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5636 verification failure".
5637
5638 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5639 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5640 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5641 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5642
5643 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5644 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5645 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5646 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5647 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5648 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5649 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5650 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5651 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5652 treated as a timeout.
5653
5654 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5655 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5656 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5657 not set for Exim filters).
5658
5659 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5660 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5661 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5662
5663 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5664
5665 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5666 try to make them clearer.
5667
5668 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5669 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5670
5671 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5672
5673 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5674
567510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5676 only the Cygwin environment.
5677
567811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5679 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5680 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5681 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5682 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5683
568412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5685 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5686 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5687 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5688 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5689 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5690 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5691
569213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5693 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5694
569514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5696
5697 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5698 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5699 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5700
5701 To: susanne@some.where
5702
5703 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5704 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5705 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5706 of addresses in From: header lines).
5707
5708 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5709 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5710 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5711
5712 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5713 treated as non-personal.
5714
5715 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5716 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5717
571815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5719
572016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5721
572217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5723 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5724 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5725
572618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5727 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5728
572919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5730 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5731 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5732 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5733 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5734 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5735
573620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5737 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5738 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5739 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5740 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5741 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5742 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5743 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5744
5745 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5746
574721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5748 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5749
575022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5751 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5752 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5753
575423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5755 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5756
575724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5758 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5759 rather than long int.
5760
576125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5762
576326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5764
5765
5766Exim version 4.41
5767-----------------
5768
5769 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5770 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5771 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5772 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5773 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5774 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5775
5776
5777Exim version 4.40
5778-----------------
5779
5780 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5781 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5782
5783 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5784 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5785 socklen_t is defined.
5786
5787 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5788 always exist.
5789
5790 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5791 configured.
5792
5793 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5794 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5795 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5796 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5797 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5798
5799 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5800 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5801 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5802 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5803
5804 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5805 of flapping under certain conditions.
5806
5807 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5808 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5809 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5810
5811 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5812
581310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5814
581511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5816 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5817 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5818 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5819
582012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5821 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5822 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5823 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5824 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5825 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5826 preserved with the message after it was received.
5827
582813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5829 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5830 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5831 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5832 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5833 test suite worked just fine.
5834
583514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5836 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5837 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5838
583915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5840 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5841 string.
5842
584316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5844 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5845 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5846 does not fully solve it.
5847
584817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5849 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5850 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5851 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5852 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5853
585418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5855 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5856 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5857
585819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5859 string, for example:
5860
5861 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5862
5863 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5864 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5865 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5866 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5867 the routers could not see them.
5868
586920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5870 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5871
587221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5873 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5874 output).
5875
587622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5877 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5878 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5879 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5880 that needed quoting.
5881
588223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5883 was not being matched caselessly.
5884
588524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5886 backslashes.
5887
588825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5889 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5890 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5891 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5892 when use_sender is false.
5893
589426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5895
589627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5897
589828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5899
590029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5901 the configuration file.
5902
590330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5904 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5905
590631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5907
590832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5909 bytes in the message body.
5910
591133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5912 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5913 delivery.
5914
591534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5916
591735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5918
591936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5920 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5921 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5922 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5923 another IP address.
5924
5925
5926Exim version 4.34
5927-----------------
5928
5929 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5930 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5931
5932 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5933 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5934 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5935 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5936 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5937
5938 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5939 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5940
5941 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5942 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5943 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5944
5945 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5946 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5947 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5948
5949 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5950 for routers.
5951
5952 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5953 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5954 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5955 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5956 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5957 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5958 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5959
5960
5961Exim version 4.33
5962-----------------
5963
5964 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5965 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5966 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5967 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5968 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5969 default (and expected) setting.
5970
5971 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5972 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5973 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5974 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5975
5976 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5977 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5978
5979 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5980 in domain lists.
5981
5982 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5983 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5984 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5985 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5986 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5987 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5988
5989 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5990 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5991 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5992
5993 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5994 part (NOT match_host).
5995
5996 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5997
5998 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5999 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6000 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6001 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6002 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6003 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6004 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6005 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6006 the same named file.
