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9TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
10 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
11 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
12 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
13 these files.
14
15TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
16 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
17 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
18
19TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
20 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
21 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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23TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
24 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
25 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
26 in the field name.
27
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28PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
29 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
30 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
31 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
32 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
33 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
34 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
35 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
36 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
37 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
38 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
39
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40PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
41 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
42
43PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
44 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
45 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
46 ignores EPIPE as well.
47
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48PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
49 (quoted-printable decoding).
50
cc2ed8f7 51PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 52 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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54PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
55
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56PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
57
58PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
59
38a0a95f 60PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 61 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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63JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
64 in 4.64-PH/09.
65
66JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
67 miscellaneous code fixes
68
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69PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
70 rejections.
71
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72PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
73 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
74 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
75 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
76 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
77 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
78 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
79 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 81PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 82 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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83 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
84 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
85 function.
86 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
87 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
88 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
89 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
90 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
91 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
92 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
93 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
94 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
95
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96PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
97 decoding.
98
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99PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
100 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
101 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
102 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
103 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
104 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
105 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
106 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
107
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108PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
109 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
110 list.
111
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112PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
113 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
114 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
115 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
116 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
117 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
118 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
119 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
120 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
121 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
122 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
123 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
124 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
125
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126PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
127 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
128 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
129 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
130 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
131 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
132 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
133
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134PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
135 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
136 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
137 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
138 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
139 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
140 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
141 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
142 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
143 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
144
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145PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
146 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
147 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
148 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
149 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
150
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151PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
152 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
153 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
154 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
155 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
156 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
157 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
158
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159PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
160 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
161 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
162 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
163 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
164 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
165 been verified.
166
48da4259 167PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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168 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
169 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
170 and authorization.)
171
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172PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
173 if any retry times were supplied.
174
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175PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
176 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
177 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
178
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179PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
180
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181PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
182
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183PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
184 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
185 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
186 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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187 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
188 before) are ignored.
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190PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
191 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
192
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193PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
194 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
195 committing the later change.]
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197PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
198 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
199 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
200 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
201 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
202 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
203 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
204 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
205 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
206
207 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
208 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
209 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
210 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
211 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
212 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
213 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
214 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
215 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
216
217 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
218 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
219 hammering the server.
220
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221PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
222 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
223
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224PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
225
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226PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
227 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
228 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
229
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230PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
231 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
232 one case where this was not true.
233
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234PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
235 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
236 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
237 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
238 fails.
239
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240PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
241 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
242 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
243 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
244 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
245 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
246 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
247 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
248 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
249 smtp transport.
250
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251PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
252 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
253 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
254 same for both kinds of LMTP.
255
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256PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
257 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
258
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259PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
260 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
261 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
262
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263PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
264
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265PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
266
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267PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
268
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269PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
270 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
271 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
272 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
273
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274PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
275 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
276
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277PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
278 be meaningful with "accept".
279
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280SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
281 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
282
283SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
284 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
285 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
286
287SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
288 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
289 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
290 there is data to show.
291 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
292
293SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
294 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
295 as well as the number of messages.
296
297SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
298 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
299 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
300
301SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
302 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
303 have a flag are now skipped.
304
305SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
306 Added the -emptyok flag.
307
308SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
309 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
310
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311JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
312 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
313 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
314
315JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
316 match 4.64-PH/13
317
318JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
319 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
320
321JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
322
323JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
324 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
325
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326PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
327
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328PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
329 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
330 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
331 contravention of the specifications.
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339SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
340 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
341
342SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
343 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
344 there is data to show.
345 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
346
347SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
348 as the number of messages in eximstats.
349
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350TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
351 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 352
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353TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
354 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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356TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
357 submissions from trusted users.
358
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359TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
360 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
361
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362TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
363 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
364 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
365 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
366 there is now a framework to start from.
367
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368PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
369 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
370 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
371
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372PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
373
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374PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
375
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376PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
377
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378PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
379 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
380 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
381
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382PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
383 libradius.
384
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385PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
386 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
387 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
388
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389PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
390 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
391 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
392 its arguments.
393
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394PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
395 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
396 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
397 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
398 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
399
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400PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
401 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
402
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403PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
404
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405PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
406 operations in malware.c.
407
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408PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
409 signatures.
410
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411PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
412 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
413 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
414 all.
415
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416PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
417 statements to "add_header".
418
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419PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
420 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
421
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422PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
423 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
424 latter.
425
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427 so that it is now:
428
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429 ${if or { \
430 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
431 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
432 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
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433 }{no}{yes}}
434
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435 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
436 don't think Precedence: ever was.
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438PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
439 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
440
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441PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
442 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
443 any possible encoding problems.
444
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445PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
446 but not after initializing Perl.
447
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448PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
449 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
450 apparently, which is not desirable.
451
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452PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
453 queries.
454
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455JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
456 --not options
457
458JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
459
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460PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
461 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
462 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
463 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
464
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465PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
466 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
467 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
468
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469PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
470 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
471 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
472 0.12.
473
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474PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
475 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
476 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
477 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
478 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
479
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483
484TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
485 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
486
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487PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
488 patch).
489
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490PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
491 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
492 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
493 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
494 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
495 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
496 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
497 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
498 451 error is used.
499
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500PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
501
dd16e114
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502PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
503 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
504 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
505
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506PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
507 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
508 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
509 odd errors.
510
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511PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
512 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
513
7e9f683d
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514PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
515 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
516 option (which defaults to 0600).
517
bfad5236
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518PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
519
01c490df
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520PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
521 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
522 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
523 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
524 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
525 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
526 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
527
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528PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
529
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531Exim version 4.61
532-----------------
533
534PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
535 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
536 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
537 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
538 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
539 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
540 addresses as local.
541
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542PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
543 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
544
7e66e54d
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545PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
546
c8ea1597
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547PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
548 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
549 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
550 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
551 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
552 grumble.
553
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554PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
555 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
556
47ca6d6c
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557PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
558 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
559 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
560 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
561 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
562
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563PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
564 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
565 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
566 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
567
eff37e47
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568PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
569 be the same on different OS.
570
1921d2ea
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571PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
572 testing.
573
b3f69ca8
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574JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
575 whether --show-vars was specified or not
576
577JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
578 in 4.61-PH/06
579
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580PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
581 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
582 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
583 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
584 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
585 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
586 bounce message.
587
7a100415
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588PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
589 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
590 when Exim was called.
591
19b9dc85
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592PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
593 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
594
309bd837
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595PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
596 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
597 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
598 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
599
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600PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
601 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
602 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
603 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
604 changes:
605
606 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
607 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
608 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
609
610 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
611 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
612 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
613
9edc04ce
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614PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
615 feature).
