Fix $body_linecount for empty lines
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
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26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 31
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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65Exim version 4.87
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67JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
68 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
69 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
70 client dropping the TLS connection.
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72TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
73 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
74
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75TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
76 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
77 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
78 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
79 outgoing I= field.
80
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81JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
82 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
83 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
84 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
85 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
86 check on the next write.
87
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88HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
89 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
90 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
91 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
92 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
93
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94JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
95 mime_regex ACL conditions.
96
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97JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
98 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
99 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
100
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101JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
102 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
103 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
104 an authenticate fail is not an error.
105
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106HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
107 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
108
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109JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
110 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
111
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112JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
113 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
114 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
115 distinct.
116
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117JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
118
119JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
120
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121JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
122
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123JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
124 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
125
98b98887 126JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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127 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
128
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129JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
130
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131JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
132 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
133
134JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
135
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136JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
137 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
138
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139JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
140
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141JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
142 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
143 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
144 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
145 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
146 they will retry in-clear.
147 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
148 at installation time.
149
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150HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
151 with the $config_file variable.
152
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153JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
154 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
155 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
156 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
157 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
158
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159GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
160 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
161 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
162 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
163 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
164
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165JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
166
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167JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
168 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
169 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
170 list order is no longer honoured.
171
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172JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
173 for DKIM processing.
174
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175JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
176 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 177
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178JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
179 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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180 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
181 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 182
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183JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
184 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
185
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186JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
187 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
188
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189JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
190 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
191
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192JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
193
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194JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
195 cached by the daemon.
196
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197JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
198 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
199
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200JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
201 keys are given for lookup.
202
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203JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
204 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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205 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
206 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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208JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
209 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
210 server-side so match that on older versions.
211
07c73177 212JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 213 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 214 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 215
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216JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
217 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
218
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219JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
220 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
221 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 222 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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223 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
224 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
225 initial truncated version.
226
ab9152ff 227JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 228
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229JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
230
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231JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
232 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
233
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234JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
235
bc3c7bb7 236HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 237
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238JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
239 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
240 induced overflows.
241
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242JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
243 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
244 stage.
245
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246JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
247 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
248
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249JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
250 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
251 former class.
252
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253JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
254 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
255 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
256
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257JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
258 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
259 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
260 extraction. Accept either.
261
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266JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
267 expanded.
268
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269JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
270
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271JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
272 it.
273
01a4a5c5 274JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 275 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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276 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
277 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
278
cb1d7830 279JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 280 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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281 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
282
610ff438 283JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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284 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
285 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
286 TLS connections
610ff438 287
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288JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
289 sites use this now.
290
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291JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
292 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
293 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
294 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
295 have a dsn_lasthop option.
296
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297JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
298 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 299 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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301JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
302
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303JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
304 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
305
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306JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
307 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
308
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309JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
310 /defer_ok option.
311
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312JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
313 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
314
fd4d8871 315JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 316 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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317 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
318
319JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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320 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
321 specify a port-range.
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323JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
324 timeout value per server.
325
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326JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
327 now have the list separator specified.
328
8a512ed5 329JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 330 option values.
8a512ed5 331
82c0c8ea 332JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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333 under OpenSSL.
334
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335JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
336
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337JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
338 rather than the verbs used.
339
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340JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
341 from 255 to 1024 chars.
342
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343JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
344
cfab9d68 345HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 346 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 347
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348JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
349 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
350
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351HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
352 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
353
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354JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
355
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356JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
357
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358JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
359 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
360 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
361 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
362
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363JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
364
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365JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
366 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
367
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368JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
369 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
370
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371JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
372
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373JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
374
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375JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
376
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377JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
378 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
379
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380JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
381 added for tls authenticator.
382
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383HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
384
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388TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
389 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
390 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
391 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
392 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
393 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
394 the script parsing/test process like normal.
395
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396TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
397 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
398 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
399 function when detected.
400
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401JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
402 cause callback expansion.
403
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404TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
405 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
406 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
407 instead of bool when processing it.
408
0f06b4f2 409JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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410 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
411
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412JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
413
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414JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
415
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416TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
417
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418TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
419 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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421JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
422 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
423 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
424 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
425 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
426 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
427
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428JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
429 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
430 exceeded it.
431
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432JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
433 version 3.3.6 or later.
434
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435JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
436 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
437 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 438 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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439 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
440 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
441 option is defined.
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443TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
444 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
445
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446JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
447 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
448 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
449 matches.
450
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451JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
452 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
453 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
454
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455JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
456 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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457
458JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
459 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
460 syntax errors.
461
3394b36a 462JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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463
464JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
465 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
466
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467TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
468 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
469 tarball.
470
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471JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
472
473JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
474 Bug 1561.
475
476JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
477 output list separator was used.
478
8bc732e8 479
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480Exim version 4.84
481-----------------
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482TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
483 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
484 return.
1f0ebb98 485
a612424f
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486JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
487 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
488
489JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
490
491TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 492 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 493
1f0ebb98 494
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495Exim version 4.83
496-----------------
497
498TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
499
500 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
501 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
502 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
503 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
504 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
505 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
506
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507TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
508 utilities have not been installed.
509
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510JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
511 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
512
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513TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
514 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
515
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516TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
517 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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518 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
519 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 520
aa26e137
JH
521JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
522
5a1b8443
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523TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
524 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
525
72c9e342
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526PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
527 not dns_use_dnssec.
528
76f44207
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529JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
530
770747fd
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531TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
532 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
533 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
534
8ddef691 535TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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536 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
537 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
538 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
539 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 540 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 541
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542JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
543
e45a1c37
JH
544JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
545 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
546
67d81c10
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547JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
548 failed delivery.
549
b1f8e4f8
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550JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
551
511a6c14 552JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
553
554JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
555 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 556
51c7471d
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557JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
558 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
559
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560TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
561
1e06383a
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562JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
563
76146973
JH
564JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
565 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
566
567 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
568 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
569 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
570
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571TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
572 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
573 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
574 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 575
35aba663
JH
576JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
577
8c51eead 578JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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579 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
580 lookup).
8c51eead 581
deae092e
HS
582TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
583 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
584 Schlichting.
35aba663 585
fd3b6a4a 586JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 587 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 588
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589TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
590 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
591
2b4a568d
JH
592JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
593
d2af03f4
HS
594TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
595 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
596 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
597
9d1c15ef
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598JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
599 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
600
44662487
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601JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
602 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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603 hosts_request_ocsp.
604
ed3bba5f 605JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 606 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 607 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 608
8ccd00b1
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609JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
610
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611TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
612 Christian Aistleitner.
613
f2de3a33
JH
614JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
615
6eb02f88
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616TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
617 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
618
00bff6f6
JH
619JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
620 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
621
071c51f7
JH
622JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
623 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
624
a6d4c44e
TF
625TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
626 support and error reporting did not work properly.
627
3ae173e7
ACK
628TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
629 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
630
c13d09b8
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631TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
632 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
633 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
634
0df4ab80
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635JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
636
66be95e0
PP
637PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
638 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
639 Jasper Wallace.
640
1bd0d12b
JH
641JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
642
0de7239e
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643TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
644 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
645 CVE-2014-2972
646
fd3b6a4a 647
2c422e6f 648Exim version 4.82
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649-----------------
650
651PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
652
12f69989
PP
653PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
654 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
655
54c90be1
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656PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
657 by GnuTLS.
658
1f4a55da
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659PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
660 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
661 routines.
662
13363eba 663PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 664
66645890 665PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
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666 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
667 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
668 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
669 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 670
a3fb9793 671PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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672 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
673 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
674 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 675 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 676 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 677
d27f98fe 678TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 679
6822b909
TL
680TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
681
e7568d51
TL
682TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
683 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
684
ae0e32ee 685TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 686 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 687 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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688
689TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 690
e2658fff
TL
691TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
692
83712b39
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693TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
694 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
695
976b7e9f
JH
696JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
697
be4a1376
JH
698JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
699
ec4b68e5
PP
700PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
701
d7148a07
NM
702NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
703 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 704
585121e2 705JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 706
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707PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
708 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
709 function.
a5f239e4 710
13d08c90
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711PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
712 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
713
bef3ea7f
JH
714JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
715 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
716 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 717
846726c5
JH
718JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
719
3a796370
JH
720JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
721
ea722490 722JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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723 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
724
b1b05573
JH
725JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
726 Bugzilla 884.
727
362145b5
JH
728JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
729 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
730
3c0a92dc
JH
731JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
732 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
733
6d7c6175
PP
734PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
735 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 736 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 737
6f123593
JH
738JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
739 authenticators.
740
c8e2fc1e
JH
741JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
742 for control.
743
005ac57f
PP
744PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
745
3f1df0e3
PP
746PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
747 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
748 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
749 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
750
67bd1ab3
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751TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
752
753 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
754 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
755 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
756 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
757 the retry rules.
758
759 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
760 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
761 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
762
763 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
764 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
765 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
766 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
767
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768 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
769 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
770 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
771 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
772 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
773 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
774 delivery, as in LMTP.
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775
776 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
777 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
778
326cdc37
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779TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
780
781 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
782
783 Resent-From: f
784
785 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
786 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
787 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
788 username as equal to the username.
789
790 This change corrects that bug.
791
f62514b3
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792GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
793 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
794 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
795
eb505532
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796TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
797
14c7b357
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798PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
799 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
800 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
801 NULL dereference and crash.
802
94eaf700
PP
803JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
804
6f5a440a
PP
805PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
806 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
807 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
808
514ee161
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809SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
810
fd98a5c6
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811JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
812 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
813 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
814 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
815 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
816 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
817 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
818 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
819 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
820 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
821 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
822
035c7f1e
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823PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
824 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
825
ff284120
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826PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
827 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
828 Bugzilla 880.
829
26e72755
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830PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
831 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
832 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
833 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
834 an empty string is now equivalent.
835
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836PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
837 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
838 not performing validation itself.
839
700d22f3
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840PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
841 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
842
fcc8e047
JH
843JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
844 Bugzilla 321, 823.
845
7142daca
PP
846TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
847
8c020188
PP
848PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
849 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
850 other false fix of the same issue.
851 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
852 Bugzilla 1363.
853
d13cdd30
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854PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
855 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
856
e2fbf4a2
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857PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
858 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
859 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
860
f4c1088b
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861PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
862 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
863 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
864
c5c2182f
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865TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
866
73431ca9
JH
867JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
868
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869TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
870 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
871
a30a8861
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872TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
873 Alexander Miroch.
874
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875TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
876 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
877 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
878 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
879 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 880
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881TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
882 the src/util/ subdirectory.
883
581d7bee 884TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 885 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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886 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
887
888TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
889 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
890 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
891 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
892
237b2cf2
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893TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
894
9fc5a352
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895TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
896 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
897 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 898
b10e4ec2
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899TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
900
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901TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
902 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
903 interaction.
904
905TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
906 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
907
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908TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
909 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
910
e78e6ecf 911
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912Exim version 4.80.1
913-------------------
914
915PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
916 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 917 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 918
ea722490 919
b1770b6e 920Exim version 4.80
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922
923PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
924 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
925 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
926
23c7e742
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927NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
928
b322aac8
NM
929NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
930 improved.
