Make the multi_domain smtp transport option expanded
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
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15TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
16 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
17 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
18 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
19 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
20 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
21 the script parsing/test process like normal.
22
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23TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
24 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
25 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
26 function when detected.
27
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28JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
29 cause callback expansion.
30
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31TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
32 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
33 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
34 instead of bool when processing it.
35
0f06b4f2 36JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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37 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
38
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39JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
40
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41JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
42
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43TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
44
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45TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
46 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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48JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
49 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
50 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
51 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
52 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
53 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
54
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55JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
56 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
57 exceeded it.
58
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59JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
60 version 3.3.6 or later.
61
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62JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
63 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
64 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 65 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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66 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
67 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
68 option is defined.
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70TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
71 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
72
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73JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
74 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
75 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
76 matches.
77
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78JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
79 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
80 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
81
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82JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length parameter in the
83 incoming message.
84
85JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
86 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
87 syntax errors.
88
89JH/13 Buf 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
90
91JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
92 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
93
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97TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
98 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
99 return.
1f0ebb98 100
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101JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
102 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
103
104JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
105
106TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 107 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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112
113TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
114
115 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
116 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
117 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
118 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
119 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
120 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
121
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122TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
123 utilities have not been installed.
124
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125JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
126 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
127
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128TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
129 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
130
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131TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
132 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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133 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
134 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 135
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136JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
137
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138TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
139 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
140
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141PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
142 not dns_use_dnssec.
143
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144JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
145
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146TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
147 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
148 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
149
8ddef691 150TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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151 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
152 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
153 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
154 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 155 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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157JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
158
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159JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
160 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
161
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162JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
163 failed delivery.
164
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165JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
166
511a6c14 167JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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169JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
170 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 171
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172JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
173 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
174
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175TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
176
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177JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
178
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179JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
180 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
181
182 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
183 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
184 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
185
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186TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
187 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
188 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
189 analysis.
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191JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
192
8c51eead 193JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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194 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
195 lookup).
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197TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
198 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
199 Schlichting.
35aba663 200
fd3b6a4a 201JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 202 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 203
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204TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
205 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
206
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207JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
208
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209TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
210 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
211 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
212
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213JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
214 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
215
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216JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
217 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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218 hosts_request_ocsp.
219
ed3bba5f 220JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 221 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 222 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 223
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224JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
225
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226TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
227 Christian Aistleitner.
228
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229JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
230
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231TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
232 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
233
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234JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
235 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
236
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237JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
238 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
239
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240TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
241 support and error reporting did not work properly.
242
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243TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
244 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
245
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246TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
247 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
248 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
249
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250JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
251
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252PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
253 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
254 Jasper Wallace.
255
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256JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
257
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258TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
259 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
260 CVE-2014-2972
261
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265
266PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
267
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268PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
269 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
270
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271PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
272 by GnuTLS.
273
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274PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
275 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
276 routines.
277
13363eba 278PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 279
66645890 280PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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281 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
282 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
283 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
284 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 285
a3fb9793 286PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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287 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
288 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
289 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 290 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 291 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 292
d27f98fe 293TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 294
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295TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
296
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297TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
298 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
299
ae0e32ee 300TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 301 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 302 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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304TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 305
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306TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
307
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308TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
309 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
310
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311JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
312
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313JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
314
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315PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
316
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317NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
318 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 319
585121e2 320JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 321
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322PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
323 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
324 function.
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326PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
327 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
328
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329JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
330 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
331 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 332
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333JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
334
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335JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
336
ea722490 337JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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338 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
339
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340JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
341 Bugzilla 884.
342
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343JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
344 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
345
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346JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
347 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
348
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349PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
350 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 351 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 352
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353JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
354 authenticators.
355
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356JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
357 for control.
358
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359PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
360
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361PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
362 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
363 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
364 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
365
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366TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
367
368 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
369 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
370 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
371 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
372 the retry rules.
373
374 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
375 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
376 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
377
378 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
379 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
380 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
381 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
382
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383 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
384 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
385 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
386 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
387 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
388 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
389 delivery, as in LMTP.
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391 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
392 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
393
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394TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
395
396 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
397
398 Resent-From: f
399
400 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
401 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
402 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
403 username as equal to the username.
404
405 This change corrects that bug.
406
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407GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
408 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
409 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
410
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411TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
412
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413PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
414 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
415 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
416 NULL dereference and crash.
417
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418JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
419
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420PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
421 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
422 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
423
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424SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
425
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426JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
427 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
428 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
429 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
430 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
431 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
432 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
433 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
434 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
435 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
436 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
437
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438PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
439 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
440
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441PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
442 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
443 Bugzilla 880.
444
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445PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
446 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
447 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
448 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
449 an empty string is now equivalent.
450
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451PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
452 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
453 not performing validation itself.
454
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455PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
456 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
457
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458JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
459 Bugzilla 321, 823.
460
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461TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
462
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463PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
464 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
465 other false fix of the same issue.
466 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
467 Bugzilla 1363.
468
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469PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
470 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
471
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472PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
473 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
474 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
475
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476PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
477 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
478 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
479
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480TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
481
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482JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
483
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484TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
485 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
486
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487TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
488 Alexander Miroch.
489
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490TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
491 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
492 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
493 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
494 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 495
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496TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
497 the src/util/ subdirectory.
498
581d7bee 499TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 500 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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501 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
502
503TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
504 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
505 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
506 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
507
237b2cf2
TL
508TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
509
9fc5a352
TL
510TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
511 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
512 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 513
b10e4ec2
TL
514TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
515
e2cebd74
TL
516TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
517 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
518 interaction.
519
520TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
521 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
522
2519e60d
TL
523TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
524 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
525
e78e6ecf 526
4263f395
PP
527Exim version 4.80.1
528-------------------
529
530PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
531 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 532 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 533
ea722490 534
b1770b6e 535Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
536-----------------
537
538PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
539 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
540 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
541
23c7e742
NM
542NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
543
b322aac8
NM
544NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
545 improved.
546
4a891427
NM
547NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
548
c1e794ba 549PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 550
97753960
PP
551PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
552
553PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
554 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
555
df6303fa
PP
556PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
557 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
558
7e6a8985
PP
559PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
560 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
561
f1e05cc7 562PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
563 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
564 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 565
4c287009
PP
566PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
567
b98bb9ac
PP
568PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
569 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
570
4a6a987a
PP
571PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
572
c45dd180 573PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 574
7db8d074
PP
575PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
576 non-compliant senders.
577 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
578
eae0036b 579NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
580 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
581 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
582
dec5017e
PP
583PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
584 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
585 in spool file corruption.
586
c80c5570
PP
587PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
588 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
589 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
590 "Got SSL error 2".
591
076b11e2
PP
592TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
593 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
594 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
595
5407bfff
JH
596JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
597 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
598
9e45c72b
PP
599JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
600
e74376d8
PP
601PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
602 diagnostics.
603 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
604
da3ad30d
PP
605PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
606 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
607 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
608
7be682ca
PP
609PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
610 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
611 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
612 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 613
ef840681
PP
614PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
615 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
616
5bfb4cdf
PP
617PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
618 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
619 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
620 resolver implementation change.
621
c6e95d22
PP
622PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
623 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
624
9cbad13b
PP
625PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
626
9ee44efb
PP
627PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
628
6a6084f8
PP
629PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
630 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
631
12dd53c7
PP
632PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
633 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
634
9e45c72b 635JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
636 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
637
17c76198
PP
638PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
639 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
640 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
641 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 642 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 643
53947857 644PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 645
eae0036b 646PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
647 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
648 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 649
9e45c72b 650JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 651
7390e768
PP
652PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
653 read-only, out of scope).
654 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
655
08488c86
PP
656PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
657 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
658 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
659 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
660
6475bd82
PP
661PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
662
81f91683
PP
663PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
664 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
665 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
666 real issues in debug logging.
667
5779e6aa
PP
668PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
669 assignment on my part. Fixed.
670
3375e053
PP
671PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
672 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
673 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
674
675PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
676 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
677 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
678 problems.
3375e053 679
9d26b8c0
PP
680PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
681 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
682
57eb9e91 683PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
684 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
685 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
686 needs to override this, it can.
687
16880d1a
PP
688PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
689 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
690 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
691
a799883d
PP
692PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
693 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
694 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
695 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
696
3ecab157 697PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 698
0599f9cf 699
867fcbf5
PP
700Exim version 4.77
701-----------------
702
703PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
704 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
705
f1a29782
TF
706TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
707
ab42bd23
TK
708TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
709 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 710
0ca0cf52
TF
711TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
712 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
713
921b12ca
TF
714TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
715 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
716 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
717
718 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
719 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
720 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
721 not safe for signals.
722
723 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
724 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
725 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
726 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
727 exiwhat.
728
c99ce5c9
TF
729TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
730
731 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
732 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
733 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
734 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
735 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
736
737 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
738 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
739 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
740 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
741 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
742 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
743
744 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
745 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
746 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
747 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
748
749 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
750 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
751 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
752 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
753
754 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
755 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
756 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
757 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
758 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
759 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
760 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
761 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
762 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
763
764 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
765 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
766 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
767 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
768
769 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
770 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
771 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
772 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
773 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
774 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
775 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
776 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
777 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
778 details in the main documentation.
779
3634fc25
TF
780TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
781
792e8a19
TF
782TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
783
5901f0ab
TF
784TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
785 repository when doing development or release builds.