616
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617PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
618 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
619 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
620 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
621 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
622 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
623 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
624 values from the SRV records were lost.
625
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626PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
627 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
628 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
629
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630PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
631 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
632 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
633
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634PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
635 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
636 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
637 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
638 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
639 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
640 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
641 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
642 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 643 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 644
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645PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
646 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
647 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
648
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649PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
650 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
651
652PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
653 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
654 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
655 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
656 is given.
657
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658PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
659 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
660 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
661
662PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
663 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
664 PH/23 above applies.
665
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666PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
667 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
668 (for which there is an explicit test).
669
6a3f1455
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670PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
671
dac79d3e
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672PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
673 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
674 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
675 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
676 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 677
5977a0b3
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678PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
679 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
680 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
681 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
682
c91535f3
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683PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
684 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
685 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
686
0d46a8c8
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687PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
688
278c6e6c
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689PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
690
2cbb4081
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691PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
692 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
693 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
694
3eef829e
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695PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
696 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
697 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
698 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
699 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
700
1ab95fa6
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701PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
702 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
703 the message gets confusing).
704
230205fc
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705PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
706 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
707 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
708 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
709
75e0e026
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710PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
711 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
712 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
713 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
714 same order.
715
716PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
717 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
718 the different processes.
719
145396a6
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720PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
721
3cd34f13
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722PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
723
11121d3d
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724JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
725 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
726
727JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
728 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
729
730JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
731 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
732 messages matching specified criteria.
733
8def5aaf
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734PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
735
929ba01c
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736PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
737 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
738
2632889e
PH
739PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
740 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
741 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
742 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
743 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
744 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
745 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
746 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
747 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
748 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
749
944a9c55
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750PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
751 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
752 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
753
4a23603b
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754PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
755
4730f942
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756PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
757 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
758 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
759 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
760 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
761 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
762 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
763 the variable.
764
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765PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
766 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
767
382afc6b
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768PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
769
a86229cf
PH
770PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
771
50c99ba6
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772PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
773
d35e429d
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774PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
775 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
776 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
777 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
778 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
779 size of the count of files.
780
f90d018c
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781PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
782
75def545
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783PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
784 used in LMTP mode:
785
786 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
787 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
788 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
789 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
790
791 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
792 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
793 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
794
795PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
796 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
797 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
798 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
799 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
800
c46782ef
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801PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
802 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
803
71fafd95
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804PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
805 will now be deprecated.
806
2c5db4fd
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807PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
808
9cf6b11a
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809JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
810 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
811 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
812
813JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
814 with very large, slow to parse queues
815
816JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
817
818JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
819
898d150f
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820PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
821 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
822 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
823 SMTP output lines.
824
46218253
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825PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
826 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
827 Sieve code now uses this.
828
e97957bc
PH
829PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
830 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
831
81e509d7
PH
832PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
833 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
834
3d240ff7
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835PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
836
b37c4101
PH
837PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
838 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
839 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
840 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
841 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
842
79378e0f
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843PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
844 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
845 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
846 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
847
e49c7bb4
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848PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
849
d114ec46
PH
850PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
851
f3d7df6c
PH
852PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
853 is preferred over IPv4.
854
715ab376
PH
855PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
856 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
857 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
858 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
859 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
860 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
861 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
862
6b31b150
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863PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
864 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
865 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
866
867PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
868
d515a917
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869PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
870 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
871 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
872 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
873 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
874 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
875 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
876 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
877 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
878 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
879 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
880
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881PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
882 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
883 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
884
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888
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889PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
890
891 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
892 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
893
894 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
895 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
896 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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898PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
899
900 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
901 not a single digit.
902
903 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
904 string.
905
906 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
907 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
908 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
909 silly things.
910
911 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
912 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
913
914 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
915 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 916
cb741023
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917PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
918 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
919 "/bin:/usr/bin".
920
f174f16e
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921PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
922 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 923
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924PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
925 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
926
927 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
928
929 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
930 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
931 this:
932
933 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
934
82c19f95
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935PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
936 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
937 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
938 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
939 identical. For example:
940
941 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
942
943 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
944 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
945 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
946
d7ffbc12
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947PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
948 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
949 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
950 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
951
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952PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
953 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
954 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
955 message.
956
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957PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
958
959 o fixes some comments
960 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
961 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
962 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
963 and documents the missing references header update
964
965 and most important:
966
967 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
968 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
969 result)
970
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971PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
972 Electronic Mail") by including:
973
974 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
975
976 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
977 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
978 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
979 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
980 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
981
982 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
983
984 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
985
986 The auto-replied keyword:
987
988 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
989 message by an automatic process,
990
991 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
992
993 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
994 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
995
996 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
997 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
998 other messages.
999
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1000PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1001 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1002
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1003PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1004
eba0c039
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1005PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1006 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1007 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1008
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1009PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1010 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1011 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1012
f0917727
PH
1013PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1014 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1015 and treats the condition as false.
1016
096fee00
PH
1017PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1018
024bd3c2
PH
1019PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1020 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1021 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1022 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1023 not changing the active code.
1024
1025 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1026 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1027
1028 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1029 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1030
df199fec
PH
1031PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1032 (Bugzilla #53).
1033
d27f1df3
PH
1034PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1035 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1036 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1037 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1038 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1039 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1040 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1041 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1042 the text comparison.
1043
96776534
PH
1044PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1045 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1046 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1047 The same fix has been applied.
1048
5de37277 1049
9a799bc0
PH
1050Exim version 4.54
1051-----------------
1052
1053PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1054 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1055 It now does.
1056
99a4b039
PH
1057PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1058 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1059
1060PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1061
4b233853
PH
1062PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1063 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1064 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1065 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1066 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1067
8857ccfd
PH
1068TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1069 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1070 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1071 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1072 or /domain=).
1073
433a2980
PH
1074PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1075 testing suite.
1076
3e46c1aa 1077
9a799bc0 1078
e3a311ba
TK
1079Exim version 4.53
1080-----------------
1081
1082TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1083 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1084
13b685f9
PH
1085PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1086
395ff96d
PH
1087PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1088
5b68f6e4
PH
1089PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1090 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1091 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1092
1ab52c69
PH
1093PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1094 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1095 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1096
b07e6aa3
PH
1097PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1098 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1099 operating systems.
1100
254e032f
PH
1101PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1102 ${stat: expansion item.
1103
3af76a81
PH
1104PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1105 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1106
2548ba04
PH
1107PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1108 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1109 file for comments.
1110
b6c6011d
PH
1111PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1112
cf39cf57
PH
1113PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1114 setting.
1115
f1513293
PH
1116PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1117 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1118
727549a4
PH
1119TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1120
af46795e
PH
1121PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1122 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1123 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1124 the end of the subprocess.
