Test tidies (previously overlooked).
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8TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
9 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
10 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
11 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
12 these files.
13
14TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
15 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
16 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
17
18TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
19 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
20 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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22TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
23 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
24 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
25 in the field name.
26
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27PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
28 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
29 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
30 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
31 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
32 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
33 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
34 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
35 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
36 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
37 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
38
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39PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
40 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
41
42PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
43 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
44 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
45 ignores EPIPE as well.
46
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47PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
48 (quoted-printable decoding).
49
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21a04aa3 51 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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53PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
54
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55PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
56
57PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
58
38a0a95f 59PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 60 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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62JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
63 in 4.64-PH/09.
64
65JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
66 miscellaneous code fixes
67
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68PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
69 rejections.
70
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71PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
72 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
73 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
74 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
75 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
76 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
77 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
78 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 80PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 81 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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82 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
83 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
84 function.
85 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
86 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
87 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
88 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
89 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
90 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
91 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
92 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
93 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
94
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95PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
96 decoding.
97
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98PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
99 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
100 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
101 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
102 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
103 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
104 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
105 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
106
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107PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
108 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
109 list.
110
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111PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
112 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
113 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
114 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
115 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
116 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
117 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
118 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
119 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
120 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
121 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
122 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
123 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
124
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125PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
126 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
127 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
128 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
129 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
130 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
131 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
132
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133PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
134 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
135 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
136 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
137 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
138 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
139 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
140 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
141 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
142 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
143
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144PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
145 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
146 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
147 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
148 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
149
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150PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
151 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
152 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
153 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
154 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
155 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
156 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
157
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158PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
159 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
160 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
161 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
162 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
163 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
164 been verified.
165
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167 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
168 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
169 and authorization.)
170
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171PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
172 if any retry times were supplied.
173
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174PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
175 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
176 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
177
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178PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
179
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180PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
181
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182PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
183 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
184 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
185 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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186 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
187 before) are ignored.
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189PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
190 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
191
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192PH/29 After an address error (typically a 4xx response from a server), Exim
193 always tries the failing address if it appears in a new message, but
194 respects the retry time otherwise. This was implemented by checking for
195 being in a queue run, which isn't quite right. Now it checks the
196 "first_delivery" flag instead.
197
198PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
199 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
200 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
201 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
202 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
203 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
204 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
205 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
206 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
207
208 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
209 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
210 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
211 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
212 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
213 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
214 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
215 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
216 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
217
218 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
219 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
220 hammering the server.
221
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225
226SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
227 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
228
229SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
230 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
231 there is data to show.
232 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
233
234SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
235 as the number of messages in eximstats.
236
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237TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
238 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
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240TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
241 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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243TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
244 submissions from trusted users.
245
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246TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
247 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
248
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249TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
250 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
251 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
252 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
253 there is now a framework to start from.
254
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255PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
256 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
257 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
258
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259PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
260
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261PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
262
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263PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
264
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265PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
266 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
267 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
268
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269PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
270 libradius.
271
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272PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
273 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
274 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
275
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276PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
277 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
278 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
279 its arguments.
280
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281PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
282 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
283 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
284 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
285 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
286
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287PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
288 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
289
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290PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
291
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292PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
293 operations in malware.c.
294
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295PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
296 signatures.
297
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298PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
299 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
300 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
301 all.
302
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303PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
304 statements to "add_header".
305
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306PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
307 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
308
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309PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
310 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
311 latter.
312
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314 so that it is now:
315
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316 ${if or { \
317 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
318 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
319 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
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320 }{no}{yes}}
321
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322 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
323 don't think Precedence: ever was.
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325PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
326 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
327
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328PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
329 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
330 any possible encoding problems.
331
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332PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
333 but not after initializing Perl.
334
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335PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
336 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
337 apparently, which is not desirable.
338
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339PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
340 queries.
341
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342JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
343 --not options
344
345JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
346
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347PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
348 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
349 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
350 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
351
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352PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
353 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
354 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
355
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356PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
357 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
358 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
359 0.12.
360
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361PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
362 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
363 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
364 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
365 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
366
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370
371TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
372 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
373
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374PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
375 patch).
376
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377PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
378 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
379 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
380 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
381 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
382 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
383 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
384 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
385 451 error is used.
386
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387PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
388
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389PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
390 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
391 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
392
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393PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
394 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
395 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
396 odd errors.
397
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398PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
399 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
400
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401PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
402 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
403 option (which defaults to 0600).
404
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405PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
406
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407PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
408 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
409 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
410 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
411 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
412 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
413 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
414
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415PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
416
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421PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
422 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
423 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
424 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
425 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
426 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
427 addresses as local.
428
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429PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
430 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
431
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432PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
433
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434PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
435 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
436 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
437 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
438 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
439 grumble.
440
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441PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
442 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
443
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444PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
445 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
446 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
447 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
448 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
449
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450PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
451 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
452 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
453 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
454
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455PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
456 be the same on different OS.
457
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458PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
459 testing.
460
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461JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
462 whether --show-vars was specified or not
463
464JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
465 in 4.61-PH/06
466
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467PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
468 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
469 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
470 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
471 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
472 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
473 bounce message.
474
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475PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
476 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
477 when Exim was called.
478
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479PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
480 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
481
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482PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
483 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
484 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
485 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
486
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487PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
488 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
489 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
490 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
491 changes:
492
493 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
494 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
495 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
496
497 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
498 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
499 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
500
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501PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
502 feature).
503
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504PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
505 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
506 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
507 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
508 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
509 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
510 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
511 values from the SRV records were lost.
512
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513PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
514 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
515 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
516
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517PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
518 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
519 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
520
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521PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
522 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
523 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
524 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
525 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
526 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
527 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
528 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
529 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 530 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
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532PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
533 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
534 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
535
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536PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
537 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
538
539PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
540 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
541 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
542 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
543 is given.
544
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545PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
546 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
547 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
548
549PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
550 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
551 PH/23 above applies.
552
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553PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
554 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
555 (for which there is an explicit test).
556
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557PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
558
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559PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
560 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
561 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
562 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
563 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 564
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565PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
566 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
567 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
568 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
569
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570PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
571 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
572 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
573
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574PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
575
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576PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
577
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578PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
579 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
580 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
581
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582PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
583 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
584 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
585 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
586 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
587
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588PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
589 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
590 the message gets confusing).