786
7f2a2a43
PP
787PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
788 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 789
061b7ebd
PP
790PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
791 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
792 Bugzilla 97.
793
e12f8c32
PP
794PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
795
9e949f00 796PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
797 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
798
799PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
800 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 801
555ae6af 802PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
803 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
804
805PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
806 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 807
6f7fe114
PP
808PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
809 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
810
c566dd90
PP
811PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
812 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
813 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
814 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 815
d6cc7c78 816PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
817 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
818 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
819
0d0e4455
PP
820PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
821
3399bb60 822PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
823
824PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
825 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
826
0ca0cf52 827
10906672
PP
828Exim version 4.76
829-----------------
830
831PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
832
754a0503
PP
833PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
834 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
835
c0c7b2da
PP
836PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
837
e97d1f08
PP
838PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
839
084c1d8c
PP
840PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
841 Bugzilla 1098.
842
4e7ee012
PP
843PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
844 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 845
c8d52a00
PP
846TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
847 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
848
54e7ce4a
PP
849PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
850 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
851
5ee6f336
PP
852PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
853 Bugzilla 1104.
854
c8d52a00 855TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
856 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
857
858TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
859 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
860 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
861 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
862
863PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
864 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 865
10906672 866
aa097c4c
NM
867Exim version 4.75
868-----------------
869
4c9ef03a 870NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
871 Bugzilla 1073
872
7f3d9eff
TF
873TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
874 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
875 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
876
159f52d2
TF
877TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
878 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
879
0cc9542a
PP
880PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
881 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
882 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
883
f7274286
PP
884PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
885 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
886
7b797365
PP
887PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
888 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
889
caacae52
NM
890NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
891 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
892
09dcaba9
NM
893NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
894 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
895
bc19a55b
PP
896PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
897 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 898
bd4c9759
NM
899NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
900 Fixes bug 943.
901
b72aab72
PP
902PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
903 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
904
2fe76745
PP
905PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
906 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
907
76aa570c
PP
908PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
909 SQL string expansion failure details.
910 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
911
f1e5fef5
PP
912PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
913 Patch from Simon Arlott.
914
4d805ee9
PP
915PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
916 extern declarations in function scope.
917 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
918
cd59ab18
PP
919PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
920 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
921 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
922 a kernel bug).
923
332f5cf3
PP
924PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
925 Patch from Mark Zealey.
926
29cfeb94
PP
927PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
928 Patch from Mark Zealey.
929
660242ad
PP
930PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
931 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
932
bc4bc4c5
PP
933PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
934 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
935
2e64baa9
NM
936NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
937 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
938 Dennis Davis.
939
bddd7526
PP
940PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
941
6bac1a9a
PP
942PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
943
552193f0
NM
944NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
945 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 946
1b587e48
TF
947TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
948 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
949
aa097c4c 950
8c07b69f
TF
951Exim version 4.74
952-----------------
953
954TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
955 consequences so log it to the panic log.
956
c0ea85ab
TF
957TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
958 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
959
0761d44e
TF
960TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
961
0a349494
PP
962DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
963 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
964 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
965
966PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
967 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
968 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
969
fea24b2e
PP
970PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
971 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
972 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
973 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
974
6545de78
PP
975PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
976 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
977 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
978 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
979
1670ef10
PP
980PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
981 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
982 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
983 arbitrary files.
984
c0886197
PP
985PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
986 (Wolfgang Breyha)
987
b7487bce
PP
988PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
989 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
990 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
991 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
992 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
993
8c07b69f 994
97fd1e48 995Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 996-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
997
998PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
999 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1000 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1001
6901c596
PP
1002PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1003 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1004
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1005JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1006
77bb000f
PP
1007PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1008
a29e5231
PP
1009PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1010
ec5a0394 1011PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1012
55c75993
PP
1013PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1014
453a6645 1015PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1016 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1017 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1018 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1019
8544e77a
PP
1020PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1021 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1022 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1023 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1024 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1025
83e029d5
PP
1026PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1027
ed7f7860
PP
1028PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1029
7d9f747b
PP
1030PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1031
4b2241d2
PP
1032PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1033
10385c15
PP
1034PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1035
dbc4b90d
PP
1036PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1037
532be449
PP
1038PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1039
6a8de854 1040PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1041 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1042 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1043
5dc43717
JJ
1044JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1045
1046JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1047 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1048
3346ab01
PP
1049PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1050 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1051
491fab4c
PP
1052PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1053 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1054 Notification from John Horne.
1055
13eb9497
PP
1056PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1057 compatible.
1058
1059PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1060 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1061 it normally works.
1062
7f36d675
DW
1063DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1064 access.
1065
c1d94452
DW
1066DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1067 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1068 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1069
e2f5dc15
DW
1070DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1071 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1072 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1073 configuration file.
1074
cd25e41d
DW
1075DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1076 option (effectively making it always true).
1077
261dc43e
DW
1078DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1079 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1080
fa32850b
DW
1081DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1082 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1083
79d4bc3d
PP
1084PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1085 run-time user, instead of root.
1086
43236f35 1087PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1088 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1089
fb08281f
DW
1090DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1091 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1092 arguments.
3346ab01 1093
74935b98
DW
1094DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1095 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1096 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1097
90b6341f
DW
1098DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1099
57730b52
ML
1100NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1101
66581d1e 1102
465e92cf
JJ
1103Exim version 4.72
1104-----------------
1105
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1106JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1107 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1108 typos
465e92cf 1109
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PP
1110JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1111 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1112 (Finput)
edae0343 1113
9bd3e22c
NM
1114NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1115 Patch from Alain Williams
1116
bb576ff7
NM
1117NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1118
5a1a5845
NM
1119NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1120 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1121
981a9fad
NM
1122NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1123 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1124
7fc497ee
NM
1125NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1126
1a41defa
JJ
1127JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1128
a466095c 1129NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1130 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1131
94a6bd0b
NM
1132TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1133
1134TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1135
1136MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1137 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1138 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1139
c1b141a8
NM
1140NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1141 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1142
b26eacf1 1143NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1144 Patch by Simon Arlott
1145
179c5980 1146PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1147 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1148
9bd3e22c 1149
7c6d71af
NM
1150Exim version 4.71
1151-----------------
1152
7d9f747b 1153TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1154
f013fb92
NM
1155NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1156
0eb8eedd
NM
1157NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1158
663ee6d9
NM
1159NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1160
177ebd9b
NM
1161NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1162
7c6d71af 1163
210f147e
NM
1164Exim version 4.70
1165-----------------
1166
cdd3bb85 1167TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1168 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1169
1170TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1171 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1172 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1173
1174TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1175 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1176 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1177
1178TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1179 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1180
210f147e
NM
1181NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1182 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1183 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1184 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1185
deafd5b3
NM
1186NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1187 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1188 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1189
089793a4
TF
1190TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1191
5f16ca82
TF
1192TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1193
dae9d94e 1194NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1195 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1196
7d9f747b 1197NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1198
06864c44
TF
1199TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1200 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1201 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1202 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1203
65a7d8c3 1204NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1205 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1206
23510047 1207TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1208
7d9f747b 1209NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1210
7d8eec3a 1211NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1212 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1213
89dec7b6
TF
1214TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1215 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1216
a99de90c
TF
1217TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1218 that they are available at delivery time.
1219
e2803e40
TF
1220TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1221
7199e1ee
TF
1222TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1223 incoming_port log selectors.
1224
e276e04b
TF
1225TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1226 setting expands to an empty string.
1227
ce552449 1228NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1229 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1230
e765a0f1 1231NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1232 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1233
4f054c63 1234NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1235 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1236
7d9f747b
PP
1237NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1238 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1239
7d9f747b
PP
1240NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1241 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1242
b52bc06e 1243NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1244 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1245
447de4b0
NM
1246NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1247
4c69d561 1248NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1249 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1250
d5c39246 1251NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1252 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1253
0b23848a
TK
1254TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1255
8f3414a1 1256NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1257 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1258
fb6f955d
NM
1259NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1260
1261NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1262
7d9f747b
PP
1263NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1264 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1265
7d9f747b
PP
1266NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1267 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1268
7d9f747b
PP
1269NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1270 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1271
7d9f747b
PP
1272NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1273 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1274
7d9f747b
PP
1275NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1276 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1277
7d9f747b
PP
1278NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1279 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1280
7d9f747b
PP
1281NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1282 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1283
7d9f747b 1284NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1285 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1286
7d9f747b 1287NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1288
7d9f747b
PP
1289NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1290 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1291
7d9f747b 1292NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1293
7d9f747b 1294NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1295
7d9f747b 1296NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1297
7d9f747b 1298NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1299
17792b53 1300NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1301 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1302
7d9f747b
PP
1303NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1304 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1305
91576cec 1306NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1307 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1308
7d9f747b
PP
1309NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1310 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1311
7d9f747b 1312NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1313
7d9f747b 1314NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1315
7d9f747b 1316NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1317
7d9f747b 1318NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1319
deafd5b3 1320
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NM
1321Exim version 4.69
1322-----------------
1323
4b3504d0
TK
1324TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1325 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1326 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1327
1328 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1329 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1330 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1331 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1332 build errors in sieve.c.
1333
81ea09ca
NM
1334NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1335 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1336 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1337
f13cddcb
SC
1338SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1339
7d9f747b 1340NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1341
7d9f747b 1342NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1343
7d9f747b 1344NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1345
1346
eb4c0de6
PH
1347Exim version 4.68
1348-----------------
1349
1350PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1351
6a3bceb1
PH
1352PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1353 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1354 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1355 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1356 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1357 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1358 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1359 for iplsearch lookups.
1360
1361 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1362 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1363 previously such lookups could never work.
1364
1365 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1366 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1367 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1368
2e30fa9d
TK
1369TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1370 version.
1371
0806a9c5
MH
1372MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1373 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1374 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1375 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1376 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1377 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1378
ae276964
TK
1379TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1380 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1381
0f2cbd1b
MH
1382MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1383 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1384 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1385 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1386 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1387 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1388
2b85bce7
PH
1389PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1390 local_scan API.
1391
93655c46
PH
1392PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1393
6c512171
PH
1394PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1395 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1396 encrypted.
1397
1398PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1399 by clients under certain conditions.
1400
aa6dc513
PH
1401PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1402 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1403
a96603a0
PH
1404PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1405
8f240103
PH
1406PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1407 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1408
1409PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1410
d677b2f2
PH
1411PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1412
d52120f2
PH
1413PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1414
64f2600a
PH
1415PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1416 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1417
8669f003
PH
1418PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1419
a4dc33a8
PH
1420PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1421 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1422
d6a60c0f
PH
1423PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1424
8f128379
PH
1425PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1426
8932dffe
PH
1427PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1428 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1429 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1430 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1431
ddea74fa 1432PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1433 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1434 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1435
ddea74fa 1436PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1437 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1438
ddea74fa
PH
1439PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1440
ce9f225c
PH
1441PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1442
19897d52
PH
1443PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1444
bc64a74d
PH
1445PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1446 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1447 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1448
eb4c0de6 1449
b4ed4da0
PH
1450Exim version 4.67
1451-----------------
1452
22ad45c9
MH
1453MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1454 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1455 Jan Srzednicki.
1456
b4ed4da0
PH
1457PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1458 issue a MAIL command.
1459
431b7361
PH
1460PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1461
1462 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1463
1464 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1465 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1466 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1467 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1468 item. This has been fixed.