931
4a891427
NM
932NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
933
c1e794ba 934PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 935
97753960
PP
936PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
937
938PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
939 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
940
df6303fa
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941PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
942 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
943
7e6a8985
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944PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
945 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
946
f1e05cc7 947PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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948 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
949 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 950
4c287009
PP
951PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
952
b98bb9ac
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953PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
954 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
955
4a6a987a
PP
956PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
957
c45dd180 958PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 959
7db8d074
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960PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
961 non-compliant senders.
962 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
963
eae0036b 964NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 965 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
966 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
967
dec5017e
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968PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
969 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
970 in spool file corruption.
971
c80c5570
PP
972PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
973 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
974 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
975 "Got SSL error 2".
976
076b11e2
PP
977TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
978 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
979 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
980
5407bfff
JH
981JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
982 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
983
9e45c72b
PP
984JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
985
e74376d8
PP
986PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
987 diagnostics.
988 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
989
da3ad30d
PP
990PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
991 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
992 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
993
7be682ca
PP
994PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
995 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
996 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
997 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 998
ef840681
PP
999PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1000 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1001
5bfb4cdf
PP
1002PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1003 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1004 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1005 resolver implementation change.
1006
c6e95d22
PP
1007PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1008 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1009
9cbad13b
PP
1010PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1011
9ee44efb
PP
1012PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1013
6a6084f8
PP
1014PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1015 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1016
12dd53c7
PP
1017PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1018 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1019
9e45c72b 1020JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1021 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1022
17c76198
PP
1023PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1024 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1025 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1026 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1027 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1028
53947857 1029PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1030
eae0036b 1031PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1032 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1033 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1034
9e45c72b 1035JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1036
7390e768
PP
1037PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1038 read-only, out of scope).
1039 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1040
08488c86
PP
1041PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1042 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1043 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1044 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1045
6475bd82
PP
1046PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1047
81f91683
PP
1048PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1049 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1050 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1051 real issues in debug logging.
1052
5779e6aa
PP
1053PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1054 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1055
3375e053
PP
1056PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1057 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1058 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1059
1060PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1061 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1062 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1063 problems.
3375e053 1064
9d26b8c0
PP
1065PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1066 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1067
57eb9e91 1068PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1069 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1070 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1071 needs to override this, it can.
1072
16880d1a
PP
1073PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1074 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1075 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1076
a799883d
PP
1077PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1078 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1079 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1080 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1081
3ecab157 1082PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1083
0599f9cf 1084
867fcbf5
PP
1085Exim version 4.77
1086-----------------
1087
1088PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1089 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1090
f1a29782
TF
1091TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1092
ab42bd23
TK
1093TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1094 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1095
0ca0cf52
TF
1096TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1097 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1098
921b12ca
TF
1099TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1100 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1101 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1102
1103 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1104 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1105 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1106 not safe for signals.
1107
1108 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1109 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1110 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1111 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1112 exiwhat.
1113
c99ce5c9
TF
1114TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1115
1116 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1117 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1118 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1119 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1120 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1121
1122 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1123 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1124 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1125 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1126 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1127 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1128
1129 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1130 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1131 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1132 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1133
1134 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1135 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1136 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1137 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1138
1139 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1140 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1141 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1142 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1143 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1144 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1145 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1146 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1147 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1148
1149 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1150 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1151 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1152 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1153
1154 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1155 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1156 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1157 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1158 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1159 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1160 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1161 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1162 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1163 details in the main documentation.
1164
3634fc25
TF
1165TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1166
792e8a19
TF
1167TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1168
5901f0ab
TF
1169TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1170 repository when doing development or release builds.
1171
7f2a2a43
PP
1172PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1173 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1174
061b7ebd
PP
1175PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1176 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1177 Bugzilla 97.
1178
e12f8c32
PP
1179PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1180
9e949f00 1181PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1182 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1183
1184PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1185 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1186
555ae6af 1187PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1188 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1189
1190PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1191 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1192
6f7fe114
PP
1193PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1194 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1195
c566dd90
PP
1196PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1197 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1198 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1199 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1200
d6cc7c78 1201PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1202 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1203 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1204
0d0e4455
PP
1205PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1206
3399bb60 1207PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1208
1209PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1210 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1211
0ca0cf52 1212
10906672
PP
1213Exim version 4.76
1214-----------------
1215
1216PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1217
754a0503
PP
1218PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1219 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1220
c0c7b2da
PP
1221PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1222
e97d1f08
PP
1223PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1224
084c1d8c
PP
1225PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1226 Bugzilla 1098.
1227
4e7ee012
PP
1228PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1229 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1230
c8d52a00
PP
1231TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1232 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1233
54e7ce4a
PP
1234PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1235 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1236
5ee6f336
PP
1237PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1238 Bugzilla 1104.
1239
c8d52a00 1240TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1241 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1242
1243TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1244 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1245 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1246 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1247
1248PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1249 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1250
10906672 1251
aa097c4c
NM
1252Exim version 4.75
1253-----------------
1254
4c9ef03a 1255NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1256 Bugzilla 1073
1257
7f3d9eff
TF
1258TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1259 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1260 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1261
159f52d2
TF
1262TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1263 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1264
0cc9542a
PP
1265PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1266 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1267 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1268
f7274286
PP
1269PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1270 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1271
7b797365
PP
1272PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1273 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1274
caacae52
NM
1275NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1276 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1277
09dcaba9
NM
1278NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1279 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1280
bc19a55b
PP
1281PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1282 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1283
bd4c9759
NM
1284NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1285 Fixes bug 943.
1286
b72aab72
PP
1287PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1288 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1289
2fe76745
PP
1290PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1291 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1292
76aa570c
PP
1293PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1294 SQL string expansion failure details.
1295 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1296
f1e5fef5
PP
1297PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1298 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1299
4d805ee9
PP
1300PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1301 extern declarations in function scope.
1302 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1303
cd59ab18
PP
1304PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1305 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1306 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1307 a kernel bug).
1308
332f5cf3
PP
1309PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1310 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1311
29cfeb94
PP
1312PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1313 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1314
660242ad
PP
1315PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1316 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1317
bc4bc4c5
PP
1318PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1319 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1320
2e64baa9
NM
1321NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1322 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1323 Dennis Davis.
1324
bddd7526
PP
1325PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1326
6bac1a9a
PP
1327PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1328
552193f0
NM
1329NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1330 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1331
1b587e48
TF
1332TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1333 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1334
aa097c4c 1335
8c07b69f
TF
1336Exim version 4.74
1337-----------------
1338
1339TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1340 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1341
c0ea85ab
TF
1342TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1343 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1344
0761d44e
TF
1345TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1346
0a349494
PP
1347DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1348 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1349 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1350
1351PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1352 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1353 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1354
fea24b2e
PP
1355PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1356 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1357 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1358 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1359
6545de78
PP
1360PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1361 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1362 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1363 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1364
1670ef10
PP
1365PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1366 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1367 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1368 arbitrary files.
1369
c0886197
PP
1370PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1371 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1372
b7487bce
PP
1373PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1374 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1375 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1376 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1377 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1378
8c07b69f 1379
97fd1e48 1380Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1381-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1382
1383PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1384 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1385 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1386
6901c596
PP
1387PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1388 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1389
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1390JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1391
77bb000f
PP
1392PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1393
a29e5231
PP
1394PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1395
ec5a0394 1396PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1397
55c75993
PP
1398PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1399
453a6645 1400PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1401 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1402 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1403 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1404
8544e77a
PP
1405PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1406 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1407 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1408 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1409 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1410
83e029d5
PP
1411PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1412
ed7f7860
PP
1413PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1414
7d9f747b
PP
1415PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1416
4b2241d2
PP
1417PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1418
10385c15
PP
1419PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1420
dbc4b90d
PP
1421PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1422
532be449
PP
1423PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1424
6a8de854 1425PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1426 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1427 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1428
5dc43717
JJ
1429JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1430
1431JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1432 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1433
3346ab01
PP
1434PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1435 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1436
491fab4c
PP
1437PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1438 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1439 Notification from John Horne.
1440
13eb9497
PP
1441PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1442 compatible.
1443
1444PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1445 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1446 it normally works.
1447
7f36d675
DW
1448DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1449 access.
1450
c1d94452
DW
1451DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1452 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1453 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1454
e2f5dc15
DW
1455DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1456 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1457 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1458 configuration file.
1459
cd25e41d
DW
1460DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1461 option (effectively making it always true).
1462
261dc43e
DW
1463DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1464 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1465
fa32850b
DW
1466DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1467 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1468
79d4bc3d
PP
1469PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1470 run-time user, instead of root.
1471
43236f35 1472PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1473 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1474
fb08281f
DW
1475DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1476 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1477 arguments.
3346ab01 1478
74935b98
DW
1479DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1480 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1481 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1482
90b6341f
DW
1483DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1484
57730b52
ML
1485NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1486
66581d1e 1487
465e92cf
JJ
1488Exim version 4.72
1489-----------------
1490
453a6645
PP
1491JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1492 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1493 typos
465e92cf 1494
453a6645
PP
1495JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1496 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1497 (Finput)
edae0343 1498
9bd3e22c
NM
1499NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1500 Patch from Alain Williams
1501
bb576ff7
NM
1502NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1503
5a1a5845
NM
1504NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1505 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1506
981a9fad
NM
1507NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1508 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1509
7fc497ee
NM
1510NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1511
1a41defa
JJ
1512JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1513
a466095c 1514NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1515 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1516
94a6bd0b
NM
1517TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1518
1519TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1520
1521MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1522 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1523 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1524
c1b141a8
NM
1525NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1526 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1527
b26eacf1 1528NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1529 Patch by Simon Arlott
1530
179c5980 1531PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1532 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1533
9bd3e22c 1534
7c6d71af
NM
1535Exim version 4.71
1536-----------------
1537
7d9f747b 1538TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1539
f013fb92
NM
1540NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1541
0eb8eedd
NM
1542NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1543
663ee6d9
NM
1544NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1545
177ebd9b
NM
1546NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1547
7c6d71af 1548
210f147e
NM
1549Exim version 4.70
1550-----------------
1551
cdd3bb85 1552TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1553 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1554
1555TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1556 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1557 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1558
1559TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1560 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1561 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1562
1563TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1564 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1565
210f147e
NM
1566NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1567 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1568 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1569 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1570
deafd5b3
NM
1571NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1572 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1573 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1574
089793a4
TF
1575TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1576
5f16ca82
TF
1577TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1578
dae9d94e 1579NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1580 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1581
7d9f747b 1582NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1583
06864c44
TF
1584TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1585 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1586 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1587 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1588
65a7d8c3 1589NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1590 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1591
23510047 1592TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1593
7d9f747b 1594NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1595
7d8eec3a 1596NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1597 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1598
89dec7b6
TF
1599TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1600 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1601
a99de90c
TF
1602TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1603 that they are available at delivery time.