1125
d7b47fd0
PH
1126PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1127 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1128 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1129 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1130 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1131
ee744174
JJ
1132JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1133
b582ab87
PH
1134TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1135
41a13e0a
PH
1136PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1137 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1138
f625cc5a
PH
1139PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1140
1141PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1142
21f7af35
PH
1143PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1144 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1145 HP-UX compiler.
1146
31480e42
PH
1147PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1148
2d280592
PH
1149PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1150 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1151 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1152
7cd1141b
PH
1153PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1154 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1155
1156PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1157 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1158
750af86e
PH
1159PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1160 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1161
1162 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1163 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1164
1165 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1166 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1167 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1168 contributed by a Radius user.
1169
1170PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1171 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1172
4304270b
TK
1173TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1174 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1175
750af86e
PH
1176PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1177 available.
1178
64ffc24f
PH
1179PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1180 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1181 received.
1182
5dd9625b
PH
1183PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1184 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1185 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1186 header lines when this was not necessary.
1187
5591031b
PH
1188PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1189
ba18e66a
PH
1190PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1191 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1192 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1193 exists".
1194
9cec981f
PH
1195PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1196 -bV or -d is used.
1197
aa2b5c79
PH
1198PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1199 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1200 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1201 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1202
48a53b7f
PH
1203PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1204
1c59d63b
PH
1205PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1206
671012da
TK
1207TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1208
1509d3a8
PH
1209PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1210
1211PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1212 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1213 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1214 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1215 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1216 settings.
1217
1218PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1219
2fe1a124
PH
1220PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1221 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1222 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1223 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1224 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1225 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1226 which is clearly wrong.
1227
8800895a
PH
1228PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1229
ccfdb010
PH
1230PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1231 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1232 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1233 subsequently added.
1234
1130bfb0
PH
1235PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1236 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1237
ebcb507f
PH
1238PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1239
c35e155c
PH
1240PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1241 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1242
95d1f782
PH
1243PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1244 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1245
fd6de02e
PH
1246PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1247 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1248
58de37c5
PH
1249PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1250 recipients, not senders.
1251
261cf466
TF
1252TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1253 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1254
3ee512ff
PH
1255PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1256
e08c430f
PH
1257PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1258
bef5a11f
PH
1259PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1260 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1261 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1262 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1263
7546de58
TF
1264TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1265
e5d5a95f
TF
1266TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1267 clock is set back in time.
1268
2e88a017
TF
1269TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1270 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1271
a5f65aa4
TF
1272TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1273 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1274
e7726cbf
PH
1275PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1276 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1277 (see PH/47 above).
1278
a7fdad5b
TF
1279TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1280 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1281 header rewrites.
1282
6af56900
PH
1283PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1284 type ("H").
1285
0925ede6
PH
1286PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1287
66afa403
TF
1288TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1289 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1290 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1291
0154e85a
TF
1292TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1293 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1294 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1295 helo verification defer as a failure.
1296
16f12c76
PH
1297PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1298 actual error message.
1299
bbe902f0 1300
e5a9dba6
PH
1301Exim version 4.52
1302-----------------
1303
1304TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1305
22c3b60b
PH
1306PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1307 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1308 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1309 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1310
06a9b4b5
PH
1311TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1312
c1ac6996
PH
1313PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1314 can still be requested.
1315
9c7a242c
PH
1316PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1317 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1318 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1319 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1320
87ba3f5f
PH
1321TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1322 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1323 circumstances, but probably never did.
1324
1325PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1326 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1327 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1328 in the header line.
1329
29aba418
TF
1330TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1331
fe0dab11
TF
1332TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1333 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1334
11d337a4
TK
1335TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1336
1337TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1338
415c8f3b
PH
1339PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1340 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1341 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1342 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1343 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1344 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1345
958541e9
PH
1346PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1347 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1348 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1349 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1350 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1351 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1352
c206415f
TK
1353TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1354 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1355
2a4be8f9
PH
1356PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1357 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1358
1cba11c5
SC
1359SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1360 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1361
1362SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1363
1364SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1365
1366SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1367
1368SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1369
1370SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1371
1372SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1373
1005d00e
TK
1374TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1375
1376TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1377 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1378 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1379
1380TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1381 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1382 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1383 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1384
9b4768fa
PH
1385PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1386 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1387 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1388
1389PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1390 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1391 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1392 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1393
0d7eb84a
PH
1394PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1395 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1396 to be made).
1397
1398PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1399 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1400 should work with maildirs and everything.
1401
40727bee
TK
1402TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1403 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1404
554d2369
TF
1405TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1406 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1407
1f922db1
PH
1408PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1409 function for BDB 4.3.
1410
ef213c3b
PH
1411PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1412
8ac170f3
PH
1413PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1414 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1415 involved.
1416
b1c749bb
PH
1417PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1418 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1419 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
1420 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1421 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1422 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1423
4aac9b49
PH
1424PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1425 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1426 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1427 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1428 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1429 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1430 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1431 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1432
294520c8
TK
1433TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1434 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1435 details.
1436
5bd022fe
PH
1437PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1438 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1439
90e9ce59
PH
1440PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1441 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1442 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1443 test. It is now used for both.
1444
5ea81592
PH
1445PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1446 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1447 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1448 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1449 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1450 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1451
c6c2dc1d
PH
1452PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1453 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1454 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1455 string_vformat().
1456
fffffe4c
PH
1457PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1458 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1459 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1460
9a26b6b2
PH
1461PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1462 experimental DomainKeys support:
1463
1464 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1465 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1466 the control was given.
1467
1468 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1469
4aee0225
PH
1470PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1471
32d668a5
PH
1472PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1473
8187c3f3
PH
1474PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1475 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1476 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1477 db.h files).
1478
ff790e47 1479PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
1480 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1481 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1482 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1483 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1484 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1485 course.
ff790e47 1486
5417f6d1
PH
1487PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1488 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1489 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1490 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1491 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1492 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1493
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1494PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1495 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1496 do -d+all out of habit.
1497
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1498PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1499 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1500 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1501
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1502PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1503 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1504 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1505 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1506 record types that Exim uses.
1507
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1508PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1509 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1510 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1511 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1512 non-existent file that was broken.
1513
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1514TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1515 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1516
1517TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1518 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1519 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1520
1521TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1522
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1523PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1524 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1525 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1526 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1527 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1528 same time.
1529
a388bce4
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1530SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1531 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1532 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1533 at a slight CPU cost.
1534
1535SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1536 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1537
1538SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1539 by Marc Sherman.