1469
1470PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1471 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1472
83da1223
PH
1473PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1474 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1475
54fc8428
PH
1476PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1477 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1478 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1479
34c5e8dd
SC
1480SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1481
bbe15da8
PH
1482PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1483 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1484 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1485 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1486 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1487
0e8a9471
MH
1488MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1489 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1490 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1491
f0872424
PH
1492PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1493 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1494 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1495 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1496
b01dd148
PH
1497PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1498
6bf342e1
PH
1499PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1500
273f34d0
PH
1501PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1502 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1503 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1504 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1505 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1506
cf8b11a5
PH
1507PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1508
41c7c167
PH
1509PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1510 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1511 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1512 values).
1513
9c57cbc0
PH
1514PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1515
f3f065bb
PH
1516PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1517
047bdd8c
PH
1518PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1519
0ce9abe6
PH
1520PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1521
0e22dfd1
PH
1522PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1523
4c590bd1
PH
1524PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1525 no_callout_flush is set.
1526
09945f1e
PH
1527PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1528 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1529 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1530 fixed.
1531
c51b8e75
PH
1532PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1533
e28326d8
PH
1534PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1535 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1536 other ACL rejections are.
1537
75b1493f
PH
1538PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1539 with slight modification.
1540
7c5214ec
PH
1541PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1542 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1543
4311097e
PH
1544PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1545 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1546 connection.
1547
29f89cad
PH
1548PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1549 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1550
5e687460
SC
1551SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1552
c3611384
PH
1553PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1554 expansion side effects.
1555
5a11a7b4
PH
1556PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1557 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1558 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1559 be the same.
1560
0e20aff9
MH
1561MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1562 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1563 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1564
ca86f471
PH
1565PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1566 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1567 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1568 were accidentally chopped off.
1569
a14e5636
PH
1570PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1571 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1572 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1573 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1574 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1575 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1576 pipelining has not been advertised.
1577
ec95d1a6
PH
1578PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1579
42855d71
PH
1580PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1581 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1582 This has been fixed.
1583
57c2c631
PH
1584PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1585 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1586 reported on Solaris.
1587
58c01c94
PH
1588PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1589 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1590 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1591 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1592 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1593 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1594 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1595
dee5a20a
PH
1596PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1597 cpus.
1598
d2ee6114
PH
1599PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1600
b2d5182b
PH
1601PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1602
79749a79
PH
1603PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1604 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1605 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1606 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1607 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1608 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1609
c456d9bb
PH
1610PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1611 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1612 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1613 host_all_ignored option.
1614
cd9868ec
PH
1615PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1616 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1617 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1618 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1619 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1620 is what is supposed to happen).
1621
ebeaf996
PH
1622PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1623 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1624 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1625 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1626 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1627 uses the Exim user.
1628
2679d413
PH
1629PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1630 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1631 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1632 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1633 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1634 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1635 users.
1636
84024b72
PH
1637PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1638
8005d38e
SC
1639SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1640 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1641 (Jez Hancock).
1642 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1643 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1644
3298c6c6
SC
1645SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1646
a43a27c5
PH
1647PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1648
58eb016e 1649PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1650 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1651 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1652 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1653 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1654 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1655 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1656 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1657 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1658 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1659 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1660
b43a74ea
PH
1661PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1662 advertised in response to EHLO.
1663
b4ed4da0 1664
5dd1517f
PH
1665Exim version 4.66
1666-----------------
1667
1668PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1669 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1670
1671 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1672 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1673
1674 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1675 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1676 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1677
1678 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1679 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1680 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1681 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1682 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1683
1684
93cfa765
TK
1685Exim version 4.65
1686-----------------
1687
1688TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1689 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1690 versions. (#438)
1691
d6066548
MH
1692MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1693 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1694 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1695
4362ff0d
PH
1696PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1697 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1698 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1699 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1700 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1701 rather than extend the field.
1702
93cfa765 1703
944e9e9c
TF
1704Exim version 4.64
1705-----------------
aa41d2de 1706
21d74bd9
TK
1707TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1708 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1709 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1710 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1711 these files.
1712
1713TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1714 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1715 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1716
1717TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1718 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1719 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1720
1721TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1722 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1723 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1724 in the field name.
1725
2b1c6e3a
PH
1726PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1727 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1728 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1729 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1730 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1731 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1732 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1733 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1734 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1735 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1736 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1737
1f872c80
PH
1738PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1739 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1740
1741PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1742 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1743 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1744 ignores EPIPE as well.
1745
d203e649
PH
1746PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1747 (quoted-printable decoding).
1748
cc2ed8f7 1749PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1750 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1751
ddfcd446
PH
1752PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1753
d45b1de8
PH
1754PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1755
1756PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1757
38a0a95f 1758PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1759 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1760
a2405d83
JJ
1761JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1762 in 4.64-PH/09.
1763
1764JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1765 miscellaneous code fixes
1766
6ea85e9a
PH
1767PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1768 rejections.
1769
26da7e20
PH
1770PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1771 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1772 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1773 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1774 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1775 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1776 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1777 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1778
14aa5a05 1779PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1780 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1781 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1782 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1783 function.
1784 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1785 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1786 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1787 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1788 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1789 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1790 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1791 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1792 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1793
ff75a1f7
PH
1794PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1795 decoding.
1796
e6f6568e
PH
1797PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1798 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1799 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1800 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1801 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1802 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1803 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1804 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1805
d6f6e0dc
PH
1806PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1807 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1808 list.
1809
322050c2
PH
1810PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1811 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1812 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1813 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1814 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1815 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1816 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1817 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1818 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1819 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1820 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1821 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1822 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1823
08955dd3
PH
1824PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1825 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1826 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1827 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1828 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1829 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1830 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1831
1eccaa59
PH
1832PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1833 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1834 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1835 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1836 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1837 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1838 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1839 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1840 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1841 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1842
602e59e5
PH
1843PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1844 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1845 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1846 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1847 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1848
411ef850
PH
1849PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1850 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1851 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1852 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1853 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1854 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1855 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1856
7befa435
PH
1857PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1858 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1859 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1860 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1861 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1862 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1863 been verified.
1864
48da4259 1865PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1866 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1867 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1868 and authorization.)
1869
48da4259
PH
1870PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1871 if any retry times were supplied.
1872
d1d5595c
PH
1873PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1874 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1875 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1876
0ef732d9
PH
1877PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1878
328895cc
PH
1879PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1880
fd700877
PH
1881PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1882 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1883 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1884 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1885 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1886 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1887
8dce1a6f
PH
1888PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1889 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1890
17af4a17
PH
1891PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1892 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1893 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1894
1895PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1896 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1897 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1898 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1899 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1900 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1901 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1902 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1903 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1904
1905 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1906 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1907 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1908 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1909 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1910 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1911 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1912 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1913 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1914
1915 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1916 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1917 hammering the server.
1918
c1114884
PH
1919PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1920 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1921
7a0743eb
PH
1922PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1923
0d85fa3f
PH
1924PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1925 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1926 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1927
1bf43b78
PH
1928PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1929 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1930 one case where this was not true.
1931
520de300
PH
1932PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1933 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1934 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1935 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1936 fails.
1937
48c7f9e2
PH
1938PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1939 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1940 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1941 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1942 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1943 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1944 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1945 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1946 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1947 smtp transport.
1948
99ea1c86
PH
1949PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1950 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1951 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1952 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1953
a2042e78
PH
1954PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1955 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1956
4fbcfc2e
PH
1957PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1958 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1959 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1960
aa41d2de
PH
1961PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1962
af561417
PH
1963PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1964
3cc66b45
PH
1965PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1966
194cc0e4
PH
1967PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1968 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1969 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1970 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1971
a401ddaa
PH
1972PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1973 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1974
4e88a19f
PH
1975PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1976 be meaningful with "accept".
1977
d7d7b289
SC
1978SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1979 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1980
1981SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1982 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1983 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1984
1985SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1986 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1987 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1988 there is data to show.
1989 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1990
1991SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1992 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1993 as well as the number of messages.
1994
1995SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1996 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1997 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1998
1999SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2000 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2001 have a flag are now skipped.
2002
2003SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2004 Added the -emptyok flag.
2005
2006SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2007 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2008
0ea2a468
JJ
2009JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2010 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2011 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2012
2013JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2014 match 4.64-PH/13
2015
2016JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2017 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2018
2019JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2020
2021JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2022 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2023
8a10f5a4
PH
2024PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2025
30e18802
PH
2026PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2027 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2028 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2029 contravention of the specifications.
2030
55728a4f
PH
2031PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2032 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2033 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2034
d7837193
PH
2035PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2036 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2037 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2038
87054a31
PH
2039PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2040
ea2c01d2
MH
2041MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2042 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2043 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2044 some point in the past.
2045
e4fa6968
PH
2046PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2047 transport during callout processing was broken.
2048
56f5d9bd
PH
2049PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2050 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2051
922e1c28
PH
2052PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2053 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2054
21eb6e72
PH
2055PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2056 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2057
a0540757
PH
2058PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2059
944e9e9c 2060
478be7b0
SC
2061Exim version 4.63
2062-----------------
2063
2064SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2065 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2066
2067SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2068 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2069 there is data to show.
2070 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2071
2072SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2073 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2074
2b965a65
TF
2075TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2076 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2077
45b91596
PH
2078TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2079 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2080
c59f5781
TF
2081TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2082 submissions from trusted users.
2083
90fc3069
TF
2084TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2085 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2086
6083aca0
TF
2087TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2088 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2089 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2090 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2091 there is now a framework to start from.
2092
765b530f
PH
2093PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2094 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2095 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2096
4e167a8c
PH
2097PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2098
4608d683
PH
2099PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2100
b8dc3e4a
PH
2101PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2102
5418e93b
PH
2103PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2104 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2105 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2106
b4a9bda2
PH
2107PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2108 libradius.
2109
45b91596
PH
2110PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2111 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2112 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2113
5547e2c5
PH
2114PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2115 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2116 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2117 its arguments.
2118
dbcef0ea
PH
2119PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2120 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2121 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2122 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2123 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2124
25257489
PH
2125PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2126 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2127
c816d124
PH
2128PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2129
a9ccd69a
PH
2130PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2131 operations in malware.c.
2132
75fa1910
PH
2133PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2134 signatures.
2135
a7d7aa58
PH
2136PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2137 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2138 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2139 all.
