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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
66 mode. Now, it's been long enough.
67
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
79 awareness of the SMTP input buferring.
80
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4c57a40e 84
9427e879 85JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 86 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 87
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88JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
89
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90PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
91 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
92
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93JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
94 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
95
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96JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
97 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
98 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
99 before acknowledging the chunk.
100
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101PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
102 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
103 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
104
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105JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
106 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
107 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
108 should.
109
110JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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111 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
112 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 113
bd8fbe36 114JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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115 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
116
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117JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
118 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
119 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
120 body hash calculated value.
121
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122JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
123 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
124 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
125
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126JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
127
128JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
129 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
130
131JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
132 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
133 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
134
135JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
136 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
137 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
138 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
139 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
140 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
141
142JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
143 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
144 past that check, despite the cost.
145
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146JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
147 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
148 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
149
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150PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
151 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
152 TLS library to consume.
153
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154PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
155
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156PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
157
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158JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
159 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
160 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
161 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
162 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
163 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
164 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
165
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166PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
167
168PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
169
170PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
171 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
172 should be warning-free.
173
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174JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
175
176HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
177 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
178
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179HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
180 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
181 general solution here.
182
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183PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
184 already-broken messages in the queue.
185
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186JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
187
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188JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
189
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194JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
195 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 196
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197JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
198 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
199 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
200
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201JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
202 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
203 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
204 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
205 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
206 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
207 if one fails this test.
208 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
209 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
210
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211JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
212 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
213
23bb6982 214JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 215 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 216
0bd1b1ed 217JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 218 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 219
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220JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
221 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
222
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223JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
224 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
225
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226JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
227
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228JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
229 certificate).
230
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231JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
232 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
233 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
234 connection after a verify cache hit.
235 Do not update it with the verify result either.
236
237JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
238 when routing results in more than one destination address.
239
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240JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
241 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
242 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
243 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
244 when the cutthrough connection is made).
245
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246JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
247 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
248
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249JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
250 Previously they were not counted.
251
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252JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
253 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
254 that needed the lookup.
255
4c04137d 256JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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257 distinguished as "(=".
258
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259JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
260 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
261
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262JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
263
264JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
265 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 266
4c04137d 267JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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268 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
269
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270JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
271 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
272 compatible.
273
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274JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
275 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
276 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
277 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
278
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279JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
280
f59aaaaa 281JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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282 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
283 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 284
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285JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
286 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
287 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
288 be lost.
289
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290JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
291 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
292 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
293 itself :(
294
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295JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
296 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
297 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
298
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299JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
300 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
301 options.
302
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303JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
304
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305PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
306 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
307
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308PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
309 are not in the system include path.
310
ad7fc6eb 311JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 312 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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313 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
314 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 315
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316JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
317 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
318 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
319
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320JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
321
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322HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
323 an incoming connection.
324
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325HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
326 to rspamd.
327
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328HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
329 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 330
87cb4a16 331JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 332 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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334
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335Exim version 4.87
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338JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
339 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
340 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
341 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 342
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343TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
344 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
345
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346TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
347 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
348 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
349 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
350 outgoing I= field.
351
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352JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
353 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
354 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
355 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
356 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
357 check on the next write.
358
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359HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
360 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
361 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
362 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
363 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
364
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365JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
366 mime_regex ACL conditions.
367
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368JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
369 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
370 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
371
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372JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
373 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
374 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
375 an authenticate fail is not an error.
376
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377HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
378 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
379
4c04137d 380JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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381 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
382
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383JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
384 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
385 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
386 distinct.
387
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388JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
389
390JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
391
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392JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
393
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394JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
395 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
396
98b98887 397JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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398 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
399
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400JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
401
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402JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
403 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
404
405JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
406
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407JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
408 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
409
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410JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
411
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412JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
413 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 414 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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415 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
416 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
417 they will retry in-clear.
418 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
419 at installation time.
420
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421HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
422 with the $config_file variable.
423
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424JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
425 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
426 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
427 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 428 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 429
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430GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
431 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
432 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
433 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
434 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
435
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436JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
437
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438JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
439 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
440 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
441 list order is no longer honoured.
442
4c04137d 443JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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444 for DKIM processing.
445
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446JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
447 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 448
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449JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
450 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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451 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
452 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 453
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454JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
455 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
456
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457JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
458 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
459
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460JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
461 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
462
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463JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
464
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465JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
466 cached by the daemon.
467
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468JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
469 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
470
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471JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
472 keys are given for lookup.
473
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474JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
475 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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476 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
477 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 478
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479JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
480 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
481 server-side so match that on older versions.
482
07c73177 483JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 484 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 485 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 486
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487JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
488 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
489
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490JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
491 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
492 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 493 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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494 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
495 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
496 initial truncated version.
497
ab9152ff 498JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 499
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500JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
501
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502JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
503 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
504
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505JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
506
bc3c7bb7 507HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 508
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509JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
510 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
511 induced overflows.
512
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513JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
514 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
515 stage.
516
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517JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
518 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
519
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520JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
521 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
522 former class.
523
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524JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
525 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
526 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
527
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528JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
529 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
530 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
531 extraction. Accept either.
532
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537JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
538 expanded.
539
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540JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
541
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542JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
543 it.
544
01a4a5c5 545JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 546 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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547 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
548 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
549
cb1d7830 550JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 551 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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552 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
553
610ff438 554JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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555 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
556 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
557 TLS connections
610ff438 558
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559JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
560 sites use this now.
561
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562JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
563 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
564 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
565 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
566 have a dsn_lasthop option.
567
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568JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
569 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 570 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 571
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572JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
573
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574JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
575 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
576
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577JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
578 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
579
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580JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
581 /defer_ok option.
582
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583JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
584 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
585
fd4d8871 586JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 587 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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588 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
589
590JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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591 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
592 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 593
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594JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
595 timeout value per server.
596
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597JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
598 now have the list separator specified.
599
8a512ed5 600JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 601 option values.
8a512ed5 602
82c0c8ea 603JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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604 under OpenSSL.
605
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606JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
607
82c0c8ea
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608JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
609 rather than the verbs used.
610
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611JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
612 from 255 to 1024 chars.
613
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614JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
615
cfab9d68 616HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 617 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 618
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619JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
620 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
621
fd4c285c
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622HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
623 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
624
4c04137d 625JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 626
d2a2c69b
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627JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
628
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629JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
630 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 631 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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632 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
633
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634JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
635
1f155f8e
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636JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
637 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
638
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639JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
640 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
641
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642JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
643
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644JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
645
7137ca4b
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646JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
647
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648JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
649 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
650
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651JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
652 added for tls authenticator.
653
2f680c0c
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654HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
655
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660TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
661 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
662 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
663 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
664 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
665 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
666 the script parsing/test process like normal.
667
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668TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
669 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
670 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
671 function when detected.
672
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673JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
674 cause callback expansion.
675
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676TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
677 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
678 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
679 instead of bool when processing it.
680
0f06b4f2 681JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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682 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
683
be36e572
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684JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
685
ac4ef9bd
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686JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
687
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688TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
689
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690TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
691 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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693JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
694 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
695 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
696 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 697 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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698 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
699
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700JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
701 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
702 exceeded it.
703
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704JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
705 version 3.3.6 or later.
706
4c04137d 707JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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708 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
709 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 710 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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711 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
712 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
713 option is defined.
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715TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
716 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
717
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718JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
719 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
720 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
721 matches.
722
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723JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
724 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
725 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
726
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727JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
728 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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729
730JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
731 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
732 syntax errors.
733
3394b36a 734JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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735
736JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
737 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
738
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739TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
740 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
741 tarball.
742
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743JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
744
4c04137d 745JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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746 Bug 1561.
747
748JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
749 output list separator was used.
750
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754TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
755 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
756 return.
1f0ebb98 757
a612424f 758JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 759 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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760
761JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
762
763TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 764 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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769
770TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
771
772 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
773 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
774 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
775 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
776 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
777 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
778
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779TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
780 utilities have not been installed.
781
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782JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
783 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
784
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785TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
786 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
787
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788TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
789 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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790 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
791 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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793JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
794
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795TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
796 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
797
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798PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
799 not dns_use_dnssec.
800
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801JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
802
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803TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
804 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
805 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
806
8ddef691 807TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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808 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
809 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
810 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
811 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 812 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 813
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814JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
815
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816JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
817 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
818
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819JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
820 failed delivery.
821
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822JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
823
511a6c14 824JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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825
826JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
827 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 828
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829JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
830 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
831
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832TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
833
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834JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
835
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836JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
837 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
838
839 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
840 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
841 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
842
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843TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
844 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
845 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
846 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 847
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848JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
849
8c51eead 850JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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851 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
852 lookup).
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854TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
855 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
856 Schlichting.
35aba663 857
fd3b6a4a 858JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 859 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 860
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861TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
862 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
863
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864JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
865
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866TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
867 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
868 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
869
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870JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
871 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
872
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873JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
874 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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875 hosts_request_ocsp.
876
ed3bba5f 877JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 878 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 879 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 880
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881JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
882
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883TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
884 Christian Aistleitner.
885
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886JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
887
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888TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
889 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
890
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891JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
892 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
893
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894JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
895 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
896
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897TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
898 support and error reporting did not work properly.
899
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900TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
901 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
902
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903TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
904 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
905 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
906
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907JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
908
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909PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
910 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
911 Jasper Wallace.
912
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913JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
914
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915TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
916 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
917 CVE-2014-2972
918
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923PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
924
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925PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
926 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
927
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928PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
929 by GnuTLS.
930
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931PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
932 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
933 routines.
934
13363eba 935PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 936
66645890 937PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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938 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
939 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
940 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
941 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 942
a3fb9793 943PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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944 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
945 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
946 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 947 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 948 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 949
d27f98fe 950TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 951
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952TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
953
e7568d51
TL
954TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
955 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
956
ae0e32ee 957TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 958 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 959 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
960
961TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 962
e2658fff
TL
963TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
964
83712b39
TL
965TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
966 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
967
976b7e9f
JH
968JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
969
be4a1376
JH
970JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
971
ec4b68e5
PP
972PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
973
d7148a07
NM
974NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
975 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 976
585121e2 977JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 978
2519e60d
TL
979PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
980 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
981 function.
a5f239e4 982
13d08c90
PP
983PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
984 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
985
bef3ea7f
JH
986JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
987 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
988 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 989
846726c5
JH
990JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
991
3a796370
JH
992JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
993
ea722490 994JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
995 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
996
b1b05573
JH
997JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
998 Bugzilla 884.
999
362145b5
JH
1000JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1001 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1002
3c0a92dc
JH
1003JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1004 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1005
6d7c6175
PP
1006PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1007 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1008 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1009
6f123593
JH
1010JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1011 authenticators.
1012
c8e2fc1e
JH
1013JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1014 for control.
1015
005ac57f
PP
1016PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1017
3f1df0e3
PP
1018PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1019 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1020 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1021 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1022
67bd1ab3
TF
1023TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1024
1025 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1026 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1027 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1028 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1029 the retry rules.
1030
1031 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1032 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1033 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1034
1035 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1036 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1037 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1038 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1039
1ddeb334
TF
1040 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1041 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1042 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1043 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1044 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1045 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1046 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1047
1048 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1049 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1050
326cdc37
TF
1051TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1052
1053 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1054
1055 Resent-From: f
1056
1057 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1058 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1059 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1060 username as equal to the username.