1540
0793e4ed
SC
1541SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1542
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1543PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1544 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1545
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1547Exim version 4.51
1548-----------------
1549
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1550TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1551 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1552
2f079f46 1553TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
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1554
1555TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1556
1557PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1558 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1559
1560PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1561 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1562 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1563 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1564 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1565 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1566 file.
1567
1568PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1569 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1570 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1571 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1572 these two options.
1573
1574PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1575 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1576 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1577 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1578 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1579 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1580 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1581 address.
1a46a8c5
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1582
1583PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1584 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1585
1586PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1587 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1588 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1589 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1590 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1591 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1592
1593PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1594 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1595 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1596 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1597
1598PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1599 Finch).
1600
1601PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1602 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1603
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1604PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1605 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1606 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1607 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1608 message.
49c2d5ea 1609
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PH
1610PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1611
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1612PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1613 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1614
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1615PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1616 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1617 to what was transported.)
1618
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1619TF/01 Added $received_time.
1620
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1621PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1622 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1623 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1624 spamd_address settings.
1625
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1626PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1627 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1628 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1629 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1630 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1631
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1632PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1633
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1634PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1635 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1636 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1637 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1638 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1639
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PH
1640PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1641 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1642
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1643PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1644 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1645 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1646 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1647 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1648 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1649 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1650 for failure.
1651
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1652PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1653 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1654 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1655 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1656 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1657 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1658 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1659 "input=".
1660
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1661PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1662
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1663PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1664 driver and ACL definitions.
1665
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1666PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1667 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1668
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PH
1669PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1670 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1671 understands it better than I do:
1672
1673 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1674 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1675
1676 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1677 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1678 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1679 => three warnings about OTP not working
1680 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1681
1682 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1683 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1684 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1685 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1686 for each call.)
1687 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1688 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1689
1690 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1691 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1692 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1693
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1694PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1695 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1696 specified.
1697
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1698PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1699 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1700 "Linux".
1701
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1702PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1703 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1704 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1705
1706 warn !verify = sender
1707 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1708
1709 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1710 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1711
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1712PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1713
1714 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1715 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1716
1717 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1718 nomenclature these days.)
1719
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1720PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1721 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1722
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1723PH/30 In these circumstances:
1724 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1725 . First host does not offer TLS;
1726 . First host accepts first address;
1727 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1728 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1729 . Second host accepts second address.
1730 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1731 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1732 address.
7e8bec7a 1733
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PH
1734PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1735 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1736 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1737 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1738 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1739
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1740PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1741 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1742
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1743PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1744 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1745
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1746PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1747 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1748 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1749
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1750PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1751 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1752 overlooked.
1753
1754PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1755
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PH
1756PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1757 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1758 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1759 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1760 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1761 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1762 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1763
1764 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1765 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1766 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1767 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1768 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1769
1770 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1771 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1772 routed further.
1773
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1774PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1775 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1776 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1777 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1778 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1779 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1780
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1781PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1782
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1783PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1784 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1785 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1786 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1787 printable escape sequences.
1788
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1789PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1790 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1791 body only.
1792
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1793PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1794 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1795 are as follows:
1796
1797 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1798 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1799 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1800 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1801 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1802
1803 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1804 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1805 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1806
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PH
1807PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1808
f656d135
PH
1809PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1810 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1811 play with."
1812
2e2a30b4
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1813PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1814 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1815 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1816 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1817 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1818 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1819 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1820 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1821 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1822 the log output.
1823
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1824PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1825 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1826 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1827 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1828 "make".
1829
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1831A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1832----------------------------------------
1833
1834Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1835changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1836needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1837in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1838that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1839release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1840from 4.43.
1841
1842I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
18434.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1844those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1845historical information.
1846
1847
f7b63901 1848Exim version 4.50
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1849-----------------
1850
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1851 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1852
139059f6 1853 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1854 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 1855
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1856 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1857 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1858 place.
1859
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1860 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1861 filter fails to execute.
1862
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1863 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1864 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1865 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1866 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1867 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1868
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1869 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1870
1871 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1872 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1873 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1874 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
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1876 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1877 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1878 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1879 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1880 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1881
69358f02
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1882 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1883
5be20824
PH
188410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1885
eb2c0248
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188611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1887 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1888 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1889 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1890
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189112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1892 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1893 sender verification.
1894
189513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1896 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1897
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189814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1899
4deaf07d
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190015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1901 connection timeout.
1902
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190316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1904 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1905
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190617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1907 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1908
2c7db3f5
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190918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1910 information about exactly what failed.
1911
3d235903
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191219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1913
7c7ad977
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191420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1915 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1916 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1917
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191821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1919 It is now set to "smtps".
1920
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192122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1922 ignore_target_hosts.
1923
192423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1925 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1926 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1927 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1928 "[x.x.x.x]".
1929
7d468ab8
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193024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1931 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1932 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1933
193425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1935 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1936 wake it up if nothing else does.
1937
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193826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1939 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1940 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1941 end up negative.
1942
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194327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1944 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1945
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194628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1947
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194829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1949 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1950 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1951 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1952 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1953 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1954 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1955 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1956
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195730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1958 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1959 than one IP address.
1960
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196131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1962 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1963 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1964 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1965
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196632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1967 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1968 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1969 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1970 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1971 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1972
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197333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1974 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1975 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1976 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1977
652e1b65
PH
197834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1979 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1980 respected.
1981
6f0c9a4f
PH
198235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1983 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1984 $sender_host_address.
1985
33397d19
PH
198636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1987 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1988 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1989 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1990 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1991 very small.
1992
7bb56e1f
PH
199337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1994
1995 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1996 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1997
ea3bc19b
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1998 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1999 just the host names, not the priorities.
2000
2001 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2002 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2003 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2004
ea3bc19b 2005 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2006 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2007
0bcb2a0e
PH
200838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2009 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2010 domain.
2011
2ac0e484
PH
201239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2013
4e1fde53
PH
201440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2015 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2016
de365ded
PH
201741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2018 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2019 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2020
f05da2e8
PH
202142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2022
d6453af2
PH
202343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2024
f7b63901
PH
202544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2026
202745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2028 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2029 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2030 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2031 because the tests only now provoked it.
2032
a444213a
PH
203346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2034 (this can affect the format of dates).
2035
0ec020ea
PH
203647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2037 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2038 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2039 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2040
b1206957
PH
204148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2042
204349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2044 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2045 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2046 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2047
26dd5a95
PH
204850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2049 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2050 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2051
343b2385
PH
205251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2053 autoreply.
2054
1c5466b9
PH
205552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2056 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2057 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2058 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2059 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2060 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2061 is going on).
2062
55ee9ee3
PH
206353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2064 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2065 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2066 the line.