2140
42119b09
PH
2141PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2142 statements to "add_header".
2143
41609df5
PH
2144PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2145 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2146
a5bd321b
PH
2147PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2148 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2149 latter.
2150
e85a7ad5 2151PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2152 so that it is now:
2153
e85a7ad5
PH
2154 ${if or { \
2155 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2156 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2157 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2158 }{no}{yes}}
2159
e85a7ad5
PH
2160 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2161 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2162
d8fe1c03
PH
2163PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2164 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2165
16282d2b
PH
2166PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2167 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2168 any possible encoding problems.
2169
35d40a98
PH
2170PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2171 but not after initializing Perl.
2172
034d99ab
PH
2173PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2174 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2175 apparently, which is not desirable.
2176
6ec97b1b
PH
2177PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2178 queries.
2179
e22ca4ac
JJ
2180JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2181 --not options
2182
2183JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2184
33d73e3b
PH
2185PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2186 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2187 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2188 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2189
9ecb03f3
PH
2190PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2191 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2192 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2193
084efe8d
PH
2194PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2195 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2196 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2197 0.12.
2198
366fc9f0
PH
2199PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2200 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2201 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2202 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2203 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2204
c59f5781 2205
c887c79e
TF
2206Exim version 4.62
2207-----------------
2208
2209TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2210 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2211
1cce3af8
PH
2212PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2213 patch).
2214
afb3eaaf
PH
2215PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2216 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2217 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2218 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2219 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2220 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2221 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2222 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2223 451 error is used.
2224
e173618b
PH
2225PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2226
dd16e114
PH
2227PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2228 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2229 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2230
f7fd3850
PH
2231PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2232 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2233 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2234 odd errors.
2235
d87df92c
PH
2236PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2237 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2238
7e9f683d
PH
2239PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2240 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2241 option (which defaults to 0600).
2242
bfad5236
PH
2243PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2244
01c490df
PH
2245PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2246 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2247 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2248 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2249 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2250 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2251 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2252
d6629cdc
PH
2253PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2254
1cce3af8 2255
214e2000
PH
2256Exim version 4.61
2257-----------------
2258
2259PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2260 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2261 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2262 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2263 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2264 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2265 addresses as local.
2266
f9daeae0
PH
2267PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2268 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2269
7e66e54d
PH
2270PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2271
c8ea1597
PH
2272PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2273 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2274 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2275 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2276 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2277 grumble.
2278
911f6fde
PH
2279PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2280 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2281
47ca6d6c
PH
2282PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2283 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2284 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2285 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2286 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2287
ed0e9820
PH
2288PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2289 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2290 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2291 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2292
eff37e47
PH
2293PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2294 be the same on different OS.
2295
1921d2ea
PH
2296PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2297 testing.
2298
b3f69ca8
JJ
2299JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2300 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2301
2302JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2303 in 4.61-PH/06
2304
424a1c63
PH
2305PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2306 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2307 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2308 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2309 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2310 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2311 bounce message.
2312
7a100415
PH
2313PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2314 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2315 when Exim was called.
2316
19b9dc85
PH
2317PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2318 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2319
309bd837
PH
2320PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2321 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2322 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2323 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2324
59e82a2a
PH
2325PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2326 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2327 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2328 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2329 changes:
2330
2331 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2332 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2333 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2334
2335 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2336 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2337 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2338
9edc04ce
PH
2339PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2340 feature).
2341
1349e1e5
PH
2342PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2343 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2344 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2345 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2346 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2347 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2348 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2349 values from the SRV records were lost.
2350
ea49d0e1
PH
2351PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2352 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2353 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2354
064a94c9
PH
2355PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2356 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2357 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2358
727071f8
PH
2359PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2360 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2361 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2362 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2363 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2364 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2365 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2366 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2367 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2368 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2369
f78eb7c6
PH
2370PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2371 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2372 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2373
21c28500
PH
2374PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2375 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2376
2377PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2378 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2379 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2380 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2381 is given.
2382
1688f43b
PH
2383PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2384 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2385 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2386
2387PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2388 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2389 PH/23 above applies.
2390
9675b384
PH
2391PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2392 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2393 (for which there is an explicit test).
2394
6a3f1455
PH
2395PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2396
dac79d3e
PH
2397PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2398 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2399 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2400 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2401 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2402
5977a0b3
PH
2403PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2404 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2405 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2406 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2407
c91535f3
PH
2408PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2409 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2410 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2411
0d46a8c8
PH
2412PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2413
278c6e6c
PH
2414PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2415
2cbb4081
PH
2416PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2417 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2418 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2419
3eef829e
PH
2420PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2421 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2422 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2423 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2424 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2425
1ab95fa6
PH
2426PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2427 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2428 the message gets confusing).
2429
230205fc
PH
2430PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2431 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2432 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2433 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2434
75e0e026
PH
2435PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2436 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2437 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2438 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2439 same order.
2440
2441PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2442 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2443 the different processes.
2444
145396a6
PH
2445PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2446
3cd34f13
PH
2447PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2448
11121d3d
JJ
2449JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2450 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2451
2452JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2453 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2454
2455JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2456 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2457 messages matching specified criteria.
2458
8def5aaf
PH
2459PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2460
929ba01c
PH
2461PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2462 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2463
2632889e
PH
2464PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2465 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2466 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2467 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2468 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2469 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2470 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2471 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2472 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2473 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2474
944a9c55
PH
2475PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2476 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2477 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2478
4a23603b
PH
2479PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2480
4730f942
PH
2481PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2482 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2483 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2484 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2485 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2486 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2487 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2488 the variable.
2489
30dba1e6
PH
2490PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2491 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2492
382afc6b
PH
2493PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2494
a86229cf
PH
2495PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2496
50c99ba6
PH
2497PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2498
d35e429d
PH
2499PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2500 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2501 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2502 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2503 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2504 size of the count of files.
2505
f90d018c
PH
2506PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2507
75def545
PH
2508PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2509 used in LMTP mode:
2510
2511 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2512 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2513 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2514 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2515
2516 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2517 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2518 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2519
2520PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2521 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2522 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2523 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2524 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2525
c46782ef
PH
2526PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2527 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2528
71fafd95
PH
2529PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2530 will now be deprecated.
2531
2c5db4fd
PH
2532PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2533
9cf6b11a
JJ
2534JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2535 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2536 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2537
2538JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2539 with very large, slow to parse queues
2540
2541JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2542
2543JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2544
898d150f
PH
2545PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2546 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2547 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2548 SMTP output lines.
2549
46218253
PH
2550PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2551 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2552 Sieve code now uses this.
2553
e97957bc
PH
2554PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2555 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2556
81e509d7
PH
2557PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2558 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2559
3d240ff7
PH
2560PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2561
b37c4101
PH
2562PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2563 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2564 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2565 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2566 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2567
79378e0f
PH
2568PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2569 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2570 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2571 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2572
e49c7bb4
PH
2573PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2574
d114ec46
PH
2575PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2576
f3d7df6c
PH
2577PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2578 is preferred over IPv4.
2579
715ab376
PH
2580PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2581 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2582 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2583 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2584 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2585 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2586 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2587
6b31b150
PH
2588PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2589 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2590 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2591
2592PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2593
d515a917
PH
2594PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2595 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2596 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2597 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2598 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2599 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2600 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2601 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2602 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2603 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2604 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2605
9b8fadde
PH
2606PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2607 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2608 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2609
214e2000 2610
5de37277
PH
2611Exim version 4.60
2612-----------------
2613
cc38ddbf
PH
2614PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2615
2616 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2617 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2618
2619 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2620 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2621 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2622
72fdd6ae
PH
2623PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2624
2625 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2626 not a single digit.
2627
2628 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2629 string.
2630
2631 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2632 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2633 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2634 silly things.
2635
2636 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2637 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2638
2639 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2640 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2641
cb741023
PH
2642PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2643 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2644 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2645
f174f16e
PH
2646PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2647 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2648
c25242d7
PH
2649PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2650 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2651
2652 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2653
2654 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2655 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2656 this:
2657
2658 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2659
82c19f95
PH
2660PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2661 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2662 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2663 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2664 identical. For example:
2665
2666 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2667
2668 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2669 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2670 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2671
d7ffbc12
PH
2672PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2673 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2674 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2675 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2676
9f526266
PH
2677PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2678 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2679 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2680 message.
2681
87fcc8b9
PH
2682PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2683
2684 o fixes some comments
2685 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2686 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2687 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2688 and documents the missing references header update
2689
2690 and most important:
2691
2692 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2693 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2694 result)
2695
456682f5
PH
2696PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2697 Electronic Mail") by including:
2698
2699 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2700
2701 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2702 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2703 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2704 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2705 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2706
2707 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2708
2709 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2710
2711 The auto-replied keyword:
2712
2713 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2714 message by an automatic process,
2715
2716 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2717
2718 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2719 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2720
2721 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2722 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2723 other messages.
2724
3e46c1aa
PH
2725PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2726 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2727
49826d12
PH
2728PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2729
eba0c039
PH
2730PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2731 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2732 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2733
a0d6ba8a
PH
2734PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2735 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2736 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2737
f0917727
PH
2738PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2739 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2740 and treats the condition as false.
2741
096fee00
PH
2742PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2743
024bd3c2
PH
2744PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2745 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2746 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2747 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2748 not changing the active code.
2749
2750 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2751 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2752
2753 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2754 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2755
df199fec
PH
2756PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2757 (Bugzilla #53).
2758
d27f1df3
PH
2759PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2760 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2761 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2762 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2763 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2764 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2765 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2766 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2767 the text comparison.
2768
96776534
PH
2769PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2770 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2771 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2772 The same fix has been applied.
2773
5de37277 2774
9a799bc0
PH
2775Exim version 4.54
2776-----------------
2777
2778PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2779 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2780 It now does.
2781
99a4b039
PH
2782PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2783 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2784
2785PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2786
4b233853
PH
2787PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2788 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2789 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2790 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2791 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2792
8857ccfd
PH
2793TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2794 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2795 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2796 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2797 or /domain=).
2798
433a2980
PH
2799PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2800 testing suite.
2801
3e46c1aa 2802
9a799bc0 2803
e3a311ba
TK
2804Exim version 4.53
2805-----------------
2806
2807TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2808 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2809
13b685f9
PH
2810PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2811
395ff96d
PH
2812PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2813
5b68f6e4
PH
2814PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2815 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2816 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2817
1ab52c69
PH
2818PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2819 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2820 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2821
b07e6aa3
PH
2822PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2823 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2824 operating systems.