1061
1062 This change corrects that bug.
1063
f62514b3
GF
1064GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1065 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1066 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1067
eb505532
TF
1068TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1069
14c7b357
PP
1070PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1071 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1072 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1073 NULL dereference and crash.
1074
94eaf700
PP
1075JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1076
6f5a440a
PP
1077PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1078 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1079 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1080
514ee161
SC
1081SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1082
fd98a5c6
JH
1083JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1084 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1085 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1086 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1087 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1088 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1089 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1090 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1091 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1092 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1093 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1094
035c7f1e
PP
1095PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1096 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1097
ff284120
PP
1098PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1099 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1100 Bugzilla 880.
1101
26e72755
PP
1102PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1103 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1104 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1105 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1106 an empty string is now equivalent.
1107
0fbd9bff
PP
1108PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1109 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1110 not performing validation itself.
1111
700d22f3
PP
1112PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1113 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1114
fcc8e047
JH
1115JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1116 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1117
4c04137d 1118TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1119
8c020188
PP
1120PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1121 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1122 other false fix of the same issue.
1123 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1124 Bugzilla 1363.
1125
d13cdd30
PP
1126PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1127 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1128
e2fbf4a2
PP
1129PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1130 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1131 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1132
f4c1088b
PP
1133PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1134 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1135 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1136
c5c2182f
PP
1137TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1138
73431ca9
JH
1139JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1140
2d07a215
TL
1141TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1142 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1143
a30a8861
TL
1144TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1145 Alexander Miroch.
1146
33382dd9
TL
1147TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1148 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1149 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1150 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1151 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1152
046172e6
TL
1153TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1154 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1155
581d7bee 1156TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1157 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1158 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1159
1160TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1161 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1162 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1163 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1164
237b2cf2
TL
1165TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1166
9fc5a352
TL
1167TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1168 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1169 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1170
b10e4ec2
TL
1171TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1172
e2cebd74
TL
1173TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1174 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1175 interaction.
1176
1177TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1178 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1179
2519e60d
TL
1180TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1181 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1182
e78e6ecf 1183
4263f395
PP
1184Exim version 4.80.1
1185-------------------
1186
1187PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1188 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1189 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1190
ea722490 1191
b1770b6e 1192Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1193-----------------
1194
1195PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1196 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1197 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1198
23c7e742
NM
1199NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1200
b322aac8
NM
1201NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1202 improved.
1203
4a891427
NM
1204NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1205
c1e794ba 1206PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1207
97753960
PP
1208PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1209
1210PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1211 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1212
df6303fa
PP
1213PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1214 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1215
7e6a8985
PP
1216PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1217 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1218
f1e05cc7 1219PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1220 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1221 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1222
4c287009
PP
1223PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1224
b98bb9ac
PP
1225PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1226 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1227
4a6a987a
PP
1228PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1229
c45dd180 1230PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1231
7db8d074
PP
1232PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1233 non-compliant senders.
1234 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1235
eae0036b 1236NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1237 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1238 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1239
dec5017e
PP
1240PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1241 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1242 in spool file corruption.
1243
c80c5570
PP
1244PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1245 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1246 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1247 "Got SSL error 2".
1248
076b11e2
PP
1249TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1250 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1251 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1252
5407bfff
JH
1253JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1254 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1255
9e45c72b
PP
1256JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1257
e74376d8
PP
1258PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1259 diagnostics.
1260 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1261
4c04137d 1262PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1263 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1264 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1265
7be682ca
PP
1266PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1267 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1268 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1269 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1270
ef840681
PP
1271PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1272 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1273
5bfb4cdf
PP
1274PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1275 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1276 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1277 resolver implementation change.
1278
c6e95d22
PP
1279PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1280 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1281
9cbad13b
PP
1282PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1283
9ee44efb
PP
1284PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1285
6a6084f8
PP
1286PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1287 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1288
12dd53c7
PP
1289PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1290 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1291
9e45c72b 1292JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1293 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1294
17c76198
PP
1295PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1296 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1297 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1298 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1299 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1300
53947857 1301PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1302
eae0036b 1303PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1304 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1305 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1306
9e45c72b 1307JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1308
7390e768
PP
1309PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1310 read-only, out of scope).
1311 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1312
08488c86
PP
1313PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1314 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1315 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1316 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1317
6475bd82
PP
1318PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1319
81f91683
PP
1320PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1321 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1322 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1323 real issues in debug logging.
1324
5779e6aa
PP
1325PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1326 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1327
3375e053
PP
1328PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1329 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1330 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1331
1332PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1333 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1334 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1335 problems.
3375e053 1336
9d26b8c0
PP
1337PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1338 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1339
57eb9e91 1340PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1341 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1342 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1343 needs to override this, it can.
1344
16880d1a
PP
1345PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1346 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1347 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1348
a799883d
PP
1349PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1350 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1351 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1352 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1353
3ecab157 1354PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1355
0599f9cf 1356
867fcbf5
PP
1357Exim version 4.77
1358-----------------
1359
1360PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1361 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1362
f1a29782
TF
1363TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1364
ab42bd23
TK
1365TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1366 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1367
0ca0cf52
TF
1368TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1369 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1370
921b12ca
TF
1371TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1372 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1373 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1374
1375 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1376 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1377 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1378 not safe for signals.
1379
1380 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1381 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1382 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1383 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1384 exiwhat.
1385
c99ce5c9
TF
1386TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1387
1388 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1389 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1390 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1391 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1392 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1393
1394 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1395 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1396 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1397 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1398 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1399 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1400
1401 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1402 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1403 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1404 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1405
1406 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1407 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1408 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1409 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1410
1411 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1412 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1413 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1414 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1415 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1416 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1417 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1418 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1419 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1420
1421 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1422 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1423 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1424 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1425
1426 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1427 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1428 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1429 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1430 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1431 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1432 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1433 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1434 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1435 details in the main documentation.
1436
3634fc25
TF
1437TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1438
792e8a19
TF
1439TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1440
5901f0ab
TF
1441TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1442 repository when doing development or release builds.
1443
7f2a2a43
PP
1444PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1445 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1446
061b7ebd
PP
1447PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1448 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1449 Bugzilla 97.
1450
e12f8c32
PP
1451PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1452
9e949f00 1453PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1454 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1455
1456PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1457 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1458
555ae6af 1459PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1460 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1461
1462PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1463 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1464
6f7fe114
PP
1465PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1466 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1467
c566dd90
PP
1468PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1469 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1470 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1471 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1472
d6cc7c78 1473PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1474 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1475 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1476
0d0e4455
PP
1477PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1478
3399bb60 1479PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1480
1481PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1482 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1483
0ca0cf52 1484
10906672
PP
1485Exim version 4.76
1486-----------------
1487
1488PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1489
754a0503
PP
1490PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1491 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1492
c0c7b2da
PP
1493PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1494
e97d1f08
PP
1495PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1496
084c1d8c
PP
1497PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1498 Bugzilla 1098.
1499
4e7ee012
PP
1500PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1501 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1502
c8d52a00
PP
1503TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1504 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1505
54e7ce4a
PP
1506PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1507 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1508
5ee6f336
PP
1509PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1510 Bugzilla 1104.
1511
c8d52a00 1512TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1513 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1514
1515TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1516 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1517 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1518 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1519
1520PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1521 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1522
10906672 1523
aa097c4c
NM
1524Exim version 4.75
1525-----------------
1526
4c04137d 1527NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1528 Bugzilla 1073
1529
7f3d9eff
TF
1530TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1531 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1532 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1533
159f52d2
TF
1534TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1535 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1536
0cc9542a
PP
1537PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1538 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1539 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1540
f7274286
PP
1541PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1542 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1543
7b797365
PP
1544PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1545 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1546
caacae52
NM
1547NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1548 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1549
09dcaba9
NM
1550NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1551 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1552
bc19a55b
PP
1553PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1554 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1555
bd4c9759
NM
1556NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1557 Fixes bug 943.
1558
b72aab72
PP
1559PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1560 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1561
2fe76745
PP
1562PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1563 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1564
76aa570c
PP
1565PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1566 SQL string expansion failure details.
1567 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1568
f1e5fef5
PP
1569PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1570 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1571
4d805ee9
PP
1572PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1573 extern declarations in function scope.
1574 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1575
cd59ab18
PP
1576PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1577 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1578 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1579 a kernel bug).
1580
332f5cf3
PP
1581PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1582 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1583
29cfeb94
PP
1584PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1585 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1586
660242ad
PP
1587PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1588 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1589
bc4bc4c5
PP
1590PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1591 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1592
2e64baa9
NM
1593NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1594 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1595 Dennis Davis.
1596
4c04137d 1597PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1598
6bac1a9a
PP
1599PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1600
552193f0
NM
1601NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1602 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1603
1b587e48
TF
1604TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1605 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1606
aa097c4c 1607
8c07b69f
TF
1608Exim version 4.74
1609-----------------
1610
1611TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1612 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1613
c0ea85ab
TF
1614TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1615 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1616
0761d44e
TF
1617TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1618
0a349494
PP
1619DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1620 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1621 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1622
1623PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1624 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1625 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1626
fea24b2e
PP
1627PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1628 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1629 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1630 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1631
6545de78
PP
1632PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1633 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1634 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1635 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1636
1670ef10
PP
1637PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1638 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1639 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1640 arbitrary files.
1641
c0886197
PP
1642PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1643 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1644
b7487bce
PP
1645PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1646 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1647 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1648 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1649 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1650
8c07b69f 1651
97fd1e48 1652Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1653-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1654
1655PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1656 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1657 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1658
6901c596
PP
1659PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1660 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1661
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1662JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1663
77bb000f
PP
1664PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1665
a29e5231
PP
1666PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1667
ec5a0394 1668PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1669
55c75993
PP
1670PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1671
453a6645 1672PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1673 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1674 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1675 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1676
8544e77a
PP
1677PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1678 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1679 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1680 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1681 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1682
83e029d5
PP
1683PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1684
ed7f7860
PP
1685PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1686
7d9f747b
PP
1687PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1688
4b2241d2
PP
1689PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1690
10385c15
PP
1691PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1692
dbc4b90d
PP
1693PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1694
532be449
PP
1695PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1696
6a8de854 1697PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1698 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1699 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1700
5dc43717
JJ
1701JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1702
1703JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1704 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1705
3346ab01
PP
1706PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1707 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1708
491fab4c
PP
1709PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1710 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1711 Notification from John Horne.
1712
13eb9497
PP
1713PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1714 compatible.
1715
1716PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1717 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1718 it normally works.
1719
7f36d675
DW
1720DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1721 access.
1722
c1d94452
DW
1723DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1724 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1725 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1726
e2f5dc15
DW
1727DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1728 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1729 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1730 configuration file.
1731
cd25e41d
DW
1732DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1733 option (effectively making it always true).
1734
261dc43e
DW
1735DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1736 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1737
fa32850b
DW
1738DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1739 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1740
79d4bc3d
PP
1741PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1742 run-time user, instead of root.
1743
43236f35 1744PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1745 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1746
fb08281f
DW
1747DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1748 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1749 arguments.