591
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592PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
593 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
594 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
595 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
596
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597PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
598 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
599 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
600 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
601 same order.
602
603PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
604 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
605 the different processes.
606
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607PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
608
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609PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
610
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611JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
612 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
613
614JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
615 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
616
617JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
618 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
619 messages matching specified criteria.
620
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621PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
622
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623PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
624 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
625
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626PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
627 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
628 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
629 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
630 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
631 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
632 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
633 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
634 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
635 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
636
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637PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
638 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
639 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
640
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641PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
642
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643PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
644 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
645 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
646 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
647 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
648 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
649 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
650 the variable.
651
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652PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
653 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
654
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655PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
656
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657PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
658
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659PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
660
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661PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
662 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
663 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
664 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
665 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
666 size of the count of files.
667
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668PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
669
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670PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
671 used in LMTP mode:
672
673 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
674 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
675 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
676 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
677
678 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
679 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
680 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
681
682PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
683 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
684 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
685 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
686 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
687
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688PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
689 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
690
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691PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
692 will now be deprecated.
693
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694PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
695
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696JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
697 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
698 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
699
700JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
701 with very large, slow to parse queues
702
703JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
704
705JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
706
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707PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
708 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
709 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
710 SMTP output lines.
711
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712PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
713 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
714 Sieve code now uses this.
715
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716PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
717 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
718
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719PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
720 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
721
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722PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
723
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724PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
725 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
726 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
727 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
728 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
729
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730PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
731 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
732 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
733 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
734
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735PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
736
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737PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
738
f3d7df6c
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739PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
740 is preferred over IPv4.
741
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742PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
743 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
744 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
745 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
746 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
747 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
748 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
749
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750PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
751 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
752 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
753
754PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
755
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756PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
757 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
758 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
759 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
760 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
761 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
762 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
763 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
764 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
765 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
766 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
767
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768PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
769 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
770 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
771
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774-----------------
775
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776PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
777
778 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
779 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
780
781 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
782 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
783 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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785PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
786
787 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
788 not a single digit.
789
790 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
791 string.
792
793 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
794 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
795 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
796 silly things.
797
798 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
799 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
800
801 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
802 inside the third argument.
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804PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
805 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
806 "/bin:/usr/bin".
807
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808PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
809 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 810
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811PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
812 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
813
814 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
815
816 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
817 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
818 this:
819
820 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
821
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822PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
823 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
824 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
825 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
826 identical. For example:
827
828 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
829
830 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
831 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
832 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
833
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834PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
835 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
836 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
837 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
838
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839PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
840 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
841 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
842 message.
843
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844PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
845
846 o fixes some comments
847 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
848 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
849 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
850 and documents the missing references header update
851
852 and most important:
853
854 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
855 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
856 result)
857
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858PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
859 Electronic Mail") by including:
860
861 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
862
863 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
864 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
865 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
866 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
867 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
868
869 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
870
871 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
872
873 The auto-replied keyword:
874
875 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
876 message by an automatic process,
877
878 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
879
880 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
881 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
882
883 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
884 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
885 other messages.
886
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887PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
888 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 889
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890PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
891
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892PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
893 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
894 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
895
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896PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
897 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
898 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
899
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900PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
901 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
902 and treats the condition as false.
903
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904PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
905
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906PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
907 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
908 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
909 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
910 not changing the active code.
911
912 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
913 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
914
915 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
916 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
917
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918PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
919 (Bugzilla #53).
920
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921PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
922 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
923 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
924 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
925 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
926 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
927 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
928 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
929 the text comparison.
930
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931PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
932 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
933 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
934 The same fix has been applied.
935
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937Exim version 4.54
938-----------------
939
940PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
941 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
942 It now does.
943
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944PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
945 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
946
947PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
948
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949PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
950 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
951 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
952 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
953 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
954
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955TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
956 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
957 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
958 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
959 or /domain=).
960
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961PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
962 testing suite.
963
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968
969TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
970 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
971
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972PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
973
395ff96d
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974PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
975
5b68f6e4
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976PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
977 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
978 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
979
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980PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
981 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
982 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
983
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984PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
985 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
986 operating systems.
987
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988PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
989 ${stat: expansion item.
990
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991PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
992 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
993
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994PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
995 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
996 file for comments.
997
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998PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
999
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1000PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1001 setting.
1002
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1003PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1004 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1005
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1006TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1007
af46795e
PH
1008PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1009 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1010 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1011 the end of the subprocess.
1012
d7b47fd0
PH
1013PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1014 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1015 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1016 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1017 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1018
ee744174
JJ
1019JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1020
b582ab87
PH
1021TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1022
41a13e0a
PH
1023PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1024 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1025
f625cc5a
PH
1026PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1027
1028PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1029
21f7af35
PH
1030PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1031 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1032 HP-UX compiler.
1033
31480e42
PH
1034PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1035
2d280592
PH
1036PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1037 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1038 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1039
7cd1141b
PH
1040PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1041 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1042
1043PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1044 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1045
750af86e
PH
1046PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1047 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1048
1049 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1050 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1051
1052 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1053 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1054 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1055 contributed by a Radius user.
1056
1057PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1058 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1059
4304270b
TK
1060TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1061 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1062
750af86e
PH
1063PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1064 available.
1065
64ffc24f
PH
1066PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1067 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1068 received.
1069
5dd9625b
PH
1070PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1071 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1072 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1073 header lines when this was not necessary.
1074
5591031b
PH
1075PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1076
ba18e66a
PH
1077PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1078 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1079 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1080 exists".
1081
9cec981f
PH
1082PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1083 -bV or -d is used.
1084
aa2b5c79
PH
1085PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1086 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1087 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1088 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1089
48a53b7f
PH
1090PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1091
1c59d63b
PH
1092PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1093
671012da
TK
1094TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1095
1509d3a8
PH
1096PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1097
1098PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1099 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1100 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1101 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1102 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1103 settings.
1104
1105PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1106
2fe1a124
PH
1107PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1108 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1109 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1110 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1111 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1112 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1113 which is clearly wrong.
1114
8800895a
PH
1115PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1116
ccfdb010
PH
1117PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1118 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1119 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1120 subsequently added.