2825
254e032f
PH
2826PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2827 ${stat: expansion item.
2828
3af76a81
PH
2829PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2830 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2831
2548ba04
PH
2832PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2833 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2834 file for comments.
2835
b6c6011d
PH
2836PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2837
cf39cf57
PH
2838PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2839 setting.
2840
f1513293
PH
2841PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2842 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2843
727549a4
PH
2844TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2845
af46795e
PH
2846PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2847 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2848 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2849 the end of the subprocess.
2850
d7b47fd0
PH
2851PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2852 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2853 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2854 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2855 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2856
ee744174
JJ
2857JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2858
b582ab87
PH
2859TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2860
41a13e0a
PH
2861PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2862 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2863
f625cc5a
PH
2864PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2865
2866PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2867
21f7af35
PH
2868PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2869 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2870 HP-UX compiler.
2871
31480e42
PH
2872PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2873
2d280592
PH
2874PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2875 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2876 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2877
7cd1141b
PH
2878PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2879 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2880
2881PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2882 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2883
750af86e
PH
2884PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2885 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2886
2887 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2888 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2889
2890 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2891 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2892 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2893 contributed by a Radius user.
2894
2895PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2896 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2897
4304270b
TK
2898TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2899 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2900
750af86e
PH
2901PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2902 available.
2903
64ffc24f
PH
2904PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2905 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2906 received.
2907
5dd9625b
PH
2908PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2909 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2910 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2911 header lines when this was not necessary.
2912
5591031b
PH
2913PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2914
ba18e66a
PH
2915PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2916 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2917 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2918 exists".
2919
9cec981f
PH
2920PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2921 -bV or -d is used.
2922
aa2b5c79
PH
2923PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2924 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2925 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2926 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2927
48a53b7f
PH
2928PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2929
1c59d63b
PH
2930PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2931
671012da
TK
2932TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2933
1509d3a8
PH
2934PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2935
2936PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2937 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2938 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2939 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2940 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2941 settings.
2942
2943PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2944
2fe1a124
PH
2945PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2946 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2947 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2948 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2949 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2950 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2951 which is clearly wrong.
2952
8800895a
PH
2953PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2954
ccfdb010
PH
2955PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2956 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2957 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2958 subsequently added.
2959
1130bfb0
PH
2960PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2961 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2962
ebcb507f
PH
2963PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2964
c35e155c
PH
2965PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2966 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2967
95d1f782
PH
2968PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2969 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2970
fd6de02e
PH
2971PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2972 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2973
58de37c5
PH
2974PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2975 recipients, not senders.
2976
261cf466
TF
2977TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2978 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2979
3ee512ff
PH
2980PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2981
e08c430f
PH
2982PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2983
bef5a11f
PH
2984PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2985 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2986 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2987 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2988
7546de58
TF
2989TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2990
e5d5a95f
TF
2991TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2992 clock is set back in time.
2993
2e88a017
TF
2994TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2995 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2996
a5f65aa4
TF
2997TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2998 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2999
e7726cbf
PH
3000PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3001 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3002 (see PH/47 above).
3003
a7fdad5b
TF
3004TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3005 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3006 header rewrites.
3007
6af56900
PH
3008PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3009 type ("H").
3010
0925ede6
PH
3011PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3012
66afa403
TF
3013TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3014 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3015 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3016
0154e85a
TF
3017TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3018 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3019 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3020 helo verification defer as a failure.
3021
16f12c76
PH
3022PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3023 actual error message.
3024
bbe902f0 3025
e5a9dba6
PH
3026Exim version 4.52
3027-----------------
3028
3029TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3030
22c3b60b
PH
3031PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3032 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3033 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3034 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3035
06a9b4b5
PH
3036TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3037
c1ac6996
PH
3038PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3039 can still be requested.
3040
9c7a242c
PH
3041PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3042 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3043 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3044 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3045
87ba3f5f
PH
3046TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3047 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3048 circumstances, but probably never did.
3049
3050PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3051 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3052 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3053 in the header line.
3054
29aba418
TF
3055TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3056
fe0dab11
TF
3057TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3058 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3059
11d337a4
TK
3060TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3061
3062TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3063
415c8f3b
PH
3064PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3065 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3066 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3067 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3068 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3069 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3070
958541e9
PH
3071PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3072 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3073 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3074 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3075 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3076 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3077
c206415f
TK
3078TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3079 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3080
2a4be8f9
PH
3081PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3082 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3083
1cba11c5
SC
3084SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3085 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3086
3087SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3088
3089SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3090
3091SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3092
3093SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3094
3095SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3096
3097SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3098
1005d00e
TK
3099TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3100
3101TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3102 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3103 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3104
3105TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3106 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3107 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3108 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3109
9b4768fa
PH
3110PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3111 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3112 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3113
3114PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3115 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3116 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3117 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3118
0d7eb84a
PH
3119PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3120 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3121 to be made).
3122
3123PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3124 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3125 should work with maildirs and everything.
3126
40727bee
TK
3127TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3128 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3129
554d2369
TF
3130TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3131 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3132
1f922db1
PH
3133PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3134 function for BDB 4.3.
3135
ef213c3b
PH
3136PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3137
8ac170f3
PH
3138PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3139 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3140 involved.
3141
b1c749bb
PH
3142PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3143 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3144 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3145 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3146 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3147 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3148
4aac9b49
PH
3149PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3150 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3151 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3152 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3153 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3154 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3155 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3156 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3157
294520c8
TK
3158TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3159 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3160 details.
3161
5bd022fe
PH
3162PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3163 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3164
90e9ce59
PH
3165PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3166 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3167 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3168 test. It is now used for both.
3169
5ea81592
PH
3170PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3171 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3172 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3173 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3174 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3175 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3176
c6c2dc1d
PH
3177PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3178 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3179 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3180 string_vformat().
3181
fffffe4c
PH
3182PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3183 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3184 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3185
9a26b6b2
PH
3186PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3187 experimental DomainKeys support:
3188
3189 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3190 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3191 the control was given.
3192
3193 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3194
4aee0225
PH
3195PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3196
32d668a5
PH
3197PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3198
8187c3f3
PH
3199PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3200 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3201 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3202 db.h files).
3203
ff790e47 3204PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3205 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3206 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3207 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3208 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3209 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3210 course.
ff790e47 3211
5417f6d1
PH
3212PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3213 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3214 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3215 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3216 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3217 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3218
59cf8544
PH
3219PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3220 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3221 do -d+all out of habit.
3222
e7ad8a65
PH
3223PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3224 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3225 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3226
ade42478
PH
3227PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3228 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3229 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3230 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3231 record types that Exim uses.
3232
182ad5cf
PH
3233PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3234 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3235 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3236 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3237 non-existent file that was broken.
3238
b0d9fc80
TK
3239TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3240 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3241
3242TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3243 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3244 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3245
3246TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3247
47c7a64a
PH
3248PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3249 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3250 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3251 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3252 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3253 same time.
3254
a388bce4
SC
3255SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3256 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3257 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3258 at a slight CPU cost.
3259
3260SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3261 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3262
3263SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3264 by Marc Sherman.
3265
0793e4ed
SC
3266SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3267
c58b88df
PH
3268PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3269 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3270
e7ad8a65 3271
7982096b
PH
3272Exim version 4.51
3273-----------------
3274
1a46a8c5
PH
3275TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3276 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3277
2f079f46 3278TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3279
3280TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3281
3282PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3283 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3284
3285PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3286 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3287 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3288 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3289 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3290 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3291 file.
3292
3293PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3294 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3295 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3296 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3297 these two options.
3298
3299PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3300 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3301 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3302 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3303 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3304 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3305 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3306 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3307
3308PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3309 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3310
3311PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3312 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3313 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3314 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3315 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3316 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3317
3318PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3319 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3320 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3321 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3322
3323PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3324 Finch).
3325
3326PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3327 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3328
49c2d5ea
PH
3329PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3330 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3331 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3332 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3333 message.
49c2d5ea 3334
bf759a8b
PH
3335PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3336
83364d30
PH
3337PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3338 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3339
7999bbd7
PH
3340PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3341 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3342 to what was transported.)
3343
7dbf77c9
PH
3344TF/01 Added $received_time.
3345
74e0617f
PH
3346PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3347 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3348 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3349 spamd_address settings.
3350
2f079f46
PH
3351PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3352 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3353 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3354 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3355 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3356
8c841523
PH
3357PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3358
7766a4f0
PH
3359PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3360 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3361 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3362 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3363 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3364
8b417f2c
PH
3365PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3366 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3367
901f42cb
PH
3368PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3369 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3370 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3371 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3372 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3373 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3374 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3375 for failure.
3376
f9b9210e
PH
3377PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3378 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3379 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3380 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3381 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3382 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3383 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3384 "input=".
3385
54cdb463
PH
3386PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3387
cf00dad6
PH
3388PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3389 driver and ACL definitions.
3390
acb1b346
PH
3391PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3392 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3393
c5ddb310
PH
3394PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3395 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3396 understands it better than I do:
3397
3398 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3399 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3400
3401 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3402 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3403 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3404 => three warnings about OTP not working
3405 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3406
3407 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3408 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3409 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3410 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3411 for each call.)
3412 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3413 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3414
3415 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3416 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3417 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3418
31619da6
PH
3419PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3420 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3421 specified.
3422
bebaf0fc
PH
3423PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3424 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3425 "Linux".
3426
475fe28a
PH
3427PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3428 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3429 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3430
3431 warn !verify = sender
3432 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3433
3434 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3435 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3436
7e8bec7a
PH
3437PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3438
3439 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3440 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3441
3442 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3443 nomenclature these days.)
3444
e4a89c47
PH
3445PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3446 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3447
5ca2a9a1
PH
3448PH/30 In these circumstances:
3449 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3450 . First host does not offer TLS;
3451 . First host accepts first address;
3452 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3453 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3454 . Second host accepts second address.
3455 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3456 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3457 address.
7e8bec7a 3458
c688b954
PH
3459PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3460 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3461 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3462 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3463 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3464
fed77020
PH
3465PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3466 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3467
7fe1560f
PH
3468PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3469 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3470
ebb6e6d5
PH
3471PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3472 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3473 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3474
9c4e8f60
PH
3475PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3476 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3477 overlooked.
