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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
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10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
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30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
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32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
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35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
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38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
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40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
8ddef691 44TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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45 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
46 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
47 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
48 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 49 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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51JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
52
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53JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
54 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
55
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56JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
57 failed delivery.
58
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59JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
60
511a6c14 61JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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63JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
64 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 65
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66JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
67 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
68
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69TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
70
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71JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
72
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73JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
74 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
75
76 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
77 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
78 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
79
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80TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
81 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
82 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
83 analysis.
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85JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
86
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87JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
88 dnslookup router (applying to the forward lookup).
89
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94PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
95
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96PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
97 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
98
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99PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
100 by GnuTLS.
101
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102PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
103 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
104 routines.
105
13363eba 106PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 107
66645890 108PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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109 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
110 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
111 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
112 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 113
a3fb9793 114PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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115 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
116 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
117 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 118 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 119 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 120
d27f98fe 121TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 122
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123TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
124
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125TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
126 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
127
ae0e32ee 128TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 129 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 130 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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132TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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134TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
135
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136TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
137 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
138
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139JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
140
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141JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
142
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143PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
144
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145NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
146 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 147
585121e2 148JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 149
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150PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
151 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
152 function.
a5f239e4 153
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154PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
155 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
156
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157JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
158 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
159 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 160
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161JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
162
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163JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
164
ea722490 165JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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166 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
167
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168JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
169 Bugzilla 884.
170
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171JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
172 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
173
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174JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
175 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
176
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177PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
178 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 179 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 180
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181JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
182 authenticators.
183
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184JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
185 for control.
186
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187PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
188
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189PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
190 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
191 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
192 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
193
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194TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
195
196 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
197 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
198 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
199 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
200 the retry rules.
201
202 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
203 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
204 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
205
206 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
207 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
208 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
209 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
210
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211 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
212 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
213 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
214 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
215 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
216 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
217 delivery, as in LMTP.
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219 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
220 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
221
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222TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
223
224 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
225
226 Resent-From: f
227
228 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
229 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
230 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
231 username as equal to the username.
232
233 This change corrects that bug.
234
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235GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
236 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
237 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
238
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239TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
240
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241PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
242 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
243 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
244 NULL dereference and crash.
245
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246JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
247
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248PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
249 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
250 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
251
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252SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
253
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254JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
255 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
256 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
257 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
258 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
259 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
260 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
261 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
262 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
263 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
264 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
265
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266PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
267 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
268
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269PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
270 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
271 Bugzilla 880.
272
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273PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
274 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
275 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
276 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
277 an empty string is now equivalent.
278
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279PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
280 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
281 not performing validation itself.
282
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283PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
284 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
285
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286JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
287 Bugzilla 321, 823.
288
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289TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
290
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291PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
292 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
293 other false fix of the same issue.
294 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
295 Bugzilla 1363.
296
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297PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
298 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
299
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300PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
301 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
302 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
303
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304PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
305 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
306 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
307
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308TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
309
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310JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
311
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312TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
313 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
314
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315TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
316 Alexander Miroch.
317
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318TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
319 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
320 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
321 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
322 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 323
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324TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
325 the src/util/ subdirectory.
326
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327TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
328 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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329 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
330
331TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
332 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
333 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
334 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
335
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336TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
337
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338TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
339 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
340 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 341
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342TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
343
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344TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
345 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
346 interaction.
347
348TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
349 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
350
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351TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
352 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
353
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358PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
359 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 360 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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ea722490 362
b1770b6e 363Exim version 4.80
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366PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
367 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
368 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
369
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370NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
371
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372NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
373 improved.
374
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375NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
376
c1e794ba 377PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 378
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379PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
380
381PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
382 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
383
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384PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
385 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
386
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387PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
388 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
389
f1e05cc7 390PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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391 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
392 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 393
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394PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
395
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396PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
397 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
398
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399PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
400
c45dd180 401PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 402
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403PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
404 non-compliant senders.
405 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
406
eae0036b 407NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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408 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
409 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
410
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411PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
412 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
413 in spool file corruption.
414
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415PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
416 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
417 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
418 "Got SSL error 2".
419
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420TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
421 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
422 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
423
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424JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
425 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
426
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427JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
428
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429PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
430 diagnostics.
431 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
432
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433PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
434 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
435 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
436
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437PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
438 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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439 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
440 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 441
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442PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
443 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
444
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445PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
446 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
447 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
448 resolver implementation change.
449
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450PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
451 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
452
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453PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
454
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455PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
456
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457PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
458 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
459
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460PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
461 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
462
9e45c72b 463JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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464 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
465
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466PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
467 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
468 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
469 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 470 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
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53947857 472PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 473
eae0036b 474PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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475 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
476 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 477
9e45c72b 478JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 479
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480PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
481 read-only, out of scope).
482 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
483
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484PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
485 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
486 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
487 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
488
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489PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
490
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491PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
492 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
493 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
494 real issues in debug logging.
495
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496PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
497 assignment on my part. Fixed.
498
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499PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
500 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
501 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
502
503PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
504 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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505 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
506 problems.
3375e053 507
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508PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
509 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
510
57eb9e91 511PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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512 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
513 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
514 needs to override this, it can.
515
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516PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
517 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
518 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
519
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520PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
521 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
522 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
523 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
524
3ecab157 525PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 526
0599f9cf 527
867fcbf5
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528Exim version 4.77
529-----------------
530
531PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
532 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
533
f1a29782
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534TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
535
ab42bd23
TK
536TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
537 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 538
0ca0cf52
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539TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
540 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
541
921b12ca
TF
542TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
543 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
544 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
545
546 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
547 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
548 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
549 not safe for signals.
550
551 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
552 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
553 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
554 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
555 exiwhat.
556
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557TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
558
559 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
560 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
561 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
562 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
563 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
564
565 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
566 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
567 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
568 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
569 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
570 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
571
572 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
573 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
574 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
575 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
576
577 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
578 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
579 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
580 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
581
582 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
583 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
584 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
585 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
586 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
587 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
588 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
589 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
590 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
591
592 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
593 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
594 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
595 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
596
597 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
598 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
599 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
600 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
601 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
602 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
603 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
604 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
605 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
606 details in the main documentation.
607
3634fc25
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608TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
609
792e8a19
TF
610TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
611
5901f0ab
TF
612TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
613 repository when doing development or release builds.
614
7f2a2a43
PP
615PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
616 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 617
061b7ebd
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618PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
619 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
620 Bugzilla 97.
621
e12f8c32
PP
622PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
623
9e949f00 624PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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625 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
626
627PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
628 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 629
555ae6af 630PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
631 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
632
633PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
634 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 635
6f7fe114
PP
636PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
637 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
638
c566dd90
PP
639PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
640 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
641 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
642 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 643
d6cc7c78 644PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
645 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
646 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
647
0d0e4455
PP
648PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
649
3399bb60 650PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
651
652PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
653 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
654
0ca0cf52 655
10906672
PP
656Exim version 4.76
657-----------------
658
659PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
660
754a0503
PP
661PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
662 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
663
c0c7b2da
PP
664PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
665
e97d1f08
PP
666PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
667
084c1d8c
PP
668PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
669 Bugzilla 1098.
670
4e7ee012
PP
671PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
672 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 673
c8d52a00
PP
674TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
675 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
676
54e7ce4a
PP
677PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
678 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
679
5ee6f336
PP
680PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
681 Bugzilla 1104.
682
c8d52a00 683TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
684 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
685
686TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
687 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
688 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
689 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
690
691PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
692 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 693
10906672 694
aa097c4c
NM
695Exim version 4.75
696-----------------
697
4c9ef03a 698NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
699 Bugzilla 1073
700
7f3d9eff
TF
701TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
702 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
703 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
704
159f52d2
TF
705TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
706 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
707
0cc9542a
PP
708PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
709 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
710 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
711
f7274286
PP
712PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
713 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
714
7b797365
PP
715PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
716 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
717
caacae52
NM
718NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
719 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
720
09dcaba9
NM
721NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
722 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
723
bc19a55b
PP
724PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
725 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 726
bd4c9759
NM
727NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
728 Fixes bug 943.
729
b72aab72
PP
730PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
731 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
732
2fe76745
PP
733PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
734 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
735
76aa570c
PP
736PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
737 SQL string expansion failure details.
738 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
739
f1e5fef5
PP
740PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
741 Patch from Simon Arlott.
742
4d805ee9
PP
743PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
744 extern declarations in function scope.
745 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
746
cd59ab18
PP
747PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
748 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
749 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
750 a kernel bug).
751
332f5cf3
PP
752PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
753 Patch from Mark Zealey.
754
29cfeb94
PP
755PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
756 Patch from Mark Zealey.
757
660242ad
PP
758PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
759 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
760
bc4bc4c5
PP
761PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
762 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
763
2e64baa9
NM
764NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
765 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
766 Dennis Davis.
767
bddd7526
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768PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
769
6bac1a9a
PP
770PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
771
552193f0
NM
772NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
773 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 774
1b587e48
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775TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
776 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
777
aa097c4c 778
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779Exim version 4.74
780-----------------
781
782TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
783 consequences so log it to the panic log.
784
c0ea85ab
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785TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
786 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
787
0761d44e
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788TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
789
0a349494
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790DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
791 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
792 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
793
794PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
795 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
796 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
797
fea24b2e
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798PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
799 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
800 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
801 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
802
6545de78
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803PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
804 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
805 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
806 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
807
1670ef10
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808PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
809 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
810 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
811 arbitrary files.