1121
1130bfb0
PH
1122PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1123 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1124
ebcb507f
PH
1125PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1126
c35e155c
PH
1127PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1128 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1129
95d1f782
PH
1130PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1131 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1132
fd6de02e
PH
1133PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1134 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1135
58de37c5
PH
1136PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1137 recipients, not senders.
1138
261cf466
TF
1139TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1140 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1141
3ee512ff
PH
1142PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1143
e08c430f
PH
1144PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1145
bef5a11f
PH
1146PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1147 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1148 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1149 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1150
7546de58
TF
1151TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1152
e5d5a95f
TF
1153TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1154 clock is set back in time.
1155
2e88a017
TF
1156TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1157 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1158
a5f65aa4
TF
1159TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1160 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1161
e7726cbf
PH
1162PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1163 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1164 (see PH/47 above).
1165
a7fdad5b
TF
1166TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1167 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1168 header rewrites.
1169
6af56900
PH
1170PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1171 type ("H").
1172
0925ede6
PH
1173PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1174
66afa403
TF
1175TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1176 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1177 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1178
0154e85a
TF
1179TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1180 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1181 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1182 helo verification defer as a failure.
1183
16f12c76
PH
1184PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1185 actual error message.
1186
bbe902f0 1187
e5a9dba6
PH
1188Exim version 4.52
1189-----------------
1190
1191TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1192
22c3b60b
PH
1193PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1194 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1195 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1196 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1197
06a9b4b5
PH
1198TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1199
c1ac6996
PH
1200PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1201 can still be requested.
1202
9c7a242c
PH
1203PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1204 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1205 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1206 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1207
87ba3f5f
PH
1208TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1209 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1210 circumstances, but probably never did.
1211
1212PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1213 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1214 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1215 in the header line.
1216
29aba418
TF
1217TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1218
fe0dab11
TF
1219TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1220 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1221
11d337a4
TK
1222TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1223
1224TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1225
415c8f3b
PH
1226PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1227 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1228 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1229 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1230 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1231 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1232
958541e9
PH
1233PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1234 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1235 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1236 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1237 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1238 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1239
c206415f
TK
1240TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1241 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1242
2a4be8f9
PH
1243PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1244 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1245
1cba11c5
SC
1246SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1247 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1248
1249SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1250
1251SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1252
1253SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1254
1255SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1256
1257SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1258
1259SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1260
1005d00e
TK
1261TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1262
1263TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1264 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1265 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1266
1267TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1268 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1269 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1270 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1271
9b4768fa
PH
1272PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1273 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1274 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1275
1276PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1277 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1278 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1279 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1280
0d7eb84a
PH
1281PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1282 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1283 to be made).
1284
1285PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1286 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1287 should work with maildirs and everything.
1288
40727bee
TK
1289TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1290 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1291
554d2369
TF
1292TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1293 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1294
1f922db1
PH
1295PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1296 function for BDB 4.3.
1297
ef213c3b
PH
1298PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1299
8ac170f3
PH
1300PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1301 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1302 involved.
1303
b1c749bb
PH
1304PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1305 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1306 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
1307 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1308 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1309 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1310
4aac9b49
PH
1311PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1312 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1313 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1314 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1315 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1316 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1317 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1318 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1319
294520c8
TK
1320TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1321 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1322 details.
1323
5bd022fe
PH
1324PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1325 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1326
90e9ce59
PH
1327PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1328 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1329 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1330 test. It is now used for both.
1331
5ea81592
PH
1332PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1333 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1334 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1335 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1336 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1337 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1338
c6c2dc1d
PH
1339PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1340 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1341 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1342 string_vformat().
1343
fffffe4c
PH
1344PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1345 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1346 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1347
9a26b6b2
PH
1348PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1349 experimental DomainKeys support:
1350
1351 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1352 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1353 the control was given.
1354
1355 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1356
4aee0225
PH
1357PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1358
32d668a5
PH
1359PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1360
8187c3f3
PH
1361PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1362 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1363 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1364 db.h files).
1365
ff790e47 1366PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
1367 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1368 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1369 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1370 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1371 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1372 course.
ff790e47 1373
5417f6d1
PH
1374PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1375 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1376 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1377 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1378 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1379 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1380
59cf8544
PH
1381PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1382 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1383 do -d+all out of habit.
1384
e7ad8a65
PH
1385PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1386 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1387 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1388
ade42478
PH
1389PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1390 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1391 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1392 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1393 record types that Exim uses.
1394
182ad5cf
PH
1395PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1396 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1397 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1398 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1399 non-existent file that was broken.
1400
b0d9fc80
TK
1401TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1402 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1403
1404TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1405 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1406 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1407
1408TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1409
47c7a64a
PH
1410PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1411 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1412 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1413 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1414 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1415 same time.
1416
a388bce4
SC
1417SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1418 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1419 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1420 at a slight CPU cost.
1421
1422SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1423 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1424
1425SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1426 by Marc Sherman.
1427
0793e4ed
SC
1428SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1429
c58b88df
PH
1430PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1431 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1432
e7ad8a65 1433
7982096b
PH
1434Exim version 4.51
1435-----------------
1436
1a46a8c5
PH
1437TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1438 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1439
2f079f46 1440TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
1441
1442TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1443
1444PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1445 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1446
1447PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1448 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1449 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1450 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1451 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1452 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1453 file.
1454
1455PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1456 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1457 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1458 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1459 these two options.
1460
1461PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1462 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1463 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1464 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1465 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1466 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1467 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1468 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
1469
1470PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1471 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1472
1473PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1474 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1475 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1476 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1477 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1478 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1479
1480PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1481 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1482 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1483 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1484
1485PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1486 Finch).
1487
1488PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1489 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1490
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1491PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1492 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1493 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1494 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1495 message.
49c2d5ea 1496
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1497PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1498
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1499PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1500 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1501
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1502PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1503 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1504 to what was transported.)
1505
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1506TF/01 Added $received_time.
1507
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1508PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1509 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1510 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1511 spamd_address settings.
1512
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1513PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1514 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1515 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1516 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1517 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1518
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1519PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1520
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1521PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1522 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1523 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1524 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1525 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1526
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1527PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1528 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1529
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1530PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1531 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1532 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1533 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1534 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1535 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1536 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1537 for failure.