3478
3479PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3480
d7174846
PH
3481PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3482 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3483 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3484 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3485 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3486 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3487 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3488
3489 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3490 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3491 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3492 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3493 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3494
3495 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3496 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3497 routed further.
3498
cfe75fc3
PH
3499PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3500 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3501 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3502 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3503 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3504 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3505
be22d70e
PH
3506PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3507
0612b098
PH
3508PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3509 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3510 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3511 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3512 printable escape sequences.
3513
2e0c1448
PH
3514PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3515 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3516 body only.
3517
447d236c
PH
3518PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3519 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3520 are as follows:
3521
3522 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3523 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3524 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3525 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3526 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3527
3528 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3529 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3530 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3531
d20976dc
PH
3532PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3533
f656d135
PH
3534PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3535 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3536 play with."
3537
2e2a30b4
PH
3538PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3539 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3540 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3541 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3542 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3543 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3544 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3545 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3546 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3547 the log output.
3548
9176e9f0
PH
3549PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3550 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3551 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3552 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3553 "make".
3554
7982096b 3555
bbe902f0
PH
3556A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3557----------------------------------------
3558
3559Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3560changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3561needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3562in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3563that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3564release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3565from 4.43.
3566
3567I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35684.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3569those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3570historical information.
3571
3572
f7b63901 3573Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3574-----------------
3575
5fe762f6
PH
3576 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3577
139059f6 3578 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3579 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3580
7086e875
PH
3581 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3582 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3583 place.
3584
35af9f61
PH
3585 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3586 filter fails to execute.
3587
b668c215
PH
3588 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3589 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3590 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3591 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3592 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3593
a494b1e1
PH
3594 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3595
3596 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3597 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3598 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3599 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3600
c5fcb476
PH
3601 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3602 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3603 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3604 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3605 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3606
69358f02
PH
3607 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3608
5be20824
PH
360910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3610
eb2c0248
PH
361111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3612 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3613 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3614 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3615
2a3eea10
PH
361612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3617 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3618 sender verification.
3619
362013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3621 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3622
23c7ff99
PH
362314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3624
4deaf07d
PH
362515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3626 connection timeout.
3627
926e1192
PH
362816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3629 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3630
650edc6f
PH
363117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3632 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3633
2c7db3f5
PH
363418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3635 information about exactly what failed.
3636
3d235903
PH
363719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3638
7c7ad977
PH
363920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3640 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3641 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3642
981756db
PH
364321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3644 It is now set to "smtps".
3645
d4eb88df
PH
364622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3647 ignore_target_hosts.
3648
364923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3650 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3651 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3652 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3653 "[x.x.x.x]".
3654
7d468ab8
PH
365524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3656 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3657 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3658
365925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3660 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3661 wake it up if nothing else does.
3662
62c0818f
PH
366326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3664 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3665 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3666 end up negative.
3667
26034054
PH
366827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3669 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3670
af66f652
PH
367128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3672
90af77f4
PH
367329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3674 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3675 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3676 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3677 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3678 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3679 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3680 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3681
d8ef3577
PH
368230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3683 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3684 than one IP address.
3685
5cb8cbc6
PH
368631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3687 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3688 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3689 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3690
14702f5b
PH
369132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3692 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3693 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3694 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3695 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3696 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3697
063b1e99
PH
369833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3699 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3700 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3701 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3702
652e1b65
PH
370334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3704 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3705 respected.
3706
6f0c9a4f
PH
370735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3708 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3709 $sender_host_address.
3710
33397d19
PH
371136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3712 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3713 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3714 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3715 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3716 very small.
3717
7bb56e1f
PH
371837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3719
3720 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3721 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3722
ea3bc19b
PH
3723 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3724 just the host names, not the priorities.
3725
3726 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3727 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3728 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3729
ea3bc19b 3730 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3731 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3732
0bcb2a0e
PH
373338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3734 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3735 domain.
3736
2ac0e484
PH
373739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3738
4e1fde53
PH
373940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3740 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3741
de365ded
PH
374241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3743 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3744 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3745
f05da2e8
PH
374642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3747
d6453af2
PH
374843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3749
f7b63901
PH
375044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3751
375245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3753 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3754 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3755 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3756 because the tests only now provoked it.
3757
a444213a
PH
375846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3759 (this can affect the format of dates).
3760
0ec020ea
PH
376147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3762 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3763 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3764 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3765
b1206957
PH
376648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3767
376849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3769 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3770 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3771 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3772
26dd5a95
PH
377350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3774 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3775 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3776
343b2385
PH
377751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3778 autoreply.
3779
1c5466b9
PH
378052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3781 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3782 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3783 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3784 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3785 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3786 is going on).
3787
55ee9ee3
PH
378853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3789 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3790 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3791 the line.
3792
d38f8232
PH
379354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3794 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3795 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3796
3797 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3798 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3799 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3800 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3801 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3802 so I produce this patch..."
3803
3295e65b
PH
3804 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3805 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3806 is not defined.
3807
7102e136
PH
380855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3809 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3810 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3811 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3812 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3813
3ca0ba97
PH
381456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3815
c2bcbe20
PH
381657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3817 long debug lines gets shown.
3818
18ce445d
PH
381958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3820 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3821
1f5b4c3d
PH
382259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3823
3824 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3825 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3826 of $primary_hostname.
3827
b975ba52
PH
382860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3829 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3830 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3831 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3832 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3833 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3834 by change 4.50/55 above.
3835
3836 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3837 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3838 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3839 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3840 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3841 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3842 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3843
384461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3845 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3846 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3847 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3848
17ffcae7
PH
384962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3850 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3851
d95f9fdb
PH
385263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3853 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3854 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3855 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3856 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3857
86b8287f
PH
385864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3859 This has been fixed.
3860
60dc5e56
PH
386165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3862 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3863 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3864 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3865 the caching.)
3866
533244af
PH
386766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3868
a5a28604
PH
386967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3870 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3871 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3872 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3873
7e634d24
PH
387468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3875 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3876
3e11c26b
PH
387769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3878 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3879 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3880
6729cf78
PH
388170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3882 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3883 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3884 message there.
3885
00f00ca5
PH
388671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3887 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3888 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3889
c9bdd01c
PH
389072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3891 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3892 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3893 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3894
d43194df
PH
389573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3896 during host lookups.
3897
fe5b5d0b
PH
389874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3899 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3900
3901 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3902
76a2d7ba
PH
390375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3904 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3905 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3906 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3907 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3908 background.
3909
391076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3911 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3912
04f7d5b9
PH
391377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3914 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3915 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3916
bc60667e
PH
391778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3918
bb6e88ff
PH
391979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3920 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3921 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3922 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3923 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3924 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3925 process earlier.
3926
1e70f85b
PH
392780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3928 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3929 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3930 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3931 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3932
393381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3934 tables).
3935
4e01f9d6
PH
393682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3937
1ee1cef2
PH
393883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3939 "vacation" handling.
3940
6e2b4ccc
PH
394184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3942 OS variants using glibc.
3943
8e669ac1
PH
394485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3945
495ae4b0 3946
bbe902f0
PH
3947----------------------------------------------------
3948See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3949----------------------------------------------------
3950
3951
3952Exim version 4.44
3953-----------------
3954
3955 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3956 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3957 transport
3958
3959 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3960 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3961 place.
3962
3963 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3964 filter fails to execute.
3965
3966 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3967 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3968 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3969 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3970 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3971
3972 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3973 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3974 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3975 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3976
3977 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3978 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3979 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3980 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3981 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3982
3983 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3984
3985 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3986 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3987 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3988 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3989
3990 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3991 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3992 sender verification.
3993
399410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3995 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3996
399711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3998 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3999
400012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4001 ignore_target_hosts.
4002
400313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4004 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4005 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4006 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4007 "[x.x.x.x]".
4008
400914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4010 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4011 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4012
401315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4014 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4015 wake it up if nothing else does.
4016
401716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4018 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4019 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4020 end up negative.
4021
402217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4023 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4024
ea3a6f44 402518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4026
402719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4028 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4029 empty pattern.
4030
403120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4032 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4033 one IP address.
4034
ea3a6f44
NM
403521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4036 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4037 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4038 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4039 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4040 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4041
ea3a6f44
NM
404222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4043 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4044 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4045
404623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4047 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4048 $sender_host_address.
4049
405024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4051
ea3a6f44
NM
405225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4053 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4054 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4055
405626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4057 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4058
ea3a6f44
NM
405927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4060 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4061
ea3a6f44
NM
406228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4063 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4064 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4065 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4066
406729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4068 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4069 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4070
ea3a6f44
NM
407130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4072 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4073 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4074 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4075
ea3a6f44
NM
407631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4077 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4078 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4079
ea3a6f44
NM
408031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4081 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4082
ea3a6f44
NM
408332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4084 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4085 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4086 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4087 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4088 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4089 is going on).
bbe902f0 4090
ea3a6f44
NM
409133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4092 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4093 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4094 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4095 CAN-2005-0021
4096
ea3a6f44
NM
409734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4098 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4099 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4100 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4101 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4102 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4103 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4104
4105 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4106 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4107 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4108 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4109 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4110 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4111 CAN-2005-0021
4112
ea3a6f44
NM
411335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4114 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4115 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4116 CAN-2005-0022
4117
ea3a6f44
NM
411836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4119 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4120 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4121 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4122 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4123
ea3a6f44
NM
412437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4125 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4126 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4127 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4128 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4129
ea3a6f44
NM
413038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4131 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4132 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4133 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4134 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4135
4136
495ae4b0
PH
4137Exim version 4.43
4138-----------------
4139
4140 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4141 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4142 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4143 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4144 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4145 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4146 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4147
4148 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4149 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4150 the delivery.
4151
4152 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4153
4154 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4155
4156 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4157 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4158 to local_scan().
4159
4160 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4161 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4162 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4163 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4164 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4165
4166 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4167 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4168
4169 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4170
4171 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4172
417310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4174 header_sender only.
4175
417611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4177 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4178
417912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4180 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4181 affecting debugging statements).
4182
418313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4184
418514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4186 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4187 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4188 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4189 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4190 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4191 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4192 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4193 after the received time, and all would be well.
4194
419515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4196 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4197 condition in an expansion string.
4198
419916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4200
420117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4202 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4203 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4204 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4205 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4206 job under whatever limits there are.
4207
420818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4209
421019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4211 space).