1604
e2803e40
TF
1605TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1606
7199e1ee
TF
1607TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1608 incoming_port log selectors.
1609
e276e04b
TF
1610TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1611 setting expands to an empty string.
1612
ce552449 1613NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1614 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1615
e765a0f1 1616NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1617 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1618
4f054c63 1619NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1620 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1621
7d9f747b
PP
1622NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1623 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1624
7d9f747b
PP
1625NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1626 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1627
b52bc06e 1628NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1629 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1630
447de4b0
NM
1631NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1632
4c69d561 1633NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1634 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1635
d5c39246 1636NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1637 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1638
0b23848a
TK
1639TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1640
8f3414a1 1641NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1642 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1643
fb6f955d
NM
1644NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1645
1646NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1647
7d9f747b
PP
1648NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1649 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1650
7d9f747b
PP
1651NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1652 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1653
7d9f747b
PP
1654NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1655 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1656
7d9f747b
PP
1657NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1658 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1659
7d9f747b
PP
1660NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1661 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1662
7d9f747b
PP
1663NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1664 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1665
7d9f747b
PP
1666NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1667 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1668
7d9f747b 1669NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1670 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1671
7d9f747b 1672NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1673
7d9f747b
PP
1674NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1675 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1676
7d9f747b 1677NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1678
7d9f747b 1679NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1680
7d9f747b 1681NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1682
7d9f747b 1683NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1684
17792b53 1685NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1686 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1687
7d9f747b
PP
1688NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1689 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1690
91576cec 1691NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1692 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1693
7d9f747b
PP
1694NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1695 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1696
7d9f747b 1697NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1698
7d9f747b 1699NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1700
7d9f747b 1701NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1702
7d9f747b 1703NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1704
deafd5b3 1705
47db1125
NM
1706Exim version 4.69
1707-----------------
1708
4b3504d0
TK
1709TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1710 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1711 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1712
1713 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1714 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1715 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1716 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1717 build errors in sieve.c.
1718
81ea09ca
NM
1719NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1720 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1721 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1722
f13cddcb
SC
1723SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1724
7d9f747b 1725NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1726
7d9f747b 1727NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1728
7d9f747b 1729NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1730
1731
eb4c0de6
PH
1732Exim version 4.68
1733-----------------
1734
1735PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1736
6a3bceb1
PH
1737PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1738 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1739 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1740 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1741 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1742 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1743 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1744 for iplsearch lookups.
1745
1746 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1747 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1748 previously such lookups could never work.
1749
1750 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1751 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1752 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1753
2e30fa9d
TK
1754TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1755 version.
1756
0806a9c5
MH
1757MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1758 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1759 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1760 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1761 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1762 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1763
ae276964
TK
1764TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1765 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1766
0f2cbd1b
MH
1767MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1768 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1769 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1770 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1771 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1772 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1773
2b85bce7
PH
1774PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1775 local_scan API.
1776
93655c46
PH
1777PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1778
6c512171
PH
1779PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1780 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1781 encrypted.
1782
1783PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1784 by clients under certain conditions.
1785
aa6dc513
PH
1786PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1787 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1788
a96603a0
PH
1789PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1790
8f240103
PH
1791PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1792 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1793
1794PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1795
d677b2f2
PH
1796PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1797
d52120f2
PH
1798PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1799
64f2600a
PH
1800PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1801 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1802
8669f003
PH
1803PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1804
a4dc33a8
PH
1805PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1806 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1807
d6a60c0f
PH
1808PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1809
8f128379
PH
1810PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1811
8932dffe
PH
1812PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1813 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1814 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1815 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1816
ddea74fa 1817PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1818 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1819 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1820
ddea74fa 1821PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1822 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1823
ddea74fa
PH
1824PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1825
ce9f225c
PH
1826PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1827
19897d52
PH
1828PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1829
bc64a74d
PH
1830PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1831 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1832 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1833
eb4c0de6 1834
b4ed4da0
PH
1835Exim version 4.67
1836-----------------
1837
22ad45c9
MH
1838MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1839 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1840 Jan Srzednicki.
1841
b4ed4da0
PH
1842PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1843 issue a MAIL command.
1844
431b7361
PH
1845PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1846
1847 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1848
1849 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1850 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1851 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1852 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1853 item. This has been fixed.
1854
1855PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1856 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1857
83da1223
PH
1858PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1859 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1860
54fc8428
PH
1861PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1862 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1863 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1864
34c5e8dd
SC
1865SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1866
bbe15da8
PH
1867PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1868 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1869 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1870 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1871 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1872
0e8a9471
MH
1873MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1874 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1875 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1876
f0872424
PH
1877PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1878 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1879 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1880 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1881
b01dd148
PH
1882PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1883
6bf342e1
PH
1884PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1885
273f34d0
PH
1886PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1887 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1888 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1889 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1890 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1891
cf8b11a5
PH
1892PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1893
41c7c167
PH
1894PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1895 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1896 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1897 values).
1898
9c57cbc0
PH
1899PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1900
f3f065bb
PH
1901PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1902
047bdd8c
PH
1903PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1904
0ce9abe6
PH
1905PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1906
0e22dfd1
PH
1907PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1908
4c590bd1
PH
1909PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1910 no_callout_flush is set.
1911
09945f1e
PH
1912PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1913 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1914 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1915 fixed.
1916
c51b8e75
PH
1917PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1918
e28326d8
PH
1919PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1920 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1921 other ACL rejections are.
1922
75b1493f
PH
1923PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1924 with slight modification.
1925
7c5214ec
PH
1926PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1927 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1928
4311097e
PH
1929PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1930 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1931 connection.
1932
29f89cad
PH
1933PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1934 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1935
5e687460
SC
1936SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1937
c3611384
PH
1938PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1939 expansion side effects.
1940
5a11a7b4
PH
1941PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1942 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1943 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1944 be the same.
1945
0e20aff9
MH
1946MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1947 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1948 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1949
ca86f471
PH
1950PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1951 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1952 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1953 were accidentally chopped off.
1954
a14e5636
PH
1955PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1956 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1957 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1958 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1959 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1960 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1961 pipelining has not been advertised.
1962
ec95d1a6
PH
1963PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1964
42855d71
PH
1965PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1966 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1967 This has been fixed.
1968
57c2c631
PH
1969PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1970 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1971 reported on Solaris.
1972
58c01c94
PH
1973PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1974 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1975 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1976 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1977 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1978 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1979 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1980
dee5a20a
PH
1981PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1982 cpus.
1983
d2ee6114
PH
1984PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1985
b2d5182b
PH
1986PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1987
79749a79
PH
1988PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1989 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1990 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1991 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1992 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1993 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1994
c456d9bb
PH
1995PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1996 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1997 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1998 host_all_ignored option.
1999
cd9868ec
PH
2000PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2001 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2002 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2003 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2004 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2005 is what is supposed to happen).
2006
ebeaf996
PH
2007PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2008 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2009 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2010 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2011 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2012 uses the Exim user.
2013
2679d413
PH
2014PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2015 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2016 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2017 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2018 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2019 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2020 users.
2021
84024b72
PH
2022PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2023
8005d38e
SC
2024SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2025 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2026 (Jez Hancock).
2027 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2028 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2029
3298c6c6
SC
2030SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2031
a43a27c5
PH
2032PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2033
58eb016e 2034PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2035 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2036 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2037 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2038 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2039 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2040 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2041 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2042 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2043 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2044 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2045
b43a74ea
PH
2046PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2047 advertised in response to EHLO.
2048
b4ed4da0 2049
5dd1517f
PH
2050Exim version 4.66
2051-----------------
2052
2053PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2054 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2055
2056 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2057 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2058
2059 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2060 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2061 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2062
2063 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2064 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2065 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2066 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2067 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2068
2069
93cfa765
TK
2070Exim version 4.65
2071-----------------
2072
2073TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2074 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2075 versions. (#438)
2076
d6066548
MH
2077MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2078 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2079 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2080
4362ff0d
PH
2081PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2082 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2083 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2084 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2085 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2086 rather than extend the field.
2087
93cfa765 2088
944e9e9c
TF
2089Exim version 4.64
2090-----------------
aa41d2de 2091
21d74bd9
TK
2092TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2093 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2094 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2095 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2096 these files.
2097
2098TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2099 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2100 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2101
2102TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2103 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2104 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2105
2106TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2107 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2108 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2109 in the field name.
2110
2b1c6e3a
PH
2111PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2112 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2113 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2114 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2115 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2116 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2117 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2118 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2119 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2120 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2121 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2122
1f872c80
PH
2123PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2124 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2125
2126PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2127 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2128 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2129 ignores EPIPE as well.
2130
d203e649
PH
2131PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2132 (quoted-printable decoding).
2133
cc2ed8f7 2134PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2135 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2136
ddfcd446
PH
2137PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2138
d45b1de8
PH
2139PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2140
2141PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2142
38a0a95f 2143PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2144 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2145
a2405d83
JJ
2146JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2147 in 4.64-PH/09.
2148
2149JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2150 miscellaneous code fixes
2151
6ea85e9a
PH
2152PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2153 rejections.
2154
26da7e20
PH
2155PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2156 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2157 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2158 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2159 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2160 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2161 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2162 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2163
14aa5a05 2164PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2165 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2166 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2167 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2168 function.
2169 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2170 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2171 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2172 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2173 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2174 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2175 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2176 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2177 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2178
ff75a1f7
PH
2179PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2180 decoding.
2181
e6f6568e
PH
2182PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2183 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2184 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2185 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2186 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2187 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2188 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2189 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2190
d6f6e0dc
PH
2191PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2192 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2193 list.
2194
322050c2
PH
2195PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2196 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2197 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2198 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2199 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2200 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2201 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2202 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2203 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2204 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2205 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2206 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2207 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2208
08955dd3
PH
2209PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2210 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2211 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2212 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2213 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2214 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2215 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2216
1eccaa59
PH
2217PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2218 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2219 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2220 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2221 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2222 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2223 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2224 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2225 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2226 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2227
602e59e5
PH
2228PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2229 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2230 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2231 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2232 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2233
411ef850
PH
2234PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2235 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2236 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2237 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2238 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2239 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2240 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2241
7befa435
PH
2242PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2243 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2244 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2245 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2246 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2247 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2248 been verified.
2249
48da4259 2250PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2251 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2252 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2253 and authorization.)
2254
48da4259
PH
2255PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2256 if any retry times were supplied.
2257
d1d5595c
PH
2258PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2259 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2260 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2261
0ef732d9
PH
2262PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2263
328895cc
PH
2264PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2265
fd700877
PH
2266PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2267 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2268 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2269 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2270 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2271 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2272
8dce1a6f
PH
2273PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2274 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2275
17af4a17
PH
2276PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2277 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2278 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2279
2280PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2281 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2282 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2283 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2284 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2285 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2286 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2287 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2288 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2289
2290 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2291 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2292 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2293 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2294 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2295 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2296 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2297 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2298 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2299
2300 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2301 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2302 hammering the server.