812
c0886197
PP
813PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
814 (Wolfgang Breyha)
815
b7487bce
PP
816PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
817 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
818 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
819 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
820 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
821
8c07b69f 822
97fd1e48 823Exim version 4.73
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825
826PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
827 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
828 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
829
6901c596
PP
830PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
831 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
832
a8c8d6b5
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833JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
834
77bb000f
PP
835PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
836
a29e5231
PP
837PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
838
ec5a0394 839PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 840
55c75993
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841PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
842
453a6645 843PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
844 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
845 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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846 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
847
8544e77a
PP
848PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
849 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
850 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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851 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
852 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 853
83e029d5
PP
854PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
855
ed7f7860
PP
856PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
857
7d9f747b
PP
858PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
859
4b2241d2
PP
860PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
861
10385c15
PP
862PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
863
dbc4b90d
PP
864PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
865
532be449
PP
866PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
867
6a8de854 868PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
869 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
870 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 871
5dc43717
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872JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
873
874JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
875 "exim" to be used
55c75993 876
3346ab01
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877PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
878 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
879
491fab4c
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880PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
881 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
882 Notification from John Horne.
883
13eb9497
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884PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
885 compatible.
886
887PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
888 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
889 it normally works.
890
7f36d675
DW
891DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
892 access.
893
c1d94452
DW
894DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
895 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
896 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
897
e2f5dc15
DW
898DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
899 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
900 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
901 configuration file.
902
cd25e41d
DW
903DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
904 option (effectively making it always true).
905
261dc43e
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906DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
907 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
908
fa32850b
DW
909DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
910 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
911
79d4bc3d
PP
912PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
913 run-time user, instead of root.
914
43236f35 915PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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916 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
917
fb08281f
DW
918DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
919 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
920 arguments.
3346ab01 921
74935b98
DW
922DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
923 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
924 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
925
90b6341f
DW
926DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
927
57730b52
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928NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
929
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931Exim version 4.72
932-----------------
933
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934JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
935 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
936 typos
465e92cf 937
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938JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
939 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
940 (Finput)
edae0343 941
9bd3e22c
NM
942NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
943 Patch from Alain Williams
944
bb576ff7
NM
945NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
946
5a1a5845
NM
947NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
948 Patch from Andreas Metzler
949
981a9fad
NM
950NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
951 Patch from Kirill Miazine
952
7fc497ee
NM
953NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
954
1a41defa
JJ
955JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
956
a466095c 957NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 958 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 959
94a6bd0b
NM
960TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
961
962TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
963
964MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
965 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
966 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
967
c1b141a8
NM
968NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
969 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 970
b26eacf1 971NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
972 Patch by Simon Arlott
973
179c5980 974PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 975 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 976
9bd3e22c 977
7c6d71af
NM
978Exim version 4.71
979-----------------
980
7d9f747b 981TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 982
f013fb92
NM
983NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
984
0eb8eedd
NM
985NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
986
663ee6d9
NM
987NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
988
177ebd9b
NM
989NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
990
7c6d71af 991
210f147e
NM
992Exim version 4.70
993-----------------
994
cdd3bb85 995TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 996 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
997
998TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
999 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1000 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1001
1002TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1003 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1004 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1005
1006TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1007 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1008
210f147e
NM
1009NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1010 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1011 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1012 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1013
deafd5b3
NM
1014NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1015 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1016 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1017
089793a4
TF
1018TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1019
5f16ca82
TF
1020TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1021
dae9d94e 1022NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1023 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1024
7d9f747b 1025NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1026
06864c44
TF
1027TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1028 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1029 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1030 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1031
65a7d8c3 1032NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1033 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1034
23510047 1035TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1036
7d9f747b 1037NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1038
7d8eec3a 1039NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1040 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1041
89dec7b6
TF
1042TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1043 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1044
a99de90c
TF
1045TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1046 that they are available at delivery time.
1047
e2803e40
TF
1048TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1049
7199e1ee
TF
1050TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1051 incoming_port log selectors.
1052
e276e04b
TF
1053TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1054 setting expands to an empty string.
1055
ce552449 1056NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1057 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1058
e765a0f1 1059NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1060 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1061
4f054c63 1062NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1063 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1064
7d9f747b
PP
1065NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1066 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1067
7d9f747b
PP
1068NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1069 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1070
b52bc06e 1071NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1072 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1073
447de4b0
NM
1074NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1075
4c69d561 1076NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1077 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1078
d5c39246 1079NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1080 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1081
0b23848a
TK
1082TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1083
8f3414a1 1084NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1085 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1086
fb6f955d
NM
1087NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1088
1089NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1090
7d9f747b
PP
1091NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1092 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1093
7d9f747b
PP
1094NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1095 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1096
7d9f747b
PP
1097NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1098 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1099
7d9f747b
PP
1100NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1101 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1102
7d9f747b
PP
1103NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1104 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1105
7d9f747b
PP
1106NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1107 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1108
7d9f747b
PP
1109NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1110 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1111
7d9f747b 1112NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1113 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1114
7d9f747b 1115NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1116
7d9f747b
PP
1117NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1118 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1119
7d9f747b 1120NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1121
7d9f747b 1122NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1123
7d9f747b 1124NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1125
7d9f747b 1126NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1127
17792b53 1128NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1129 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1130
7d9f747b
PP
1131NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1132 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1133
91576cec 1134NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1135 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1136
7d9f747b
PP
1137NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1138 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1139
7d9f747b 1140NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1141
7d9f747b 1142NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1143
7d9f747b 1144NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1145
7d9f747b 1146NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1147
deafd5b3 1148
47db1125
NM
1149Exim version 4.69
1150-----------------
1151
4b3504d0
TK
1152TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1153 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1154 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1155
1156 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1157 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1158 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1159 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1160 build errors in sieve.c.
1161
81ea09ca
NM
1162NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1163 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1164 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1165
f13cddcb
SC
1166SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1167
7d9f747b 1168NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1169
7d9f747b 1170NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1171
7d9f747b 1172NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1173
1174
eb4c0de6
PH
1175Exim version 4.68
1176-----------------
1177
1178PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1179
6a3bceb1
PH
1180PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1181 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1182 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1183 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1184 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1185 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1186 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1187 for iplsearch lookups.
1188
1189 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1190 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1191 previously such lookups could never work.
1192
1193 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1194 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1195 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1196
2e30fa9d
TK
1197TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1198 version.
1199
0806a9c5
MH
1200MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1201 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1202 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1203 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1204 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1205 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1206
ae276964
TK
1207TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1208 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1209
0f2cbd1b
MH
1210MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1211 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1212 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1213 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1214 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1215 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1216
2b85bce7
PH
1217PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1218 local_scan API.
1219
93655c46
PH
1220PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1221
6c512171
PH
1222PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1223 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1224 encrypted.
1225
1226PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1227 by clients under certain conditions.
1228
aa6dc513
PH
1229PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1230 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1231
a96603a0
PH
1232PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1233
8f240103
PH
1234PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1235 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1236
1237PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1238
d677b2f2
PH
1239PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1240
d52120f2
PH
1241PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1242
64f2600a
PH
1243PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1244 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1245
8669f003
PH
1246PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1247
a4dc33a8
PH
1248PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1249 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1250
d6a60c0f
PH
1251PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1252
8f128379
PH
1253PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1254
8932dffe
PH
1255PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1256 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1257 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1258 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1259
ddea74fa 1260PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1261 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1262 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1263
ddea74fa 1264PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1265 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1266
ddea74fa
PH
1267PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1268
ce9f225c
PH
1269PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1270
19897d52
PH
1271PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1272
bc64a74d
PH
1273PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1274 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1275 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1276
eb4c0de6 1277
b4ed4da0
PH
1278Exim version 4.67
1279-----------------
1280
22ad45c9
MH
1281MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1282 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1283 Jan Srzednicki.
1284
b4ed4da0
PH
1285PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1286 issue a MAIL command.
1287
431b7361
PH
1288PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1289
1290 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1291
1292 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1293 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1294 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1295 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1296 item. This has been fixed.
1297
1298PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1299 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1300
83da1223
PH
1301PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1302 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1303
54fc8428
PH
1304PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1305 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1306 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1307
34c5e8dd
SC
1308SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1309
bbe15da8
PH
1310PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1311 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1312 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1313 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1314 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1315
0e8a9471
MH
1316MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1317 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1318 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1319
f0872424
PH
1320PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1321 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1322 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1323 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1324
b01dd148
PH
1325PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1326
6bf342e1
PH
1327PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1328
273f34d0
PH
1329PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1330 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1331 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1332 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1333 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1334
cf8b11a5
PH
1335PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1336
41c7c167
PH
1337PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1338 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1339 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1340 values).
1341
9c57cbc0
PH
1342PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1343
f3f065bb
PH
1344PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1345
047bdd8c
PH
1346PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1347
0ce9abe6
PH
1348PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1349
0e22dfd1
PH
1350PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1351
4c590bd1
PH
1352PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1353 no_callout_flush is set.
1354
09945f1e
PH
1355PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1356 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1357 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1358 fixed.
1359
c51b8e75
PH
1360PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1361
e28326d8
PH
1362PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1363 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1364 other ACL rejections are.
1365
75b1493f
PH
1366PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1367 with slight modification.