1538
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1539PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1540 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1541 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1542 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1543 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1544 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1545 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1546 "input=".
1547
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1548PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1549
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1550PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1551 driver and ACL definitions.
1552
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1553PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1554 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1555
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1556PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1557 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1558 understands it better than I do:
1559
1560 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1561 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1562
1563 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1564 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1565 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1566 => three warnings about OTP not working
1567 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1568
1569 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1570 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1571 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1572 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1573 for each call.)
1574 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1575 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1576
1577 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1578 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1579 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1580
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1581PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1582 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1583 specified.
1584
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1585PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1586 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1587 "Linux".
1588
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1589PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1590 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1591 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1592
1593 warn !verify = sender
1594 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1595
1596 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1597 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1598
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1599PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1600
1601 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1602 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1603
1604 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1605 nomenclature these days.)
1606
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1607PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1608 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1609
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1610PH/30 In these circumstances:
1611 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1612 . First host does not offer TLS;
1613 . First host accepts first address;
1614 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1615 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1616 . Second host accepts second address.
1617 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1618 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1619 address.
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1621PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1622 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1623 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1624 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1625 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1626
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1627PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1628 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1629
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1630PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1631 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
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1633PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1634 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1635 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1636
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1637PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1638 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1639 overlooked.
1640
1641PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1642
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1643PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1644 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1645 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1646 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1647 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1648 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1649 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1650
1651 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1652 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1653 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1654 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1655 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1656
1657 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1658 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1659 routed further.
1660
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1661PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1662 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1663 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1664 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1665 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1666 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1667
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1668PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1669
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1670PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1671 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1672 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1673 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1674 printable escape sequences.
1675
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1676PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1677 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1678 body only.
1679
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1680PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1681 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1682 are as follows:
1683
1684 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1685 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1686 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1687 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1688 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1689
1690 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1691 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1692 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1693
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1694PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1695
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1696PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1697 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1698 play with."
1699
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1700PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1701 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1702 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1703 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1704 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1705 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1706 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1707 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1708 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1709 the log output.
1710
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1711PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1712 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1713 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1714 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1715 "make".
1716
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1718A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1719----------------------------------------
1720
1721Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1722changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1723needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1724in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1725that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1726release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1727from 4.43.
1728
1729I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
17304.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1731those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1732historical information.
1733
1734
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1736-----------------
1737
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1738 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1739
139059f6 1740 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1741 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
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1743 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1744 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1745 place.
1746
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1747 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1748 filter fails to execute.
1749
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1750 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1751 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1752 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1753 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1754 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1755
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1756 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1757
1758 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1759 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1760 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1761 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
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1763 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1764 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1765 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1766 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1767 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1768
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1769 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1770
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177110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1772
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177311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1774 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1775 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1776 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1777
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177812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1779 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1780 sender verification.
1781
178213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1783 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1784
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178514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1786
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178715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1788 connection timeout.
1789
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179016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1791 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1792
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179317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1794 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1795
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179618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1797 information about exactly what failed.
1798
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179919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1800
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180120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1802 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1803 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1804
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180521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1806 It is now set to "smtps".
1807
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180822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1809 ignore_target_hosts.
1810
181123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1812 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1813 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1814 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1815 "[x.x.x.x]".
1816
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181724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1818 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1819 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1820
182125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1822 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1823 wake it up if nothing else does.
1824
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182526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1826 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1827 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1828 end up negative.
1829
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183027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1831 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1832
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183328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1834
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183529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1836 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1837 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1838 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1839 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1840 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1841 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1842 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1843
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184430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1845 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1846 than one IP address.
1847
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184831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1849 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1850 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1851 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1852
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185332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1854 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1855 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1856 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1857 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1858 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1859
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186033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1861 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1862 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1863 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1864
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186534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1866 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1867 respected.
1868
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186935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1870 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1871 $sender_host_address.
1872
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187336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1874 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1875 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1876 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1877 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1878 very small.
1879
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188037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1881
1882 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1883 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1884
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1885 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1886 just the host names, not the priorities.
1887
1888 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
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1889 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1890 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 1891
ea3bc19b 1892 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 1893 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 1894
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189538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1896 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1897 domain.
1898
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189939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1900
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190140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1902 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1903
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190441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1905 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1906 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1907
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190842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1909
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191043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1911
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191244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1913
191445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1915 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1916 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1917 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1918 because the tests only now provoked it.
1919
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192046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1921 (this can affect the format of dates).
1922
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192347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1924 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1925 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1926 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1927
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192848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1929
193049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1931 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1932 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1933 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1934
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193550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1936 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1937 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1938
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193951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1940 autoreply.
1941
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194252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1943 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1944 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1945 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1946 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1947 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1948 is going on).
1949
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195053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1951 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1952 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1953 the line.
1954
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195554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1956 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1957 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1958
1959 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1960 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1961 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1962 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1963 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1964 so I produce this patch..."
1965
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1966 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1967 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1968 is not defined.
1969
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197055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1971 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
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1972 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1973 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 1974 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 1975
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197656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1977
c2bcbe20
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197857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1979 long debug lines gets shown.
1980
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198158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1982 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1983
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198459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1985
1986 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1987 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1988 of $primary_hostname.
1989
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199060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1991 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1992 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1993 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
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1994 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1995 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1996 by change 4.50/55 above.
1997
1998 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1999 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2000 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2001 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2002 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2003 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2004 CAN-2005-0021
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2005
200661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2007 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2008 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2009 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2010
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201162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2012 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2013
d95f9fdb
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201463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2015 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2016 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2017 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2018 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2019
86b8287f
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202064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2021 This has been fixed.
2022
60dc5e56
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202365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2024 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2025 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2026 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2027 the caching.)
2028
533244af
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202966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2030
a5a28604
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203167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2032 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2033 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2034 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2035
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203668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2037 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2038
3e11c26b
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203969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2040 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2041 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2042
6729cf78
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204370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2044 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2045 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2046 message there.
2047
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204871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2049 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2050 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2051
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205272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2053 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2054 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2055 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2056
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205773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2058 during host lookups.
2059
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206074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2061 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2062
2063 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2064
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206575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2066 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2067 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2068 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2069 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2070 background.