2303
c1114884
PH
2304PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2305 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2306
7a0743eb
PH
2307PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2308
0d85fa3f
PH
2309PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2310 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2311 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2312
1bf43b78
PH
2313PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2314 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2315 one case where this was not true.
2316
520de300
PH
2317PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2318 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2319 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2320 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2321 fails.
2322
48c7f9e2
PH
2323PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2324 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2325 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2326 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2327 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2328 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2329 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2330 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2331 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2332 smtp transport.
2333
99ea1c86
PH
2334PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2335 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2336 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2337 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2338
a2042e78
PH
2339PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2340 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2341
4fbcfc2e
PH
2342PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2343 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2344 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2345
aa41d2de
PH
2346PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2347
af561417
PH
2348PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2349
3cc66b45
PH
2350PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2351
194cc0e4
PH
2352PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2353 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2354 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2355 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2356
a401ddaa
PH
2357PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2358 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2359
4e88a19f
PH
2360PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2361 be meaningful with "accept".
2362
d7d7b289
SC
2363SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2364 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2365
2366SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2367 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2368 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2369
2370SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2371 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2372 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2373 there is data to show.
2374 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2375
2376SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2377 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2378 as well as the number of messages.
2379
2380SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2381 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2382 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2383
2384SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2385 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2386 have a flag are now skipped.
2387
2388SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2389 Added the -emptyok flag.
2390
2391SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2392 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2393
0ea2a468
JJ
2394JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2395 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2396 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2397
2398JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2399 match 4.64-PH/13
2400
2401JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2402 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2403
2404JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2405
2406JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2407 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2408
8a10f5a4
PH
2409PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2410
30e18802
PH
2411PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2412 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2413 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2414 contravention of the specifications.
2415
55728a4f
PH
2416PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2417 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2418 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2419
d7837193
PH
2420PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2421 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2422 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2423
87054a31
PH
2424PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2425
ea2c01d2
MH
2426MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2427 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2428 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2429 some point in the past.
2430
e4fa6968
PH
2431PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2432 transport during callout processing was broken.
2433
56f5d9bd
PH
2434PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2435 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2436
922e1c28
PH
2437PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2438 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2439
21eb6e72
PH
2440PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2441 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2442
a0540757
PH
2443PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2444
944e9e9c 2445
478be7b0
SC
2446Exim version 4.63
2447-----------------
2448
2449SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2450 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2451
2452SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2453 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2454 there is data to show.
2455 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2456
2457SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2458 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2459
2b965a65
TF
2460TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2461 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2462
45b91596
PH
2463TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2464 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2465
c59f5781
TF
2466TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2467 submissions from trusted users.
2468
90fc3069
TF
2469TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2470 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2471
6083aca0
TF
2472TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2473 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2474 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2475 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2476 there is now a framework to start from.
2477
765b530f
PH
2478PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2479 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2480 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2481
4e167a8c
PH
2482PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2483
4608d683
PH
2484PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2485
b8dc3e4a
PH
2486PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2487
5418e93b
PH
2488PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2489 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2490 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2491
b4a9bda2
PH
2492PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2493 libradius.
2494
45b91596
PH
2495PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2496 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2497 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2498
5547e2c5
PH
2499PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2500 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2501 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2502 its arguments.
2503
dbcef0ea
PH
2504PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2505 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2506 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2507 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2508 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2509
25257489
PH
2510PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2511 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2512
c816d124
PH
2513PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2514
a9ccd69a
PH
2515PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2516 operations in malware.c.
2517
75fa1910
PH
2518PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2519 signatures.
2520
a7d7aa58
PH
2521PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2522 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2523 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2524 all.
2525
42119b09
PH
2526PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2527 statements to "add_header".
2528
41609df5
PH
2529PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2530 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2531
a5bd321b
PH
2532PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2533 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2534 latter.
2535
e85a7ad5 2536PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2537 so that it is now:
2538
e85a7ad5
PH
2539 ${if or { \
2540 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2541 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2542 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2543 }{no}{yes}}
2544
e85a7ad5
PH
2545 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2546 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2547
d8fe1c03
PH
2548PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2549 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2550
16282d2b
PH
2551PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2552 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2553 any possible encoding problems.
2554
35d40a98
PH
2555PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2556 but not after initializing Perl.
2557
034d99ab
PH
2558PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2559 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2560 apparently, which is not desirable.
2561
6ec97b1b
PH
2562PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2563 queries.
2564
e22ca4ac
JJ
2565JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2566 --not options
2567
2568JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2569
33d73e3b
PH
2570PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2571 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2572 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2573 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2574
9ecb03f3
PH
2575PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2576 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2577 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2578
084efe8d
PH
2579PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2580 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2581 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2582 0.12.
2583
366fc9f0
PH
2584PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2585 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2586 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2587 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2588 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2589
c59f5781 2590
c887c79e
TF
2591Exim version 4.62
2592-----------------
2593
2594TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2595 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2596
1cce3af8
PH
2597PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2598 patch).
2599
afb3eaaf
PH
2600PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2601 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2602 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2603 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2604 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2605 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2606 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2607 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2608 451 error is used.
2609
e173618b
PH
2610PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2611
dd16e114
PH
2612PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2613 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2614 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2615
f7fd3850
PH
2616PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2617 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2618 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2619 odd errors.
2620
d87df92c
PH
2621PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2622 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2623
7e9f683d
PH
2624PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2625 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2626 option (which defaults to 0600).
2627
bfad5236
PH
2628PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2629
01c490df
PH
2630PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2631 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2632 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2633 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2634 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2635 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2636 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2637
d6629cdc
PH
2638PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2639
1cce3af8 2640
214e2000
PH
2641Exim version 4.61
2642-----------------
2643
2644PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2645 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2646 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2647 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2648 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2649 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2650 addresses as local.
2651
f9daeae0
PH
2652PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2653 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2654
7e66e54d
PH
2655PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2656
c8ea1597
PH
2657PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2658 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2659 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2660 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2661 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2662 grumble.
2663
911f6fde
PH
2664PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2665 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2666
47ca6d6c
PH
2667PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2668 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2669 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2670 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2671 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2672
ed0e9820
PH
2673PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2674 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2675 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2676 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2677
eff37e47
PH
2678PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2679 be the same on different OS.
2680
1921d2ea
PH
2681PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2682 testing.
2683
b3f69ca8
JJ
2684JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2685 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2686
2687JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2688 in 4.61-PH/06
2689
424a1c63
PH
2690PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2691 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2692 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2693 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2694 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2695 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2696 bounce message.
2697
7a100415
PH
2698PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2699 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2700 when Exim was called.
2701
19b9dc85
PH
2702PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2703 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2704
309bd837
PH
2705PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2706 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2707 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2708 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2709
59e82a2a
PH
2710PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2711 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2712 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2713 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2714 changes:
2715
2716 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2717 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2718 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2719
2720 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2721 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2722 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2723
9edc04ce
PH
2724PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2725 feature).
2726
1349e1e5
PH
2727PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2728 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2729 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2730 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2731 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2732 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2733 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2734 values from the SRV records were lost.
2735
ea49d0e1
PH
2736PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2737 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2738 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2739
064a94c9
PH
2740PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2741 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2742 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2743
727071f8
PH
2744PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2745 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2746 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2747 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2748 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2749 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2750 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2751 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2752 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2753 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2754
f78eb7c6
PH
2755PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2756 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2757 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2758
21c28500
PH
2759PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2760 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2761
2762PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2763 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2764 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2765 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2766 is given.
2767
1688f43b
PH
2768PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2769 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2770 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2771
2772PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2773 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2774 PH/23 above applies.
2775
9675b384
PH
2776PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2777 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2778 (for which there is an explicit test).
2779
6a3f1455
PH
2780PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2781
dac79d3e
PH
2782PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2783 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2784 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2785 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2786 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2787
5977a0b3
PH
2788PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2789 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2790 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2791 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2792
c91535f3
PH
2793PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2794 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2795 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2796
0d46a8c8
PH
2797PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2798
278c6e6c
PH
2799PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2800
2cbb4081
PH
2801PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2802 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2803 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2804
3eef829e
PH
2805PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2806 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2807 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2808 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2809 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2810
1ab95fa6
PH
2811PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2812 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2813 the message gets confusing).
2814
230205fc
PH
2815PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2816 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2817 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2818 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2819
75e0e026
PH
2820PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2821 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2822 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2823 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2824 same order.
2825
2826PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2827 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2828 the different processes.
2829
145396a6
PH
2830PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2831
3cd34f13
PH
2832PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2833
11121d3d
JJ
2834JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2835 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2836
2837JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2838 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2839
2840JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2841 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2842 messages matching specified criteria.
2843
8def5aaf
PH
2844PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2845
929ba01c
PH
2846PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2847 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2848
2632889e
PH
2849PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2850 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2851 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2852 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2853 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2854 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2855 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2856 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2857 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2858 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2859
944a9c55
PH
2860PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2861 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2862 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2863
4a23603b
PH
2864PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2865
4730f942
PH
2866PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2867 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2868 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2869 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2870 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2871 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2872 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2873 the variable.
2874
30dba1e6
PH
2875PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2876 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2877
382afc6b
PH
2878PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2879
a86229cf
PH
2880PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2881
50c99ba6
PH
2882PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2883
d35e429d
PH
2884PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2885 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2886 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2887 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2888 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2889 size of the count of files.
2890
f90d018c
PH
2891PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2892
75def545
PH
2893PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2894 used in LMTP mode:
2895
2896 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2897 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2898 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2899 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2900
2901 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2902 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2903 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2904
2905PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2906 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2907 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2908 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2909 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2910
c46782ef
PH
2911PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2912 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2913
71fafd95
PH
2914PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2915 will now be deprecated.
2916
2c5db4fd
PH
2917PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2918
9cf6b11a
JJ
2919JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2920 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2921 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2922
2923JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2924 with very large, slow to parse queues
2925
2926JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2927
2928JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2929
898d150f
PH
2930PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2931 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2932 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2933 SMTP output lines.
2934
46218253
PH
2935PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2936 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2937 Sieve code now uses this.
2938
e97957bc
PH
2939PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2940 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2941
81e509d7
PH
2942PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2943 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2944
3d240ff7
PH
2945PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2946
b37c4101
PH
2947PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2948 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2949 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2950 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2951 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2952
79378e0f
PH
2953PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2954 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2955 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2956 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2957
e49c7bb4
PH
2958PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2959
d114ec46
PH
2960PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2961
f3d7df6c
PH
2962PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2963 is preferred over IPv4.
2964
715ab376
PH
2965PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2966 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2967 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2968 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2969 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2970 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2971 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2972
6b31b150
PH
2973PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2974 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2975 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2976
2977PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2978
d515a917
PH
2979PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2980 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2981 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2982 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2983 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2984 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2985 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2986 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2987 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2988 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2989 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2990
9b8fadde
PH
2991PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2992 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2993 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2994
214e2000 2995
5de37277
PH
2996Exim version 4.60
2997-----------------
2998
cc38ddbf
PH
2999PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3000
3001 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3002 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3003
3004 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3005 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3006 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3007
72fdd6ae
PH
3008PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3009
3010 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3011 not a single digit.