1368
7c5214ec
PH
1369PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1370 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1371
4311097e
PH
1372PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1373 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1374 connection.
1375
29f89cad
PH
1376PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1377 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1378
5e687460
SC
1379SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1380
c3611384
PH
1381PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1382 expansion side effects.
1383
5a11a7b4
PH
1384PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1385 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1386 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1387 be the same.
1388
0e20aff9
MH
1389MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1390 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1391 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1392
ca86f471
PH
1393PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1394 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1395 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1396 were accidentally chopped off.
1397
a14e5636
PH
1398PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1399 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1400 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1401 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1402 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1403 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1404 pipelining has not been advertised.
1405
ec95d1a6
PH
1406PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1407
42855d71
PH
1408PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1409 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1410 This has been fixed.
1411
57c2c631
PH
1412PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1413 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1414 reported on Solaris.
1415
58c01c94
PH
1416PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1417 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1418 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1419 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1420 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1421 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1422 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1423
dee5a20a
PH
1424PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1425 cpus.
1426
d2ee6114
PH
1427PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1428
b2d5182b
PH
1429PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1430
79749a79
PH
1431PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1432 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1433 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1434 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1435 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1436 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1437
c456d9bb
PH
1438PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1439 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1440 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1441 host_all_ignored option.
1442
cd9868ec
PH
1443PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1444 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1445 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1446 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1447 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1448 is what is supposed to happen).
1449
ebeaf996
PH
1450PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1451 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1452 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1453 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1454 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1455 uses the Exim user.
1456
2679d413
PH
1457PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1458 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1459 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1460 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1461 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1462 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1463 users.
1464
84024b72
PH
1465PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1466
8005d38e
SC
1467SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1468 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1469 (Jez Hancock).
1470 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1471 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1472
3298c6c6
SC
1473SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1474
a43a27c5
PH
1475PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1476
58eb016e 1477PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1478 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1479 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1480 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1481 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1482 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1483 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1484 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1485 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1486 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1487 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1488
b43a74ea
PH
1489PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1490 advertised in response to EHLO.
1491
b4ed4da0 1492
5dd1517f
PH
1493Exim version 4.66
1494-----------------
1495
1496PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1497 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1498
1499 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1500 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1501
1502 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1503 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1504 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1505
1506 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1507 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1508 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1509 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1510 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1511
1512
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TK
1513Exim version 4.65
1514-----------------
1515
1516TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1517 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1518 versions. (#438)
1519
d6066548
MH
1520MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1521 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1522 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1523
4362ff0d
PH
1524PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1525 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1526 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1527 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1528 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1529 rather than extend the field.
1530
93cfa765 1531
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1532Exim version 4.64
1533-----------------
aa41d2de 1534
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TK
1535TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1536 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1537 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1538 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1539 these files.
1540
1541TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1542 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1543 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1544
1545TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1546 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1547 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
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1548
1549TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1550 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1551 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1552 in the field name.
1553
2b1c6e3a
PH
1554PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1555 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1556 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1557 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1558 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1559 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1560 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1561 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1562 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1563 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1564 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1565
1f872c80
PH
1566PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1567 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1568
1569PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1570 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1571 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1572 ignores EPIPE as well.
1573
d203e649
PH
1574PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1575 (quoted-printable decoding).
1576
cc2ed8f7 1577PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1578 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1579
ddfcd446
PH
1580PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1581
d45b1de8
PH
1582PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1583
1584PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1585
38a0a95f 1586PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1587 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1588
a2405d83
JJ
1589JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1590 in 4.64-PH/09.
1591
1592JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1593 miscellaneous code fixes
1594
6ea85e9a
PH
1595PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1596 rejections.
1597
26da7e20
PH
1598PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1599 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1600 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1601 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1602 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1603 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1604 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1605 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1606
14aa5a05 1607PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1608 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1609 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1610 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1611 function.
1612 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1613 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1614 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1615 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1616 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1617 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1618 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1619 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1620 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1621
ff75a1f7
PH
1622PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1623 decoding.
1624
e6f6568e
PH
1625PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1626 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1627 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1628 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1629 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1630 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1631 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1632 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1633
d6f6e0dc
PH
1634PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1635 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1636 list.
1637
322050c2
PH
1638PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1639 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1640 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1641 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1642 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1643 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1644 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1645 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1646 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1647 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1648 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1649 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1650 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1651
08955dd3
PH
1652PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1653 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1654 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1655 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1656 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1657 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1658 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1659
1eccaa59
PH
1660PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1661 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1662 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1663 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1664 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1665 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1666 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1667 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1668 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1669 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1670
602e59e5
PH
1671PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1672 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1673 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1674 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1675 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1676
411ef850
PH
1677PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1678 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1679 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1680 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1681 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1682 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1683 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1684
7befa435
PH
1685PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1686 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1687 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1688 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1689 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1690 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1691 been verified.
1692
48da4259 1693PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1694 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1695 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1696 and authorization.)
1697
48da4259
PH
1698PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1699 if any retry times were supplied.
1700
d1d5595c
PH
1701PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1702 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1703 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1704
0ef732d9
PH
1705PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1706
328895cc
PH
1707PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1708
fd700877
PH
1709PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1710 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1711 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1712 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1713 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1714 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1715
8dce1a6f
PH
1716PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1717 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1718
17af4a17
PH
1719PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1720 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1721 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1722
1723PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1724 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1725 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1726 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1727 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1728 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1729 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1730 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1731 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1732
1733 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1734 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1735 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1736 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1737 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1738 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1739 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1740 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1741 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1742
1743 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1744 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1745 hammering the server.
1746
c1114884
PH
1747PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1748 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1749
7a0743eb
PH
1750PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1751
0d85fa3f
PH
1752PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1753 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1754 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1755
1bf43b78
PH
1756PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1757 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1758 one case where this was not true.
1759
520de300
PH
1760PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1761 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1762 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1763 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1764 fails.
1765
48c7f9e2
PH
1766PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1767 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1768 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1769 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1770 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1771 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1772 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1773 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1774 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1775 smtp transport.
1776
99ea1c86
PH
1777PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1778 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1779 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1780 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1781
a2042e78
PH
1782PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1783 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1784
4fbcfc2e
PH
1785PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1786 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1787 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1788
aa41d2de
PH
1789PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1790
af561417
PH
1791PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1792
3cc66b45
PH
1793PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1794
194cc0e4
PH
1795PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1796 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1797 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1798 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1799
a401ddaa
PH
1800PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1801 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1802
4e88a19f
PH
1803PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1804 be meaningful with "accept".
1805
d7d7b289
SC
1806SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1807 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1808
1809SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1810 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1811 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1812
1813SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1814 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1815 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1816 there is data to show.
1817 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1818
1819SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1820 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1821 as well as the number of messages.
1822
1823SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1824 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1825 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1826
1827SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1828 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1829 have a flag are now skipped.
1830
1831SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1832 Added the -emptyok flag.
1833
1834SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1835 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1836
0ea2a468
JJ
1837JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1838 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1839 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1840
1841JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1842 match 4.64-PH/13
1843
1844JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1845 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1846
1847JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1848
1849JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1850 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1851
8a10f5a4
PH
1852PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1853
30e18802
PH
1854PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1855 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1856 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1857 contravention of the specifications.
1858
55728a4f
PH
1859PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1860 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1861 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1862
d7837193
PH
1863PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1864 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1865 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1866
87054a31
PH
1867PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1868
ea2c01d2
MH
1869MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1870 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1871 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1872 some point in the past.
1873
e4fa6968
PH
1874PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1875 transport during callout processing was broken.
1876
56f5d9bd
PH
1877PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1878 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1879
922e1c28
PH
1880PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1881 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1882
21eb6e72
PH
1883PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1884 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1885
a0540757
PH
1886PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1887
944e9e9c 1888
478be7b0
SC
1889Exim version 4.63
1890-----------------
1891
1892SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1893 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1894
1895SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1896 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1897 there is data to show.
1898 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1899
1900SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1901 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1902
2b965a65
TF
1903TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1904 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1905
45b91596
PH
1906TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1907 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1908
c59f5781
TF
1909TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1910 submissions from trusted users.
1911
90fc3069
TF
1912TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1913 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1914
6083aca0
TF
1915TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1916 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1917 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1918 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1919 there is now a framework to start from.
1920
765b530f
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1921PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1922 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1923 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1924
4e167a8c
PH
1925PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1926
4608d683
PH
1927PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1928
b8dc3e4a
PH
1929PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1930
5418e93b
PH
1931PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1932 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1933 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1934
b4a9bda2
PH
1935PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1936 libradius.
1937
45b91596
PH
1938PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1939 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1940 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1941
5547e2c5
PH
1942PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1943 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1944 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1945 its arguments.
1946
dbcef0ea
PH
1947PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1948 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1949 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1950 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1951 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1952
25257489
PH
1953PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1954 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1955
c816d124
PH
1956PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1957
a9ccd69a
PH
1958PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1959 operations in malware.c.
1960
75fa1910
PH
1961PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1962 signatures.
1963
a7d7aa58
PH
1964PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1965 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1966 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1967 all.
1968
42119b09
PH
1969PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1970 statements to "add_header".
1971
41609df5
PH
1972PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1973 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1974
a5bd321b
PH
1975PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1976 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1977 latter.