2071
207276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2073 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2074
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207577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2076 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2077 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2078
bc60667e
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207978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2080
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208179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2082 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2083 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2084 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2085 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2086 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2087 process earlier.
2088
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208980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2090 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2091 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2092 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2093 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2094
209581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2096 tables).
2097
4e01f9d6
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209882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2099
1ee1cef2
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210083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2101 "vacation" handling.
2102
6e2b4ccc
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210384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2104 OS variants using glibc.
2105
8e669ac1
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210685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2107
495ae4b0 2108
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2109----------------------------------------------------
2110See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2111----------------------------------------------------
2112
2113
2114Exim version 4.44
2115-----------------
2116
2117 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2118 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2119 transport
2120
2121 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2122 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2123 place.
2124
2125 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2126 filter fails to execute.
2127
2128 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2129 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2130 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2131 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2132 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2133
2134 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2135 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2136 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2137 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2138
2139 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2140 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2141 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2142 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2143 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2144
2145 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2146
2147 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2148 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2149 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2150 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2151
2152 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2153 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2154 sender verification.
2155
215610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2157 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2158
215911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2160 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2161
216212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2163 ignore_target_hosts.
2164
216513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2166 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2167 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2168 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2169 "[x.x.x.x]".
2170
217114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2172 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2173 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2174
217515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2176 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2177 wake it up if nothing else does.
2178
217916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2180 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2181 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2182 end up negative.
2183
218417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2185 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2186
ea3a6f44 218718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
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2188
218919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2190 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2191 empty pattern.
2192
219320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2194 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2195 one IP address.
2196
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219721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2198 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2199 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2200 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2201 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2202 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2203
ea3a6f44
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220422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2205 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2206 respected.
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2207
220823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2209 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2210 $sender_host_address.
2211
221224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2213
ea3a6f44
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221425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2215 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2216 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
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2217
221826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2219 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2220
ea3a6f44
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222127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2222 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2223
ea3a6f44
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222428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2225 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2226 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2227 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
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2228
222929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2230 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2231 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2232
ea3a6f44
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223330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2234 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2235 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2236 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2237
ea3a6f44
NM
223831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2239 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2240 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2241
ea3a6f44
NM
224231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2243 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2244
ea3a6f44
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224532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2246 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2247 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2248 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2249 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2250 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2251 is going on).
bbe902f0 2252
ea3a6f44
NM
225333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2254 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2255 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2256 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
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2257 CAN-2005-0021
2258
ea3a6f44
NM
225934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2260 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2261 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2262 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2263 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2264 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2265 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2266
2267 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2268 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2269 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2270 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2271 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2272 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2273 CAN-2005-0021
2274
ea3a6f44
NM
227535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2276 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2277 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2278 CAN-2005-0022
2279
ea3a6f44
NM
228036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2281 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2282 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2283 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2284 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2285
ea3a6f44
NM
228637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2287 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2288 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2289 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2290 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2291
ea3a6f44
NM
229238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2293 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2294 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2295 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2296 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
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2297
2298
495ae4b0
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2299Exim version 4.43
2300-----------------
2301
2302 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2303 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2304 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2305 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2306 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2307 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2308 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2309
2310 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2311 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2312 the delivery.
2313
2314 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2315
2316 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2317
2318 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2319 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2320 to local_scan().
2321
2322 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2323 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2324 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2325 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2326 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2327
2328 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2329 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2330
2331 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2332
2333 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2334
233510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2336 header_sender only.
2337
233811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2339 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2340
234112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2342 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2343 affecting debugging statements).
2344
234513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2346
234714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2348 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2349 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2350 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2351 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2352 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2353 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2354 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2355 after the received time, and all would be well.
2356
235715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2358 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2359 condition in an expansion string.
2360
236116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2362
236317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2364 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2365 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2366 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2367 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2368 job under whatever limits there are.
2369
237018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2371
237219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2373 space).
2374
237520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2376 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2377 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2378 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2379 return path is set.
2380
238121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2382 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2383 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2384 binary data in such strings.
2385
238622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2387
238823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2389 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2390 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2391 failure, which is pointless.
2392
239324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2394
239525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2396
239726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2398 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2399 Sender: header lines.
2400
240127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2402 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2403 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2404
240528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2406 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2407 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2408 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2409 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2410 happens.
2411
241229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2413 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2414 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2415 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2416 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2417
241830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2419 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2420 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2421 1024.
2422
242331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2424 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2425
242632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2427 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2428
242933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2430
243132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2432
243333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2434
243534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2436 syntax error.
2437
243835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2439
244036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2441
244237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2443 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2444 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2445 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2446
244738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2448 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2449
2450
2451Exim version 4.42
2452-----------------
2453
2454 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2455 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2456 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2457 it was not quoted.
2458 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2459 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2460 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2461 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2462 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2463 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2464
2465 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2466 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2467 verification failure".
2468
2469 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2470 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2471 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2472 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2473
2474 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2475 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2476 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2477 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2478 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2479 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2480 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2481 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2482 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2483 treated as a timeout.
2484
2485 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2486 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2487 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2488 not set for Exim filters).
2489
2490 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2491 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2492 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2493
2494 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2495
2496 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2497 try to make them clearer.
2498
2499 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2500 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2501
2502 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2503
2504 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2505
250610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2507 only the Cygwin environment.
2508
250911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2510 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2511 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2512 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2513 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2514
251512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2516 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2517 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2518 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2519 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2520 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2521 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2522
252313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2524 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2525
252614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2527
2528 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2529 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2530 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2531
2532 To: susanne@some.where
2533
2534 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2535 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2536 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2537 of addresses in From: header lines).
2538
2539 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2540 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2541 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2542
2543 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2544 treated as non-personal.
2545
2546 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2547 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2548
254915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2550
255116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2552
255317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2554 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2555 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2556
255718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2558 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2559
256019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2561 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2562 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2563 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2564 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2565 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2566
256720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2568 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2569 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2570 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2571 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2572 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2573 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2574 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2575
2576 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2577
257821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2579 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2580
258122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2582 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2583 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2584
258523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2586 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2587
258824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2589 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2590 rather than long int.