4212
421320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4214 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4215 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4216 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4217 return path is set.
4218
421921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4220 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4221 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4222 binary data in such strings.
4223
422422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4225
422623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4227 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4228 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4229 failure, which is pointless.
4230
423124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4232
423325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4234
423526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4236 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4237 Sender: header lines.
4238
423927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4240 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4241 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4242
424328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4244 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4245 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4246 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4247 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4248 happens.
4249
425029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4251 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4252 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4253 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4254 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4255
425630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4257 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4258 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4259 1024.
4260
426131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4262 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4263
426432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4265 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4266
426733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4268
426932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4270
427133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4272
427334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4274 syntax error.
4275
427635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4277
427836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4279
428037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4281 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4282 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4283 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4284
428538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4286 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4287
4288
4289Exim version 4.42
4290-----------------
4291
4292 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4293 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4294 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4295 it was not quoted.
4296 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4297 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4298 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4299 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4300 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4301 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4302
4303 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4304 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4305 verification failure".
4306
4307 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4308 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4309 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4310 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4311
4312 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4313 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4314 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4315 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4316 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4317 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4318 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4319 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4320 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4321 treated as a timeout.
4322
4323 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4324 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4325 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4326 not set for Exim filters).
4327
4328 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4329 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4330 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4331
4332 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4333
4334 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4335 try to make them clearer.
4336
4337 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4338 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4339
4340 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4341
4342 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4343
434410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4345 only the Cygwin environment.
4346
434711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4348 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4349 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4350 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4351 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4352
435312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4354 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4355 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4356 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4357 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4358 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4359 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4360
436113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4362 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4363
436414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4365
4366 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4367 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4368 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4369
4370 To: susanne@some.where
4371
4372 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4373 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4374 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4375 of addresses in From: header lines).
4376
4377 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4378 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4379 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4380
4381 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4382 treated as non-personal.
4383
4384 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4385 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4386
438715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4388
438916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4390
439117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4392 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4393 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4394
439518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4396 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4397
439819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4399 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4400 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4401 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4402 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4403 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4404
440520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4406 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4407 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4408 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4409 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4410 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4411 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4412 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4413
4414 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4415
441621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4417 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4418
441922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4420 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4421 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4422
442323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4424 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4425
442624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4427 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4428 rather than long int.
4429
443025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4431
443226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4433
4434
4435Exim version 4.41
4436-----------------
4437
4438 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4439 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4440 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4441 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4442 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4443 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4444
4445
4446Exim version 4.40
4447-----------------
4448
4449 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4450 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4451
4452 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4453 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4454 socklen_t is defined.
4455
4456 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4457 always exist.
4458
4459 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4460 configured.
4461
4462 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4463 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4464 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4465 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4466 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4467
4468 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4469 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4470 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4471 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4472
4473 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4474 of flapping under certain conditions.
4475
4476 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4477 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4478 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4479
4480 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4481
448210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4483
448411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4485 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4486 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4487 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4488
448912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4490 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4491 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4492 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4493 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4494 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4495 preserved with the message after it was received.
4496
449713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4498 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4499 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4500 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4501 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4502 test suite worked just fine.
4503
450414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4505 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4506 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4507
450815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4509 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4510 string.
4511
451216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4513 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4514 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4515 does not fully solve it.
4516
451717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4518 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4519 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4520 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4521 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4522
452318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4524 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4525 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4526
452719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4528 string, for example:
4529
4530 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4531
4532 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4533 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4534 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4535 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4536 the routers could not see them.
4537
453820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4539 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4540
454121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4542 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4543 output).
4544
454522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4546 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4547 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4548 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4549 that needed quoting.
4550
455123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4552 was not being matched caselessly.
4553
455424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4555 backslashes.
4556
455725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4558 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4559 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4560 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4561 when use_sender is false.
4562
456326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4564
456527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4566
456728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4568
456929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4570 the configuration file.
4571
457230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4573 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4574
457531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4576
457732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4578 bytes in the message body.
4579
458033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4581 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4582 delivery.
4583
458434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4585
458635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4587
458836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4589 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4590 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4591 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4592 another IP address.
4593
4594
4595Exim version 4.34
4596-----------------
4597
4598 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4599 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4600
4601 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4602 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4603 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4604 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4605 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4606
4607 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4608 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4609
4610 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4611 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4612 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4613
4614 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4615 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4616 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4617
4618 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4619 for routers.
4620
4621 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4622 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4623 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4624 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4625 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4626 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4627 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4628
4629
4630Exim version 4.33
4631-----------------
4632
4633 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4634 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4635 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4636 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4637 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4638 default (and expected) setting.
4639
4640 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4641 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4642 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4643 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4644
4645 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4646 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4647
4648 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4649 in domain lists.
4650
4651 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4652 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4653 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4654 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4655 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4656 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4657
4658 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4659 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4660 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4661
4662 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4663 part (NOT match_host).
4664
4665 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4666
4667 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4668 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4669 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4670 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4671 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4672 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4673 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4674 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4675 the same named file.
4676
467710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4678 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4679 when Exim is built.
4680
468111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4682 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4683 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4684 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4685 a host name.
4686
468712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4688 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4689 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4690
469113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4692
469314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4694
469515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4696
469716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4698 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4699
470017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4701 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4702 before starting the TLS session.
4703
470418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4705
470619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4707 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4708
470920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4710 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4711 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4712 colon in the middle).
4713
4714
4715Exim version 4.32
4716-----------------
4717
4718 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4719 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4720 multiple configurations are in use.
4721
4722 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4723 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4724 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4725 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4726 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4727 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4728
4729 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4730 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4731
4732 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4733 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4734 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4735
4736 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4737 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4738 occurs.
4739
4740 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4741 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4742
4743 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4744
4745 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4746 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4747
4748 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4749
4750 -prval:sval
4751
4752 is equivalent to
4753
4754 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4755
4756 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4757 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4758 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4759 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4760 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4761
476210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4763 Exim's behaviour:
4764
4765 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4766 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4767 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4768 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4769 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4770 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4771
4772 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4773 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4774 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4775 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4776 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4777 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4778 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4779 string.
4780
4781 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4782 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4783 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4784 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4785 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4786
478711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4788
478912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4790 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4791 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4792
479313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4794
479514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4796 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4797 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4798 information.
4799
480015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4801 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4802
480316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4804 Three changes have been made:
4805
4806 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4807 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4808 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4809 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4810 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4811
4812 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4813 been restored.
4814
4815 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4816 the modified behaviour.
4817
4818
4819Exim version 4.31
4820-----------------
4821
4822 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4823 Larry Rosenman.
4824
4825 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4826 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4827
4828 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4829 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4830 try to track down a specific problem.
4831
4832 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4833 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4834 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4835
4836 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4837 warning.
4838
4839 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4840 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4841 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4842 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4843 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4844 some earlier ones do not.
4845
4846 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4847
4848 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4849 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4850 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4851 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4852 address literals are enabled, of course).
4853
4854 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4855
485610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4857 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4858 by a command such as
4859
4860 exim -f "" ...
4861
4862 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4863
486411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4865
486612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4867 remained set. It is now erased.
4868
486913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4870 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4871
487214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4873 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4874 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4875 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4876 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4877 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4878 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4879 appropriate error code.
4880
488115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4882 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4883 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4884 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4885 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4886 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4887
488816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4889 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4890 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4891
489217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4893 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4894 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4895 terminate the header.
4896
489718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4898 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4899 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4900
490119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4902 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4903 (4.30/29). In particular:
4904
4905 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4906 imposed.
4907
4908 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4909 to write a maildirsize file.
4910
4911 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4912 the transport, the new value overrides.
4913
4914 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4915 count.
4916
491720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4918 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4919 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4920 space or a tab.
4921
492221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4923 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4924 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4925 the fallback hosts.
4926
492722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4928 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4929 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4930
493123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4932 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4933 using a union.
4934
493524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4936 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4937 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4938
493925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4940
494126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4942
494327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4944
494528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4946 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4947 become corrupted.
4948
494929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4950 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4951 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4952 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4953 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4954 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4955 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4956 too great.
4957
495830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4959 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4960 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4961 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4962 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4963 incorrectly.
4964
496531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4966 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4967 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4968 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4969 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4970 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4971 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4972 cached value only when the same options are set.
4973
497432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4975
497633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4977 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4978 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4979 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4980 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4981
498234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4983 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4984 it is clearly obsolete.
4985
498635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4987 transport.
4988
498936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4990 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4991 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4992 times.
4993
499437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4995 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4996 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4997 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4998 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4999
500038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5001 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5002 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5003 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5004
500539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5006
5007 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5008
5009 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5010 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5011 2^31.
5012
501340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5014 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5015 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5016 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5017 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5018 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5019 $localpart_data.
5020
502141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5022 with the -f command-line option.
5023
502442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5025 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5026 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5027 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5028 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5029 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5030
503143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5032 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5033 line.
5034
503544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5036 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5037 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5038 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5039 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5040 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5041 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5042 buffer is too small.
5043
504445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5045 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5046
504746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5048 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5049 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5050 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5051 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5052 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5053 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5054 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5055 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5056
505747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5058 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5059 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5060
506148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5062 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5063 ACL").
5064
506549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5066 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5067 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5068 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5069 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5070
507150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5072 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5073 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5074 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5075 is set.
5076
507751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5078
507952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5080
508153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5082 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5083
508454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5085 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5086 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5087
508855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5089 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5090 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5091 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5092 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5093
509456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5095 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5096 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5097 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5098 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5099 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5100 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5101
510257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5103 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5104 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5105 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5106 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5107 the test of how many are available.
5108
510958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5110 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5111 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5112 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5113 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5114 new message is started.
5115
511659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5117 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5118
511960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5120 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5121
512261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5123 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5124 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5125 is no long logged.
5126
512762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5128 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5129 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5130 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5131 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5132 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5133 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5134
513563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5136 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5137 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5138 interpreted as octal.
5139
514064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5141 setting.
5142
514365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5144 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5145 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5146 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5147 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5148 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5149
515066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5151 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5152 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5153 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5154
5155 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5156 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5157 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5158 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5159
5160 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5161 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5162 is a bug fix.
5163
5164 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5165 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5166
516767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5168
516968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5170 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5171 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5172 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5173
517469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5175 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5176 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5177 supplied", which is not helpful.