1978
e85a7ad5 1979PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1980 so that it is now:
1981
e85a7ad5
PH
1982 ${if or { \
1983 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1984 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1985 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1986 }{no}{yes}}
1987
e85a7ad5
PH
1988 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1989 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1990
d8fe1c03
PH
1991PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1992 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1993
16282d2b
PH
1994PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1995 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1996 any possible encoding problems.
1997
35d40a98
PH
1998PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1999 but not after initializing Perl.
2000
034d99ab
PH
2001PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2002 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2003 apparently, which is not desirable.
2004
6ec97b1b
PH
2005PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2006 queries.
2007
e22ca4ac
JJ
2008JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2009 --not options
2010
2011JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2012
33d73e3b
PH
2013PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2014 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2015 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2016 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2017
9ecb03f3
PH
2018PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2019 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2020 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2021
084efe8d
PH
2022PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2023 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2024 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2025 0.12.
2026
366fc9f0
PH
2027PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2028 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2029 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2030 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2031 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2032
c59f5781 2033
c887c79e
TF
2034Exim version 4.62
2035-----------------
2036
2037TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2038 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2039
1cce3af8
PH
2040PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2041 patch).
2042
afb3eaaf
PH
2043PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2044 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2045 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2046 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2047 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2048 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2049 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2050 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2051 451 error is used.
2052
e173618b
PH
2053PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2054
dd16e114
PH
2055PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2056 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2057 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2058
f7fd3850
PH
2059PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2060 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2061 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2062 odd errors.
2063
d87df92c
PH
2064PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2065 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2066
7e9f683d
PH
2067PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2068 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2069 option (which defaults to 0600).
2070
bfad5236
PH
2071PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2072
01c490df
PH
2073PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2074 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2075 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2076 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2077 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2078 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2079 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2080
d6629cdc
PH
2081PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2082
1cce3af8 2083
214e2000
PH
2084Exim version 4.61
2085-----------------
2086
2087PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2088 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2089 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2090 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2091 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2092 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2093 addresses as local.
2094
f9daeae0
PH
2095PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2096 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2097
7e66e54d
PH
2098PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2099
c8ea1597
PH
2100PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2101 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2102 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2103 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2104 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2105 grumble.
2106
911f6fde
PH
2107PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2108 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2109
47ca6d6c
PH
2110PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2111 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2112 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2113 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2114 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2115
ed0e9820
PH
2116PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2117 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2118 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2119 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2120
eff37e47
PH
2121PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2122 be the same on different OS.
2123
1921d2ea
PH
2124PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2125 testing.
2126
b3f69ca8
JJ
2127JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2128 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2129
2130JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2131 in 4.61-PH/06
2132
424a1c63
PH
2133PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2134 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2135 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2136 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2137 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2138 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2139 bounce message.
2140
7a100415
PH
2141PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2142 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2143 when Exim was called.
2144
19b9dc85
PH
2145PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2146 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2147
309bd837
PH
2148PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2149 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2150 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2151 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2152
59e82a2a
PH
2153PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2154 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2155 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2156 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2157 changes:
2158
2159 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2160 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2161 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2162
2163 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2164 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2165 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2166
9edc04ce
PH
2167PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2168 feature).
2169
1349e1e5
PH
2170PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2171 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2172 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2173 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2174 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2175 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2176 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2177 values from the SRV records were lost.
2178
ea49d0e1
PH
2179PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2180 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2181 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2182
064a94c9
PH
2183PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2184 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2185 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2186
727071f8
PH
2187PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2188 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2189 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2190 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2191 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2192 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2193 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2194 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2195 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2196 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2197
f78eb7c6
PH
2198PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2199 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2200 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2201
21c28500
PH
2202PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2203 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2204
2205PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2206 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2207 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2208 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2209 is given.
2210
1688f43b
PH
2211PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2212 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2213 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2214
2215PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2216 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2217 PH/23 above applies.
2218
9675b384
PH
2219PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2220 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2221 (for which there is an explicit test).
2222
6a3f1455
PH
2223PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2224
dac79d3e
PH
2225PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2226 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2227 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2228 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2229 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2230
5977a0b3
PH
2231PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2232 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2233 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2234 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2235
c91535f3
PH
2236PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2237 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2238 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2239
0d46a8c8
PH
2240PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2241
278c6e6c
PH
2242PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2243
2cbb4081
PH
2244PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2245 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2246 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2247
3eef829e
PH
2248PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2249 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2250 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2251 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2252 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2253
1ab95fa6
PH
2254PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2255 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2256 the message gets confusing).
2257
230205fc
PH
2258PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2259 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2260 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2261 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2262
75e0e026
PH
2263PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2264 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2265 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2266 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2267 same order.
2268
2269PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2270 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2271 the different processes.
2272
145396a6
PH
2273PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2274
3cd34f13
PH
2275PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2276
11121d3d
JJ
2277JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2278 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2279
2280JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2281 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2282
2283JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2284 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2285 messages matching specified criteria.
2286
8def5aaf
PH
2287PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2288
929ba01c
PH
2289PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2290 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2291
2632889e
PH
2292PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2293 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2294 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2295 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2296 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2297 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2298 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2299 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2300 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2301 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2302
944a9c55
PH
2303PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2304 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2305 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2306
4a23603b
PH
2307PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2308
4730f942
PH
2309PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2310 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2311 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2312 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2313 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2314 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2315 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2316 the variable.
2317
30dba1e6
PH
2318PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2319 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2320
382afc6b
PH
2321PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2322
a86229cf
PH
2323PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2324
50c99ba6
PH
2325PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2326
d35e429d
PH
2327PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2328 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2329 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2330 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2331 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2332 size of the count of files.
2333
f90d018c
PH
2334PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2335
75def545
PH
2336PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2337 used in LMTP mode:
2338
2339 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2340 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2341 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2342 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2343
2344 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2345 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2346 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2347
2348PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2349 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2350 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2351 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2352 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2353
c46782ef
PH
2354PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2355 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2356
71fafd95
PH
2357PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2358 will now be deprecated.
2359
2c5db4fd
PH
2360PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2361
9cf6b11a
JJ
2362JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2363 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2364 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2365
2366JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2367 with very large, slow to parse queues
2368
2369JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2370
2371JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2372
898d150f
PH
2373PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2374 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2375 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2376 SMTP output lines.
2377
46218253
PH
2378PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2379 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2380 Sieve code now uses this.
2381
e97957bc
PH
2382PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2383 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2384
81e509d7
PH
2385PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2386 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2387
3d240ff7
PH
2388PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2389
b37c4101
PH
2390PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2391 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2392 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2393 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2394 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2395
79378e0f
PH
2396PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2397 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2398 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2399 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2400
e49c7bb4
PH
2401PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2402
d114ec46
PH
2403PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2404
f3d7df6c
PH
2405PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2406 is preferred over IPv4.
2407
715ab376
PH
2408PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2409 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2410 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2411 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2412 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2413 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2414 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2415
6b31b150
PH
2416PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2417 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2418 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2419
2420PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2421
d515a917
PH
2422PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2423 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2424 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2425 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2426 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2427 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2428 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2429 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2430 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2431 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2432 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2433
9b8fadde
PH
2434PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2435 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2436 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2437
214e2000 2438
5de37277
PH
2439Exim version 4.60
2440-----------------
2441
cc38ddbf
PH
2442PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2443
2444 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2445 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2446
2447 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2448 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2449 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2450
72fdd6ae
PH
2451PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2452
2453 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2454 not a single digit.
2455
2456 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2457 string.
2458
2459 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2460 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2461 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2462 silly things.
2463
2464 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2465 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2466
2467 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2468 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2469
cb741023
PH
2470PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2471 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2472 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2473
f174f16e
PH
2474PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2475 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2476
c25242d7
PH
2477PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2478 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2479
2480 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2481
2482 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2483 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2484 this:
2485
2486 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2487
82c19f95
PH
2488PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2489 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2490 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2491 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2492 identical. For example:
2493
2494 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2495
2496 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2497 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2498 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2499
d7ffbc12
PH
2500PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2501 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2502 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2503 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2504
9f526266
PH
2505PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2506 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2507 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2508 message.
2509
87fcc8b9
PH
2510PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2511
2512 o fixes some comments
2513 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2514 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2515 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2516 and documents the missing references header update
2517
2518 and most important:
2519
2520 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2521 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2522 result)
2523
456682f5
PH
2524PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2525 Electronic Mail") by including:
2526
2527 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2528
2529 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2530 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2531 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2532 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2533 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2534
2535 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2536
2537 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2538
2539 The auto-replied keyword:
2540
2541 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2542 message by an automatic process,
2543
2544 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2545
2546 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2547 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2548
2549 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2550 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2551 other messages.
2552
3e46c1aa
PH
2553PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2554 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2555
49826d12
PH
2556PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2557
eba0c039
PH
2558PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2559 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2560 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2561
a0d6ba8a
PH
2562PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2563 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2564 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2565
f0917727
PH
2566PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2567 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2568 and treats the condition as false.
2569
096fee00
PH
2570PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2571
024bd3c2
PH
2572PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2573 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2574 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2575 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2576 not changing the active code.
2577
2578 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2579 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2580
2581 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2582 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2583
df199fec
PH
2584PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2585 (Bugzilla #53).
2586
d27f1df3
PH
2587PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2588 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2589 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2590 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2591 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2592 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2593 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2594 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2595 the text comparison.
2596
96776534
PH
2597PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2598 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2599 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2600 The same fix has been applied.