3346ab01 1750
74935b98
DW
1751DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1752 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1753 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1754
90b6341f
DW
1755DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1756
57730b52
ML
1757NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1758
66581d1e 1759
465e92cf
JJ
1760Exim version 4.72
1761-----------------
1762
453a6645
PP
1763JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1764 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1765 typos
465e92cf 1766
453a6645
PP
1767JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1768 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1769 (Finput)
edae0343 1770
9bd3e22c
NM
1771NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1772 Patch from Alain Williams
1773
bb576ff7
NM
1774NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1775
5a1a5845
NM
1776NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1777 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1778
981a9fad
NM
1779NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1780 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1781
7fc497ee
NM
1782NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1783
1a41defa
JJ
1784JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1785
a466095c 1786NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1787 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1788
94a6bd0b
NM
1789TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1790
1791TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1792
1793MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1794 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1795 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1796
c1b141a8
NM
1797NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1798 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1799
b26eacf1 1800NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1801 Patch by Simon Arlott
1802
179c5980 1803PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1804 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1805
9bd3e22c 1806
7c6d71af
NM
1807Exim version 4.71
1808-----------------
1809
7d9f747b 1810TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1811
f013fb92
NM
1812NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1813
0eb8eedd
NM
1814NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1815
663ee6d9
NM
1816NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1817
177ebd9b
NM
1818NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1819
7c6d71af 1820
210f147e
NM
1821Exim version 4.70
1822-----------------
1823
cdd3bb85 1824TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1825 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1826
1827TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1828 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1829 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1830
1831TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1832 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1833 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1834
1835TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1836 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1837
210f147e
NM
1838NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1839 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1840 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1841 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1842
deafd5b3
NM
1843NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1844 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1845 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1846
089793a4
TF
1847TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1848
5f16ca82
TF
1849TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1850
dae9d94e 1851NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1852 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1853
7d9f747b 1854NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1855
06864c44
TF
1856TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1857 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1858 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1859 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1860
65a7d8c3 1861NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1862 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1863
23510047 1864TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1865
7d9f747b 1866NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1867
7d8eec3a 1868NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1869 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1870
89dec7b6
TF
1871TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1872 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1873
a99de90c
TF
1874TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1875 that they are available at delivery time.
1876
e2803e40
TF
1877TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1878
7199e1ee
TF
1879TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1880 incoming_port log selectors.
1881
e276e04b
TF
1882TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1883 setting expands to an empty string.
1884
ce552449 1885NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1886 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1887
e765a0f1 1888NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1889 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1890
4f054c63 1891NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1892 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1893
7d9f747b
PP
1894NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1895 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1896
7d9f747b
PP
1897NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1898 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1899
b52bc06e 1900NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1901 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1902
447de4b0
NM
1903NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1904
4c69d561 1905NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1906 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1907
d5c39246 1908NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1909 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1910
0b23848a
TK
1911TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1912
8f3414a1 1913NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1914 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1915
fb6f955d
NM
1916NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1917
1918NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1919
7d9f747b
PP
1920NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1921 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1922
7d9f747b
PP
1923NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1924 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1925
7d9f747b
PP
1926NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1927 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1928
7d9f747b
PP
1929NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1930 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1931
7d9f747b
PP
1932NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1933 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1934
7d9f747b
PP
1935NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1936 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1937
7d9f747b
PP
1938NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1939 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1940
7d9f747b 1941NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1942 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1943
7d9f747b 1944NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1945
7d9f747b
PP
1946NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1947 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1948
7d9f747b 1949NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1950
7d9f747b 1951NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1952
7d9f747b 1953NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1954
7d9f747b 1955NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1956
17792b53 1957NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1958 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1959
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PP
1960NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1961 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1962
91576cec 1963NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1964 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1965
7d9f747b
PP
1966NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1967 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1968
7d9f747b 1969NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1970
7d9f747b 1971NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1972
7d9f747b 1973NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1974
7d9f747b 1975NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1976
deafd5b3 1977
47db1125
NM
1978Exim version 4.69
1979-----------------
1980
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1981TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1982 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1983 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1984
1985 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1986 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1987 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1988 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1989 build errors in sieve.c.
1990
81ea09ca
NM
1991NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1992 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1993 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1994
f13cddcb
SC
1995SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1996
7d9f747b 1997NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1998
7d9f747b 1999NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2000
7d9f747b 2001NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2002
2003
eb4c0de6
PH
2004Exim version 4.68
2005-----------------
2006
2007PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2008
6a3bceb1
PH
2009PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2010 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2011 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2012 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2013 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2014 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2015 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2016 for iplsearch lookups.
2017
2018 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2019 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2020 previously such lookups could never work.
2021
4c04137d 2022 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2023 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2024 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2025
2e30fa9d
TK
2026TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2027 version.
2028
0806a9c5
MH
2029MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2030 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2031 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2032 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2033 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2034 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2035
ae276964
TK
2036TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2037 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2038
0f2cbd1b
MH
2039MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2040 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2041 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2042 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2043 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2044 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2045
2b85bce7
PH
2046PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2047 local_scan API.
2048
93655c46
PH
2049PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2050
6c512171
PH
2051PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2052 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2053 encrypted.
2054
2055PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2056 by clients under certain conditions.
2057
aa6dc513
PH
2058PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2059 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2060
a96603a0
PH
2061PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2062
8f240103
PH
2063PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2064 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2065
2066PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2067
d677b2f2
PH
2068PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2069
d52120f2
PH
2070PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2071
64f2600a
PH
2072PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2073 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2074
8669f003
PH
2075PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2076
a4dc33a8
PH
2077PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2078 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2079
d6a60c0f
PH
2080PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2081
8f128379
PH
2082PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2083
8932dffe
PH
2084PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2085 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2086 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2087 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2088
ddea74fa 2089PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2090 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2091 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2092
ddea74fa 2093PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2094 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2095
ddea74fa
PH
2096PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2097
ce9f225c
PH
2098PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2099
19897d52
PH
2100PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2101
bc64a74d
PH
2102PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2103 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2104 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2105
eb4c0de6 2106
b4ed4da0
PH
2107Exim version 4.67
2108-----------------
2109
22ad45c9
MH
2110MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2111 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2112 Jan Srzednicki.
2113
b4ed4da0
PH
2114PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2115 issue a MAIL command.
2116
431b7361
PH
2117PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2118
2119 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2120
2121 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2122 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2123 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2124 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2125 item. This has been fixed.
2126
2127PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2128 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2129
83da1223
PH
2130PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2131 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2132
54fc8428
PH
2133PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2134 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2135 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2136
34c5e8dd
SC
2137SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2138
bbe15da8
PH
2139PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2140 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2141 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2142 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2143 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2144
0e8a9471
MH
2145MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2146 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2147 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2148
f0872424
PH
2149PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2150 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2151 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2152 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2153
b01dd148
PH
2154PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2155
6bf342e1
PH
2156PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2157
273f34d0
PH
2158PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2159 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2160 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2161 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2162 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2163
cf8b11a5
PH
2164PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2165
41c7c167
PH
2166PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2167 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2168 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2169 values).
2170
9c57cbc0
PH
2171PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2172
f3f065bb
PH
2173PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2174
047bdd8c
PH
2175PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2176
0ce9abe6
PH
2177PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2178
0e22dfd1
PH
2179PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2180
4c590bd1
PH
2181PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2182 no_callout_flush is set.
2183
09945f1e
PH
2184PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2185 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2186 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2187 fixed.
2188
c51b8e75
PH
2189PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2190
e28326d8 2191PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2192 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2193 other ACL rejections are.
2194
75b1493f
PH
2195PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2196 with slight modification.
2197
7c5214ec
PH
2198PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2199 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2200
4311097e
PH
2201PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2202 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2203 connection.
2204
29f89cad
PH
2205PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2206 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2207
5e687460
SC
2208SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2209
c3611384
PH
2210PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2211 expansion side effects.
2212
5a11a7b4
PH
2213PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2214 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2215 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2216 be the same.
2217
0e20aff9
MH
2218MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2219 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2220 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2221
ca86f471
PH
2222PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2223 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2224 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2225 were accidentally chopped off.
2226
a14e5636
PH
2227PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2228 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2229 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2230 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2231 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2232 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2233 pipelining has not been advertised.
2234
ec95d1a6
PH
2235PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2236
42855d71
PH
2237PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2238 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2239 This has been fixed.
2240
57c2c631
PH
2241PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2242 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2243 reported on Solaris.
2244
58c01c94
PH
2245PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2246 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2247 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2248 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2249 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2250 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2251 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2252
dee5a20a
PH
2253PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2254 cpus.
2255
d2ee6114
PH
2256PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2257
b2d5182b
PH
2258PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2259
79749a79
PH
2260PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2261 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2262 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2263 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2264 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2265 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2266
c456d9bb
PH
2267PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2268 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2269 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2270 host_all_ignored option.
2271
cd9868ec
PH
2272PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2273 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2274 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2275 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2276 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2277 is what is supposed to happen).
2278
ebeaf996
PH
2279PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2280 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2281 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2282 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2283 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2284 uses the Exim user.
2285
2679d413
PH
2286PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2287 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2288 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2289 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2290 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2291 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2292 users.
2293
84024b72
PH
2294PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2295
8005d38e
SC
2296SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2297 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2298 (Jez Hancock).
2299 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2300 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2301
3298c6c6
SC
2302SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2303
a43a27c5
PH
2304PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2305
58eb016e 2306PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2307 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2308 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2309 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2310 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2311 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2312 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2313 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2314 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2315 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2316 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2317
b43a74ea
PH
2318PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2319 advertised in response to EHLO.
2320
b4ed4da0 2321
5dd1517f
PH
2322Exim version 4.66
2323-----------------
2324
2325PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2326 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2327
2328 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2329 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2330
2331 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2332 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2333 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2334
2335 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2336 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2337 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2338 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2339 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2340
2341
93cfa765
TK
2342Exim version 4.65
2343-----------------
2344
2345TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2346 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2347 versions. (#438)
2348
d6066548
MH
2349MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2350 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2351 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2352
4362ff0d
PH
2353PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2354 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2355 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2356 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2357 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2358 rather than extend the field.
2359
93cfa765 2360
944e9e9c
TF
2361Exim version 4.64
2362-----------------
aa41d2de 2363
21d74bd9
TK
2364TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2365 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2366 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2367 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2368 these files.
2369
2370TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2371 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2372 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2373
2374TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2375 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2376 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2377
2378TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2379 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2380 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2381 in the field name.
2382
2b1c6e3a
PH
2383PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2384 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2385 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2386 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2387 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2388 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2389 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2390 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2391 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2392 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2393 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2394
1f872c80
PH
2395PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2396 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2397
2398PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2399 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2400 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2401 ignores EPIPE as well.
2402
d203e649
PH
2403PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2404 (quoted-printable decoding).
2405
cc2ed8f7 2406PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2407 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2408
ddfcd446
PH
2409PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2410
d45b1de8
PH
2411PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2412
2413PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2414
38a0a95f 2415PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2416 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2417
a2405d83
JJ
2418JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2419 in 4.64-PH/09.
2420
2421JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2422 miscellaneous code fixes
2423
6ea85e9a
PH
2424PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2425 rejections.
2426
26da7e20
PH
2427PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2428 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2429 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2430 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2431 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2432 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2433 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2434 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2435
14aa5a05 2436PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2437 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2438 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2439 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2440 function.
2441 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2442 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2443 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2444 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2445 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2446 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2447 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2448 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2449 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2450
ff75a1f7
PH
2451PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2452 decoding.