2591
259225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2593
259426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2595
2596
2597Exim version 4.41
2598-----------------
2599
2600 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2601 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2602 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2603 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2604 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2605 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2606
2607
2608Exim version 4.40
2609-----------------
2610
2611 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2612 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2613
2614 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2615 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2616 socklen_t is defined.
2617
2618 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2619 always exist.
2620
2621 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2622 configured.
2623
2624 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2625 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2626 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2627 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2628 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2629
2630 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2631 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2632 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2633 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2634
2635 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2636 of flapping under certain conditions.
2637
2638 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2639 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2640 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2641
2642 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2643
264410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2645
264611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2647 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2648 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2649 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2650
265112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2652 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2653 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2654 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2655 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2656 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2657 preserved with the message after it was received.
2658
265913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2660 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2661 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2662 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2663 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2664 test suite worked just fine.
2665
266614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2667 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2668 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2669
267015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2671 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2672 string.
2673
267416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2675 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2676 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2677 does not fully solve it.
2678
267917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2680 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2681 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2682 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2683 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2684
268518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2686 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2687 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2688
268919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2690 string, for example:
2691
2692 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2693
2694 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2695 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2696 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2697 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2698 the routers could not see them.
2699
270020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2701 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2702
270321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2704 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2705 output).
2706
270722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2708 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2709 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2710 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2711 that needed quoting.
2712
271323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2714 was not being matched caselessly.
2715
271624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2717 backslashes.
2718
271925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2720 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2721 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2722 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2723 when use_sender is false.
2724
272526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2726
272727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2728
272928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2730
273129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2732 the configuration file.
2733
273430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2735 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2736
273731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2738
273932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2740 bytes in the message body.
2741
274233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2743 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2744 delivery.
2745
274634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2747
274835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2749
275036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2751 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2752 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2753 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2754 another IP address.
2755
2756
2757Exim version 4.34
2758-----------------
2759
2760 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2761 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2762
2763 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2764 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2765 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2766 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2767 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2768
2769 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2770 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2771
2772 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2773 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2774 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2775
2776 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2777 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2778 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2779
2780 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2781 for routers.
2782
2783 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2784 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2785 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2786 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2787 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2788 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2789 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2790
2791
2792Exim version 4.33
2793-----------------
2794
2795 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2796 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2797 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2798 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2799 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2800 default (and expected) setting.
2801
2802 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2803 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2804 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2805 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2806
2807 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2808 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2809
2810 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2811 in domain lists.
2812
2813 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2814 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2815 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2816 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2817 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2818 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2819
2820 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2821 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2822 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2823
2824 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2825 part (NOT match_host).
2826
2827 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2828
2829 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2830 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2831 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2832 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2833 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2834 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2835 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2836 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2837 the same named file.
2838
283910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2840 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2841 when Exim is built.
2842
284311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2844 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2845 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2846 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2847 a host name.
2848
284912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2850 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2851 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2852
285313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2854
285514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2856
285715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2858
285916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2860 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2861
286217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2863 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2864 before starting the TLS session.
2865
286618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2867
286819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2869 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2870
287120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2872 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2873 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2874 colon in the middle).
2875
2876
2877Exim version 4.32
2878-----------------
2879
2880 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2881 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2882 multiple configurations are in use.
2883
2884 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2885 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2886 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2887 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2888 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2889 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2890
2891 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2892 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2893
2894 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2895 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2896 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2897
2898 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2899 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2900 occurs.
2901
2902 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2903 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2904
2905 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2906
2907 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2908 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2909
2910 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2911
2912 -prval:sval
2913
2914 is equivalent to
2915
2916 -oMr rval -oMs sval
2917
2918 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2919 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2920 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2921 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2922 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2923
292410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2925 Exim's behaviour:
2926
2927 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2928 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2929 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2930 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2931 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2932 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2933
2934 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2935 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2936 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2937 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2938 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2939 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2940 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2941 string.
2942
2943 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2944 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2945 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2946 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2947 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2948
294911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2950
295112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2952 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2953 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2954
295513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2956
295714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2958 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2959 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2960 information.
2961
296215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2963 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2964
296516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2966 Three changes have been made:
2967
2968 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2969 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2970 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2971 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2972 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2973
2974 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2975 been restored.
2976
2977 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2978 the modified behaviour.
2979
2980
2981Exim version 4.31
2982-----------------
2983
2984 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2985 Larry Rosenman.
2986
2987 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2988 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2989
2990 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2991 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2992 try to track down a specific problem.
2993
2994 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2995 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2996 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2997
2998 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2999 warning.
3000
3001 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3002 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3003 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3004 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3005 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3006 some earlier ones do not.
3007
3008 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3009
3010 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3011 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3012 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3013 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3014 address literals are enabled, of course).
3015
3016 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3017
301810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3019 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3020 by a command such as
3021
3022 exim -f "" ...
3023
3024 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3025
302611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3027
302812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3029 remained set. It is now erased.
3030
303113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3032 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3033
303414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3035 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3036 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3037 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3038 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3039 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3040 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3041 appropriate error code.
3042
304315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3044 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3045 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3046 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3047 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3048 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3049
305016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3051 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3052 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3053
305417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3055 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3056 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3057 terminate the header.
3058
305918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3060 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3061 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3062
306319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3064 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3065 (4.30/29). In particular:
3066
3067 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3068 imposed.
3069
3070 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3071 to write a maildirsize file.
3072
3073 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3074 the transport, the new value overrides.
3075
3076 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3077 count.
3078
307920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3080 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3081 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3082 space or a tab.
3083
308421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3085 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3086 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3087 the fallback hosts.
3088
308922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3090 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3091 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3092
309323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3094 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3095 using a union.
3096
309724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3098 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3099 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3100
310125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3102
310326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3104
310527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3106
310728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3108 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3109 become corrupted.
3110
311129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3112 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3113 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3114 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3115 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3116 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3117 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3118 too great.
3119
312030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3121 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3122 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3123 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3124 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3125 incorrectly.
3126
312731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3128 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3129 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3130 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3131 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3132 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3133 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3134 cached value only when the same options are set.
3135
313632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3137
313833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3139 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3140 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3141 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3142 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3143
314434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3145 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3146 it is clearly obsolete.
3147
314835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3149 transport.
3150
315136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3152 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3153 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3154 times.