3012
3013 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3014 string.
3015
3016 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3017 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3018 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3019 silly things.
3020
3021 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3022 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3023
3024 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3025 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3026
cb741023
PH
3027PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3028 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3029 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3030
f174f16e
PH
3031PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3032 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3033
c25242d7
PH
3034PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3035 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3036
3037 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3038
3039 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3040 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3041 this:
3042
3043 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3044
82c19f95
PH
3045PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3046 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3047 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3048 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3049 identical. For example:
3050
3051 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3052
3053 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3054 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3055 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3056
d7ffbc12
PH
3057PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3058 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3059 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3060 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3061
9f526266
PH
3062PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3063 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3064 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3065 message.
3066
87fcc8b9
PH
3067PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3068
3069 o fixes some comments
3070 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3071 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3072 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3073 and documents the missing references header update
3074
3075 and most important:
3076
3077 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3078 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3079 result)
3080
456682f5
PH
3081PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3082 Electronic Mail") by including:
3083
3084 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3085
3086 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3087 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3088 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3089 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3090 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3091
3092 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3093
3094 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3095
3096 The auto-replied keyword:
3097
3098 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3099 message by an automatic process,
3100
3101 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3102
3103 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3104 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3105
3106 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3107 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3108 other messages.
3109
3e46c1aa
PH
3110PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3111 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3112
49826d12
PH
3113PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3114
eba0c039
PH
3115PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3116 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3117 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3118
a0d6ba8a
PH
3119PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3120 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3121 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3122
f0917727
PH
3123PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3124 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3125 and treats the condition as false.
3126
096fee00
PH
3127PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3128
024bd3c2
PH
3129PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3130 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3131 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3132 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3133 not changing the active code.
3134
3135 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3136 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3137
3138 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3139 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3140
df199fec
PH
3141PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3142 (Bugzilla #53).
3143
d27f1df3
PH
3144PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3145 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3146 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3147 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3148 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3149 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3150 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3151 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3152 the text comparison.
3153
96776534
PH
3154PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3155 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3156 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3157 The same fix has been applied.
3158
5de37277 3159
9a799bc0
PH
3160Exim version 4.54
3161-----------------
3162
3163PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3164 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3165 It now does.
3166
99a4b039
PH
3167PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3168 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3169
3170PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3171
4b233853
PH
3172PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3173 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3174 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3175 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3176 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3177
8857ccfd
PH
3178TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3179 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3180 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3181 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3182 or /domain=).
3183
433a2980
PH
3184PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3185 testing suite.
3186
3e46c1aa 3187
9a799bc0 3188
e3a311ba
TK
3189Exim version 4.53
3190-----------------
3191
3192TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3193 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3194
13b685f9
PH
3195PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3196
395ff96d
PH
3197PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3198
5b68f6e4
PH
3199PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3200 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3201 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3202
1ab52c69
PH
3203PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3204 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3205 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3206
b07e6aa3
PH
3207PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3208 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3209 operating systems.
3210
254e032f
PH
3211PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3212 ${stat: expansion item.
3213
3af76a81
PH
3214PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3215 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3216
2548ba04
PH
3217PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3218 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3219 file for comments.
3220
b6c6011d
PH
3221PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3222
cf39cf57
PH
3223PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3224 setting.
3225
f1513293
PH
3226PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3227 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3228
727549a4
PH
3229TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3230
af46795e
PH
3231PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3232 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3233 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3234 the end of the subprocess.
3235
d7b47fd0
PH
3236PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3237 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3238 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3239 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3240 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3241
ee744174
JJ
3242JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3243
b582ab87
PH
3244TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3245
41a13e0a
PH
3246PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3247 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3248
f625cc5a
PH
3249PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3250
3251PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3252
21f7af35
PH
3253PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3254 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3255 HP-UX compiler.
3256
31480e42
PH
3257PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3258
2d280592
PH
3259PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3260 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3261 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3262
7cd1141b
PH
3263PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3264 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3265
3266PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3267 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3268
750af86e
PH
3269PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3270 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3271
3272 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3273 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3274
3275 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3276 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3277 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3278 contributed by a Radius user.
3279
3280PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3281 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3282
4304270b
TK
3283TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3284 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3285
750af86e
PH
3286PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3287 available.
3288
64ffc24f
PH
3289PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3290 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3291 received.
3292
5dd9625b
PH
3293PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3294 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3295 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3296 header lines when this was not necessary.
3297
5591031b
PH
3298PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3299
ba18e66a
PH
3300PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3301 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3302 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3303 exists".
3304
9cec981f
PH
3305PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3306 -bV or -d is used.
3307
aa2b5c79
PH
3308PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3309 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3310 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3311 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3312
48a53b7f
PH
3313PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3314
1c59d63b
PH
3315PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3316
671012da
TK
3317TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3318
1509d3a8
PH
3319PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3320
3321PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3322 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3323 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3324 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3325 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3326 settings.
3327
3328PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3329
2fe1a124
PH
3330PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3331 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3332 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3333 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3334 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3335 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3336 which is clearly wrong.
3337
8800895a
PH
3338PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3339
ccfdb010
PH
3340PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3341 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3342 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3343 subsequently added.
3344
1130bfb0
PH
3345PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3346 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3347
ebcb507f
PH
3348PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3349
c35e155c
PH
3350PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3351 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3352
95d1f782
PH
3353PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3354 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3355
fd6de02e
PH
3356PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3357 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3358
58de37c5
PH
3359PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3360 recipients, not senders.
3361
261cf466
TF
3362TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3363 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3364
3ee512ff
PH
3365PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3366
e08c430f
PH
3367PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3368
bef5a11f
PH
3369PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3370 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3371 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3372 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3373
7546de58
TF
3374TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3375
e5d5a95f
TF
3376TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3377 clock is set back in time.
3378
2e88a017
TF
3379TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3380 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3381
a5f65aa4
TF
3382TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3383 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3384
e7726cbf
PH
3385PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3386 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3387 (see PH/47 above).
3388
a7fdad5b
TF
3389TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3390 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3391 header rewrites.
3392
6af56900
PH
3393PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3394 type ("H").
3395
0925ede6
PH
3396PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3397
66afa403
TF
3398TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3399 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3400 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3401
0154e85a
TF
3402TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3403 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3404 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3405 helo verification defer as a failure.
3406
16f12c76
PH
3407PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3408 actual error message.
3409
bbe902f0 3410
e5a9dba6
PH
3411Exim version 4.52
3412-----------------
3413
3414TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3415
22c3b60b
PH
3416PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3417 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3418 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3419 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3420
06a9b4b5
PH
3421TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3422
c1ac6996
PH
3423PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3424 can still be requested.
3425
9c7a242c
PH
3426PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3427 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3428 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3429 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3430
87ba3f5f
PH
3431TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3432 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3433 circumstances, but probably never did.
3434
3435PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3436 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3437 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3438 in the header line.
3439
29aba418
TF
3440TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3441
fe0dab11
TF
3442TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3443 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3444
11d337a4
TK
3445TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3446
3447TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3448
415c8f3b
PH
3449PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3450 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3451 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3452 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3453 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3454 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3455
958541e9
PH
3456PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3457 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3458 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3459 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3460 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3461 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3462
c206415f
TK
3463TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3464 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3465
2a4be8f9
PH
3466PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3467 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3468
1cba11c5
SC
3469SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3470 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3471
3472SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3473
3474SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3475
3476SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3477
3478SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3479
3480SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3481
3482SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3483
1005d00e
TK
3484TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3485
3486TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3487 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3488 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3489
3490TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3491 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3492 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3493 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3494
9b4768fa
PH
3495PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3496 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3497 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3498
3499PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3500 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3501 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3502 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3503
0d7eb84a
PH
3504PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3505 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3506 to be made).
3507
3508PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3509 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3510 should work with maildirs and everything.
3511
40727bee
TK
3512TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3513 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3514
554d2369
TF
3515TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3516 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3517
1f922db1
PH
3518PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3519 function for BDB 4.3.
3520
ef213c3b
PH
3521PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3522
8ac170f3
PH
3523PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3524 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3525 involved.
3526
b1c749bb
PH
3527PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3528 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3529 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3530 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3531 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3532 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3533
4aac9b49
PH
3534PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3535 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3536 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3537 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3538 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3539 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3540 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3541 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3542
294520c8
TK
3543TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3544 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3545 details.
3546
5bd022fe
PH
3547PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3548 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3549
90e9ce59
PH
3550PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3551 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3552 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3553 test. It is now used for both.
3554
5ea81592
PH
3555PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3556 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3557 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3558 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3559 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3560 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3561
c6c2dc1d
PH
3562PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3563 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3564 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3565 string_vformat().
3566
fffffe4c
PH
3567PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3568 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3569 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3570
9a26b6b2
PH
3571PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3572 experimental DomainKeys support:
3573
3574 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3575 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3576 the control was given.
3577
3578 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3579
4aee0225
PH
3580PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3581
32d668a5
PH
3582PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3583
8187c3f3
PH
3584PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3585 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3586 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3587 db.h files).
3588
ff790e47 3589PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3590 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3591 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3592 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3593 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3594 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3595 course.
ff790e47 3596
5417f6d1
PH
3597PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3598 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3599 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3600 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3601 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3602 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3603
59cf8544
PH
3604PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3605 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3606 do -d+all out of habit.
3607
e7ad8a65
PH
3608PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3609 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3610 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3611
ade42478
PH
3612PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3613 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3614 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3615 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3616 record types that Exim uses.
3617
182ad5cf
PH
3618PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3619 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3620 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3621 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3622 non-existent file that was broken.
3623
b0d9fc80
TK
3624TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3625 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3626
3627TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3628 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3629 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3630
3631TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3632
47c7a64a
PH
3633PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3634 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3635 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3636 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3637 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3638 same time.
3639
a388bce4
SC
3640SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3641 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3642 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3643 at a slight CPU cost.
3644
3645SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3646 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3647
3648SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3649 by Marc Sherman.
3650
0793e4ed
SC
3651SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3652
c58b88df
PH
3653PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3654 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3655
e7ad8a65 3656
7982096b
PH
3657Exim version 4.51
3658-----------------
3659
1a46a8c5
PH
3660TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3661 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3662
2f079f46 3663TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3664
3665TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3666
3667PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3668 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3669
3670PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3671 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3672 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3673 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3674 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3675 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3676 file.
3677
3678PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3679 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3680 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3681 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3682 these two options.
3683
3684PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3685 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3686 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3687 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3688 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3689 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3690 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3691 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3692
3693PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3694 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3695
3696PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3697 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3698 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3699 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3700 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3701 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3702
3703PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3704 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3705 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3706 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3707
3708PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3709 Finch).
3710
3711PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3712 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3713
49c2d5ea
PH
3714PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3715 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3716 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3717 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3718 message.
49c2d5ea 3719
bf759a8b
PH
3720PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3721
83364d30
PH
3722PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3723 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3724
7999bbd7
PH
3725PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3726 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3727 to what was transported.)
3728
7dbf77c9
PH
3729TF/01 Added $received_time.