2453
e6f6568e
PH
2454PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2455 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2456 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2457 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2458 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2459 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2460 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2461 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2462
d6f6e0dc
PH
2463PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2464 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2465 list.
2466
322050c2
PH
2467PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2468 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2469 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2470 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2471 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2472 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2473 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2474 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2475 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2476 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2477 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2478 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2479 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2480
08955dd3
PH
2481PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2482 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2483 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2484 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2485 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2486 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2487 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2488
1eccaa59
PH
2489PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2490 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2491 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2492 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2493 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2494 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2495 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2496 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2497 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2498 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2499
602e59e5
PH
2500PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2501 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2502 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2503 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2504 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2505
411ef850
PH
2506PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2507 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2508 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2509 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2510 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2511 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2512 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2513
7befa435
PH
2514PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2515 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2516 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2517 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2518 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2519 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2520 been verified.
2521
48da4259 2522PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2523 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2524 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2525 and authorization.)
2526
48da4259
PH
2527PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2528 if any retry times were supplied.
2529
d1d5595c
PH
2530PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2531 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2532 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2533
0ef732d9
PH
2534PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2535
328895cc
PH
2536PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2537
fd700877
PH
2538PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2539 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2540 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2541 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2542 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2543 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2544
8dce1a6f
PH
2545PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2546 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2547
17af4a17
PH
2548PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2549 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2550 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2551
2552PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2553 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2554 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2555 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2556 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2557 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2558 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2559 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2560 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2561
2562 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2563 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2564 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2565 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2566 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2567 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2568 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2569 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2570 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2571
2572 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2573 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2574 hammering the server.
2575
c1114884
PH
2576PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2577 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2578
7a0743eb
PH
2579PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2580
0d85fa3f
PH
2581PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2582 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2583 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2584
1bf43b78
PH
2585PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2586 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2587 one case where this was not true.
2588
520de300
PH
2589PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2590 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2591 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2592 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2593 fails.
2594
48c7f9e2
PH
2595PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2596 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2597 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2598 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2599 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2600 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2601 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2602 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2603 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2604 smtp transport.
2605
99ea1c86
PH
2606PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2607 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2608 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2609 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2610
a2042e78
PH
2611PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2612 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2613
4fbcfc2e
PH
2614PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2615 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2616 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2617
aa41d2de
PH
2618PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2619
af561417
PH
2620PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2621
3cc66b45
PH
2622PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2623
194cc0e4
PH
2624PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2625 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2626 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2627 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2628
a401ddaa
PH
2629PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2630 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2631
4e88a19f
PH
2632PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2633 be meaningful with "accept".
2634
d7d7b289
SC
2635SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2636 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2637
2638SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2639 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2640 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2641
2642SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2643 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2644 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2645 there is data to show.
2646 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2647
2648SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2649 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2650 as well as the number of messages.
2651
2652SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2653 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2654 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2655
2656SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2657 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2658 have a flag are now skipped.
2659
2660SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2661 Added the -emptyok flag.
2662
2663SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2664 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2665
0ea2a468
JJ
2666JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2667 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2668 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2669
2670JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2671 match 4.64-PH/13
2672
2673JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2674 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2675
2676JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2677
2678JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2679 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2680
8a10f5a4
PH
2681PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2682
30e18802
PH
2683PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2684 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2685 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2686 contravention of the specifications.
2687
55728a4f
PH
2688PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2689 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2690 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2691
d7837193
PH
2692PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2693 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2694 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2695
87054a31
PH
2696PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2697
ea2c01d2
MH
2698MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2699 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2700 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2701 some point in the past.
2702
e4fa6968
PH
2703PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2704 transport during callout processing was broken.
2705
56f5d9bd
PH
2706PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2707 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2708
922e1c28
PH
2709PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2710 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2711
21eb6e72
PH
2712PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2713 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2714
a0540757
PH
2715PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2716
944e9e9c 2717
478be7b0
SC
2718Exim version 4.63
2719-----------------
2720
2721SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2722 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2723
2724SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2725 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2726 there is data to show.
2727 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2728
2729SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2730 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2731
2b965a65
TF
2732TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2733 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2734
45b91596
PH
2735TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2736 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2737
c59f5781
TF
2738TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2739 submissions from trusted users.
2740
90fc3069
TF
2741TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2742 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2743
6083aca0
TF
2744TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2745 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2746 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2747 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2748 there is now a framework to start from.
2749
765b530f
PH
2750PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2751 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2752 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2753
4e167a8c
PH
2754PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2755
4608d683
PH
2756PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2757
b8dc3e4a
PH
2758PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2759
5418e93b
PH
2760PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2761 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2762 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2763
b4a9bda2
PH
2764PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2765 libradius.
2766
45b91596
PH
2767PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2768 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2769 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2770
5547e2c5
PH
2771PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2772 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2773 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2774 its arguments.
2775
dbcef0ea
PH
2776PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2777 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2778 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2779 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2780 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2781
25257489
PH
2782PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2783 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2784
c816d124
PH
2785PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2786
a9ccd69a
PH
2787PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2788 operations in malware.c.
2789
75fa1910
PH
2790PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2791 signatures.
2792
a7d7aa58
PH
2793PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2794 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2795 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2796 all.
2797
42119b09
PH
2798PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2799 statements to "add_header".
2800
41609df5
PH
2801PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2802 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2803
a5bd321b
PH
2804PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2805 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2806 latter.
2807
e85a7ad5 2808PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2809 so that it is now:
2810
e85a7ad5
PH
2811 ${if or { \
2812 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2813 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2814 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2815 }{no}{yes}}
2816
e85a7ad5
PH
2817 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2818 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2819
d8fe1c03
PH
2820PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2821 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2822
16282d2b
PH
2823PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2824 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2825 any possible encoding problems.
2826
35d40a98
PH
2827PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2828 but not after initializing Perl.
2829
034d99ab
PH
2830PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2831 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2832 apparently, which is not desirable.
2833
6ec97b1b
PH
2834PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2835 queries.
2836
e22ca4ac
JJ
2837JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2838 --not options
2839
2840JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2841
33d73e3b
PH
2842PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2843 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2844 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2845 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2846
9ecb03f3
PH
2847PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2848 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2849 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2850
084efe8d
PH
2851PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2852 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2853 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2854 0.12.
2855
366fc9f0
PH
2856PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2857 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2858 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2859 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2860 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2861
c59f5781 2862
c887c79e
TF
2863Exim version 4.62
2864-----------------
2865
2866TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2867 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2868
1cce3af8
PH
2869PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2870 patch).
2871
afb3eaaf
PH
2872PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2873 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2874 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2875 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2876 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2877 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2878 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2879 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2880 451 error is used.
2881
e173618b
PH
2882PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2883
dd16e114
PH
2884PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2885 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2886 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2887
f7fd3850
PH
2888PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2889 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2890 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2891 odd errors.
2892
d87df92c
PH
2893PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2894 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2895
7e9f683d
PH
2896PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2897 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2898 option (which defaults to 0600).
2899
bfad5236
PH
2900PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2901
01c490df
PH
2902PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2903 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2904 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2905 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2906 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2907 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2908 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2909
d6629cdc
PH
2910PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2911
1cce3af8 2912
214e2000
PH
2913Exim version 4.61
2914-----------------
2915
2916PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2917 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2918 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2919 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2920 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2921 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2922 addresses as local.
2923
f9daeae0
PH
2924PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2925 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2926
7e66e54d
PH
2927PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2928
c8ea1597
PH
2929PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2930 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2931 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2932 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2933 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2934 grumble.
2935
911f6fde
PH
2936PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2937 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2938
47ca6d6c
PH
2939PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2940 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2941 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2942 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2943 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2944
ed0e9820
PH
2945PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2946 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2947 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2948 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2949
eff37e47
PH
2950PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2951 be the same on different OS.
2952
1921d2ea
PH
2953PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2954 testing.
2955
b3f69ca8
JJ
2956JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2957 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2958
2959JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2960 in 4.61-PH/06
2961
424a1c63
PH
2962PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2963 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2964 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2965 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2966 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2967 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2968 bounce message.
2969
7a100415
PH
2970PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2971 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2972 when Exim was called.
2973
19b9dc85
PH
2974PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2975 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2976
309bd837
PH
2977PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2978 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2979 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2980 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2981
59e82a2a
PH
2982PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2983 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2984 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2985 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2986 changes:
2987
2988 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2989 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2990 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2991
2992 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2993 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2994 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2995
9edc04ce
PH
2996PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2997 feature).
2998
1349e1e5
PH
2999PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3000 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3001 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3002 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3003 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3004 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3005 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3006 values from the SRV records were lost.
3007
ea49d0e1
PH
3008PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3009 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3010 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3011
064a94c9
PH
3012PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3013 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3014 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3015
727071f8
PH
3016PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3017 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3018 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3019 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3020 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3021 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3022 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3023 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3024 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3025 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3026
f78eb7c6
PH
3027PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3028 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3029 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3030
21c28500
PH
3031PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3032 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3033
3034PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3035 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3036 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3037 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3038 is given.
3039
1688f43b
PH
3040PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3041 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3042 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3043
3044PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3045 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3046 PH/23 above applies.
3047
9675b384
PH
3048PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3049 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3050 (for which there is an explicit test).
3051
6a3f1455
PH
3052PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3053
dac79d3e
PH
3054PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3055 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3056 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3057 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3058 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3059
5977a0b3
PH
3060PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3061 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3062 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3063 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3064
c91535f3
PH
3065PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3066 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3067 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3068
0d46a8c8
PH
3069PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3070
278c6e6c
PH
3071PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3072
2cbb4081
PH
3073PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3074 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3075 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3076
3eef829e
PH
3077PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3078 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3079 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3080 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3081 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3082
1ab95fa6
PH
3083PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3084 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3085 the message gets confusing).
3086
230205fc
PH
3087PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3088 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3089 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3090 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3091
75e0e026
PH
3092PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3093 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3094 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3095 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3096 same order.
3097
3098PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3099 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3100 the different processes.
3101
145396a6
PH
3102PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3103
3cd34f13
PH
3104PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3105
11121d3d
JJ
3106JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3107 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3108
3109JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3110 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3111
3112JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3113 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3114 messages matching specified criteria.
3115
8def5aaf
PH
3116PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3117
929ba01c
PH
3118PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3119 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3120
2632889e
PH
3121PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3122 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3123 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3124 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3125 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3126 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3127 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3128 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3129 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3130 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3131
944a9c55
PH
3132PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3133 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3134 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3135
4a23603b
PH
3136PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3137
4730f942
PH
3138PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3139 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3140 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3141 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3142 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3143 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3144 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3145 the variable.
3146
30dba1e6
PH
3147PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3148 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3149
382afc6b
PH
3150PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3151
a86229cf
PH
3152PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3153
50c99ba6
PH
3154PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3155
d35e429d
PH
3156PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3157 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3158 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3159 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3160 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3161 size of the count of files.
3162
f90d018c
PH
3163PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3164
75def545
PH
3165PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3166 used in LMTP mode:
3167
3168 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3169 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3170 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3171 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3172
3173 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3174 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3175 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3176
3177PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3178 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3179 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3180 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3181 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3182
c46782ef
PH
3183PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3184 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3185
71fafd95
PH
3186PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3187 will now be deprecated.
3188
2c5db4fd
PH
3189PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3190
9cf6b11a
JJ
3191JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3192 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3193 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3194
3195JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3196 with very large, slow to parse queues
3197
3198JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3199
3200JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3201
898d150f
PH
3202PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3203 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3204 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3205 SMTP output lines.