3155
315637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3157 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3158 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3159 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3160 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3161
316238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3163 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3164 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3165 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3166
316739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3168
3169 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3170
3171 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3172 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3173 2^31.
3174
317540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3176 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3177 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3178 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3179 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3180 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3181 $localpart_data.
3182
318341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3184 with the -f command-line option.
3185
318642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3187 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3188 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3189 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3190 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3191 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3192
319343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3194 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3195 line.
3196
319744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3198 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3199 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3200 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3201 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3202 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3203 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3204 buffer is too small.
3205
320645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3207 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3208
320946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3210 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3211 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3212 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3213 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3214 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3215 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3216 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3217 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3218
321947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3220 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3221 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3222
322348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3224 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3225 ACL").
3226
322749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3228 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3229 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3230 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3231 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3232
323350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3234 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3235 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3236 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3237 is set.
3238
323951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3240
324152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3242
324353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3244 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3245
324654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3247 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3248 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3249
325055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3251 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3252 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3253 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3254 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3255
325656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3257 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3258 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3259 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3260 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3261 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3262 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3263
326457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3265 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3266 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3267 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3268 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3269 the test of how many are available.
3270
327158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3272 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3273 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3274 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3275 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3276 new message is started.
3277
327859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3279 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3280
328160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3282 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3283
328461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3285 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3286 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3287 is no long logged.
3288
328962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3290 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3291 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3292 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3293 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3294 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3295 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3296
329763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3298 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3299 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3300 interpreted as octal.
3301
330264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3303 setting.
3304
330565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3306 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3307 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3308 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3309 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3310 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3311
331266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3313 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3314 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3315 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3316
3317 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3318 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3319 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3320 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3321
3322 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3323 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3324 is a bug fix.
3325
3326 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3327 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3328
332967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3330
333168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3332 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3333 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3334 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3335
333669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3337 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3338 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3339 supplied", which is not helpful.
3340
334170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3342 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3343 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3344
334571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3346 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3347 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3348 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3349 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3350 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3351 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3352 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3353
335472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3355 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3356 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3357 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3358 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3359
336073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3361 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3362 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3363 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3364 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3365 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3366
336774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3368 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3369 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3370
337175. Added write_rejectlog option.
3372
337376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3374 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3375 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3376 variables.
3377
337877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3379
338078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3381 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3382 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3383 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3384 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3385 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3386 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3387 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3388
338979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3390 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3391 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3392 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3393 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3394
339580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3396 Haardt.
3397
339881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3399 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3400 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3401 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3402 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3403 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3404 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3405 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3406 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3407
3408
3409Exim version 4.30
3410-----------------
3411
3412 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3413 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3414 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3415
3416 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3417 fixed.
3418
3419 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3420 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3421 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3422
3423 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3424 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3425 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3426 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3427 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3428 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3429
3430 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3431 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3432 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3433 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3434 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3435 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3436 the Exim test suite.
3437
3438 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3439 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3440 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3441 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3442
3443 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3444 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3445 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3446 specify it in this variable.
3447
3448 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3449 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3450 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3451 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3452
3453 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3454 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3455 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3456 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3457
3458 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3459 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3460 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3461 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3462 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3463
3464 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3465
346610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3467 they are logged.
3468
346911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3470 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3471 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3472 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3473 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3474
347512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3476 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3477
347813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3479 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3480 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3481 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3482 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3483
348414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3485 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3486
348715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3488 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3489 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3490
349116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3492 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3493
349417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3495 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3496
349718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3498 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3499 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3500
350119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3502 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3503
350420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3505 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3506 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3507 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3508
350921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3510
351122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3512 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3513 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3514 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3515
351623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3517
351824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3519 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3520
352125. Added .include_if_exists.
3522
352326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3524 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3525 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3526 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3527 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3528 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3529
353027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3531
353228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3533 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3534 this.
3535
353629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3537
353830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3539 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3540
3541 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3542 550 Sender verify failed
3543
3544 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3545 the final line of the response.
3546
354731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3548 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3549 all other user lookups.
3550
355132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3552 delivery time.
3553
355433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3555 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3556 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3557 result into an int without checking.
3558
355934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3560 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3561 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3562
356335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3564 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3565 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3566 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3567
356836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3569 correctly.
3570
357137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3572 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3573
357438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3575 to the empty sender.
3576
357739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3578 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3579 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3580 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3581 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3582 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3583 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3584 panic log.
3585
358640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3587 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3588 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3589 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3590 used.
3591
359241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3593 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3594
359542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3596 timestamps.
3597
359843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3599 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3600
360144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3602
360345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3604 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3605 logs.
3606
360746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3608 as soon as it is encountered.
3609
361047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3611
361248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3613 rewritten to "<>".
3614
361549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3616 recognizes a tab character.
3617
361850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3619 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3620 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3621 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3622
362351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3624
362552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3626 crash.
3627
362853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3629
363054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3631
363255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3633 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3634 2822.
3635
363656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3637 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3638 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3639 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3640 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3641
364257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3643 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3644
364558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3646 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3647 list (.included file names were always shown).
3648
364959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3650 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3651 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3652 root at that time.
3653
365460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3655 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3656
365761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3658
365962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3660
366163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3662
366364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3664 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3665 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3666 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3667 failures to open the logs.
3668
366965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3670 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3671 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3672 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3673 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3674 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3675 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3676
3677
3678Exim version 4.24
3679-----------------
3680
3681 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3682 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3683 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3684 change 4.23/1.
3685
3686 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3687 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3688 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3689
3690 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3691 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3692 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3693
3694 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3695 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3696 causing some misleading effects.
3697
3698 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3699 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3700 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3701
3702 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3703 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3704 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3705 queue-runner function directly.
3706
3707
3708Exim version 4.23
3709-----------------
3710
3711 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3712 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3713
3714 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3715 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3716 was always written to the default place.
3717
3718 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3719 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3720 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3721
3722 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3723
3724 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3725
3726 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3727 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3728 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3729
3730 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3731 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3732 must start.
3733
3734 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3735 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3736 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3737
3738 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3739 command line option is disabled.
3740
3741 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3742 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3743
3744 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3745
3746 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3747
3748 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3749 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3750
375110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3752
375311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3754 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3755 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3756 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3757 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3758 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3759
376012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3761 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3762 timeout.