3730
74e0617f
PH
3731PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3732 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3733 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3734 spamd_address settings.
3735
2f079f46
PH
3736PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3737 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3738 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3739 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3740 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3741
8c841523
PH
3742PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3743
7766a4f0
PH
3744PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3745 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3746 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3747 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3748 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3749
8b417f2c
PH
3750PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3751 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3752
901f42cb
PH
3753PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3754 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3755 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3756 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3757 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3758 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3759 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3760 for failure.
3761
f9b9210e
PH
3762PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3763 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3764 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3765 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3766 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3767 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3768 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3769 "input=".
3770
54cdb463
PH
3771PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3772
cf00dad6
PH
3773PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3774 driver and ACL definitions.
3775
acb1b346
PH
3776PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3777 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3778
c5ddb310
PH
3779PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3780 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3781 understands it better than I do:
3782
3783 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3784 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3785
3786 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3787 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3788 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3789 => three warnings about OTP not working
3790 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3791
3792 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3793 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3794 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3795 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3796 for each call.)
3797 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3798 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3799
3800 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3801 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3802 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3803
31619da6
PH
3804PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3805 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3806 specified.
3807
bebaf0fc
PH
3808PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3809 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3810 "Linux".
3811
475fe28a
PH
3812PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3813 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3814 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3815
3816 warn !verify = sender
3817 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3818
3819 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3820 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3821
7e8bec7a
PH
3822PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3823
3824 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3825 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3826
3827 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3828 nomenclature these days.)
3829
e4a89c47
PH
3830PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3831 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3832
5ca2a9a1
PH
3833PH/30 In these circumstances:
3834 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3835 . First host does not offer TLS;
3836 . First host accepts first address;
3837 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3838 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3839 . Second host accepts second address.
3840 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3841 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3842 address.
7e8bec7a 3843
c688b954
PH
3844PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3845 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3846 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3847 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3848 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3849
fed77020
PH
3850PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3851 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3852
7fe1560f
PH
3853PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3854 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3855
ebb6e6d5
PH
3856PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3857 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3858 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3859
9c4e8f60
PH
3860PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3861 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3862 overlooked.
3863
3864PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3865
d7174846
PH
3866PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3867 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3868 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3869 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3870 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3871 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3872 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3873
3874 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3875 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3876 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3877 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3878 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3879
3880 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3881 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3882 routed further.
3883
cfe75fc3
PH
3884PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3885 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3886 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3887 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3888 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3889 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3890
be22d70e
PH
3891PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3892
0612b098
PH
3893PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3894 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3895 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3896 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3897 printable escape sequences.
3898
2e0c1448
PH
3899PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3900 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3901 body only.
3902
447d236c
PH
3903PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3904 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3905 are as follows:
3906
3907 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3908 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3909 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3910 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3911 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3912
3913 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3914 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3915 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3916
d20976dc
PH
3917PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3918
f656d135
PH
3919PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3920 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3921 play with."
3922
2e2a30b4
PH
3923PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3924 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3925 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3926 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3927 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3928 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3929 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3930 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3931 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3932 the log output.
3933
9176e9f0
PH
3934PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3935 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3936 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3937 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3938 "make".
3939
7982096b 3940
bbe902f0
PH
3941A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3942----------------------------------------
3943
3944Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3945changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3946needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3947in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3948that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3949release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3950from 4.43.
3951
3952I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39534.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3954those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3955historical information.
3956
3957
f7b63901 3958Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3959-----------------
3960
5fe762f6
PH
3961 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3962
139059f6 3963 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3964 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3965
7086e875
PH
3966 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3967 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3968 place.
3969
35af9f61
PH
3970 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3971 filter fails to execute.
3972
b668c215
PH
3973 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3974 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3975 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3976 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3977 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3978
a494b1e1
PH
3979 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3980
3981 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3982 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3983 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3984 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3985
c5fcb476
PH
3986 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3987 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3988 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3989 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3990 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3991
69358f02
PH
3992 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3993
5be20824
PH
399410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3995
eb2c0248
PH
399611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3997 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3998 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3999 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4000
2a3eea10
PH
400112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4002 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4003 sender verification.
4004
400513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4006 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4007
23c7ff99
PH
400814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4009
4deaf07d
PH
401015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4011 connection timeout.
4012
926e1192
PH
401316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4014 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4015
650edc6f
PH
401617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4017 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4018
2c7db3f5
PH
401918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4020 information about exactly what failed.
4021
3d235903
PH
402219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4023
7c7ad977
PH
402420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4025 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4026 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4027
981756db
PH
402821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4029 It is now set to "smtps".
4030
d4eb88df
PH
403122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4032 ignore_target_hosts.
4033
403423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4035 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4036 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4037 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4038 "[x.x.x.x]".
4039
7d468ab8
PH
404024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4041 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4042 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4043
404425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4045 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4046 wake it up if nothing else does.
4047
62c0818f
PH
404826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4049 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4050 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4051 end up negative.
4052
26034054
PH
405327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4054 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4055
af66f652
PH
405628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4057
90af77f4
PH
405829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4059 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4060 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4061 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4062 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4063 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4064 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4065 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4066
d8ef3577
PH
406730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4068 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4069 than one IP address.
4070
5cb8cbc6
PH
407131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4072 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4073 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4074 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4075
14702f5b
PH
407632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4077 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4078 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4079 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4080 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4081 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4082
063b1e99
PH
408333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4084 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4085 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4086 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4087
652e1b65
PH
408834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4089 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4090 respected.
4091
6f0c9a4f
PH
409235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4093 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4094 $sender_host_address.
4095
33397d19
PH
409636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4097 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4098 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4099 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4100 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4101 very small.
4102
7bb56e1f
PH
410337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4104
4105 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4106 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4107
ea3bc19b
PH
4108 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4109 just the host names, not the priorities.
4110
4111 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4112 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4113 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4114
ea3bc19b 4115 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4116 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4117
0bcb2a0e
PH
411838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4119 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4120 domain.
4121
2ac0e484
PH
412239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4123
4e1fde53
PH
412440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4125 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4126
de365ded
PH
412741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4128 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4129 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4130
f05da2e8
PH
413142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4132
d6453af2
PH
413343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4134
f7b63901
PH
413544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4136
413745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4138 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4139 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4140 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4141 because the tests only now provoked it.
4142
a444213a
PH
414346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4144 (this can affect the format of dates).
4145
0ec020ea
PH
414647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4147 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4148 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4149 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4150
b1206957
PH
415148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4152
415349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4154 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4155 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4156 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4157
26dd5a95
PH
415850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4159 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4160 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4161
343b2385
PH
416251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4163 autoreply.
4164
1c5466b9
PH
416552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4166 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4167 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4168 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4169 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4170 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4171 is going on).
4172
55ee9ee3
PH
417353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4174 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4175 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4176 the line.
4177
d38f8232
PH
417854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4179 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4180 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4181
4182 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4183 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4184 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4185 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4186 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4187 so I produce this patch..."
4188
3295e65b
PH
4189 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4190 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4191 is not defined.
4192
7102e136
PH
419355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4194 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4195 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4196 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4197 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4198
3ca0ba97
PH
419956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4200
c2bcbe20
PH
420157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4202 long debug lines gets shown.
4203
18ce445d
PH
420458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4205 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4206
1f5b4c3d
PH
420759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4208
4209 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4210 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4211 of $primary_hostname.
4212
b975ba52
PH
421360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4214 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4215 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4216 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4217 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4218 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4219 by change 4.50/55 above.
4220
4221 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4222 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4223 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4224 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4225 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4226 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4227 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4228
422961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4230 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4231 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4232 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4233
17ffcae7
PH
423462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4235 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4236
d95f9fdb
PH
423763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4238 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4239 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4240 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4241 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4242
86b8287f
PH
424364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4244 This has been fixed.
4245
60dc5e56
PH
424665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4247 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4248 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4249 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4250 the caching.)
4251
533244af
PH
425266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4253
a5a28604
PH
425467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4255 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4256 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4257 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4258
7e634d24
PH
425968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4260 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4261
3e11c26b
PH
426269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4263 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4264 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4265
6729cf78
PH
426670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4267 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4268 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4269 message there.
4270
00f00ca5
PH
427171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4272 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4273 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4274
c9bdd01c
PH
427572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4276 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4277 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4278 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4279
d43194df
PH
428073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4281 during host lookups.
4282
fe5b5d0b
PH
428374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4284 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4285
4286 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4287
76a2d7ba
PH
428875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4289 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4290 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4291 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4292 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4293 background.
4294
429576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4296 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4297
04f7d5b9
PH
429877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4299 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4300 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4301
bc60667e
PH
430278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4303
bb6e88ff
PH
430479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4305 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4306 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4307 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4308 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4309 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4310 process earlier.
4311
1e70f85b
PH
431280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4313 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4314 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4315 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4316 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4317
431881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4319 tables).
4320
4e01f9d6
PH
432182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4322
1ee1cef2
PH
432383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4324 "vacation" handling.
4325
6e2b4ccc
PH
432684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4327 OS variants using glibc.
4328
8e669ac1
PH
432985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4330
495ae4b0 4331
bbe902f0
PH
4332----------------------------------------------------
4333See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4334----------------------------------------------------
4335
4336
4337Exim version 4.44
4338-----------------
4339
4340 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4341 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4342 transport
4343
4344 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4345 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4346 place.
4347
4348 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4349 filter fails to execute.
4350
4351 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4352 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4353 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4354 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4355 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4356
4357 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4358 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4359 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4360 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4361
4362 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4363 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4364 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4365 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4366 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4367
4368 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4369
4370 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4371 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4372 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4373 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4374
4375 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4376 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4377 sender verification.
4378
437910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4380 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4381
438211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4383 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4384
438512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4386 ignore_target_hosts.
4387
438813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4389 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4390 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4391 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4392 "[x.x.x.x]".
4393
439414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4395 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4396 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4397
439815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4399 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4400 wake it up if nothing else does.
4401
440216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4403 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4404 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4405 end up negative.
4406
440717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4408 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4409
ea3a6f44 441018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4411
441219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4413 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4414 empty pattern.
4415
441620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4417 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4418 one IP address.
4419
ea3a6f44
NM
442021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4421 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4422 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4423 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4424 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4425 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4426
ea3a6f44
NM
442722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4428 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4429 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4430
443123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4432 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4433 $sender_host_address.
4434
443524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4436
ea3a6f44
NM
443725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4438 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4439 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4440
444126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4442 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4443
ea3a6f44
NM
444427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4445 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4446
ea3a6f44
NM
444728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4448 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4449 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4450 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4451
445229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4453 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4454 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4455
ea3a6f44
NM
445630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4457 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4458 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4459 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4460
ea3a6f44
NM
446131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4462 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4463 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4464
ea3a6f44
NM
446531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4466 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4467
ea3a6f44
NM
446832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4469 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4470 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4471 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4472 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4473 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4474 is going on).
bbe902f0 4475
ea3a6f44
NM
447633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4477 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4478 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4479 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4480 CAN-2005-0021
4481
ea3a6f44
NM
448234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4483 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4484 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4485 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4486 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4487 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4488 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4489
4490 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4491 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4492 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4493 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4494 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4495 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4496 CAN-2005-0021
4497
ea3a6f44
NM
449835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4499 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4500 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4501 CAN-2005-0022
4502
ea3a6f44
NM
450336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4504 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4505 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4506 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4507 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4508
ea3a6f44
NM
450937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4510 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4511 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4512 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4513 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4514
ea3a6f44
NM
451538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4516 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4517 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4518 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4519 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4520
4521
495ae4b0
PH
4522Exim version 4.43
4523-----------------
4524
4525 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4526 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4527 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4528 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4529 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4530 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4531 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4532
4533 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4534 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4535 the delivery.