3206
46218253
PH
3207PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3208 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3209 Sieve code now uses this.
3210
e97957bc
PH
3211PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3212 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3213
81e509d7
PH
3214PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3215 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3216
3d240ff7
PH
3217PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3218
b37c4101
PH
3219PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3220 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3221 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3222 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3223 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3224
79378e0f
PH
3225PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3226 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3227 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3228 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3229
e49c7bb4
PH
3230PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3231
d114ec46
PH
3232PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3233
f3d7df6c
PH
3234PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3235 is preferred over IPv4.
3236
715ab376
PH
3237PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3238 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3239 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3240 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3241 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3242 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3243 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3244
6b31b150
PH
3245PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3246 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3247 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3248
3249PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3250
d515a917
PH
3251PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3252 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3253 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3254 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3255 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3256 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3257 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3258 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3259 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3260 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3261 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3262
9b8fadde
PH
3263PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3264 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3265 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3266
214e2000 3267
5de37277
PH
3268Exim version 4.60
3269-----------------
3270
cc38ddbf
PH
3271PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3272
3273 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3274 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3275
3276 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3277 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3278 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3279
72fdd6ae
PH
3280PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3281
3282 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3283 not a single digit.
3284
3285 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3286 string.
3287
3288 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3289 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3290 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3291 silly things.
3292
3293 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3294 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3295
3296 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3297 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3298
cb741023
PH
3299PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3300 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3301 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3302
f174f16e
PH
3303PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3304 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3305
c25242d7
PH
3306PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3307 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3308
3309 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3310
3311 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3312 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3313 this:
3314
3315 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3316
82c19f95
PH
3317PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3318 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3319 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3320 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3321 identical. For example:
3322
3323 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3324
3325 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3326 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3327 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3328
d7ffbc12
PH
3329PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3330 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3331 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3332 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3333
9f526266
PH
3334PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3335 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3336 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3337 message.
3338
87fcc8b9
PH
3339PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3340
3341 o fixes some comments
3342 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3343 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3344 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3345 and documents the missing references header update
3346
3347 and most important:
3348
3349 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3350 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3351 result)
3352
456682f5
PH
3353PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3354 Electronic Mail") by including:
3355
3356 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3357
3358 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3359 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3360 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3361 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3362 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3363
3364 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3365
3366 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3367
3368 The auto-replied keyword:
3369
3370 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3371 message by an automatic process,
3372
3373 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3374
3375 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3376 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3377
3378 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3379 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3380 other messages.
3381
3e46c1aa
PH
3382PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3383 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3384
49826d12
PH
3385PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3386
eba0c039
PH
3387PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3388 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3389 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3390
a0d6ba8a
PH
3391PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3392 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3393 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3394
f0917727
PH
3395PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3396 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3397 and treats the condition as false.
3398
096fee00
PH
3399PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3400
024bd3c2
PH
3401PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3402 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3403 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3404 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3405 not changing the active code.
3406
3407 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3408 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3409
3410 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3411 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3412
df199fec
PH
3413PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3414 (Bugzilla #53).
3415
d27f1df3
PH
3416PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3417 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3418 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3419 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3420 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3421 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3422 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3423 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3424 the text comparison.
3425
96776534
PH
3426PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3427 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3428 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3429 The same fix has been applied.
3430
5de37277 3431
9a799bc0
PH
3432Exim version 4.54
3433-----------------
3434
3435PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3436 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3437 It now does.
3438
99a4b039
PH
3439PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3440 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3441
3442PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3443
4b233853
PH
3444PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3445 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3446 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3447 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3448 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3449
8857ccfd
PH
3450TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3451 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3452 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3453 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3454 or /domain=).
3455
433a2980
PH
3456PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3457 testing suite.
3458
3e46c1aa 3459
9a799bc0 3460
e3a311ba
TK
3461Exim version 4.53
3462-----------------
3463
3464TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3465 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3466
13b685f9
PH
3467PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3468
395ff96d
PH
3469PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3470
5b68f6e4
PH
3471PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3472 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3473 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3474
1ab52c69
PH
3475PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3476 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3477 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3478
b07e6aa3
PH
3479PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3480 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3481 operating systems.
3482
254e032f
PH
3483PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3484 ${stat: expansion item.
3485
3af76a81
PH
3486PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3487 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3488
2548ba04
PH
3489PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3490 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3491 file for comments.
3492
b6c6011d
PH
3493PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3494
cf39cf57
PH
3495PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3496 setting.
3497
f1513293
PH
3498PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3499 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3500
727549a4
PH
3501TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3502
af46795e
PH
3503PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3504 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3505 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3506 the end of the subprocess.
3507
d7b47fd0
PH
3508PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3509 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3510 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3511 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3512 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3513
ee744174
JJ
3514JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3515
b582ab87
PH
3516TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3517
41a13e0a
PH
3518PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3519 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3520
f625cc5a
PH
3521PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3522
3523PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3524
21f7af35
PH
3525PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3526 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3527 HP-UX compiler.
3528
31480e42
PH
3529PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3530
2d280592
PH
3531PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3532 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3533 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3534
7cd1141b
PH
3535PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3536 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3537
3538PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3539 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3540
750af86e
PH
3541PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3542 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3543
3544 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3545 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3546
3547 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3548 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3549 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3550 contributed by a Radius user.
3551
3552PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3553 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3554
4304270b
TK
3555TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3556 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3557
750af86e
PH
3558PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3559 available.
3560
64ffc24f
PH
3561PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3562 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3563 received.
3564
5dd9625b
PH
3565PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3566 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3567 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3568 header lines when this was not necessary.
3569
5591031b
PH
3570PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3571
ba18e66a
PH
3572PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3573 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3574 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3575 exists".
3576
9cec981f
PH
3577PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3578 -bV or -d is used.
3579
aa2b5c79
PH
3580PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3581 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3582 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3583 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3584
48a53b7f
PH
3585PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3586
1c59d63b
PH
3587PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3588
671012da
TK
3589TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3590
1509d3a8
PH
3591PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3592
3593PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3594 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3595 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3596 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3597 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3598 settings.
3599
3600PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3601
2fe1a124
PH
3602PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3603 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3604 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3605 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3606 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3607 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3608 which is clearly wrong.
3609
8800895a
PH
3610PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3611
ccfdb010
PH
3612PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3613 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3614 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3615 subsequently added.
3616
1130bfb0
PH
3617PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3618 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3619
ebcb507f
PH
3620PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3621
c35e155c
PH
3622PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3623 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3624
95d1f782
PH
3625PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3626 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3627
fd6de02e
PH
3628PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3629 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3630
58de37c5
PH
3631PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3632 recipients, not senders.
3633
261cf466
TF
3634TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3635 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3636
3ee512ff
PH
3637PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3638
e08c430f
PH
3639PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3640
bef5a11f
PH
3641PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3642 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3643 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3644 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3645
7546de58
TF
3646TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3647
e5d5a95f
TF
3648TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3649 clock is set back in time.
3650
2e88a017
TF
3651TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3652 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3653
a5f65aa4
TF
3654TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3655 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3656
e7726cbf
PH
3657PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3658 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3659 (see PH/47 above).
3660
a7fdad5b
TF
3661TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3662 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3663 header rewrites.
3664
6af56900
PH
3665PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3666 type ("H").
3667
0925ede6
PH
3668PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3669
66afa403
TF
3670TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3671 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3672 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3673
0154e85a
TF
3674TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3675 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3676 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3677 helo verification defer as a failure.
3678
16f12c76
PH
3679PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3680 actual error message.
3681
bbe902f0 3682
e5a9dba6
PH
3683Exim version 4.52
3684-----------------
3685
3686TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3687
22c3b60b
PH
3688PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3689 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3690 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3691 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3692
06a9b4b5
PH
3693TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3694
c1ac6996
PH
3695PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3696 can still be requested.
3697
9c7a242c
PH
3698PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3699 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3700 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3701 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3702
87ba3f5f
PH
3703TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3704 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3705 circumstances, but probably never did.
3706
3707PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3708 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3709 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3710 in the header line.
3711
29aba418
TF
3712TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3713
fe0dab11
TF
3714TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3715 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3716
11d337a4
TK
3717TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3718
3719TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3720
415c8f3b
PH
3721PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3722 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3723 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3724 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3725 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3726 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3727
958541e9
PH
3728PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3729 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3730 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3731 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3732 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3733 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3734
c206415f
TK
3735TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3736 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3737
2a4be8f9
PH
3738PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3739 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3740
1cba11c5
SC
3741SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3742 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3743
4c04137d 3744SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3745
3746SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3747
3748SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3749
3750SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3751
3752SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3753
3754SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3755
1005d00e
TK
3756TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3757
3758TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3759 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3760 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3761
3762TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3763 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3764 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3765 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3766
9b4768fa
PH
3767PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3768 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3769 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3770
3771PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3772 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3773 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3774 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3775
0d7eb84a
PH
3776PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3777 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3778 to be made).
3779
3780PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3781 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3782 should work with maildirs and everything.
3783
40727bee
TK
3784TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3785 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3786
554d2369
TF
3787TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3788 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3789
1f922db1
PH
3790PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3791 function for BDB 4.3.
3792
ef213c3b
PH
3793PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3794
8ac170f3
PH
3795PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3796 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3797 involved.
3798
b1c749bb
PH
3799PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3800 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3801 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3802 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3803 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3804 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3805
4aac9b49
PH
3806PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3807 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3808 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3809 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3810 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3811 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3812 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3813 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3814
294520c8
TK
3815TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3816 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3817 details.
3818
5bd022fe
PH
3819PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3820 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3821
90e9ce59
PH
3822PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3823 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3824 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3825 test. It is now used for both.
3826
5ea81592
PH
3827PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3828 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3829 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3830 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3831 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3832 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3833
c6c2dc1d
PH
3834PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3835 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3836 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3837 string_vformat().
3838
fffffe4c
PH
3839PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3840 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3841 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3842
9a26b6b2
PH
3843PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3844 experimental DomainKeys support:
3845
3846 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3847 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3848 the control was given.
3849
3850 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3851
4aee0225
PH
3852PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3853
32d668a5
PH
3854PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3855
8187c3f3
PH
3856PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3857 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3858 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3859 db.h files).
3860
ff790e47 3861PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3862 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3863 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3864 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3865 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3866 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3867 course.
ff790e47 3868
5417f6d1
PH
3869PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3870 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3871 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3872 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3873 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3874 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3875
59cf8544
PH
3876PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3877 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3878 do -d+all out of habit.
3879
e7ad8a65
PH
3880PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3881 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3882 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3883
ade42478
PH
3884PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3885 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3886 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3887 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3888 record types that Exim uses.
3889
182ad5cf
PH
3890PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3891 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3892 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3893 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3894 non-existent file that was broken.
3895
b0d9fc80
TK
3896TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3897 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3898
3899TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3900 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3901 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3902
3903TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3904
47c7a64a
PH
3905PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3906 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3907 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3908 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3909 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3910 same time.
3911
a388bce4
SC
3912SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3913 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3914 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3915 at a slight CPU cost.
3916
3917SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3918 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3919
3920SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3921 by Marc Sherman.