2067
d38f8232
PH
206854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2069 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2070 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2071
2072 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2073 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2074 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2075 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2076 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2077 so I produce this patch..."
2078
3295e65b
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2079 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2080 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2081 is not defined.
2082
7102e136
PH
208355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2084 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2085 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2086 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2087 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2088
3ca0ba97
PH
208956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2090
c2bcbe20
PH
209157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2092 long debug lines gets shown.
2093
18ce445d
PH
209458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2095 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2096
1f5b4c3d
PH
209759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2098
2099 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2100 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2101 of $primary_hostname.
2102
b975ba52
PH
210360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2104 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2105 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2106 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2107 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2108 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2109 by change 4.50/55 above.
2110
2111 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2112 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2113 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2114 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2115 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2116 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2117 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2118
211961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2120 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2121 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2122 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2123
17ffcae7
PH
212462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2125 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2126
d95f9fdb
PH
212763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2128 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2129 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2130 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2131 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2132
86b8287f
PH
213364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2134 This has been fixed.
2135
60dc5e56
PH
213665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2137 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2138 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2139 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2140 the caching.)
2141
533244af
PH
214266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2143
a5a28604
PH
214467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2145 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2146 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2147 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2148
7e634d24
PH
214968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2150 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2151
3e11c26b
PH
215269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2153 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2154 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2155
6729cf78
PH
215670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2157 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2158 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2159 message there.
2160
00f00ca5
PH
216171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2162 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2163 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2164
c9bdd01c
PH
216572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2166 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2167 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2168 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2169
d43194df
PH
217073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2171 during host lookups.
2172
fe5b5d0b
PH
217374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2174 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2175
2176 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2177
76a2d7ba
PH
217875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2179 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2180 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2181 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2182 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2183 background.
2184
218576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2186 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2187
04f7d5b9
PH
218877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2189 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2190 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2191
bc60667e
PH
219278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2193
bb6e88ff
PH
219479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2195 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2196 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2197 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2198 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2199 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2200 process earlier.
2201
1e70f85b
PH
220280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2203 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2204 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2205 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2206 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2207
220881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2209 tables).
2210
4e01f9d6
PH
221182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2212
1ee1cef2
PH
221383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2214 "vacation" handling.
2215
6e2b4ccc
PH
221684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2217 OS variants using glibc.
2218
8e669ac1
PH
221985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2220
495ae4b0 2221
bbe902f0
PH
2222----------------------------------------------------
2223See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2224----------------------------------------------------
2225
2226
2227Exim version 4.44
2228-----------------
2229
2230 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2231 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2232 transport
2233
2234 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2235 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2236 place.
2237
2238 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2239 filter fails to execute.
2240
2241 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2242 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2243 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2244 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2245 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2246
2247 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2248 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2249 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2250 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2251
2252 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2253 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2254 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2255 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2256 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2257
2258 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2259
2260 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2261 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2262 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2263 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2264
2265 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2266 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2267 sender verification.
2268
226910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2270 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2271
227211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2273 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2274
227512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2276 ignore_target_hosts.
2277
227813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2279 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2280 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2281 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2282 "[x.x.x.x]".
2283
228414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2285 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2286 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2287
228815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2289 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2290 wake it up if nothing else does.
2291
229216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2293 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2294 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2295 end up negative.
2296
229717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2298 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2299
ea3a6f44 230018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2301
230219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2303 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2304 empty pattern.
2305
230620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2307 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2308 one IP address.
2309
ea3a6f44
NM
231021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2311 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2312 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2313 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2314 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2315 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2316
ea3a6f44
NM
231722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2318 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2319 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2320
232123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2322 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2323 $sender_host_address.
2324
232524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2326
ea3a6f44
NM
232725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2328 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2329 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2330
233126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2332 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2333
ea3a6f44
NM
233427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2335 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2336
ea3a6f44
NM
233728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2338 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2339 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2340 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2341
234229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2343 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2344 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2345
ea3a6f44
NM
234630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2347 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2348 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2349 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2350
ea3a6f44
NM
235131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2352 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2353 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2354
ea3a6f44
NM
235531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2356 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2357
ea3a6f44
NM
235832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2359 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2360 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2361 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2362 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2363 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2364 is going on).
bbe902f0 2365
ea3a6f44
NM
236633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2367 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2368 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2369 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2370 CAN-2005-0021
2371
ea3a6f44
NM
237234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2373 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2374 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2375 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2376 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2377 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2378 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2379
2380 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2381 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2382 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2383 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2384 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2385 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2386 CAN-2005-0021
2387
ea3a6f44
NM
238835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2389 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2390 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2391 CAN-2005-0022
2392
ea3a6f44
NM
239336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2394 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2395 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2396 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2397 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2398
ea3a6f44
NM
239937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2400 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2401 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2402 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2403 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2404
ea3a6f44
NM
240538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2406 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2407 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2408 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2409 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
2410
2411
495ae4b0
PH
2412Exim version 4.43
2413-----------------
2414
2415 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2416 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2417 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2418 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2419 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2420 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2421 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2422
2423 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2424 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2425 the delivery.
2426
2427 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2428
2429 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2430
2431 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2432 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2433 to local_scan().
2434
2435 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2436 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2437 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2438 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2439 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2440
2441 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2442 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2443
2444 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2445
2446 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2447
244810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2449 header_sender only.
2450
245111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2452 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2453
245412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2455 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2456 affecting debugging statements).
2457
245813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2459
246014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2461 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2462 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2463 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2464 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2465 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2466 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2467 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2468 after the received time, and all would be well.
2469
247015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2471 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2472 condition in an expansion string.
2473
247416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2475
247617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2477 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2478 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2479 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2480 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2481 job under whatever limits there are.
2482
248318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2484
248519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2486 space).
2487
248820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2489 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2490 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2491 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2492 return path is set.
2493
249421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2495 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2496 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2497 binary data in such strings.
2498
249922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2500
250123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2502 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2503 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2504 failure, which is pointless.
2505
250624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2507
250825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2509
251026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2511 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2512 Sender: header lines.
2513
251427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2515 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2516 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2517
251828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2519 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2520 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2521 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2522 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2523 happens.
2524
252529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2526 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2527 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2528 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2529 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2530
253130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2532 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2533 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2534 1024.
2535
253631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2537 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2538
253932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2540 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2541
254233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2543
254432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2545
254633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2547
254834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2549 syntax error.
2550
255135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2552
255336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2554
255537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2556 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2557 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2558 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2559
256038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2561 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2562
2563
2564Exim version 4.42
2565-----------------
2566
2567 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2568 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2569 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2570 it was not quoted.
2571 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2572 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2573 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2574 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2575 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2576 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2577
2578 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2579 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2580 verification failure".