5178
517970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5180 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5181 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5182
518371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5184 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5185 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5186 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5187 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5188 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5189 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5190 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5191
519272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5193 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5194 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5195 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5196 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5197
519873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5199 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5200 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5201 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5202 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5203 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5204
520574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5206 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5207 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5208
520975. Added write_rejectlog option.
5210
521176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5212 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5213 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5214 variables.
5215
521677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5217
521878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5219 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5220 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5221 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5222 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5223 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5224 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5225 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5226
522779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5228 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5229 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5230 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5231 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5232
523380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5234 Haardt.
5235
523681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5237 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5238 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5239 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5240 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5241 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5242 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5243 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5244 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5245
5246
5247Exim version 4.30
5248-----------------
5249
5250 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5251 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5252 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5253
5254 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5255 fixed.
5256
5257 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5258 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5259 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5260
5261 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5262 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5263 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5264 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5265 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5266 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5267
5268 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5269 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5270 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5271 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5272 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5273 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5274 the Exim test suite.
5275
5276 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5277 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5278 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5279 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5280
5281 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5282 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5283 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5284 specify it in this variable.
5285
5286 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5287 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5288 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5289 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5290
5291 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5292 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5293 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5294 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5295
5296 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5297 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5298 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5299 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5300 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5301
5302 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5303
530410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5305 they are logged.
5306
530711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5308 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5309 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5310 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5311 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5312
531312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5314 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5315
531613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5317 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5318 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5319 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5320 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5321
532214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5323 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5324
532515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5326 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5327 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5328
532916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5330 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5331
533217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5333 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5334
533518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5336 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5337 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5338
533919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5340 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5341
534220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5343 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5344 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5345 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5346
534721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5348
534922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5350 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5351 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5352 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5353
535423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5355
535624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5357 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5358
535925. Added .include_if_exists.
5360
536126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5362 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5363 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5364 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5365 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5366 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5367
536827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5369
537028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5371 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5372 this.
5373
537429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5375
537630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5377 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5378
5379 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5380 550 Sender verify failed
5381
5382 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5383 the final line of the response.
5384
538531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5386 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5387 all other user lookups.
5388
538932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5390 delivery time.
5391
539233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5393 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5394 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5395 result into an int without checking.
5396
539734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5398 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5399 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5400
540135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5402 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5403 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5404 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5405
540636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5407 correctly.
5408
540937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5410 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5411
541238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5413 to the empty sender.
5414
541539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5416 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5417 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5418 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5419 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5420 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5421 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5422 panic log.
5423
542440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5425 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5426 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5427 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5428 used.
5429
543041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5431 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5432
543342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5434 timestamps.
5435
543643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5437 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5438
543944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5440
544145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5442 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5443 logs.
5444
544546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5446 as soon as it is encountered.
5447
544847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5449
545048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5451 rewritten to "<>".
5452
545349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5454 recognizes a tab character.
5455
545650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5457 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5458 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5459 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5460
546151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5462
546352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5464 crash.
5465
546653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5467
546854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5469
547055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5471 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5472 2822.
5473
547456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5475 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5476 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5477 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5478 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5479
548057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5481 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5482
548358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5484 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5485 list (.included file names were always shown).
5486
548759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5488 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5489 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5490 root at that time.
5491
549260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5493 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5494
549561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5496
549762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5498
549963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5500
550164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5502 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5503 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5504 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5505 failures to open the logs.
5506
550765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5508 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5509 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5510 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5511 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5512 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5513 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5514
5515
5516Exim version 4.24
5517-----------------
5518
5519 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5520 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5521 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5522 change 4.23/1.
5523
5524 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5525 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5526 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5527
5528 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5529 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5530 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5531
5532 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5533 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5534 causing some misleading effects.
5535
5536 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5537 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5538 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5539
5540 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5541 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5542 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5543 queue-runner function directly.
5544
5545
5546Exim version 4.23
5547-----------------
5548
5549 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5550 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5551
5552 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5553 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5554 was always written to the default place.
5555
5556 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5557 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5558 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5559
5560 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5561
5562 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5563
5564 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5565 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5566 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5567
5568 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5569 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5570 must start.
5571
5572 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5573 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5574 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5575
5576 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5577 command line option is disabled.
5578
5579 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5580 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5581
5582 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5583
5584 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5585
5586 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5587 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5588
558910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5590
559111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5592 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5593 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5594 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5595 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5596 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5597
559812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5599 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5600 timeout.
5601
560213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5603 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5604
560514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5606 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5607
560815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5609 received was valid base64.
5610
561116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5612 name of the variable that was being set.
5613
561417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5615
561618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5617 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5618 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5619 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5620 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5621 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5622
562319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5624
562520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5626 nor realm was specified.
5627
562821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5629 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5630 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5631 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5632
563322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5634 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5635 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5636
563723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5638 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5639 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5640
564124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5642 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5643 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5644 some systems use these upper case variants.
5645
564625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5647 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5648 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5649 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5650
565126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5652
565327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5654 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5655
565628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5657 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5658 expansion variable.
5659
566029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5661
566230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5663 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5664 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5665 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5666
566731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5668 using it.
5669
567032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5671 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5672 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5673
567433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5675 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5676
567734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5678 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5679 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5680 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5681
568235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5683 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5684 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5685
568636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5687
568837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5689 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5690 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5691 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5692 aborted.
5693
569438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5695 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5696 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5697
569839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5699
570040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5701 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5702
570341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5704 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5705
570642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5707 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5708 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5709 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5710 when emails are that large.
5711
5712
5713
5714Exim version 4.22
5715-----------------
5716
5717 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5718 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5719
5720 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5721 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5722 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5723
5724 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5725 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5726 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5727
5728 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5729 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5730 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5731 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5732 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5733
5734 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5735 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5736 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5737 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5738 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5739 ever.
5740
5741 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5742 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5743 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5744 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5745 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5746 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5747 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5748 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5749 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5750 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5751 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5752 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5753 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5754 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5755
5756 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5757 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5758 parameterised it.
5759
5760 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5761 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5762 error should be diagnosed.
5763
5764 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5765 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5766 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5767 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5768 appeared instead of "NULL".
5769
577010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5771 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5772 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5773 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5774 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5775 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5776 proceeds).
5777
5778 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5779 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5780 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5781
5782
5783Exim version 4.21
5784-----------------
5785
5786 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5787 or receiver verification errors.
5788
5789 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5790 name.
5791
5792 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5793 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5794 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5795 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5796
5797 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5798 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5799 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5800 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5801 shouldn't happen again.
5802
5803 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5804 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5805 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5806
5807 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5808 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5809
5810 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5811
5812 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5813 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5814
5815 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5816 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5817 RFC.
5818
581910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5820 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5821 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5822
582311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5824 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5825 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5826 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5827
582812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5829 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5830 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5831 to define what should happen).
5832
583313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5834 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5835 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5836
583714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5838
583915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5840
584116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5842 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5843
584417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5845 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5846 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5847 structure in all cases.
5848
5849 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5850 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5851 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5852 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5853
585418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5855 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5856 domain name.
5857
585819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5859 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5860
586120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5862 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5863
586421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5865 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5866 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5867
586822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5869 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5870 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5871
587223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5873 the book and for uniformity.
5874
587524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5876
587725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5878 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5879 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5880 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5881 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5882 non-existent command as the problem.
5883
588426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5885 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5886 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5887
588827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5889
589028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5891 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5892 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5893
589429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5895 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5896 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5897 timestamps using strftime().
5898
589930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5900 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5901
590232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5903 transport-time rewrites.
5904
590533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5906 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5907 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5908 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5909
591034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5911 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5912
591335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5914 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5915 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5916 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5917 comma and a space.
5918
591936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5920 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5921 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5922 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5923 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5924 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5925 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5926
592737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5928 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5929 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5930 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5931 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5932
593338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5934 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5935 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5936 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5937 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5938 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5939 remaining text gets split now.
5940
594139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5942 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5943 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5944 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5945
594640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5947 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5948 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5949 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5950 $return_path.
5951
595241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5953 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5954 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5955 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5956 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5957 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5958 passed through if needed.
5959
596042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5961 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5962 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5963 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5964 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5965 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5966
596743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5968 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5969 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5970 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5971 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5972
597344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5974 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5975 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5976 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5977 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5978
597945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5980 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5981 noticed.
5982
598346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5984 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5985 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5986 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5987 mayhem of various kinds.
5988
598947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5990 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5991 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5992 the right test for positive values.
5993
599448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5995 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5996 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5997 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5998 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5999 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6000 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6001 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6002 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6003 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6004 envelope.
6005
600649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6007 module.
6008
600950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6010 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6011 forbidding it.
6012
601351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6014 the existing equality matching.
6015
601652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6017 dealing with inode numbers.
6018
601953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6020 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6021 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6022
602354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6024 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6025 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6026 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6027 local_scan().
6028
602955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6030 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6031 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6032 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6033 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6034 relay addresses has also been removed.
6035
603656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6037
603857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6039 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6040 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6041
604258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6043 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6044 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6045 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6046 processing applies to CR:
6047
6048 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6049 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6050
6051 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6052 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6053 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6054 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6055
605659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6057 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6058 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6059
606060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6061 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6062 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6063 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6064 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6065 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6066 arisen.
6067
606861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6069 program routers.
6070
607162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6072 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6073 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6074 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6075 adds:
6076
6077 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6078
6079 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6080
6081 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6082
608363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6084 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6085 not considered personal.
6086
608764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6088
608965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6090
609166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6092
609367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6094 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6095 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6096 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6097 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6098 header lines, and spool format errors.
6099
610068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6101 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6102 for more flexibility.
6103
610469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6105 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6106 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6107
610870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6109 Sabourenkov.
6110
611171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6112 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6113 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6114 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6115 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6116 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6117 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6118 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6119 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6120
612172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6122 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6123 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6124 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6125 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6126 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6127 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6128
612973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6130 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6131 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6132
613374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6134 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6135 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6136 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6137 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6138 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6139 instead of killing the process with assert().
6140
614175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6142 than Unicode encoding.
6143
614476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6145 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6146 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6147 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6148
614977. Added process_log_path.
6150
615178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6152 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6153
615479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6155 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6156
615780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6158 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6159 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6160
616181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6162 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6163 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6164 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6165 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6166 were applied:
6167
6168 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6169 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6170 as invalid.
6171
617282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6173 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6174 they will be used during message reception.
6175
6176
6177Exim version 4.20
6178-----------------
6179
6180The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6181
6182****