3763
376413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3765 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3766
376714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3768 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3769
377015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3771 received was valid base64.
3772
377316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3774 name of the variable that was being set.
3775
377617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3777
377818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3779 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3780 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3781 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3782 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3783 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3784
378519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3786
378720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3788 nor realm was specified.
3789
379021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3791 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3792 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3793 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3794
379522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3796 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3797 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3798
379923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3800 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3801 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3802
380324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3804 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3805 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3806 some systems use these upper case variants.
3807
380825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3809 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3810 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3811 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3812
381326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3814
381527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3816 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3817
381828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3819 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3820 expansion variable.
3821
382229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3823
382430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3825 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3826 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3827 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3828
382931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3830 using it.
3831
383232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3833 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3834 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3835
383633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3837 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3838
383934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3840 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3841 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3842 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3843
384435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3845 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3846 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3847
384836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3849
385037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3851 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3852 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3853 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3854 aborted.
3855
385638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3857 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3858 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3859
386039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3861
386240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3863 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3864
386541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3866 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3867
386842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3869 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3870 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3871 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3872 when emails are that large.
3873
3874
3875
3876Exim version 4.22
3877-----------------
3878
3879 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3880 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3881
3882 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3883 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3884 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3885
3886 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3887 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3888 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3889
3890 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3891 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3892 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3893 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3894 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3895
3896 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3897 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3898 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3899 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3900 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3901 ever.
3902
3903 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3904 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3905 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3906 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3907 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3908 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3909 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3910 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3911 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3912 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3913 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3914 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3915 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3916 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3917
3918 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3919 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3920 parameterised it.
3921
3922 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3923 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3924 error should be diagnosed.
3925
3926 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3927 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3928 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3929 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3930 appeared instead of "NULL".
3931
393210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3933 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3934 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3935 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3936 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3937 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3938 proceeds).
3939
3940 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3941 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3942 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3943
3944
3945Exim version 4.21
3946-----------------
3947
3948 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3949 or receiver verification errors.
3950
3951 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3952 name.
3953
3954 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3955 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3956 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3957 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3958
3959 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3960 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3961 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3962 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3963 shouldn't happen again.
3964
3965 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3966 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3967 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3968
3969 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3970 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3971
3972 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3973
3974 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3975 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3976
3977 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3978 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3979 RFC.
3980
398110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3982 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3983 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3984
398511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3986 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3987 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3988 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3989
399012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3991 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3992 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3993 to define what should happen).
3994
399513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3996 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3997 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3998
399914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4000
400115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4002
400316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4004 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4005
400617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4007 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4008 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4009 structure in all cases.
4010
4011 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4012 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4013 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4014 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4015
401618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4017 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4018 domain name.
4019
402019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4021 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4022
402320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4024 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4025
402621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4027 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4028 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4029
403022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4031 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4032 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4033
403423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4035 the book and for uniformity.
4036
403724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4038
403925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4040 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4041 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4042 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4043 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4044 non-existent command as the problem.
4045
404626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4047 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4048 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4049
405027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4051
405228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4053 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4054 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4055
405629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4057 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4058 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4059 timestamps using strftime().
4060
406130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4062 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4063
406432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4065 transport-time rewrites.
4066
406733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4068 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4069 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4070 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4071
407234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4073 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4074
407535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4076 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4077 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4078 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4079 comma and a space.
4080
408136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4082 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4083 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4084 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4085 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4086 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4087 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4088
408937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4090 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4091 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4092 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4093 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4094
409538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4096 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4097 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4098 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4099 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4100 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4101 remaining text gets split now.
4102
410339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4104 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4105 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4106 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4107
410840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4109 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4110 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4111 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4112 $return_path.
4113
411441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4115 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4116 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4117 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4118 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4119 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4120 passed through if needed.
4121
412242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4123 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4124 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4125 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4126 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4127 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4128
412943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4130 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4131 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4132 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4133 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4134
413544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4136 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4137 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4138 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4139 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4140
414145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4142 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4143 noticed.
4144
414546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4146 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4147 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4148 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4149 mayhem of various kinds.
4150
415147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4152 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4153 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4154 the right test for positive values.
4155
415648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4157 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4158 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4159 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4160 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4161 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4162 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4163 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4164 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4165 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4166 envelope.
4167
416849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4169 module.
4170
417150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4172 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4173 forbidding it.
4174
417551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4176 the existing equality matching.
4177
417852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4179 dealing with inode numbers.
4180
418153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4182 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4183 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4184
418554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4186 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4187 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4188 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4189 local_scan().
4190
419155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4192 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4193 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4194 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4195 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4196 relay addresses has also been removed.
4197
419856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4199
420057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4201 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4202 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4203
420458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4205 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4206 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4207 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4208 processing applies to CR:
4209
4210 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4211 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4212
4213 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4214 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4215 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4216 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4217
421859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4219 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4220 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4221
422260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4223 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4224 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4225 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4226 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4227 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4228 arisen.
4229
423061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4231 program routers.
4232
423362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4234 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4235 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4236 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4237 adds:
4238
4239 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4240
4241 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4242
4243 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4244
424563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4246 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4247 not considered personal.
4248
424964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4250
425165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4252
425366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4254
425567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4256 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4257 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4258 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4259 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4260 header lines, and spool format errors.
4261
426268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4263 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4264 for more flexibility.
4265
426669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4267 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4268 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4269
427070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4271 Sabourenkov.
4272
427371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4274 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4275 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4276 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4277 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4278 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4279 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4280 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4281 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4282
428372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4284 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4285 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4286 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4287 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4288 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4289 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4290
429173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4292 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4293 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4294
429574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4296 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4297 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4298 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4299 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4300 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4301 instead of killing the process with assert().
4302
430375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4304 than Unicode encoding.
4305
430676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4307 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4308 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4309 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4310
431177. Added process_log_path.
4312
431378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4314 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4315
431679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4317 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4318
431980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4320 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4321 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4322
432381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4324 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4325 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4326 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4327 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4328 were applied:
4329
4330 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4331 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4332 as invalid.
4333
433482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4335 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4336 they will be used during message reception.
4337
4338
4339Exim version 4.20
4340-----------------
4341
4342The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4343
4344****