2581
2582 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2583 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2584 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2585 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2586
2587 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2588 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2589 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2590 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2591 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2592 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2593 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2594 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2595 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2596 treated as a timeout.
2597
2598 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2599 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2600 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2601 not set for Exim filters).
2602
2603 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2604 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2605 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2606
2607 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2608
2609 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2610 try to make them clearer.
2611
2612 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2613 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2614
2615 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2616
2617 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2618
261910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2620 only the Cygwin environment.
2621
262211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2623 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2624 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2625 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2626 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2627
262812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2629 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2630 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2631 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2632 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2633 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2634 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2635
263613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2637 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2638
263914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2640
2641 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2642 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2643 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2644
2645 To: susanne@some.where
2646
2647 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2648 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2649 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2650 of addresses in From: header lines).
2651
2652 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2653 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2654 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2655
2656 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2657 treated as non-personal.
2658
2659 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2660 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2661
266215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2663
266416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2665
266617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2667 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2668 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2669
267018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2671 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2672
267319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2674 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2675 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2676 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2677 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2678 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2679
268020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2681 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2682 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2683 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2684 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2685 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2686 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2687 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2688
2689 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2690
269121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2692 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2693
269422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2695 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2696 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2697
269823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2699 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2700
270124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2702 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2703 rather than long int.
2704
270525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2706
270726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2708
2709
2710Exim version 4.41
2711-----------------
2712
2713 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2714 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2715 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2716 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2717 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2718 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2719
2720
2721Exim version 4.40
2722-----------------
2723
2724 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2725 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2726
2727 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2728 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2729 socklen_t is defined.
2730
2731 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2732 always exist.
2733
2734 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2735 configured.
2736
2737 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2738 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2739 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2740 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2741 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2742
2743 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2744 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2745 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2746 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2747
2748 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2749 of flapping under certain conditions.
2750
2751 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2752 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2753 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2754
2755 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2756
275710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2758
275911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2760 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2761 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2762 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2763
276412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2765 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2766 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2767 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2768 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2769 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2770 preserved with the message after it was received.
2771
277213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2773 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2774 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2775 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2776 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2777 test suite worked just fine.
2778
277914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2780 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2781 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2782
278315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2784 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2785 string.
2786
278716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2788 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2789 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2790 does not fully solve it.
2791
279217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2793 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2794 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2795 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2796 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2797
279818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2799 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2800 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2801
280219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2803 string, for example:
2804
2805 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2806
2807 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2808 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2809 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2810 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2811 the routers could not see them.
2812
281320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2814 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2815
281621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2817 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2818 output).
2819
282022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2821 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2822 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2823 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2824 that needed quoting.
2825
282623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2827 was not being matched caselessly.
2828
282924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2830 backslashes.
2831
283225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2833 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2834 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2835 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2836 when use_sender is false.
2837
283826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2839
284027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2841
284228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2843
284429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2845 the configuration file.
2846
284730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2848 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2849
285031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2851
285232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2853 bytes in the message body.
2854
285533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2856 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2857 delivery.
2858
285934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2860
286135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2862
286336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2864 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2865 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2866 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2867 another IP address.
2868
2869
2870Exim version 4.34
2871-----------------
2872
2873 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2874 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2875
2876 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2877 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2878 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2879 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2880 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2881
2882 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2883 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2884
2885 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2886 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2887 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2888
2889 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2890 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2891 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2892
2893 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2894 for routers.
2895
2896 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2897 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2898 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2899 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2900 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2901 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2902 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2903
2904
2905Exim version 4.33
2906-----------------
2907
2908 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2909 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2910 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2911 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2912 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2913 default (and expected) setting.
2914
2915 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2916 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2917 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2918 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2919
2920 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2921 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2922
2923 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2924 in domain lists.
2925
2926 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2927 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2928 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2929 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2930 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2931 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2932
2933 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2934 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2935 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2936
2937 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2938 part (NOT match_host).
2939
2940 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2941
2942 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2943 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2944 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2945 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2946 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2947 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2948 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2949 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2950 the same named file.
2951
295210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2953 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2954 when Exim is built.
2955
295611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2957 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2958 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2959 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2960 a host name.
2961
296212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2963 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2964 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2965
296613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2967
296814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2969
297015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2971
297216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2973 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2974
297517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2976 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2977 before starting the TLS session.
2978
297918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2980
298119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2982 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2983
298420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2985 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2986 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2987 colon in the middle).
2988
2989
2990Exim version 4.32
2991-----------------
2992
2993 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2994 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2995 multiple configurations are in use.
2996
2997 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2998 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2999 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3000 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3001 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3002 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3003
3004 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3005 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3006
3007 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3008 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3009 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3010
3011 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3012 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3013 occurs.
3014
3015 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3016 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3017
3018 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3019
3020 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3021 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3022
3023 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3024
3025 -prval:sval
3026
3027 is equivalent to
3028
3029 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3030
3031 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3032 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3033 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3034 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3035 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3036
303710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3038 Exim's behaviour:
3039
3040 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3041 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3042 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3043 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3044 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3045 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3046
3047 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3048 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3049 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3050 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3051 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3052 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3053 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3054 string.
3055
3056 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3057 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3058 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3059 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3060 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3061
306211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3063
306412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3065 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3066 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3067
306813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3069
307014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3071 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3072 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3073 information.
3074
307515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3076 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3077
307816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3079 Three changes have been made:
3080
3081 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3082 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3083 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3084 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3085 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3086
3087 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3088 been restored.
3089
3090 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3091 the modified behaviour.
3092
3093
3094Exim version 4.31
3095-----------------
3096
3097 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3098 Larry Rosenman.
3099
3100 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3101 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3102
3103 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3104 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3105 try to track down a specific problem.
3106
3107 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3108 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3109 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3110
3111 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3112 warning.
3113
3114 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3115 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3116 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3117 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3118 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3119 some earlier ones do not.
3120
3121 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3122
3123 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3124 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3125 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3126 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3127 address literals are enabled, of course).
3128
3129 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3130
313110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3132 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3133 by a command such as
3134
3135 exim -f "" ...
3136
3137 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3138
313911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3140
314112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3142 remained set. It is now erased.
3143
314413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3145 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3146
314714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3148 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3149 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3150 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3151 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3152 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3153 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3154 appropriate error code.
3155
315615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3157 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3158 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3159 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3160 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3161 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3162
316316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3164 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3165 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3166
316717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3168 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3169 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3170 terminate the header.
3171
317218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3173 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3174 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3175
317619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3177 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3178 (4.30/29). In particular:
3179
3180 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3181 imposed.
3182
3183 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3184 to write a maildirsize file.
3185
3186 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3187 the transport, the new value overrides.