4536
4537 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4538
4539 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4540
4541 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4542 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4543 to local_scan().
4544
4545 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4546 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4547 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4548 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4549 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4550
4551 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4552 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4553
4554 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4555
4556 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4557
455810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4559 header_sender only.
4560
456111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4562 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4563
456412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4565 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4566 affecting debugging statements).
4567
456813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4569
457014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4571 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4572 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4573 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4574 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4575 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4576 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4577 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4578 after the received time, and all would be well.
4579
458015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4581 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4582 condition in an expansion string.
4583
458416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4585
458617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4587 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4588 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4589 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4590 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4591 job under whatever limits there are.
4592
459318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4594
459519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4596 space).
4597
459820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4599 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4600 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4601 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4602 return path is set.
4603
460421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4605 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4606 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4607 binary data in such strings.
4608
460922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4610
461123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4612 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4613 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4614 failure, which is pointless.
4615
461624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4617
461825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4619
462026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4621 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4622 Sender: header lines.
4623
462427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4625 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4626 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4627
462828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4629 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4630 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4631 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4632 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4633 happens.
4634
463529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4636 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4637 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4638 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4639 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4640
464130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4642 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4643 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4644 1024.
4645
464631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4647 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4648
464932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4650 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4651
465233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4653
465432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4655
465633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4657
465834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4659 syntax error.
4660
466135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4662
466336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4664
466537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4666 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4667 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4668 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4669
467038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4671 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4672
4673
4674Exim version 4.42
4675-----------------
4676
4677 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4678 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4679 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4680 it was not quoted.
4681 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4682 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4683 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4684 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4685 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4686 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4687
4688 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4689 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4690 verification failure".
4691
4692 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4693 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4694 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4695 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4696
4697 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4698 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4699 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4700 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4701 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4702 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4703 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4704 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4705 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4706 treated as a timeout.
4707
4708 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4709 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4710 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4711 not set for Exim filters).
4712
4713 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4714 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4715 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4716
4717 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4718
4719 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4720 try to make them clearer.
4721
4722 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4723 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4724
4725 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4726
4727 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4728
472910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4730 only the Cygwin environment.
4731
473211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4733 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4734 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4735 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4736 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4737
473812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4739 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4740 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4741 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4742 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4743 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4744 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4745
474613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4747 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4748
474914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4750
4751 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4752 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4753 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4754
4755 To: susanne@some.where
4756
4757 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4758 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4759 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4760 of addresses in From: header lines).
4761
4762 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4763 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4764 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4765
4766 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4767 treated as non-personal.
4768
4769 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4770 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4771
477215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4773
477416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4775
477617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4777 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4778 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4779
478018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4781 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4782
478319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4784 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4785 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4786 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4787 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4788 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4789
479020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4791 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4792 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4793 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4794 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4795 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4796 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4797 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4798
4799 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4800
480121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4802 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4803
480422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4805 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4806 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4807
480823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4809 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4810
481124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4812 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4813 rather than long int.
4814
481525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4816
481726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4818
4819
4820Exim version 4.41
4821-----------------
4822
4823 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4824 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4825 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4826 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4827 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4828 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4829
4830
4831Exim version 4.40
4832-----------------
4833
4834 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4835 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4836
4837 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4838 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4839 socklen_t is defined.
4840
4841 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4842 always exist.
4843
4844 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4845 configured.
4846
4847 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4848 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4849 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4850 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4851 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4852
4853 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4854 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4855 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4856 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4857
4858 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4859 of flapping under certain conditions.
4860
4861 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4862 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4863 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4864
4865 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4866
486710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4868
486911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4870 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4871 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4872 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4873
487412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4875 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4876 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4877 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4878 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4879 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4880 preserved with the message after it was received.
4881
488213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4883 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4884 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4885 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4886 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4887 test suite worked just fine.
4888
488914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4890 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4891 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4892
489315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4894 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4895 string.
4896
489716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4898 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4899 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4900 does not fully solve it.
4901
490217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4903 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4904 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4905 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4906 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4907
490818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4909 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4910 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4911
491219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4913 string, for example:
4914
4915 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4916
4917 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4918 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4919 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4920 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4921 the routers could not see them.
4922
492320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4924 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4925
492621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4927 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4928 output).
4929
493022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4931 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4932 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4933 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4934 that needed quoting.
4935
493623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4937 was not being matched caselessly.
4938
493924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4940 backslashes.
4941
494225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4943 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4944 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4945 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4946 when use_sender is false.
4947
494826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4949
495027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4951
495228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4953
495429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4955 the configuration file.
4956
495730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4958 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4959
496031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4961
496232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4963 bytes in the message body.
4964
496533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4966 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4967 delivery.
4968
496934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4970
497135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4972
497336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4974 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4975 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4976 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4977 another IP address.
4978
4979
4980Exim version 4.34
4981-----------------
4982
4983 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4984 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4985
4986 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4987 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4988 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4989 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4990 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4991
4992 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4993 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4994
4995 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4996 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4997 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4998
4999 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5000 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5001 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5002
5003 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5004 for routers.
5005
5006 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5007 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5008 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5009 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5010 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5011 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5012 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5013
5014
5015Exim version 4.33
5016-----------------
5017
5018 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5019 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5020 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5021 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5022 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5023 default (and expected) setting.
5024
5025 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5026 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5027 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5028 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5029
5030 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5031 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5032
5033 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5034 in domain lists.
5035
5036 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5037 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5038 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5039 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5040 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5041 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5042
5043 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5044 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5045 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5046
5047 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5048 part (NOT match_host).
5049
5050 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5051
5052 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5053 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5054 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5055 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5056 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5057 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5058 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5059 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5060 the same named file.
5061
506210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5063 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5064 when Exim is built.
5065
506611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5067 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5068 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5069 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5070 a host name.
5071
507212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5073 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5074 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5075
507613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5077
507814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5079
508015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5081
508216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5083 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5084
508517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5086 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5087 before starting the TLS session.
5088
508918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5090
509119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5092 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5093
509420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5095 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5096 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5097 colon in the middle).
5098
5099
5100Exim version 4.32
5101-----------------
5102
5103 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5104 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5105 multiple configurations are in use.
5106
5107 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5108 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5109 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5110 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5111 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5112 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5113
5114 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5115 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5116
5117 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5118 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5119 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5120
5121 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5122 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5123 occurs.
5124
5125 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5126 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5127
5128 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5129
5130 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5131 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5132
5133 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5134
5135 -prval:sval
5136
5137 is equivalent to
5138
5139 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5140
5141 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5142 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5143 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5144 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5145 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5146
514710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5148 Exim's behaviour:
5149
5150 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5151 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5152 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5153 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5154 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5155 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5156
5157 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5158 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5159 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5160 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5161 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5162 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5163 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5164 string.
5165
5166 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5167 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5168 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5169 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5170 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5171
517211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5173
517412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5175 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5176 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5177
517813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5179
518014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5181 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5182 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5183 information.
5184
518515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5186 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5187
518816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5189 Three changes have been made:
5190
5191 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5192 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5193 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5194 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5195 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5196
5197 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5198 been restored.
5199
5200 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5201 the modified behaviour.
5202
5203
5204Exim version 4.31
5205-----------------
5206
5207 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5208 Larry Rosenman.
5209
5210 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5211 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5212
5213 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5214 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5215 try to track down a specific problem.
5216
5217 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5218 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5219 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5220
5221 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5222 warning.
5223
5224 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5225 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5226 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5227 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5228 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5229 some earlier ones do not.
5230
5231 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5232
5233 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5234 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5235 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5236 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5237 address literals are enabled, of course).
5238
5239 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5240
524110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5242 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5243 by a command such as
5244
5245 exim -f "" ...
5246
5247 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5248
524911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5250
525112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5252 remained set. It is now erased.
5253
525413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5255 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5256
525714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5258 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5259 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5260 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5261 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5262 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5263 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5264 appropriate error code.
5265
526615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5267 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5268 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5269 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5270 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5271 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5272
527316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5274 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5275 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5276
527717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5278 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5279 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5280 terminate the header.
5281
528218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5283 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5284 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5285
528619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5287 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5288 (4.30/29). In particular:
5289
5290 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5291 imposed.
5292
5293 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5294 to write a maildirsize file.
5295
5296 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5297 the transport, the new value overrides.
5298
5299 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5300 count.
5301
530220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5303 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5304 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5305 space or a tab.
5306
530721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5308 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5309 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5310 the fallback hosts.
5311
531222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5313 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5314 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5315
531623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5317 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5318 using a union.
5319
532024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5321 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5322 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5323
532425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5325
532626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5327
532827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5329
533028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5331 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5332 become corrupted.
5333
533429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5335 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5336 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5337 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5338 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5339 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5340 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5341 too great.
5342
534330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5344 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5345 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5346 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5347 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5348 incorrectly.
5349
535031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5351 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5352 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5353 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5354 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5355 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5356 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5357 cached value only when the same options are set.
5358
535932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5360
536133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5362 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5363 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5364 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5365 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5366
536734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5368 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5369 it is clearly obsolete.
5370
537135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5372 transport.
5373
537436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5375 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5376 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5377 times.
5378
537937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5380 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5381 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5382 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5383 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5384
538538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5386 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5387 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5388 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5389
539039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5391
5392 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5393
5394 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5395 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5396 2^31.
5397
539840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5399 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5400 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5401 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5402 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5403 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5404 $localpart_data.
5405
540641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5407 with the -f command-line option.
5408
540942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5410 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5411 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5412 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5413 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5414 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5415
541643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5417 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5418 line.
5419
542044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5421 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5422 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5423 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5424 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5425 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5426 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5427 buffer is too small.
5428
542945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5430 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5431
543246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5433 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5434 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5435 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5436 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5437 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5438 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5439 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5440 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5441
544247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5443 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5444 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5445
544648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5447 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5448 ACL").
5449
545049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5451 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5452 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5453 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5454 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5455
545650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5457 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5458 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5459 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5460 is set.
5461
546251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5463
546452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5465
546653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5467 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5468
546954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5470 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5471 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5472
547355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5474 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5475 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5476 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5477 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5478
547956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5480 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5481 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5482 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5483 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5484 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5485 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5486
548757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5488 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5489 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5490 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5491 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5492 the test of how many are available.
5493
549458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5495 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5496 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5497 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5498 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5499 new message is started.