3922
0793e4ed
SC
3923SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3924
c58b88df
PH
3925PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3926 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3927
e7ad8a65 3928
7982096b
PH
3929Exim version 4.51
3930-----------------
3931
1a46a8c5
PH
3932TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3933 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3934
2f079f46 3935TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3936
3937TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3938
3939PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3940 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3941
3942PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3943 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3944 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3945 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3946 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3947 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3948 file.
3949
3950PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3951 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3952 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3953 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3954 these two options.
3955
3956PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3957 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3958 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3959 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3960 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3961 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3962 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3963 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3964
3965PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3966 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3967
3968PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3969 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3970 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3971 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3972 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3973 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3974
3975PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3976 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3977 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3978 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3979
3980PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3981 Finch).
3982
3983PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3984 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3985
49c2d5ea
PH
3986PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3987 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3988 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3989 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3990 message.
49c2d5ea 3991
bf759a8b
PH
3992PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3993
83364d30
PH
3994PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3995 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3996
7999bbd7
PH
3997PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3998 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3999 to what was transported.)
4000
7dbf77c9
PH
4001TF/01 Added $received_time.
4002
74e0617f
PH
4003PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4004 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4005 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4006 spamd_address settings.
4007
2f079f46
PH
4008PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4009 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4010 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4011 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4012 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4013
8c841523
PH
4014PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4015
7766a4f0
PH
4016PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4017 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4018 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4019 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4020 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4021
8b417f2c
PH
4022PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4023 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4024
901f42cb
PH
4025PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4026 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4027 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4028 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4029 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4030 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4031 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4032 for failure.
4033
f9b9210e
PH
4034PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4035 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4036 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4037 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4038 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4039 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4040 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4041 "input=".
4042
54cdb463
PH
4043PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4044
cf00dad6
PH
4045PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4046 driver and ACL definitions.
4047
acb1b346
PH
4048PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4049 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4050
c5ddb310
PH
4051PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4052 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4053 understands it better than I do:
4054
4055 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4056 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4057
4058 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4059 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4060 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4061 => three warnings about OTP not working
4062 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4063
4064 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4065 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4066 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4067 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4068 for each call.)
4069 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4070 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4071
4072 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4073 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4074 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4075
31619da6
PH
4076PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4077 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4078 specified.
4079
bebaf0fc
PH
4080PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4081 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4082 "Linux".
4083
475fe28a
PH
4084PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4085 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4086 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4087
4088 warn !verify = sender
4089 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4090
4091 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4092 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4093
7e8bec7a
PH
4094PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4095
4096 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4097 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4098
4099 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4100 nomenclature these days.)
4101
e4a89c47
PH
4102PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4103 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4104
5ca2a9a1
PH
4105PH/30 In these circumstances:
4106 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4107 . First host does not offer TLS;
4108 . First host accepts first address;
4109 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4110 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4111 . Second host accepts second address.
4112 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4113 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4114 address.
7e8bec7a 4115
c688b954
PH
4116PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4117 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4118 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4119 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4120 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4121
fed77020
PH
4122PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4123 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4124
7fe1560f
PH
4125PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4126 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4127
ebb6e6d5
PH
4128PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4129 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4130 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4131
9c4e8f60
PH
4132PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4133 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4134 overlooked.
4135
4136PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4137
d7174846
PH
4138PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4139 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4140 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4141 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4142 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4143 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4144 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4145
4146 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4147 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4148 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4149 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4150 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4151
4152 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4153 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4154 routed further.
4155
cfe75fc3
PH
4156PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4157 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4158 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4159 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4160 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4161 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4162
be22d70e
PH
4163PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4164
0612b098
PH
4165PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4166 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4167 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4168 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4169 printable escape sequences.
4170
2e0c1448
PH
4171PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4172 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4173 body only.
4174
447d236c
PH
4175PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4176 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4177 are as follows:
4178
4179 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4180 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4181 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4182 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4183 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4184
4185 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4186 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4187 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4188
d20976dc
PH
4189PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4190
f656d135
PH
4191PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4192 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4193 play with."
4194
2e2a30b4
PH
4195PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4196 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4197 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4198 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4199 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4200 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4201 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4202 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4203 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4204 the log output.
4205
9176e9f0
PH
4206PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4207 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4208 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4209 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4210 "make".
4211
7982096b 4212
bbe902f0
PH
4213A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4214----------------------------------------
4215
4216Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4217changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4218needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4219in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4220that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4221release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4222from 4.43.
4223
4224I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42254.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4226those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4227historical information.
4228
4229
f7b63901 4230Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4231-----------------
4232
5fe762f6
PH
4233 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4234
139059f6 4235 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4236 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4237
7086e875
PH
4238 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4239 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4240 place.
4241
35af9f61
PH
4242 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4243 filter fails to execute.
4244
b668c215
PH
4245 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4246 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4247 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4248 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4249 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4250
a494b1e1
PH
4251 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4252
4253 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4254 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4255 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4256 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4257
c5fcb476
PH
4258 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4259 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4260 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4261 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4262 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4263
69358f02
PH
4264 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4265
5be20824
PH
426610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4267
eb2c0248
PH
426811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4269 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4270 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4271 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4272
2a3eea10
PH
427312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4274 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4275 sender verification.
4276
427713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4278 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4279
23c7ff99
PH
428014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4281
4deaf07d
PH
428215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4283 connection timeout.
4284
926e1192
PH
428516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4286 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4287
650edc6f
PH
428817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4289 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4290
2c7db3f5
PH
429118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4292 information about exactly what failed.
4293
3d235903
PH
429419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4295
7c7ad977
PH
429620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4297 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4298 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4299
981756db
PH
430021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4301 It is now set to "smtps".
4302
d4eb88df
PH
430322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4304 ignore_target_hosts.
4305
430623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4307 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4308 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4309 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4310 "[x.x.x.x]".
4311
7d468ab8
PH
431224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4313 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4314 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4315
431625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4317 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4318 wake it up if nothing else does.
4319
62c0818f
PH
432026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4321 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4322 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4323 end up negative.
4324
26034054
PH
432527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4326 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4327
af66f652
PH
432828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4329
90af77f4
PH
433029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4331 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4332 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4333 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4334 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4335 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4336 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4337 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4338
d8ef3577
PH
433930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4340 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4341 than one IP address.
4342
5cb8cbc6
PH
434331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4344 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4345 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4346 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4347
14702f5b
PH
434832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4349 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4350 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4351 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4352 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4353 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4354
063b1e99
PH
435533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4356 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4357 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4358 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4359
652e1b65
PH
436034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4361 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4362 respected.
4363
6f0c9a4f
PH
436435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4365 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4366 $sender_host_address.
4367
33397d19
PH
436836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4369 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4370 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4371 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4372 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4373 very small.
4374
7bb56e1f
PH
437537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4376
4377 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4378 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4379
ea3bc19b
PH
4380 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4381 just the host names, not the priorities.
4382
4383 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4384 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4385 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4386
ea3bc19b 4387 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4388 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4389
0bcb2a0e
PH
439038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4391 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4392 domain.
4393
2ac0e484
PH
439439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4395
4e1fde53
PH
439640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4397 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4398
de365ded
PH
439941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4400 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4401 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4402
f05da2e8
PH
440342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4404
d6453af2
PH
440543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4406
f7b63901
PH
440744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4408
440945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4410 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4411 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4412 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4413 because the tests only now provoked it.
4414
a444213a
PH
441546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4416 (this can affect the format of dates).
4417
0ec020ea
PH
441847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4419 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4420 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4421 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4422
b1206957
PH
442348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4424
442549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4426 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4427 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4428 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4429
26dd5a95
PH
443050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4431 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4432 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4433
343b2385
PH
443451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4435 autoreply.
4436
1c5466b9
PH
443752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4438 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4439 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4440 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4441 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4442 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4443 is going on).
4444
55ee9ee3
PH
444553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4446 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4447 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4448 the line.
4449
d38f8232
PH
445054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4451 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4452 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4453
4454 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4455 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4456 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4457 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4458 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4459 so I produce this patch..."
4460
3295e65b
PH
4461 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4462 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4463 is not defined.
4464
7102e136
PH
446555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4466 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4467 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4468 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4469 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4470
3ca0ba97
PH
447156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4472
c2bcbe20
PH
447357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4474 long debug lines gets shown.
4475
18ce445d
PH
447658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4477 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4478
1f5b4c3d
PH
447959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4480
4481 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4482 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4483 of $primary_hostname.
4484
b975ba52
PH
448560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4486 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4487 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4488 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4489 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4490 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4491 by change 4.50/55 above.
4492
4493 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4494 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4495 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4496 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4497 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4498 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4499 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4500
450161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4502 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4503 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4504 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4505
17ffcae7
PH
450662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4507 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4508
d95f9fdb
PH
450963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4510 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4511 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4512 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4513 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4514
86b8287f
PH
451564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4516 This has been fixed.
4517
60dc5e56
PH
451865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4519 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4520 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4521 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4522 the caching.)
4523
533244af
PH
452466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4525
a5a28604
PH
452667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4527 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4528 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4529 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4530
7e634d24
PH
453168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4532 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4533
3e11c26b
PH
453469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4535 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4536 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4537
6729cf78
PH
453870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4539 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4540 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4541 message there.
4542
00f00ca5
PH
454371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4544 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4545 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4546
c9bdd01c
PH
454772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4548 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4549 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4550 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4551
d43194df
PH
455273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4553 during host lookups.
4554
fe5b5d0b
PH
455574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4556 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4557
4558 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4559
76a2d7ba
PH
456075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4561 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4562 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4563 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4564 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4565 background.
4566
456776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4568 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4569
04f7d5b9
PH
457077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4571 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4572 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4573
bc60667e
PH
457478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4575
bb6e88ff
PH
457679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4577 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4578 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4579 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4580 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4581 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4582 process earlier.
4583
1e70f85b
PH
458480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4585 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4586 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4587 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4588 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4589
459081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4591 tables).
4592
4e01f9d6
PH
459382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4594
1ee1cef2
PH
459583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4596 "vacation" handling.
4597
6e2b4ccc
PH
459884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4599 OS variants using glibc.
4600
8e669ac1
PH
460185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4602
495ae4b0 4603
bbe902f0
PH
4604----------------------------------------------------
4605See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4606----------------------------------------------------
4607
4608
4609Exim version 4.44
4610-----------------
4611
4612 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4613 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4614 transport
4615
4616 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4617 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4618 place.
4619
4620 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4621 filter fails to execute.
4622
4623 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4624 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4625 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4626 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4627 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4628
4629 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4630 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4631 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4632 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4633
4634 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4635 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4636 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4637 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4638 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4639
4640 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4641
4642 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4643 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4644 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4645 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4646
4647 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4648 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4649 sender verification.
4650
465110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4652 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4653
465411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4655 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4656
465712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4658 ignore_target_hosts.
4659
466013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4661 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4662 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4663 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4664 "[x.x.x.x]".
4665
466614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4667 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4668 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4669
467015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4671 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4672 wake it up if nothing else does.
4673
467416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4675 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4676 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4677 end up negative.
4678
467917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4680 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4681
ea3a6f44 468218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4683
468419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4685 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4686 empty pattern.
4687
468820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4689 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4690 one IP address.
4691
ea3a6f44
NM
469221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4693 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4694 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4695 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4696 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4697 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4698
ea3a6f44
NM
469922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4700 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4701 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4702
470323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4704 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4705 $sender_host_address.