3188
3189 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3190 count.
3191
319220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3193 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3194 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3195 space or a tab.
3196
319721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3198 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3199 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3200 the fallback hosts.
3201
320222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3203 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3204 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3205
320623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3207 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3208 using a union.
3209
321024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3211 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3212 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3213
321425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3215
321626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3217
321827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3219
322028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3221 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3222 become corrupted.
3223
322429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3225 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3226 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3227 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3228 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3229 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3230 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3231 too great.
3232
323330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3234 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3235 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3236 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3237 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3238 incorrectly.
3239
324031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3241 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3242 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3243 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3244 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3245 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3246 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3247 cached value only when the same options are set.
3248
324932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3250
325133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3252 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3253 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3254 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3255 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3256
325734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3258 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3259 it is clearly obsolete.
3260
326135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3262 transport.
3263
326436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3265 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3266 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3267 times.
3268
326937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3270 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3271 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3272 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3273 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3274
327538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3276 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3277 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3278 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3279
328039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3281
3282 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3283
3284 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3285 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3286 2^31.
3287
328840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3289 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3290 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3291 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3292 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3293 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3294 $localpart_data.
3295
329641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3297 with the -f command-line option.
3298
329942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3300 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3301 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3302 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3303 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3304 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3305
330643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3307 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3308 line.
3309
331044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3311 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3312 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3313 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3314 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3315 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3316 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3317 buffer is too small.
3318
331945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3320 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3321
332246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3323 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3324 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3325 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3326 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3327 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3328 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3329 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3330 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3331
333247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3333 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3334 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3335
333648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3337 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3338 ACL").
3339
334049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3341 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3342 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3343 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3344 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3345
334650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3347 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3348 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3349 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3350 is set.
3351
335251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3353
335452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3355
335653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3357 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3358
335954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3360 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3361 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3362
336355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3364 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3365 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3366 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3367 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3368
336956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3370 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3371 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3372 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3373 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3374 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3375 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3376
337757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3378 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3379 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3380 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3381 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3382 the test of how many are available.
3383
338458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3385 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3386 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3387 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3388 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3389 new message is started.
3390
339159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3392 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3393
339460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3395 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3396
339761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3398 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3399 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3400 is no long logged.
3401
340262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3403 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3404 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3405 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3406 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3407 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3408 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3409
341063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3411 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3412 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3413 interpreted as octal.
3414
341564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3416 setting.
3417
341865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3419 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3420 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3421 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3422 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3423 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3424
342566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3426 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3427 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3428 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3429
3430 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3431 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3432 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3433 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3434
3435 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3436 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3437 is a bug fix.
3438
3439 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3440 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3441
344267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3443
344468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3445 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3446 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3447 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3448
344969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3450 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3451 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3452 supplied", which is not helpful.
3453
345470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3455 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3456 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3457
345871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3459 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3460 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3461 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3462 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3463 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3464 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3465 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3466
346772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3468 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3469 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3470 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3471 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3472
347373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3474 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3475 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3476 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3477 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3478 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3479
348074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3481 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3482 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3483
348475. Added write_rejectlog option.
3485
348676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3487 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3488 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3489 variables.
3490
349177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3492
349378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3494 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3495 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3496 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3497 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3498 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3499 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3500 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3501
350279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3503 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3504 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3505 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3506 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3507
350880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3509 Haardt.
3510
351181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3512 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3513 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3514 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3515 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3516 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3517 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3518 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3519 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3520
3521
3522Exim version 4.30
3523-----------------
3524
3525 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3526 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3527 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3528
3529 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3530 fixed.
3531
3532 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3533 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3534 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3535
3536 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3537 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3538 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3539 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3540 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3541 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3542
3543 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3544 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3545 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3546 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3547 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3548 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3549 the Exim test suite.
3550
3551 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3552 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3553 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3554 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3555
3556 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3557 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3558 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3559 specify it in this variable.
3560
3561 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3562 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3563 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3564 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3565
3566 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3567 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3568 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3569 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3570
3571 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3572 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3573 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3574 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3575 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3576
3577 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3578
357910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3580 they are logged.
3581
358211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3583 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3584 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3585 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3586 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3587
358812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3589 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3590
359113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3592 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3593 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3594 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3595 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3596
359714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3598 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3599
360015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3601 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3602 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3603
360416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3605 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3606
360717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3608 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3609
361018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3611 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3612 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3613
361419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3615 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3616
361720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3618 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3619 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3620 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3621
362221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3623
362422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3625 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3626 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3627 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3628
362923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3630
363124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3632 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3633
363425. Added .include_if_exists.
3635
363626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3637 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3638 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3639 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3640 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3641 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3642
364327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3644
364528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3646 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3647 this.
3648
364929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3650
365130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3652 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3653
3654 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3655 550 Sender verify failed
3656
3657 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3658 the final line of the response.
3659
366031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3661 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3662 all other user lookups.
3663
366432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3665 delivery time.
3666
366733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3668 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3669 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3670 result into an int without checking.
3671
367234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3673 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3674 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3675
367635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3677 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3678 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3679 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3680
368136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3682 correctly.
3683
368437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3685 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3686
368738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3688 to the empty sender.
3689
369039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3691 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3692 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3693 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3694 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3695 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3696 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3697 panic log.
3698
369940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3700 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3701 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3702 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3703 used.
3704
370541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3706 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3707
370842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3709 timestamps.
3710
371143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3712 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3713
371444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3715
371645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3717 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3718 logs.
3719
372046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3721 as soon as it is encountered.
3722
372347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3724
372548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3726 rewritten to "<>".
3727
372849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3729 recognizes a tab character.
3730
373150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3732 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3733 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3734 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3735
373651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3737
373852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3739 crash.
3740
374153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3742
374354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3744
374555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3746 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3747 2822.
3748
374956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3750 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3751 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3752 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3753 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3754
375557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3756 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3757
375858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3759 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3760 list (.included file names were always shown).
3761
376259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3763 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3764 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3765 root at that time.
3766
376760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3768 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3769
377061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3771
377262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3773
377463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3775
377664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3777 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3778 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3779 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3780 failures to open the logs.
3781
378265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3783 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3784 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3785 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3786 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3787 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3788 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3789
3790
3791Exim version 4.24
3792-----------------
3793
3794 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3795 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3796 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3797 change 4.23/1.
3798
3799 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3800 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3801 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3802
3803 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3804 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3805 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3806
3807 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3808 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3809 causing some misleading effects.
3810
3811 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3812 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3813 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3814
3815 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3816 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3817 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3818 queue-runner function directly.
3819
3820
3821Exim version 4.23
3822-----------------
3823
3824 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3825 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3826
3827 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3828 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3829 was always written to the default place.