6007
600810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6009 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6010 when Exim is built.
6011
601211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6013 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6014 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6015 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6016 a host name.
6017
601812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6019 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6020 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6021
602213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6023
602414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6025
602615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6027
602816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6029 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6030
603117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6032 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6033 before starting the TLS session.
6034
603518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6036
603719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6038 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6039
604020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6041 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6042 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6043 colon in the middle).
6044
6045
6046Exim version 4.32
6047-----------------
6048
6049 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6050 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6051 multiple configurations are in use.
6052
6053 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6054 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6055 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6056 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6057 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6058 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6059
6060 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6061 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6062
6063 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6064 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6065 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6066
6067 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6068 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6069 occurs.
6070
6071 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6072 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6073
6074 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6075
6076 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6077 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6078
6079 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6080
6081 -prval:sval
6082
6083 is equivalent to
6084
6085 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6086
6087 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6088 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6089 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6090 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6091 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6092
609310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6094 Exim's behaviour:
6095
6096 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6097 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6098 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6099 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6100 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6101 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6102
6103 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6104 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6105 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6106 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6107 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6108 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6109 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6110 string.
6111
6112 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6113 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6114 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6115 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6116 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6117
611811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6119
612012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6121 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6122 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6123
612413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6125
612614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6127 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6128 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6129 information.
6130
613115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6132 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6133
613416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6135 Three changes have been made:
6136
6137 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6138 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6139 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6140 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6141 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6142
6143 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6144 been restored.
6145
6146 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6147 the modified behaviour.
6148
6149
6150Exim version 4.31
6151-----------------
6152
6153 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6154 Larry Rosenman.
6155
6156 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6157 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6158
6159 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6160 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6161 try to track down a specific problem.
6162
6163 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6164 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6165 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6166
6167 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6168 warning.
6169
6170 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6171 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6172 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6173 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6174 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6175 some earlier ones do not.
6176
6177 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6178
6179 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6180 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6181 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6182 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6183 address literals are enabled, of course).
6184
6185 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6186
618710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6188 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6189 by a command such as
6190
6191 exim -f "" ...
6192
6193 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6194
619511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6196
619712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6198 remained set. It is now erased.
6199
620013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6201 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6202
620314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6204 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6205 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6206 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6207 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6208 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6209 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6210 appropriate error code.
6211
621215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6213 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6214 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6215 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6216 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6217 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6218
621916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6220 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6221 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6222
622317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6224 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6225 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6226 terminate the header.
6227
622818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6229 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6230 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6231
623219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6233 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6234 (4.30/29). In particular:
6235
6236 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6237 imposed.
6238
6239 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6240 to write a maildirsize file.
6241
6242 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6243 the transport, the new value overrides.
6244
6245 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6246 count.
6247
624820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6249 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6250 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6251 space or a tab.
6252
625321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6254 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6255 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6256 the fallback hosts.
6257
625822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6259 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6260 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6261
626223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6263 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6264 using a union.
6265
626624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6267 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6268 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6269
627025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6271
627226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6273
627427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6275
627628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6277 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6278 become corrupted.
6279
628029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6281 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6282 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6283 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6284 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6285 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6286 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6287 too great.
6288
628930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6290 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6291 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6292 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6293 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6294 incorrectly.
6295
629631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6297 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6298 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6299 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6300 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6301 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6302 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6303 cached value only when the same options are set.
6304
630532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6306
630733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6308 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6309 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6310 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6311 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6312
631334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6314 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6315 it is clearly obsolete.
6316
631735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6318 transport.
6319
632036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6321 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6322 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6323 times.
6324
632537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6326 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6327 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6328 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6329 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6330
633138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6332 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6333 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6334 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6335
633639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6337
6338 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6339
6340 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6341 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6342 2^31.
6343
634440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6345 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6346 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6347 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6348 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6349 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6350 $localpart_data.
6351
635241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6353 with the -f command-line option.
6354
635542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6356 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6357 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6358 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6359 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6360 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6361
636243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6363 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6364 line.