5500
550159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5502 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5503
550460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5505 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5506
550761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5508 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5509 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5510 is no long logged.
5511
551262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5513 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5514 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5515 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5516 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5517 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5518 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5519
552063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5521 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5522 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5523 interpreted as octal.
5524
552564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5526 setting.
5527
552865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5529 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5530 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5531 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5532 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5533 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5534
553566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5536 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5537 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5538 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5539
5540 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5541 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5542 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5543 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5544
5545 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5546 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5547 is a bug fix.
5548
5549 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5550 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5551
555267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5553
555468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5555 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5556 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5557 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5558
555969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5560 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5561 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5562 supplied", which is not helpful.
5563
556470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5565 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5566 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5567
556871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5569 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5570 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5571 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5572 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5573 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5574 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5575 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5576
557772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5578 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5579 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5580 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5581 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5582
558373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5584 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5585 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5586 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5587 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5588 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5589
559074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5591 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5592 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5593
559475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5595
559676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5597 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5598 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5599 variables.
5600
560177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5602
560378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5604 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5605 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5606 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5607 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5608 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5609 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5610 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5611
561279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5613 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5614 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5615 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5616 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5617
561880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5619 Haardt.
5620
562181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5622 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5623 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5624 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5625 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5626 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5627 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5628 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5629 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5630
5631
5632Exim version 4.30
5633-----------------
5634
5635 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5636 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5637 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5638
5639 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5640 fixed.
5641
5642 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5643 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5644 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5645
5646 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5647 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5648 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5649 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5650 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5651 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5652
5653 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5654 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5655 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5656 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5657 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5658 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5659 the Exim test suite.
5660
5661 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5662 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5663 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5664 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5665
5666 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5667 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5668 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5669 specify it in this variable.
5670
5671 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5672 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5673 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5674 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5675
5676 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5677 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5678 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5679 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5680
5681 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5682 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5683 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5684 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5685 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5686
5687 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5688
568910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5690 they are logged.
5691
569211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5693 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5694 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5695 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5696 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5697
569812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5699 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5700
570113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5702 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5703 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5704 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5705 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5706
570714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5708 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5709
571015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5711 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5712 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5713
571416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5715 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5716
571717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5718 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5719
572018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5721 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5722 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5723
572419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5725 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5726
572720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5728 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5729 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5730 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5731
573221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5733
573422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5735 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5736 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5737 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5738
573923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5740
574124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5742 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5743
574425. Added .include_if_exists.
5745
574626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5747 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5748 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5749 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5750 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5751 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5752
575327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5754
575528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5756 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5757 this.
5758
575929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5760
576130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5762 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5763
5764 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5765 550 Sender verify failed
5766
5767 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5768 the final line of the response.
5769
577031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5771 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5772 all other user lookups.
5773
577432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5775 delivery time.
5776
577733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5778 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5779 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5780 result into an int without checking.
5781
578234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5783 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5784 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5785
578635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5787 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5788 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5789 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5790
579136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5792 correctly.
5793
579437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5795 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5796
579738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5798 to the empty sender.
5799
580039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5801 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5802 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5803 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5804 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5805 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5806 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5807 panic log.
5808
580940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5810 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5811 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5812 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5813 used.
5814
581541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5816 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5817
581842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5819 timestamps.
5820
582143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5822 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5823
582444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5825
582645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5827 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5828 logs.
5829
583046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5831 as soon as it is encountered.
5832
583347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5834
583548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5836 rewritten to "<>".
5837
583849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5839 recognizes a tab character.
5840
584150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5842 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5843 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5844 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5845
584651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5847
584852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5849 crash.
5850
585153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5852
585354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5854
585555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5856 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5857 2822.
5858
585956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5860 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5861 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5862 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5863 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5864
586557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5866 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5867
586858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5869 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5870 list (.included file names were always shown).
5871
587259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5873 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5874 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5875 root at that time.
5876
587760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5878 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5879
588061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5881
588262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5883
588463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5885
588664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5887 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5888 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5889 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5890 failures to open the logs.
5891
589265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5893 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5894 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5895 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5896 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5897 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5898 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5899
5900
5901Exim version 4.24
5902-----------------
5903
5904 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5905 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5906 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5907 change 4.23/1.
5908
5909 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5910 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5911 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5912
5913 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5914 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5915 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5916
5917 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5918 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5919 causing some misleading effects.
5920
5921 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5922 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5923 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5924
5925 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5926 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5927 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5928 queue-runner function directly.
5929
5930
5931Exim version 4.23
5932-----------------
5933
5934 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5935 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5936
5937 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5938 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5939 was always written to the default place.
5940
5941 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5942 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5943 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5944
5945 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5946
5947 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5948
5949 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5950 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5951 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5952
5953 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5954 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5955 must start.
5956
5957 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5958 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5959 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5960
5961 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5962 command line option is disabled.
5963
5964 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5965 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5966
5967 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5968
5969 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5970
5971 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5972 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5973
597410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5975
597611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5977 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5978 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5979 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5980 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5981 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5982
598312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5984 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5985 timeout.
5986
598713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5988 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5989
599014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5991 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5992
599315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5994 received was valid base64.
5995
599616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5997 name of the variable that was being set.
5998
599917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6000
600118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6002 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6003 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6004 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6005 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6006 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6007
600819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6009
601020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6011 nor realm was specified.
6012
601321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6014 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6015 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6016 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6017
601822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6019 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6020 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6021
602223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6023 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6024 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6025
602624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6027 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6028 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6029 some systems use these upper case variants.
6030
603125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6032 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6033 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6034 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6035
603626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6037
603827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6039 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6040
604128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6042 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6043 expansion variable.
6044
604529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6046
604730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6048 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6049 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6050 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6051
605231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6053 using it.
6054
605532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6056 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6057 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6058
605933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6060 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6061
606234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6063 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6064 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6065 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6066
606735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6068 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6069 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6070
607136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6072
607337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6074 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6075 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6076 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6077 aborted.
6078
607938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6080 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6081 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6082
608339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6084
608540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6086 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6087
608841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6089 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6090
609142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6092 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6093 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6094 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6095 when emails are that large.
6096
6097
6098
6099Exim version 4.22
6100-----------------
6101
6102 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6103 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6104
6105 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6106 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6107 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6108
6109 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6110 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6111 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6112
6113 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6114 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6115 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6116 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6117 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6118
6119 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6120 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6121 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6122 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6123 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6124 ever.
6125
6126 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6127 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6128 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6129 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6130 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6131 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6132 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6133 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6134 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6135 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6136 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6137 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6138 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6139 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6140
6141 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6142 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6143 parameterised it.
6144
6145 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6146 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6147 error should be diagnosed.
6148
6149 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6150 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6151 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6152 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6153 appeared instead of "NULL".
6154
615510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6156 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6157 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6158 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6159 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6160 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6161 proceeds).
6162
6163 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6164 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6165 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6166
6167
6168Exim version 4.21
6169-----------------
6170
6171 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6172 or receiver verification errors.
6173
6174 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6175 name.
6176
6177 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6178 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6179 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6180 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6181
6182 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6183 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6184 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6185 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6186 shouldn't happen again.
6187
6188 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6189 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6190 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6191
6192 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6193 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6194
6195 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6196
6197 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6198 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6199
6200 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6201 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6202 RFC.
6203
620410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6205 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6206 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6207
620811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6209 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6210 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6211 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6212
621312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6214 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6215 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6216 to define what should happen).
6217
621813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6219 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6220 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6221
622214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6223
622415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6225
622616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6227 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6228
622917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6230 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6231 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6232 structure in all cases.
6233
6234 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6235 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6236 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6237 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6238
623918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6240 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6241 domain name.
6242
624319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6244 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6245
624620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6247 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6248
624921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6250 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6251 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6252
625322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6254 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6255 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6256
625723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6258 the book and for uniformity.
6259
626024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6261
626225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6263 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6264 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6265 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6266 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6267 non-existent command as the problem.
6268
626926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6270 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6271 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6272
627327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6274
627528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6276 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6277 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6278
627929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6280 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6281 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6282 timestamps using strftime().
6283
628430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6285 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6286
628732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6288 transport-time rewrites.
6289
629033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6291 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6292 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6293 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6294
629534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6296 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6297
629835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6299 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6300 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6301 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6302 comma and a space.
6303
630436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6305 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6306 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6307 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6308 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6309 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6310 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6311
631237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6313 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6314 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6315 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6316 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6317
631838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6319 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6320 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6321 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6322 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6323 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6324 remaining text gets split now.
6325
632639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6327 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6328 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6329 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6330
633140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6332 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6333 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6334 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6335 $return_path.
6336
633741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6338 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6339 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6340 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6341 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6342 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6343 passed through if needed.
6344
634542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6346 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6347 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6348 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6349 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6350 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6351
635243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6353 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6354 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6355 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6356 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6357
635844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6359 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6360 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6361 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6362 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6363
636445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6365 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6366 noticed.
6367
636846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6369 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6370 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6371 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6372 mayhem of various kinds.
6373
637447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6375 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6376 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6377 the right test for positive values.
6378
637948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6380 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6381 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6382 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6383 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6384 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6385 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6386 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6387 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6388 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6389 envelope.
6390
639149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6392 module.
6393
639450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6395 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6396 forbidding it.
6397
639851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6399 the existing equality matching.
6400
640152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6402 dealing with inode numbers.
6403
640453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6405 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6406 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6407
640854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6409 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6410 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6411 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6412 local_scan().
6413
641455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6415 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6416 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6417 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6418 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6419 relay addresses has also been removed.
6420
642156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6422
642357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6424 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6425 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6426
642758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6428 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6429 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6430 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6431 processing applies to CR:
6432
6433 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6434 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6435
6436 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6437 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6438 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6439 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6440
644159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6442 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6443 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6444
644560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6446 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6447 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6448 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6449 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6450 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6451 arisen.
6452
645361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6454 program routers.
6455
645662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6457 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6458 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6459 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6460 adds:
6461
6462 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6463
6464 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6465
6466 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6467
646863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6469 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6470 not considered personal.
6471
647264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6473
647465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6475
647666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6477
647867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6479 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6480 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6481 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6482 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6483 header lines, and spool format errors.
6484
648568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6486 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6487 for more flexibility.
6488
648969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6490 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6491 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6492
649370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6494 Sabourenkov.
6495
649671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6497 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6498 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6499 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6500 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6501 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6502 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6503 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6504 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6505
650672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6507 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6508 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6509 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6510 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6511 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6512 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6513
651473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6515 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6516 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6517
651874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6519 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6520 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6521 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6522 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6523 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6524 instead of killing the process with assert().
6525
652675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6527 than Unicode encoding.
6528
652976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6530 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6531 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6532 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6533
653477. Added process_log_path.
6535
653678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6537 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6538
653979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6540 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6541
654280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6543 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6544 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6545
654681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6547 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6548 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6549 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6550 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6551 were applied:
6552
6553 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6554 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6555 as invalid.
6556
655782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6558 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6559 they will be used during message reception.
6560
6561
6562Exim version 4.20
6563-----------------
6564
6565The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6566
6567****