2601
5de37277 2602
9a799bc0
PH
2603Exim version 4.54
2604-----------------
2605
2606PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2607 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2608 It now does.
2609
99a4b039
PH
2610PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2611 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2612
2613PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2614
4b233853
PH
2615PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2616 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2617 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2618 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2619 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2620
8857ccfd
PH
2621TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2622 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2623 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2624 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2625 or /domain=).
2626
433a2980
PH
2627PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2628 testing suite.
2629
3e46c1aa 2630
9a799bc0 2631
e3a311ba
TK
2632Exim version 4.53
2633-----------------
2634
2635TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2636 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2637
13b685f9
PH
2638PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2639
395ff96d
PH
2640PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2641
5b68f6e4
PH
2642PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2643 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2644 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2645
1ab52c69
PH
2646PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2647 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2648 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2649
b07e6aa3
PH
2650PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2651 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2652 operating systems.
2653
254e032f
PH
2654PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2655 ${stat: expansion item.
2656
3af76a81
PH
2657PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2658 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2659
2548ba04
PH
2660PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2661 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2662 file for comments.
2663
b6c6011d
PH
2664PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2665
cf39cf57
PH
2666PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2667 setting.
2668
f1513293
PH
2669PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2670 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2671
727549a4
PH
2672TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2673
af46795e
PH
2674PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2675 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2676 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2677 the end of the subprocess.
2678
d7b47fd0
PH
2679PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2680 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2681 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2682 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2683 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2684
ee744174
JJ
2685JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2686
b582ab87
PH
2687TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2688
41a13e0a
PH
2689PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2690 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2691
f625cc5a
PH
2692PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2693
2694PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2695
21f7af35
PH
2696PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2697 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2698 HP-UX compiler.
2699
31480e42
PH
2700PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2701
2d280592
PH
2702PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2703 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2704 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2705
7cd1141b
PH
2706PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2707 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2708
2709PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2710 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2711
750af86e
PH
2712PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2713 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2714
2715 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2716 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2717
2718 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2719 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2720 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2721 contributed by a Radius user.
2722
2723PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2724 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2725
4304270b
TK
2726TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2727 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2728
750af86e
PH
2729PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2730 available.
2731
64ffc24f
PH
2732PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2733 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2734 received.
2735
5dd9625b
PH
2736PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2737 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2738 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2739 header lines when this was not necessary.
2740
5591031b
PH
2741PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2742
ba18e66a
PH
2743PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2744 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2745 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2746 exists".
2747
9cec981f
PH
2748PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2749 -bV or -d is used.
2750
aa2b5c79
PH
2751PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2752 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2753 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2754 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2755
48a53b7f
PH
2756PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2757
1c59d63b
PH
2758PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2759
671012da
TK
2760TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2761
1509d3a8
PH
2762PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2763
2764PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2765 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2766 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2767 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2768 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2769 settings.
2770
2771PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2772
2fe1a124
PH
2773PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2774 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2775 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2776 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2777 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2778 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2779 which is clearly wrong.
2780
8800895a
PH
2781PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2782
ccfdb010
PH
2783PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2784 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2785 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2786 subsequently added.
2787
1130bfb0
PH
2788PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2789 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2790
ebcb507f
PH
2791PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2792
c35e155c
PH
2793PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2794 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2795
95d1f782
PH
2796PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2797 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2798
fd6de02e
PH
2799PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2800 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2801
58de37c5
PH
2802PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2803 recipients, not senders.
2804
261cf466
TF
2805TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2806 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2807
3ee512ff
PH
2808PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2809
e08c430f
PH
2810PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2811
bef5a11f
PH
2812PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2813 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2814 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2815 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2816
7546de58
TF
2817TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2818
e5d5a95f
TF
2819TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2820 clock is set back in time.
2821
2e88a017
TF
2822TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2823 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2824
a5f65aa4
TF
2825TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2826 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2827
e7726cbf
PH
2828PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2829 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2830 (see PH/47 above).
2831
a7fdad5b
TF
2832TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2833 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2834 header rewrites.
2835
6af56900
PH
2836PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2837 type ("H").
2838
0925ede6
PH
2839PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2840
66afa403
TF
2841TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2842 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2843 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2844
0154e85a
TF
2845TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2846 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2847 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2848 helo verification defer as a failure.
2849
16f12c76
PH
2850PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2851 actual error message.
2852
bbe902f0 2853
e5a9dba6
PH
2854Exim version 4.52
2855-----------------
2856
2857TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2858
22c3b60b
PH
2859PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2860 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2861 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2862 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2863
06a9b4b5
PH
2864TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2865
c1ac6996
PH
2866PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2867 can still be requested.
2868
9c7a242c
PH
2869PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2870 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2871 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2872 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2873
87ba3f5f
PH
2874TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2875 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2876 circumstances, but probably never did.
2877
2878PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2879 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2880 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2881 in the header line.
2882
29aba418
TF
2883TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2884
fe0dab11
TF
2885TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2886 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2887
11d337a4
TK
2888TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2889
2890TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2891
415c8f3b
PH
2892PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2893 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2894 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2895 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2896 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2897 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2898
958541e9
PH
2899PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2900 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2901 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2902 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2903 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2904 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2905
c206415f
TK
2906TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2907 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2908
2a4be8f9
PH
2909PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2910 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2911
1cba11c5
SC
2912SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2913 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2914
2915SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2916
2917SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2918
2919SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2920
2921SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2922
2923SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2924
2925SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2926
1005d00e
TK
2927TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2928
2929TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2930 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2931 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2932
2933TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2934 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2935 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2936 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2937
9b4768fa
PH
2938PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2939 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2940 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2941
2942PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2943 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2944 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2945 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2946
0d7eb84a
PH
2947PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2948 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2949 to be made).
2950
2951PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2952 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2953 should work with maildirs and everything.
2954
40727bee
TK
2955TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2956 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2957
554d2369
TF
2958TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2959 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2960
1f922db1
PH
2961PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2962 function for BDB 4.3.
2963
ef213c3b
PH
2964PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2965
8ac170f3
PH
2966PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2967 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2968 involved.
2969
b1c749bb
PH
2970PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2971 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2972 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2973 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2974 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2975 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2976
4aac9b49
PH
2977PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2978 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2979 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2980 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2981 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2982 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2983 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2984 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2985
294520c8
TK
2986TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2987 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2988 details.
2989
5bd022fe
PH
2990PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2991 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2992
90e9ce59
PH
2993PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2994 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2995 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2996 test. It is now used for both.
2997
5ea81592
PH
2998PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2999 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3000 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3001 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3002 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3003 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3004
c6c2dc1d
PH
3005PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3006 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3007 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3008 string_vformat().
3009
fffffe4c
PH
3010PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3011 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3012 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3013
9a26b6b2
PH
3014PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3015 experimental DomainKeys support:
3016
3017 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3018 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3019 the control was given.
3020
3021 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3022
4aee0225
PH
3023PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3024
32d668a5
PH
3025PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3026
8187c3f3
PH
3027PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3028 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3029 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3030 db.h files).
3031
ff790e47 3032PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3033 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3034 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3035 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3036 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3037 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3038 course.
ff790e47 3039
5417f6d1
PH
3040PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3041 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3042 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3043 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3044 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3045 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3046
59cf8544
PH
3047PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3048 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3049 do -d+all out of habit.
3050
e7ad8a65
PH
3051PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3052 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3053 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3054
ade42478
PH
3055PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3056 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3057 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3058 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3059 record types that Exim uses.
3060
182ad5cf
PH
3061PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3062 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3063 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3064 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3065 non-existent file that was broken.
3066
b0d9fc80
TK
3067TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3068 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3069
3070TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3071 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3072 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3073
3074TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3075
47c7a64a
PH
3076PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3077 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3078 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3079 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3080 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3081 same time.
3082
a388bce4
SC
3083SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3084 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3085 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3086 at a slight CPU cost.
3087
3088SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3089 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3090
3091SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3092 by Marc Sherman.
3093
0793e4ed
SC
3094SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3095
c58b88df
PH
3096PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3097 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3098
e7ad8a65 3099
7982096b
PH
3100Exim version 4.51
3101-----------------
3102
1a46a8c5
PH
3103TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3104 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3105
2f079f46 3106TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3107
3108TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3109
3110PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3111 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3112
3113PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3114 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3115 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3116 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3117 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3118 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3119 file.
3120
3121PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3122 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3123 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3124 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3125 these two options.
3126
3127PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3128 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3129 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3130 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3131 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3132 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3133 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3134 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3135
3136PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3137 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3138
3139PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3140 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3141 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3142 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3143 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3144 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3145
3146PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3147 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3148 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3149 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3150
3151PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3152 Finch).
3153
3154PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3155 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3156
49c2d5ea
PH
3157PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3158 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3159 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3160 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3161 message.
49c2d5ea 3162
bf759a8b
PH
3163PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3164
83364d30
PH
3165PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3166 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3167
7999bbd7
PH
3168PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3169 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3170 to what was transported.)
3171
7dbf77c9
PH
3172TF/01 Added $received_time.
3173
74e0617f
PH
3174PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3175 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3176 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3177 spamd_address settings.
3178
2f079f46
PH
3179PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3180 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3181 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3182 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3183 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3184
8c841523
PH
3185PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3186
7766a4f0
PH
3187PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3188 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3189 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3190 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3191 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3192
8b417f2c
PH
3193PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3194 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3195
901f42cb
PH
3196PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3197 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3198 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3199 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3200 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3201 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3202 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3203 for failure.