6365
636644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6367 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6368 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6369 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6370 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6371 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6372 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6373 buffer is too small.
6374
637545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6376 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6377
637846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6379 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6380 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6381 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6382 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6383 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6384 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6385 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6386 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6387
638847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6389 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6390 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6391
639248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6393 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6394 ACL").
6395
639649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6397 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6398 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6399 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6400 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6401
640250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6403 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6404 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6405 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6406 is set.
6407
640851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6409
641052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6411
641253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6413 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6414
641554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6416 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6417 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6418
641955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6420 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6421 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6422 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6423 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6424
642556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6426 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6427 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6428 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6429 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6430 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6431 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6432
643357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6434 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6435 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6436 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6437 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6438 the test of how many are available.
6439
644058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6441 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6442 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6443 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6444 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6445 new message is started.
6446
644759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6448 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6449
645060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6451 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6452
645361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6454 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6455 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6456 is no long logged.
6457
645862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6459 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6460 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6461 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6462 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6463 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6464 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6465
646663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6467 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6468 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6469 interpreted as octal.
6470
647164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6472 setting.
6473
647465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6475 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6476 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6477 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6478 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6479 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6480
648166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6482 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6483 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6484 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6485
6486 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6487 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6488 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6489 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6490
6491 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6492 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6493 is a bug fix.
6494
6495 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6496 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6497
649867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6499
650068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6501 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6502 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6503 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6504
650569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6506 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6507 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6508 supplied", which is not helpful.
6509
651070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6511 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6512 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6513
651471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6515 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6516 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6517 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6518 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6519 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6520 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6521 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6522
652372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6524 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6525 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6526 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6527 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6528
652973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6530 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6531 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6532 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6533 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6534 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6535
653674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6537 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6538 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6539
654075. Added write_rejectlog option.
6541
654276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6543 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6544 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6545 variables.
6546
654777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6548
654978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6550 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6551 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6552 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6553 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6554 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6555 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6556 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6557
655879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6559 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6560 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6561 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6562 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6563
656480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6565 Haardt.
6566
656781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6568 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6569 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6570 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6571 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6572 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6573 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6574 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6575 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6576
6577
6578Exim version 4.30
6579-----------------
6580
6581 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6582 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6583 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6584
6585 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6586 fixed.
6587
6588 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6589 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6590 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6591
6592 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6593 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6594 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6595 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6596 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6597 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6599 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6600 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6601 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6602 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6603 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6604 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6605 the Exim test suite.
6606
6607 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6608 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6609 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6610 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6611
6612 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6613 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6614 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6615 specify it in this variable.
6616
6617 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6618 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6619 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6620 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6621
6622 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6623 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6624 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6625 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6626
6627 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6628 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6629 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6630 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6631 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6632
6633 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6634
663510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6636 they are logged.
6637
663811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6639 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6640 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6641 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6642 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6643
664412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6645 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6646
664713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6648 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6649 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6650 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6651 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6652
665314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6654 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6655
665615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6657 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6658 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6659
666016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6661 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6662
666317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6664 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6665
666618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6667 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6668 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6669
667019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6671 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6672
667320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6674 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6675 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6676 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6677
667821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6679
668022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6681 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6682 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6683 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6684
668523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6686
668724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6688 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6689
669025. Added .include_if_exists.
6691
669226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6693 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6694 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6695 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6696 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6697 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6698
669927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6700
670128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6702 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6703 this.
6704
670529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6706
670730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6708 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6709
6710 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6711 550 Sender verify failed
6712
6713 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6714 the final line of the response.
6715
671631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6717 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6718 all other user lookups.
6719
672032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6721 delivery time.
6722
672333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6724 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6725 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6726 result into an int without checking.
6727
672834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6729 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6730 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6731
673235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6733 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6734 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6735 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6736
673736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6738 correctly.
6739
674037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6741 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6742
674338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6744 to the empty sender.
6745
674639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6747 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6748 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6749 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6750 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6751 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6752 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6753 panic log.
6754
675540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6756 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6757 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6758 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6759 used.