3830
3831 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3832 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3833 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3834
3835 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3836
3837 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3838
3839 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3840 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3841 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3842
3843 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3844 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3845 must start.
3846
3847 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3848 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3849 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3850
3851 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3852 command line option is disabled.
3853
3854 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3855 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3856
3857 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3858
3859 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3860
3861 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3862 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3863
386410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3865
386611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3867 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3868 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3869 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3870 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3871 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3872
387312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3874 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3875 timeout.
3876
387713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3878 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3879
388014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3881 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3882
388315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3884 received was valid base64.
3885
388616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3887 name of the variable that was being set.
3888
388917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3890
389118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3892 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3893 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3894 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3895 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3896 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3897
389819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3899
390020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3901 nor realm was specified.
3902
390321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3904 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3905 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3906 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3907
390822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3909 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3910 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3911
391223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3913 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3914 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3915
391624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3917 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3918 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3919 some systems use these upper case variants.
3920
392125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3922 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3923 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3924 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3925
392626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3927
392827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3929 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3930
393128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3932 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3933 expansion variable.
3934
393529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3936
393730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3938 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3939 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3940 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3941
394231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3943 using it.
3944
394532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3946 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3947 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3948
394933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3950 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3951
395234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3953 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3954 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3955 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3956
395735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3958 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3959 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3960
396136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3962
396337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3964 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3965 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3966 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3967 aborted.
3968
396938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3970 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3971 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3972
397339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3974
397540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3976 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3977
397841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3979 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3980
398142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3982 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3983 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3984 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3985 when emails are that large.
3986
3987
3988
3989Exim version 4.22
3990-----------------
3991
3992 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3993 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3994
3995 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3996 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3997 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3998
3999 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4000 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4001 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4002
4003 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4004 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4005 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4006 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4007 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4008
4009 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4010 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4011 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4012 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4013 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4014 ever.
4015
4016 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4017 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4018 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4019 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4020 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4021 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4022 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4023 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4024 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4025 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4026 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4027 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4028 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4029 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4030
4031 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4032 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4033 parameterised it.
4034
4035 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4036 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4037 error should be diagnosed.
4038
4039 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4040 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4041 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4042 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4043 appeared instead of "NULL".
4044
404510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4046 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4047 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4048 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4049 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4050 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4051 proceeds).
4052
4053 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4054 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4055 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4056
4057
4058Exim version 4.21
4059-----------------
4060
4061 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4062 or receiver verification errors.
4063
4064 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4065 name.
4066
4067 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4068 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4069 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4070 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4071
4072 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4073 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4074 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4075 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4076 shouldn't happen again.
4077
4078 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4079 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4080 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4081
4082 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4083 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4084
4085 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4086
4087 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4088 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4089
4090 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4091 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4092 RFC.
4093
409410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4095 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4096 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4097
409811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4099 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4100 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4101 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4102
410312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4104 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4105 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4106 to define what should happen).
4107
410813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4109 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4110 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4111
411214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4113
411415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4115
411616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4117 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4118
411917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4120 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4121 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4122 structure in all cases.
4123
4124 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4125 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4126 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4127 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4128
412918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4130 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4131 domain name.
4132
413319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4134 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4135
413620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4137 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4138
413921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4140 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4141 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4142
414322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4144 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4145 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4146
414723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4148 the book and for uniformity.
4149
415024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4151
415225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4153 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4154 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4155 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4156 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4157 non-existent command as the problem.
4158
415926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4160 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4161 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4162
416327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4164
416528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4166 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4167 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4168
416929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4170 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4171 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4172 timestamps using strftime().
4173
417430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4175 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4176
417732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4178 transport-time rewrites.
4179
418033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4181 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4182 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4183 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4184
418534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4186 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4187
418835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4189 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4190 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4191 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4192 comma and a space.
4193
419436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4195 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4196 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4197 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4198 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4199 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4200 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4201
420237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4203 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4204 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4205 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4206 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4207
420838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4209 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4210 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4211 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4212 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4213 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4214 remaining text gets split now.
4215
421639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4217 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4218 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4219 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4220
422140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4222 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4223 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4224 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4225 $return_path.
4226
422741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4228 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4229 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4230 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4231 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4232 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4233 passed through if needed.
4234
423542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4236 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4237 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4238 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4239 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4240 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4241
424243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4243 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4244 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4245 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4246 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4247
424844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4249 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4250 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4251 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4252 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4253
425445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4255 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4256 noticed.
4257
425846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4259 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4260 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4261 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4262 mayhem of various kinds.
4263
426447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4265 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4266 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4267 the right test for positive values.
4268
426948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4270 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4271 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4272 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4273 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4274 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4275 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4276 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4277 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4278 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4279 envelope.
4280
428149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4282 module.
4283
428450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4285 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4286 forbidding it.
4287
428851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4289 the existing equality matching.
4290
429152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4292 dealing with inode numbers.
4293
429453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4295 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4296 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4297
429854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4299 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4300 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4301 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4302 local_scan().
4303
430455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4305 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4306 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4307 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4308 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4309 relay addresses has also been removed.
4310
431156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4312
431357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4314 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4315 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4316
431758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4318 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4319 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4320 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4321 processing applies to CR:
4322
4323 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4324 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4325
4326 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4327 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4328 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4329 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4330
433159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4332 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4333 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4334
433560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4336 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4337 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4338 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4339 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4340 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4341 arisen.
4342
434361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4344 program routers.
4345
434662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4347 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4348 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4349 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4350 adds:
4351
4352 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4353
4354 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4355
4356 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4357
435863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4359 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4360 not considered personal.
4361
436264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4363
436465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4365
436666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4367
436867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4369 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4370 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4371 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4372 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4373 header lines, and spool format errors.
4374
437568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4376 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4377 for more flexibility.
4378
437969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4380 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4381 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4382
438370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4384 Sabourenkov.
4385
438671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4387 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4388 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4389 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4390 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4391 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4392 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4393 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4394 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4395
439672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4397 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4398 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4399 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4400 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4401 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4402 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4403
440473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4405 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4406 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4407
440874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4409 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4410 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4411 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4412 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4413 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4414 instead of killing the process with assert().
4415
441675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4417 than Unicode encoding.
4418
441976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4420 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4421 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4422 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4423
442477. Added process_log_path.
4425
442678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4427 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4428
442979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4430 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4431
443280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4433 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4434 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4435
443681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4437 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4438 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4439 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4440 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4441 were applied:
4442
4443 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4444 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4445 as invalid.
4446
444782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4448 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4449 they will be used during message reception.
4450
4451
4452Exim version 4.20
4453-----------------
4454
4455The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4456
4457****