3204
f9b9210e
PH
3205PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3206 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3207 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3208 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3209 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3210 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3211 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3212 "input=".
3213
54cdb463
PH
3214PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3215
cf00dad6
PH
3216PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3217 driver and ACL definitions.
3218
acb1b346
PH
3219PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3220 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3221
c5ddb310
PH
3222PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3223 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3224 understands it better than I do:
3225
3226 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3227 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3228
3229 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3230 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3231 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3232 => three warnings about OTP not working
3233 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3234
3235 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3236 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3237 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3238 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3239 for each call.)
3240 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3241 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3242
3243 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3244 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3245 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3246
31619da6
PH
3247PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3248 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3249 specified.
3250
bebaf0fc
PH
3251PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3252 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3253 "Linux".
3254
475fe28a
PH
3255PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3256 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3257 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3258
3259 warn !verify = sender
3260 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3261
3262 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3263 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3264
7e8bec7a
PH
3265PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3266
3267 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3268 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3269
3270 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3271 nomenclature these days.)
3272
e4a89c47
PH
3273PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3274 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3275
5ca2a9a1
PH
3276PH/30 In these circumstances:
3277 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3278 . First host does not offer TLS;
3279 . First host accepts first address;
3280 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3281 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3282 . Second host accepts second address.
3283 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3284 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3285 address.
7e8bec7a 3286
c688b954
PH
3287PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3288 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3289 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3290 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3291 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3292
fed77020
PH
3293PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3294 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3295
7fe1560f
PH
3296PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3297 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3298
ebb6e6d5
PH
3299PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3300 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3301 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3302
9c4e8f60
PH
3303PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3304 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3305 overlooked.
3306
3307PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3308
d7174846
PH
3309PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3310 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3311 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3312 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3313 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3314 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3315 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3316
3317 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3318 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3319 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3320 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3321 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3322
3323 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3324 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3325 routed further.
3326
cfe75fc3
PH
3327PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3328 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3329 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3330 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3331 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3332 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3333
be22d70e
PH
3334PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3335
0612b098
PH
3336PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3337 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3338 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3339 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3340 printable escape sequences.
3341
2e0c1448
PH
3342PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3343 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3344 body only.
3345
447d236c
PH
3346PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3347 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3348 are as follows:
3349
3350 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3351 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3352 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3353 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3354 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3355
3356 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3357 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3358 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3359
d20976dc
PH
3360PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3361
f656d135
PH
3362PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3363 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3364 play with."
3365
2e2a30b4
PH
3366PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3367 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3368 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3369 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3370 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3371 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3372 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3373 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3374 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3375 the log output.
3376
9176e9f0
PH
3377PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3378 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3379 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3380 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3381 "make".
3382
7982096b 3383
bbe902f0
PH
3384A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3385----------------------------------------
3386
3387Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3388changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3389needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3390in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3391that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3392release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3393from 4.43.
3394
3395I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33964.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3397those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3398historical information.
3399
3400
f7b63901 3401Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3402-----------------
3403
5fe762f6
PH
3404 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3405
139059f6 3406 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3407 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3408
7086e875
PH
3409 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3410 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3411 place.
3412
35af9f61
PH
3413 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3414 filter fails to execute.
3415
b668c215
PH
3416 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3417 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3418 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3419 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3420 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3421
a494b1e1
PH
3422 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3423
3424 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3425 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3426 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3427 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3428
c5fcb476
PH
3429 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3430 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3431 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3432 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3433 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3434
69358f02
PH
3435 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3436
5be20824
PH
343710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3438
eb2c0248
PH
343911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3440 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3441 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3442 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3443
2a3eea10
PH
344412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3445 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3446 sender verification.
3447
344813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3449 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3450
23c7ff99
PH
345114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3452
4deaf07d
PH
345315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3454 connection timeout.
3455
926e1192
PH
345616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3457 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3458
650edc6f
PH
345917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3460 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3461
2c7db3f5
PH
346218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3463 information about exactly what failed.
3464
3d235903
PH
346519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3466
7c7ad977
PH
346720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3468 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3469 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3470
981756db
PH
347121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3472 It is now set to "smtps".
3473
d4eb88df
PH
347422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3475 ignore_target_hosts.
3476
347723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3478 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3479 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3480 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3481 "[x.x.x.x]".
3482
7d468ab8
PH
348324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3484 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3485 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3486
348725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3488 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3489 wake it up if nothing else does.
3490
62c0818f
PH
349126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3492 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3493 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3494 end up negative.
3495
26034054
PH
349627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3497 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3498
af66f652
PH
349928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3500
90af77f4
PH
350129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3502 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3503 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3504 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3505 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3506 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3507 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3508 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3509
d8ef3577
PH
351030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3511 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3512 than one IP address.
3513
5cb8cbc6
PH
351431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3515 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3516 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3517 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3518
14702f5b
PH
351932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3520 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3521 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3522 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3523 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3524 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3525
063b1e99
PH
352633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3527 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3528 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3529 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3530
652e1b65
PH
353134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3532 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3533 respected.
3534
6f0c9a4f
PH
353535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3536 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3537 $sender_host_address.
3538
33397d19
PH
353936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3540 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3541 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3542 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3543 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3544 very small.
3545
7bb56e1f
PH
354637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3547
3548 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3549 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3550
ea3bc19b
PH
3551 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3552 just the host names, not the priorities.
3553
3554 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3555 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3556 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3557
ea3bc19b 3558 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3559 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3560
0bcb2a0e
PH
356138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3562 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3563 domain.
3564
2ac0e484
PH
356539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3566
4e1fde53
PH
356740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3568 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3569
de365ded
PH
357041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3571 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3572 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3573
f05da2e8
PH
357442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3575
d6453af2
PH
357643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3577
f7b63901
PH
357844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3579
358045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3581 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3582 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3583 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3584 because the tests only now provoked it.
3585
a444213a
PH
358646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3587 (this can affect the format of dates).
3588
0ec020ea
PH
358947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3590 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3591 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3592 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3593
b1206957
PH
359448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3595
359649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3597 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3598 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3599 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3600
26dd5a95
PH
360150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3602 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3603 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3604
343b2385
PH
360551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3606 autoreply.
3607
1c5466b9
PH
360852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3609 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3610 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3611 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3612 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3613 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3614 is going on).
3615
55ee9ee3
PH
361653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3617 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3618 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3619 the line.
3620
d38f8232
PH
362154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3622 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3623 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3624
3625 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3626 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3627 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3628 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3629 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3630 so I produce this patch..."
3631
3295e65b
PH
3632 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3633 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3634 is not defined.
3635
7102e136
PH
363655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3637 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3638 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3639 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3640 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3641
3ca0ba97
PH
364256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3643
c2bcbe20
PH
364457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3645 long debug lines gets shown.
3646
18ce445d
PH
364758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3648 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3649
1f5b4c3d
PH
365059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3651
3652 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3653 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3654 of $primary_hostname.
3655
b975ba52
PH
365660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3657 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3658 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3659 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3660 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3661 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3662 by change 4.50/55 above.
3663
3664 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3665 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3666 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3667 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3668 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3669 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3670 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3671
367261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3673 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3674 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3675 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3676
17ffcae7
PH
367762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3678 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3679
d95f9fdb
PH
368063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3681 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3682 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3683 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3684 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3685
86b8287f
PH
368664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3687 This has been fixed.
3688
60dc5e56
PH
368965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3690 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3691 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3692 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3693 the caching.)
3694
533244af
PH
369566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3696
a5a28604
PH
369767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3698 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3699 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3700 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3701
7e634d24
PH
370268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3703 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3704
3e11c26b
PH
370569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3706 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3707 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3708
6729cf78
PH
370970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3710 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3711 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3712 message there.
3713
00f00ca5
PH
371471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3715 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3716 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3717
c9bdd01c
PH
371872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3719 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3720 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3721 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3722
d43194df
PH
372373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3724 during host lookups.
3725
fe5b5d0b
PH
372674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3727 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3728
3729 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3730
76a2d7ba
PH
373175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3732 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3733 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3734 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3735 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3736 background.
3737
373876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3739 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3740
04f7d5b9
PH
374177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3742 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3743 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3744
bc60667e
PH
374578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3746
bb6e88ff
PH
374779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3748 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3749 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3750 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3751 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3752 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3753 process earlier.
3754
1e70f85b
PH
375580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3756 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3757 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3758 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3759 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3760
376181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3762 tables).
3763
4e01f9d6
PH
376482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3765
1ee1cef2
PH
376683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3767 "vacation" handling.
3768
6e2b4ccc
PH
376984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3770 OS variants using glibc.
3771
8e669ac1
PH
377285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3773
495ae4b0 3774
bbe902f0
PH
3775----------------------------------------------------
3776See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3777----------------------------------------------------
3778
3779
3780Exim version 4.44
3781-----------------
3782
3783 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3784 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3785 transport
3786
3787 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3788 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3789 place.
3790
3791 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3792 filter fails to execute.
3793
3794 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3795 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3796 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3797 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3798 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3799
3800 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3801 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3802 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3803 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3804
3805 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3806 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3807 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3808 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3809 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3810
3811 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3812
3813 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3814 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3815 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3816 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3817
3818 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3819 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3820 sender verification.
3821
382210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3823 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3824
382511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3826 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3827
382812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3829 ignore_target_hosts.