4706
470724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4708
ea3a6f44
NM
470925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4710 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4711 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4712
471326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4714 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4715
ea3a6f44
NM
471627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4717 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4718
ea3a6f44
NM
471928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4720 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4721 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4722 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4723
472429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4725 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4726 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4727
ea3a6f44
NM
472830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4729 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4730 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4731 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4732
ea3a6f44
NM
473331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4734 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4735 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4736
ea3a6f44
NM
473731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4738 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4739
ea3a6f44
NM
474032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4741 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4742 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4743 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4744 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4745 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4746 is going on).
bbe902f0 4747
ea3a6f44
NM
474833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4749 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4750 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4751 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4752 CAN-2005-0021
4753
ea3a6f44
NM
475434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4755 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4756 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4757 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4758 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4759 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4760 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4761
4762 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4763 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4764 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4765 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4766 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4767 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4768 CAN-2005-0021
4769
ea3a6f44
NM
477035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4771 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4772 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4773 CAN-2005-0022
4774
ea3a6f44
NM
477536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4776 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4777 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4778 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4779 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4780
ea3a6f44
NM
478137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4782 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4783 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4784 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4785 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4786
ea3a6f44
NM
478738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4788 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4789 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4790 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4791 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4792
4793
495ae4b0
PH
4794Exim version 4.43
4795-----------------
4796
4797 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4798 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4799 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4800 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4801 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4802 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4803 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4804
4805 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4806 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4807 the delivery.
4808
4809 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4810
4811 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4812
4813 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4814 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4815 to local_scan().
4816
4817 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4818 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4819 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4820 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4821 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4822
4823 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4824 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4825
4826 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4827
4828 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4829
483010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4831 header_sender only.
4832
483311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4834 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4835
483612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4837 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4838 affecting debugging statements).
4839
484013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4841
484214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4843 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4844 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4845 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4846 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4847 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4848 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4849 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4850 after the received time, and all would be well.
4851
485215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4853 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4854 condition in an expansion string.
4855
485616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4857
485817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4859 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4860 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4861 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4862 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4863 job under whatever limits there are.
4864
486518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4866
486719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4868 space).
4869
487020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4871 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4872 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4873 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4874 return path is set.
4875
487621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4877 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4878 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4879 binary data in such strings.
4880
488122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4882
488323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4884 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4885 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4886 failure, which is pointless.
4887
488824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4889
489025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4891
489226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4893 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4894 Sender: header lines.
4895
489627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4897 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4898 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4899
490028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4901 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4902 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4903 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4904 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4905 happens.
4906
490729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4908 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4909 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4910 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4911 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4912
491330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4914 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4915 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4916 1024.
4917
491831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4919 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4920
492132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4922 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4923
492433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4925
492632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4927
492833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4929
493034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4931 syntax error.
4932
493335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4934
493536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4936
493737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4938 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4939 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4940 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4941
494238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4943 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4944
4945
4946Exim version 4.42
4947-----------------
4948
4949 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4950 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4951 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4952 it was not quoted.
4953 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4954 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4955 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4956 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4957 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4958 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4959
4960 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4961 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4962 verification failure".
4963
4964 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4965 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4966 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4967 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4968
4969 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4970 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4971 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4972 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4973 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4974 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4975 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4976 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4977 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4978 treated as a timeout.
4979
4980 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4981 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4982 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4983 not set for Exim filters).
4984
4985 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4986 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4987 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4988
4989 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4990
4991 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4992 try to make them clearer.
4993
4994 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4995 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4996
4997 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4998
4999 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5000
500110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5002 only the Cygwin environment.
5003
500411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5005 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5006 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5007 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5008 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5009
501012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5011 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5012 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5013 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5014 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5015 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5016 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5017
501813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5019 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5020
502114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5022
5023 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5024 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5025 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5026
5027 To: susanne@some.where
5028
5029 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5030 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5031 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5032 of addresses in From: header lines).
5033
5034 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5035 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5036 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5037
5038 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5039 treated as non-personal.
5040
5041 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5042 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5043
504415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5045
504616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5047
504817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5049 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5050 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5051
505218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5053 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5054
505519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5056 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5057 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5058 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5059 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5060 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5061
506220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5063 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5064 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5065 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5066 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5067 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5068 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5069 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5070
5071 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5072
507321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5074 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5075
507622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5077 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5078 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5079
508023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5081 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5082
508324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5084 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5085 rather than long int.
5086
508725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5088
508926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5090
5091
5092Exim version 4.41
5093-----------------
5094
5095 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5096 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5097 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5098 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5099 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5100 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5101
5102
5103Exim version 4.40
5104-----------------
5105
5106 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5107 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5108
5109 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5110 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5111 socklen_t is defined.
5112
5113 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5114 always exist.
5115
5116 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5117 configured.
5118
5119 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5120 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5121 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5122 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5123 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5124
5125 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5126 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5127 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5128 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5129
5130 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5131 of flapping under certain conditions.
5132
5133 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5134 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5135 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5136
5137 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5138
513910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5140
514111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5142 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5143 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5144 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5145
514612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5147 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5148 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5149 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5150 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5151 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5152 preserved with the message after it was received.
5153
515413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5155 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5156 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5157 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5158 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5159 test suite worked just fine.
5160
516114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5162 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5163 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5164
516515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5166 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5167 string.
5168
516916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5170 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5171 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5172 does not fully solve it.
5173
517417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5175 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5176 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5177 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5178 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5179
518018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5181 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5182 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5183
518419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5185 string, for example:
5186
5187 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5188
5189 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5190 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5191 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5192 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5193 the routers could not see them.
5194
519520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5196 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5197
519821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5199 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5200 output).
5201
520222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5203 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5204 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5205 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5206 that needed quoting.
5207
520823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5209 was not being matched caselessly.
5210
521124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5212 backslashes.
5213
521425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5215 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5216 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5217 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5218 when use_sender is false.
5219
522026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5221
522227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5223
522428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5225
522629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5227 the configuration file.
5228
522930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5230 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5231
523231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5233
523432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5235 bytes in the message body.
5236
523733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5238 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5239 delivery.
5240
524134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5242
524335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5244
524536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5246 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5247 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5248 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5249 another IP address.
5250
5251
5252Exim version 4.34
5253-----------------
5254
5255 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5256 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5257
5258 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5259 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5260 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5261 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5262 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5263
5264 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5265 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5266
5267 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5268 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5269 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5270
5271 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5272 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5273 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5274
5275 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5276 for routers.
5277
5278 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5279 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5280 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5281 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5282 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5283 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5284 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5285
5286
5287Exim version 4.33
5288-----------------
5289
5290 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5291 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5292 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5293 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5294 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5295 default (and expected) setting.
5296
5297 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5298 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5299 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5300 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5301
5302 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5303 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5304
5305 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5306 in domain lists.
5307
5308 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5309 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5310 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5311 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5312 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5313 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5314
5315 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5316 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5317 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5318
5319 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5320 part (NOT match_host).
5321
5322 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5323
5324 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5325 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5326 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5327 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5328 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5329 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5330 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5331 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5332 the same named file.
5333
533410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5335 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5336 when Exim is built.
5337
533811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5339 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5340 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5341 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5342 a host name.
5343
534412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5345 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5346 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5347
534813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5349
535014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5351
535215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5353
535416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5355 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5356
535717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5358 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5359 before starting the TLS session.
5360
536118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5362
536319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5364 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5365
536620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5367 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5368 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5369 colon in the middle).
5370
5371
5372Exim version 4.32
5373-----------------
5374
5375 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5376 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5377 multiple configurations are in use.
5378
5379 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5380 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5381 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5382 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5383 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5384 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5385
5386 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5387 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5388
5389 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5390 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5391 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5392
5393 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5394 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5395 occurs.
5396
5397 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5398 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5399
5400 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5401
5402 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5403 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5404
5405 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5406
5407 -prval:sval
5408
5409 is equivalent to
5410
5411 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5412
5413 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5414 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5415 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5416 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5417 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5418
541910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5420 Exim's behaviour:
5421
5422 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5423 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5424 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5425 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5426 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5427 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5428
5429 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5430 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5431 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5432 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5433 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5434 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5435 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5436 string.
5437
5438 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5439 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5440 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5441 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5442 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5443
544411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5445
544612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5447 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5448 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5449
545013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5451
545214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5453 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5454 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5455 information.
5456
545715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5458 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5459
546016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5461 Three changes have been made:
5462
5463 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5464 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5465 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5466 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5467 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5468
5469 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5470 been restored.
5471
5472 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5473 the modified behaviour.
5474
5475
5476Exim version 4.31
5477-----------------
5478
5479 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5480 Larry Rosenman.
5481
5482 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5483 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5484
5485 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5486 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5487 try to track down a specific problem.
5488
5489 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5490 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5491 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5492
5493 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5494 warning.
5495
5496 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5497 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5498 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5499 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5500 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5501 some earlier ones do not.
5502
5503 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5504
5505 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5506 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5507 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5508 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5509 address literals are enabled, of course).
5510
5511 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5512
551310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5514 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5515 by a command such as
5516
5517 exim -f "" ...
5518
5519 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5520
552111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5522
552312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5524 remained set. It is now erased.
5525
552613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5527 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5528
552914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5530 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5531 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5532 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5533 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5534 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5535 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5536 appropriate error code.
5537
553815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5539 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5540 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5541 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5542 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5543 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5544
554516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5546 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5547 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5548
554917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5550 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5551 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5552 terminate the header.
5553
555418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5555 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5556 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5557
555819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5559 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5560 (4.30/29). In particular:
5561
5562 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5563 imposed.
5564
5565 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5566 to write a maildirsize file.
5567
5568 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5569 the transport, the new value overrides.
5570
5571 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5572 count.
5573
557420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5575 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5576 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5577 space or a tab.
5578
557921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5580 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5581 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5582 the fallback hosts.
5583
558422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5585 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5586 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5587
558823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5589 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5590 using a union.
5591
559224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5593 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5594 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5595
559625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5597
559826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5599
560027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5601
560228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5603 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5604 become corrupted.
5605
560629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5607 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5608 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5609 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5610 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5611 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5612 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5613 too great.
5614
561530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5616 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5617 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5618 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5619 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5620 incorrectly.
5621
562231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5623 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5624 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5625 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5626 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5627 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5628 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5629 cached value only when the same options are set.
5630
563132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5632
563333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5634 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5635 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5636 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5637 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5638
563934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5640 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5641 it is clearly obsolete.
5642
564335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5644 transport.
5645
564636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5647 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5648 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5649 times.
5650
565137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5652 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5653 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5654 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5655 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5656
565738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5658 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5659 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5660 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5661
566239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5663
5664 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5665
5666 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5667 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5668 2^31.
5669
567040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5671 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5672 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5673 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5674 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5675 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5676 $localpart_data.
5677
567841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5679 with the -f command-line option.
5680
568142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5682 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5683 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5684 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5685 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5686 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5687
568843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5689 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5690 line.
5691
569244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5693 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5694 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5695 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5696 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5697 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5698 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5699 buffer is too small.
5700
570145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5702 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5703
570446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5705 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5706 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5707 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5708 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5709 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5710 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5711 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5712 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5713
571447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5715 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5716 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5717
571848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5719 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5720 ACL").
5721
572249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5723 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5724 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5725 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5726 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5727
572850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5729 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5730 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5731 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5732 is set.