6760
676141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6762 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6763
676442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6765 timestamps.
6766
676743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6768 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6769
677044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6771
677245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6773 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6774 logs.
6775
677646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6777 as soon as it is encountered.
6778
677947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6780
678148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6782 rewritten to "<>".
6783
678449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6785 recognizes a tab character.
6786
678750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6788 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6789 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6790 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6791
679251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6793
679452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6795 crash.
6796
679753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6798
679954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6800
680155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6802 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6803 2822.
6804
680556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6806 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6807 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6808 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6809 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6810
681157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6812 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6813
681458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6815 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6816 list (.included file names were always shown).
6817
681859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6819 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6820 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6821 root at that time.
6822
682360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6824 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6825
682661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6827
682862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6829
683063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6831
683264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6833 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6834 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6835 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6836 failures to open the logs.
6837
683865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6839 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6840 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6841 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6842 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6843 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6844 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6845
6846
6847Exim version 4.24
6848-----------------
6849
6850 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6851 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6852 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6853 change 4.23/1.
6854
6855 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6856 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6857 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6858
6859 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6860 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6861 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6862
6863 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6864 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6865 causing some misleading effects.
6866
6867 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6868 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6869 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6870
6871 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6872 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6873 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6874 queue-runner function directly.
6875
6876
6877Exim version 4.23
6878-----------------
6879
6880 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6881 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6882
6883 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6884 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6885 was always written to the default place.
6886
6887 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6888 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6889 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6890
6891 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6892
6893 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6894
6895 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6896 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6897 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6898
6899 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6900 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6901 must start.
6902
6903 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6904 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6905 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6906
6907 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6908 command line option is disabled.
6909
6910 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6911 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6912
6913 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6914
6915 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6916
6917 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6918 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6919
692010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6921
692211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6923 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6924 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6925 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6926 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6927 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6928
692912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6930 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6931 timeout.
6932
693313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6934 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6935
693614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6937 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6938
693915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6940 received was valid base64.
6941
694216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6943 name of the variable that was being set.
6944
694517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6946
694718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6948 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6949 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6950 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6951 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6952 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6953
695419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6955
695620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6957 nor realm was specified.
6958
695921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6960 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6961 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6962 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6963
696422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6965 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6966 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6967
696823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6969 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6970 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6971
697224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6973 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6974 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6975 some systems use these upper case variants.
6976
697725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6978 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6979 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6980 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6981
698226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6983
698427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6985 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6986
698728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6988 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6989 expansion variable.
6990
699129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6992
699330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6994 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6995 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6996 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6997
699831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6999 using it.
7000
700132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7002 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7003 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7004
700533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7006 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7007
700834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7009 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7010 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7011 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7012
701335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7014 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7015 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7016
701736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7018
701937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7020 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7021 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7022 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7023 aborted.
7024
702538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7026 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7027 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7028
702939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7030
703140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7032 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7033
703441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7035 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7036
703742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7038 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7039 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7040 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7041 when emails are that large.
7042
7043
7044
7045Exim version 4.22
7046-----------------
7047
7048 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7049 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7050
7051 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7052 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7053 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7054
7055 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7056 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7057 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7058
7059 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7060 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7061 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7062 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7063 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7064
7065 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7066 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7067 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7068 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7069 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7070 ever.
7071
7072 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7073 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7074 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7075 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7076 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7077 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7078 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7079 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7080 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7081 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7082 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7083 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7084 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7085 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7086
7087 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7088 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7089 parameterised it.
7090
7091 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7092 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7093 error should be diagnosed.
7094
7095 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7096 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7097 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7098 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7099 appeared instead of "NULL".
7100
710110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7102 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7103 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7104 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7105 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7106 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7107 proceeds).
7108
7109 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7110 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7111 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7112
7113
7114Exim version 4.21
7115-----------------
7116
7117 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7118 or receiver verification errors.
7119
7120 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7121 name.
7122
7123 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7124 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7125 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7126 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7127
7128 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7129 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7130 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7131 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7132 shouldn't happen again.