3830
383113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3832 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3833 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3834 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3835 "[x.x.x.x]".
3836
383714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3838 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3839 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3840
384115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3842 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3843 wake it up if nothing else does.
3844
384516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3846 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3847 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3848 end up negative.
3849
385017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3851 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3852
ea3a6f44 385318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3854
385519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3856 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3857 empty pattern.
3858
385920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3860 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3861 one IP address.
3862
ea3a6f44
NM
386321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3864 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3865 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3866 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3867 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3868 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3869
ea3a6f44
NM
387022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3871 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3872 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3873
387423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3875 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3876 $sender_host_address.
3877
387824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3879
ea3a6f44
NM
388025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3881 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3882 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3883
388426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3885 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3886
ea3a6f44
NM
388727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3888 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3889
ea3a6f44
NM
389028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3891 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3892 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3893 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3894
389529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3896 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3897 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3898
ea3a6f44
NM
389930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3900 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3901 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3902 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3903
ea3a6f44
NM
390431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3905 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3906 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3907
ea3a6f44
NM
390831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3909 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3910
ea3a6f44
NM
391132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3912 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3913 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3914 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3915 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3916 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3917 is going on).
bbe902f0 3918
ea3a6f44
NM
391933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3920 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3921 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3922 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3923 CAN-2005-0021
3924
ea3a6f44
NM
392534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3926 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3927 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3928 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3929 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3930 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3931 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3932
3933 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3934 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3935 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3936 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3937 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3938 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3939 CAN-2005-0021
3940
ea3a6f44
NM
394135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3942 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3943 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3944 CAN-2005-0022
3945
ea3a6f44
NM
394636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3947 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3948 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3949 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3950 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3951
ea3a6f44
NM
395237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3953 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3954 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3955 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3956 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3957
ea3a6f44
NM
395838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3959 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3960 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3961 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3962 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3963
3964
495ae4b0
PH
3965Exim version 4.43
3966-----------------
3967
3968 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3969 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3970 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3971 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3972 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3973 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3974 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3975
3976 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3977 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3978 the delivery.
3979
3980 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3981
3982 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3983
3984 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3985 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3986 to local_scan().
3987
3988 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3989 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3990 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3991 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3992 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3993
3994 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3995 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3996
3997 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3998
3999 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4000
400110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4002 header_sender only.
4003
400411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4005 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4006
400712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4008 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4009 affecting debugging statements).
4010
401113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4012
401314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4014 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4015 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4016 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4017 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4018 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4019 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4020 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4021 after the received time, and all would be well.
4022
402315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4024 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4025 condition in an expansion string.
4026
402716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4028
402917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4030 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4031 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4032 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4033 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4034 job under whatever limits there are.
4035
403618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4037
403819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4039 space).
4040
404120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4042 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4043 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4044 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4045 return path is set.
4046
404721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4048 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4049 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4050 binary data in such strings.
4051
405222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4053
405423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4055 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4056 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4057 failure, which is pointless.
4058
405924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4060
406125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4062
406326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4064 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4065 Sender: header lines.
4066
406727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4068 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4069 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4070
407128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4072 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4073 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4074 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4075 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4076 happens.
4077
407829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4079 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4080 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4081 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4082 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4083
408430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4085 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4086 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4087 1024.
4088
408931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4090 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4091
409232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4093 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4094
409533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4096
409732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4098
409933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4100
410134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4102 syntax error.
4103
410435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4105
410636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4107
410837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4109 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4110 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4111 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4112
411338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4114 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4115
4116
4117Exim version 4.42
4118-----------------
4119
4120 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4121 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4122 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4123 it was not quoted.
4124 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4125 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4126 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4127 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4128 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4129 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4130
4131 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4132 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4133 verification failure".
4134
4135 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4136 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4137 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4138 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4139
4140 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4141 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4142 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4143 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4144 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4145 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4146 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4147 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4148 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4149 treated as a timeout.
4150
4151 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4152 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4153 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4154 not set for Exim filters).
4155
4156 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4157 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4158 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4159
4160 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4161
4162 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4163 try to make them clearer.
4164
4165 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4166 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4167
4168 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4169
4170 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4171
417210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4173 only the Cygwin environment.
4174
417511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4176 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4177 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4178 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4179 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4180
418112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4182 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4183 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4184 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4185 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4186 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4187 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4188
418913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4190 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4191
419214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4193
4194 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4195 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4196 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4197
4198 To: susanne@some.where
4199
4200 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4201 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4202 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4203 of addresses in From: header lines).
4204
4205 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4206 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4207 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4208
4209 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4210 treated as non-personal.
4211
4212 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4213 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4214
421515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4216
421716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4218
421917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4220 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4221 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4222
422318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4224 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4225
422619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4227 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4228 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4229 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4230 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4231 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4232
423320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4234 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4235 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4236 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4237 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4238 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4239 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4240 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4241
4242 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4243
424421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4245 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4246
424722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4248 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4249 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4250
425123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4252 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4253
425424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4255 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4256 rather than long int.
4257
425825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4259
426026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4261
4262
4263Exim version 4.41
4264-----------------
4265
4266 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4267 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4268 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4269 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4270 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4271 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4272
4273
4274Exim version 4.40
4275-----------------
4276
4277 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4278 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4279
4280 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4281 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4282 socklen_t is defined.
4283
4284 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4285 always exist.
4286
4287 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4288 configured.
4289
4290 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4291 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4292 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4293 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4294 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4295
4296 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4297 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4298 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4299 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4300
4301 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4302 of flapping under certain conditions.
4303
4304 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4305 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4306 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4307
4308 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4309
431010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4311
431211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4313 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4314 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4315 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4316
431712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4318 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4319 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4320 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4321 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4322 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4323 preserved with the message after it was received.
4324
432513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4326 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4327 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4328 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4329 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4330 test suite worked just fine.
4331
433214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4333 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4334 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4335
433615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4337 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4338 string.
4339
434016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4341 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4342 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4343 does not fully solve it.
4344
434517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4346 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4347 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4348 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4349 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4350
435118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4352 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4353 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4354
435519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4356 string, for example:
4357
4358 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4359
4360 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4361 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4362 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4363 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4364 the routers could not see them.
4365
436620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4367 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4368
436921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4370 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4371 output).
4372
437322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4374 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4375 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4376 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4377 that needed quoting.
4378
437923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4380 was not being matched caselessly.
4381
438224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4383 backslashes.
4384
438525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4386 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4387 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4388 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4389 when use_sender is false.
4390
439126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4392
439327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4394
439528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4396
439729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4398 the configuration file.
4399
440030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4401 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4402
440331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4404
440532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4406 bytes in the message body.
4407
440833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4409 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4410 delivery.
4411
441234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4413
441435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4415
441636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4417 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4418 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4419 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4420 another IP address.
4421
4422
4423Exim version 4.34
4424-----------------
4425
4426 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4427 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4428
4429 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4430 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4431 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4432 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4433 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4434
4435 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4436 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4437
4438 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4439 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4440 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4441
4442 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4443 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4444 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4445
4446 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4447 for routers.
4448
4449 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4450 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4451 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4452 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4453 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4454 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4455 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4456
4457
4458Exim version 4.33
4459-----------------
4460
4461 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4462 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4463 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4464 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4465 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4466 default (and expected) setting.
4467
4468 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4469 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4470 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4471 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4472
4473 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4474 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4475
4476 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4477 in domain lists.
4478
4479 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4480 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4481 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4482 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4483 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4484 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4485
4486 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4487 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4488 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4489
4490 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4491 part (NOT match_host).
4492
4493 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4494
4495 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4496 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4497 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4498 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4499 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4500 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4501 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4502 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4503 the same named file.
4504
450510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4506 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4507 when Exim is built.
4508
450911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4510 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4511 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4512 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4513 a host name.
4514
451512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4516 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4517 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4518
451913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4520
452114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4522
452315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4524
452516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4526 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4527
452817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4529 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4530 before starting the TLS session.
4531
453218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4533
453419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4535 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4536
453720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4538 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4539 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4540 colon in the middle).
4541
4542
4543Exim version 4.32
4544-----------------
4545
4546 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4547 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4548 multiple configurations are in use.
4549
4550 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4551 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4552 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4553 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4554 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4555 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4556
4557 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4558 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4559
4560 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4561 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4562 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4563
4564 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4565 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4566 occurs.
4567
4568 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4569 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4570
4571 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4572
4573 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4574 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4575
4576 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4577
4578 -prval:sval
4579
4580 is equivalent to
4581
4582 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4583
4584 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4585 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4586 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4587 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4588 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4589
459010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4591 Exim's behaviour:
4592
4593 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4594 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4595 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4596 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4597 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4598 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4599
4600 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4601 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4602 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4603 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4604 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4605 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4606 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4607 string.
4608
4609 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4610 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4611 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4612 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4613 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4614
461511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4616
461712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4618 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4619 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4620
462113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4622
462314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4624 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4625 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4626 information.
4627
462815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4629 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4630
463116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4632 Three changes have been made:
4633
4634 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4635 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4636 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4637 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4638 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4639
4640 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4641 been restored.
4642
4643 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4644 the modified behaviour.
4645
4646
4647Exim version 4.31
4648-----------------
4649
4650 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4651 Larry Rosenman.
4652
4653 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4654 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4655
4656 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4657 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4658 try to track down a specific problem.