5733
573451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5735
573652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5737
573853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5739 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5740
574154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5742 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5743 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5744
574555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5746 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5747 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5748 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5749 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5750
575156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5752 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5753 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5754 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5755 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5756 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5757 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5758
575957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5760 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5761 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5762 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5763 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5764 the test of how many are available.
5765
576658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5767 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5768 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5769 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5770 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5771 new message is started.
5772
577359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5774 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5775
577660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5777 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5778
577961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5780 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5781 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5782 is no long logged.
5783
578462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5785 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5786 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5787 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5788 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5789 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5790 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5791
579263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5793 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5794 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5795 interpreted as octal.
5796
579764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5798 setting.
5799
580065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5801 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5802 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5803 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5804 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5805 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5806
580766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5808 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5809 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5810 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5811
5812 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5813 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5814 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5815 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5816
5817 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5818 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5819 is a bug fix.
5820
5821 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5822 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5823
582467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5825
582668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5827 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5828 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5829 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5830
583169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5832 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5833 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5834 supplied", which is not helpful.
5835
583670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5837 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5838 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5839
584071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5841 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5842 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5843 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5844 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5845 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5846 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5847 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5848
584972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5850 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5851 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5852 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5853 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5854
585573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5856 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5857 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5858 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5859 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5860 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5861
586274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5863 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5864 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5865
586675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5867
586876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5869 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5870 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5871 variables.
5872
587377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5874
587578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5876 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5877 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5878 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5879 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5880 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5881 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5882 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5883
588479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5885 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5886 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5887 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5888 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5889
589080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5891 Haardt.
5892
589381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5894 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5895 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5896 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5897 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5898 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5899 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5900 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5901 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5902
5903
5904Exim version 4.30
5905-----------------
5906
5907 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5908 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5909 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5910
5911 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5912 fixed.
5913
5914 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5915 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5916 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5917
5918 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5919 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5920 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5921 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5922 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5923 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5925 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5926 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5927 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5928 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5929 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5930 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5931 the Exim test suite.
5932
5933 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5934 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5935 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5936 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5937
5938 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5939 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5940 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5941 specify it in this variable.
5942
5943 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5944 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5945 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5946 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5947
5948 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5949 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5950 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5951 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5952
5953 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5954 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5955 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5956 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5957 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5958
5959 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5960
596110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5962 they are logged.
5963
596411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5965 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5966 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5967 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5968 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5969
597012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5971 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5972
597313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5974 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5975 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5976 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5977 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5978
597914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5980 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5981
598215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5983 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5984 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5985
598616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5987 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5988
598917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5990 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5991
599218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5993 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5994 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5995
599619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5997 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5998
599920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6000 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6001 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6002 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6003
600421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6005
600622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6007 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6008 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6009 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6010
601123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6012
601324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6014 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6015
601625. Added .include_if_exists.
6017
601826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6019 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6020 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6021 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6022 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6023 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6024
602527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6026
602728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6028 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6029 this.
6030
603129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6032
603330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6034 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6035
6036 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6037 550 Sender verify failed
6038
6039 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6040 the final line of the response.
6041
604231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6043 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6044 all other user lookups.
6045
604632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6047 delivery time.
6048
604933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6050 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6051 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6052 result into an int without checking.
6053
605434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6055 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6056 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6057
605835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6059 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6060 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6061 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6062
606336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6064 correctly.
6065
606637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6067 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6068
606938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6070 to the empty sender.
6071
607239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6073 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6074 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6075 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6076 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6077 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6078 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6079 panic log.
6080
608140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6082 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6083 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6084 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6085 used.
6086
608741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6088 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6089
609042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6091 timestamps.
6092
609343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6094 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6095
609644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6097
609845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6099 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6100 logs.
6101
610246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6103 as soon as it is encountered.
6104
610547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6106
610748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6108 rewritten to "<>".
6109
611049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6111 recognizes a tab character.
6112
611350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6114 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6115 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6116 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6117
611851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6119
612052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6121 crash.
6122
612353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6124
612554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6126
612755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6128 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6129 2822.
6130
613156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6132 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6133 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6134 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6135 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6136
613757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6138 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6139
614058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6141 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6142 list (.included file names were always shown).
6143
614459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6145 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6146 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6147 root at that time.
6148
614960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6150 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6151
615261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6153
615462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6155
615663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6157
615864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6159 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6160 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6161 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6162 failures to open the logs.
6163
616465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6165 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6166 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6167 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6168 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6169 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6170 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6171
6172
6173Exim version 4.24
6174-----------------
6175
6176 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6177 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6178 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6179 change 4.23/1.
6180
6181 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6182 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6183 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6184
6185 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6186 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6187 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6188
6189 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6190 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6191 causing some misleading effects.
6192
6193 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6194 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6195 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6196
6197 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6198 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6199 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6200 queue-runner function directly.
6201
6202
6203Exim version 4.23
6204-----------------
6205
6206 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6207 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6208
6209 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6210 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6211 was always written to the default place.
6212
6213 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6214 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6215 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6216
6217 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6218
6219 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6220
6221 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6222 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6223 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6224
6225 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6226 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6227 must start.
6228
6229 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6230 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6231 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6232
6233 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6234 command line option is disabled.
6235
6236 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6237 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6238
6239 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6240
6241 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6242
6243 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6244 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6245
624610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6247
624811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6249 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6250 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6251 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6252 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6253 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6254
625512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6256 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6257 timeout.
6258
625913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6260 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6261
626214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6263 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6264
626515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6266 received was valid base64.
6267
626816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6269 name of the variable that was being set.
6270
627117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6272
627318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6274 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6275 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6276 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6277 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6278 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6279
628019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6281
628220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6283 nor realm was specified.
6284
628521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6286 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6287 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6288 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6289
629022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6291 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6292 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6293
629423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6295 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6296 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6297
629824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6299 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6300 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6301 some systems use these upper case variants.
6302
630325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6304 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6305 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6306 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6307
630826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6309
631027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6311 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6312
631328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6314 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6315 expansion variable.
6316
631729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6318
631930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6320 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6321 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6322 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6323
632431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6325 using it.
6326
632732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6328 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6329 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6330
633133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6332 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6333
633434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6335 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6336 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6337 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6338
633935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6340 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6341 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6342
634336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6344
634537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6346 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6347 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6348 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6349 aborted.
6350
635138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6352 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6353 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6354
635539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6356
635740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6358 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6359
636041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6361 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6362
636342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6364 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6365 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6366 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6367 when emails are that large.
6368
6369
6370
6371Exim version 4.22
6372-----------------
6373
6374 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6375 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6376
6377 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6378 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6379 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6380
6381 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6382 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6383 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6384
6385 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6386 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6387 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6388 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6389 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6390
6391 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6392 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6393 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6394 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6395 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6396 ever.
6397
6398 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6399 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6400 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6401 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6402 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6403 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6404 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6405 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6406 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6407 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6408 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6409 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6410 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6411 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6412
6413 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6414 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6415 parameterised it.
6416
6417 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6418 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6419 error should be diagnosed.
6420
6421 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6422 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6423 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6424 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6425 appeared instead of "NULL".
6426
642710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6428 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6429 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6430 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6431 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6432 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6433 proceeds).
6434
6435 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6436 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6437 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6438
6439
6440Exim version 4.21
6441-----------------
6442
6443 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6444 or receiver verification errors.
6445
6446 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6447 name.
6448
6449 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6450 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6451 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6452 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6453
6454 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6455 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6456 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6457 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6458 shouldn't happen again.
6459
6460 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6461 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6462 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6463
6464 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6465 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6466
6467 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6468
6469 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6470 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6471
6472 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6473 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6474 RFC.
6475
647610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6477 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6478 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6479
648011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6481 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6482 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6483 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6484
648512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6486 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6487 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6488 to define what should happen).
6489
649013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6491 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6492 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6493
649414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6495
649615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6497
649816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6499 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6500
4c04137d 650117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6502 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6503 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6504 structure in all cases.
6505
6506 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6507 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6508 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6509 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6510
651118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6512 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6513 domain name.
6514
651519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6516 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6517
651820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6519 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6520
652121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6522 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6523 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6524
652522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6526 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6527 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6528
652923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6530 the book and for uniformity.
6531
653224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6533
653425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6535 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6536 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6537 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6538 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6539 non-existent command as the problem.
6540
654126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6542 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6543 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6544
654527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6546
654728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6548 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6549 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6550
655129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6552 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6553 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6554 timestamps using strftime().
6555
655630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6557 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6558
655932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6560 transport-time rewrites.
6561
656233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6563 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6564 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6565 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6566
656734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6568 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6569
657035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6571 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6572 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6573 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6574 comma and a space.
6575
657636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6577 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6578 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6579 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6580 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6581 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6582 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6583
658437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6585 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6586 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6587 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6588 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6589
659038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6591 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6592 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6593 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6594 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6595 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6596 remaining text gets split now.
6597
659839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6599 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6600 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6601 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6602
660340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6604 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6605 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6606 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6607 $return_path.
6608
660941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6610 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6611 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6612 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6613 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6614 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6615 passed through if needed.
6616
661742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6618 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6619 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6620 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6621 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6622 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6623
662443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6625 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6626 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6627 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6628 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6629
663044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6631 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6632 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6633 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6634 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6635
663645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6637 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6638 noticed.
6639
664046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6641 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6642 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6643 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6644 mayhem of various kinds.
6645
664647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6647 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6648 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6649 the right test for positive values.
6650
665148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6652 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6653 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6654 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6655 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6656 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6657 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6658 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6659 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6660 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6661 envelope.
6662
666349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6664 module.
6665
666650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6667 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6668 forbidding it.
6669
667051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6671 the existing equality matching.
6672
667352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6674 dealing with inode numbers.
6675
667653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6677 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6678 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6679
668054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6681 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6682 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6683 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6684 local_scan().
6685
668655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6687 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6688 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6689 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6690 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6691 relay addresses has also been removed.
6692
669356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6694
669557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6696 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6697 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6698
669958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6700 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6701 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6702 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6703 processing applies to CR:
6704
6705 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6706 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6707
6708 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6709 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6710 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6711 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6712
671359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6714 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6715 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6716
671760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6718 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6719 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6720 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6721 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6722 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6723 arisen.
6724
672561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6726 program routers.
6727
672862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6729 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6730 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6731 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6732 adds:
6733
6734 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6735
6736 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6737
6738 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6739
674063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6741 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6742 not considered personal.
6743
674464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6745
674665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6747
674866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6749
675067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6751 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6752 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6753 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6754 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6755 header lines, and spool format errors.
6756
675768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6758 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6759 for more flexibility.
6760
676169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6762 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6763 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6764
676570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6766 Sabourenkov.
6767
676871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6769 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6770 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6771 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6772 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6773 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6774 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6775 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6776 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6777
677872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6779 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6780 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6781 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6782 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6783 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6784 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6785
678673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6787 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6788 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6789
679074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6791 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6792 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6793 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6794 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6795 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6796 instead of killing the process with assert().
6797
679875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6799 than Unicode encoding.
6800
680176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6802 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6803 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6804 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6805
680677. Added process_log_path.
6807
680878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6809 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6810
681179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6812 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6813
681480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6815 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6816 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6817
681881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6819 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6820 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6821 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6822 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6823 were applied:
6824
6825 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6826 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6827 as invalid.
6828
682982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6830 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6831 they will be used during message reception.
6832
6833
6834Exim version 4.20
6835-----------------
6836
6837The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6838
6839****