7133
7134 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7135 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7136 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7137
7138 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7139 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7140
7141 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7142
7143 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7144 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7145
7146 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7147 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7148 RFC.
7149
715010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7151 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7152 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7153
715411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7155 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7156 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7157 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7158
715912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7160 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7161 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7162 to define what should happen).
7163
716413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7165 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7166 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7167
716814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7169
717015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7171
717216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7173 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7174
4c04137d 717517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7176 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7177 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7178 structure in all cases.
7179
7180 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7181 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7182 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7183 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7184
718518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7186 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7187 domain name.
7188
718919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7190 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7191
719220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7193 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7194
719521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7196 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7197 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7198
719922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7200 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7201 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7202
720323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7204 the book and for uniformity.
7205
720624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7207
720825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7209 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7210 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7211 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7212 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7213 non-existent command as the problem.
7214
721526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7216 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7217 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7218
721927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7220
722128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7222 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7223 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7224
722529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7226 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7227 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7228 timestamps using strftime().
7229
723030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7231 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7232
723332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7234 transport-time rewrites.
7235
723633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7237 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7238 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7239 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7240
724134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7242 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7243
724435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7245 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7246 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7247 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7248 comma and a space.
7249
725036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7251 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7252 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7253 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7254 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7255 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7256 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7257
725837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7259 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7260 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7261 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7262 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7263
726438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7265 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7266 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7267 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7268 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7269 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7270 remaining text gets split now.
7271
727239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7273 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7274 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7275 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7276
727740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7278 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7279 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7280 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7281 $return_path.
7282
728341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7284 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7285 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7286 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7287 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7288 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7289 passed through if needed.
7290
729142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7292 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7293 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7294 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7295 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7296 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7297
729843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7299 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7300 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7301 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7302 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7303
730444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7305 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7306 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7307 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7308 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7309
731045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7311 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7312 noticed.
7313
731446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7315 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7316 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7317 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7318 mayhem of various kinds.
7319
732047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7321 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7322 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7323 the right test for positive values.
7324
732548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7326 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7327 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7328 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7329 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7330 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7331 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7332 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7333 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7334 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7335 envelope.
7336
733749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7338 module.
7339
734050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7341 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7342 forbidding it.
7343
734451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7345 the existing equality matching.
7346
734752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7348 dealing with inode numbers.
7349
735053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7351 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7352 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7353
735454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7355 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7356 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7357 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7358 local_scan().
7359
736055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7361 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7362 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7363 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7364 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7365 relay addresses has also been removed.
7366
736756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7368
736957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7370 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7371 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7372
737358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7374 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7375 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7376 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7377 processing applies to CR:
7378
7379 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7380 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7381
7382 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7383 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7384 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7385 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7386
738759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7388 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7389 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7390
739160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7392 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7393 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7394 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7395 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7396 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7397 arisen.
7398
739961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7400 program routers.
7401
740262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7403 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7404 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7405 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7406 adds:
7407
7408 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7409
7410 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7411
7412 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7413
741463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7415 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7416 not considered personal.
7417
741864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7419
742065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7421
742266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7423
742467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7425 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7426 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7427 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7428 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7429 header lines, and spool format errors.
7430
743168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7432 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7433 for more flexibility.
7434
743569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7436 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7437 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7438
743970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7440 Sabourenkov.
7441
744271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7443 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7444 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7445 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7446 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7447 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7448 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7449 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7450 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7451
745272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7453 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7454 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7455 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7456 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7457 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7458 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7459
746073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7461 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7462 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7463
746474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7465 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7466 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7467 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7468 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7469 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7470 instead of killing the process with assert().
7471
747275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7473 than Unicode encoding.
7474
747576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7476 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7477 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7478 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7479
748077. Added process_log_path.
7481
748278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7483 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7484
748579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7486 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7487
748880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7489 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7490 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7491
749281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7493 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7494 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7495 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7496 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7497 were applied:
7498
7499 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7500 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7501 as invalid.
7502
750382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7504 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7505 they will be used during message reception.
7506
7507
7508Exim version 4.20
7509-----------------
7510
7511The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7512
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