4659
4660 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4661 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4662 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4663
4664 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4665 warning.
4666
4667 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4668 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4669 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4670 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4671 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4672 some earlier ones do not.
4673
4674 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4675
4676 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4677 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4678 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4679 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4680 address literals are enabled, of course).
4681
4682 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4683
468410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4685 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4686 by a command such as
4687
4688 exim -f "" ...
4689
4690 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4691
469211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4693
469412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4695 remained set. It is now erased.
4696
469713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4698 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4699
470014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4701 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4702 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4703 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4704 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4705 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4706 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4707 appropriate error code.
4708
470915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4710 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4711 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4712 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4713 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4714 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4715
471616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4717 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4718 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4719
472017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4721 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4722 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4723 terminate the header.
4724
472518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4726 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4727 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4728
472919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4730 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4731 (4.30/29). In particular:
4732
4733 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4734 imposed.
4735
4736 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4737 to write a maildirsize file.
4738
4739 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4740 the transport, the new value overrides.
4741
4742 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4743 count.
4744
474520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4746 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4747 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4748 space or a tab.
4749
475021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4751 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4752 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4753 the fallback hosts.
4754
475522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4756 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4757 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4758
475923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4760 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4761 using a union.
4762
476324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4764 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4765 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4766
476725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4768
476926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4770
477127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4772
477328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4774 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4775 become corrupted.
4776
477729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4778 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4779 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4780 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4781 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4782 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4783 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4784 too great.
4785
478630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4787 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4788 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4789 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4790 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4791 incorrectly.
4792
479331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4794 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4795 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4796 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4797 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4798 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4799 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4800 cached value only when the same options are set.
4801
480232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4803
480433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4805 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4806 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4807 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4808 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4809
481034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4811 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4812 it is clearly obsolete.
4813
481435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4815 transport.
4816
481736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4818 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4819 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4820 times.
4821
482237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4823 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4824 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4825 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4826 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4827
482838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4829 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4830 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4831 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4832
483339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4834
4835 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4836
4837 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4838 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4839 2^31.
4840
484140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4842 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4843 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4844 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4845 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4846 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4847 $localpart_data.
4848
484941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4850 with the -f command-line option.
4851
485242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4853 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4854 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4855 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4856 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4857 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4858
485943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4860 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4861 line.
4862
486344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4864 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4865 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4866 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4867 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4868 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4869 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4870 buffer is too small.
4871
487245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4873 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4874
487546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4876 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4877 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4878 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4879 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4880 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4881 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4882 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4883 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4884
488547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4886 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4887 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4888
488948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4890 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4891 ACL").
4892
489349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4894 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4895 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4896 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4897 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4898
489950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4900 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4901 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4902 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4903 is set.
4904
490551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4906
490752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4908
490953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4910 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4911
491254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4913 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4914 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4915
491655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4917 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4918 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4919 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4920 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4921
492256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4923 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4924 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4925 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4926 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4927 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4928 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4929
493057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4931 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4932 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4933 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4934 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4935 the test of how many are available.
4936
493758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4938 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4939 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4940 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4941 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4942 new message is started.
4943
494459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4945 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4946
494760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4948 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4949
495061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4951 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4952 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4953 is no long logged.
4954
495562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4956 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4957 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4958 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4959 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4960 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4961 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4962
496363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4964 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4965 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4966 interpreted as octal.
4967
496864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4969 setting.
4970
497165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4972 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4973 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4974 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4975 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4976 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4977
497866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4979 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4980 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4981 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4982
4983 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4984 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4985 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4986 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4987
4988 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4989 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4990 is a bug fix.
4991
4992 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4993 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4994
499567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4996
499768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4998 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4999 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5000 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5001
500269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5003 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5004 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5005 supplied", which is not helpful.
5006
500770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5008 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5009 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5010
501171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5012 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5013 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5014 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5015 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5016 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5017 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5018 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5019
502072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5021 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5022 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5023 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5024 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5025
502673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5027 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5028 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5029 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5030 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5031 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5032
503374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5034 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5035 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5036
503775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5038
503976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5040 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5041 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5042 variables.
5043
504477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5045
504678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5047 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5048 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5049 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5050 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5051 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5052 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5053 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5054
505579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5056 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5057 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5058 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5059 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5060
506180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5062 Haardt.
5063
506481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5065 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5066 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5067 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5068 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5069 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5070 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5071 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5072 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5073
5074
5075Exim version 4.30
5076-----------------
5077
5078 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5079 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5080 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5081
5082 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5083 fixed.
5084
5085 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5086 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5087 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5088
5089 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5090 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5091 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5092 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5093 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5094 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5095
5096 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5097 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5098 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5099 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5100 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5101 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5102 the Exim test suite.
5103
5104 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5105 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5106 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5107 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5108
5109 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5110 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5111 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5112 specify it in this variable.
5113
5114 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5115 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5116 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5117 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5118
5119 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5120 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5121 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5122 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5123
5124 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5125 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5126 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5127 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5128 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5129
5130 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5131
513210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5133 they are logged.
5134
513511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5136 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5137 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5138 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5139 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5140
514112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5142 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5143
514413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5145 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5146 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5147 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5148 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5149
515014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5151 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5152
515315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5154 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5155 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5156
515716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5158 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5159
516017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5161 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5162
516318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5164 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5165 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5166
516719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5168 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5169
517020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5171 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5172 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5173 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5174
517521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5176
517722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5178 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5179 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5180 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5181
518223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5183
518424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5185 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5186
518725. Added .include_if_exists.
5188
518926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5190 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5191 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5192 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5193 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5194 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5195
519627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5197
519828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5199 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5200 this.
5201
520229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5203
520430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5205 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5206
5207 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5208 550 Sender verify failed
5209
5210 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5211 the final line of the response.
5212
521331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5214 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5215 all other user lookups.
5216
521732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5218 delivery time.
5219
522033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5221 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5222 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5223 result into an int without checking.
5224
522534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5226 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5227 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5228
522935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5230 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5231 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5232 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5233
523436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5235 correctly.
5236
523737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5238 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5239
524038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5241 to the empty sender.
5242
524339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5244 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5245 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5246 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5247 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5248 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5249 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5250 panic log.
5251
525240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5253 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5254 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5255 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5256 used.
5257
525841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5259 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5260
526142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5262 timestamps.
5263
526443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5265 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5266
526744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5268
526945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5270 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5271 logs.
5272
527346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5274 as soon as it is encountered.
5275
527647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5277
527848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5279 rewritten to "<>".
5280
528149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5282 recognizes a tab character.
5283
528450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5285 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5286 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5287 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5288
528951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5290
529152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5292 crash.
5293
529453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5295
529654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5297
529855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5299 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5300 2822.
5301
530256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5303 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5304 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5305 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5306 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5307
530857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5309 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5310
531158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5312 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5313 list (.included file names were always shown).
5314
531559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5316 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5317 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5318 root at that time.
5319
532060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5321 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5322
532361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5324
532562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5326
532763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5328
532964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5330 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5331 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5332 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5333 failures to open the logs.
5334
533565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5336 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5337 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5338 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5339 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5340 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5341 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5342
5343
5344Exim version 4.24
5345-----------------
5346
5347 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5348 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5349 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5350 change 4.23/1.
5351
5352 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5353 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5354 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5355
5356 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5357 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5358 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5359
5360 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5361 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5362 causing some misleading effects.
5363
5364 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5365 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5366 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5367
5368 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5369 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5370 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5371 queue-runner function directly.
5372
5373
5374Exim version 4.23
5375-----------------
5376
5377 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5378 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5379
5380 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5381 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5382 was always written to the default place.
5383
5384 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5385 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5386 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5387
5388 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5389
5390 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5391
5392 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5393 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5394 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5395
5396 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5397 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5398 must start.
5399
5400 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5401 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5402 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5403
5404 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5405 command line option is disabled.
5406
5407 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5408 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5409
5410 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5411
5412 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5413
5414 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5415 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5416
541710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5418
541911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5420 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5421 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5422 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5423 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5424 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5425
542612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5427 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5428 timeout.
5429
543013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5431 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5432
543314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5434 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5435
543615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5437 received was valid base64.
5438
543916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5440 name of the variable that was being set.
5441
544217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5443
544418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5445 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5446 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5447 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5448 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5449 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5450
545119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5452
545320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5454 nor realm was specified.
5455
545621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5457 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5458 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5459 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5460
546122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5462 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5463 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5464
546523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5466 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5467 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5468
546924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5470 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5471 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5472 some systems use these upper case variants.
5473
547425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5475 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5476 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5477 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5478
547926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5480
548127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5482 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5483
548428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5485 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5486 expansion variable.
5487
548829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5489
549030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5491 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5492 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5493 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5494
549531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5496 using it.
5497
549832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5499 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5500 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5501
550233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5503 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5504
550534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5506 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5507 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5508 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5509
551035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5511 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5512 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5513
551436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5515
551637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5517 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5518 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5519 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5520 aborted.
5521
552238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5523 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5524 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5525
552639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5527
552840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5529 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5530
553141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5532 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5533
553442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5535 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5536 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5537 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5538 when emails are that large.
5539
5540
5541
5542Exim version 4.22
5543-----------------
5544
5545 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5546 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5547
5548 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5549 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5550 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5551
5552 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5553 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5554 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5555
5556 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5557 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5558 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5559 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5560 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5561
5562 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5563 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5564 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5565 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5566 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5567 ever.
5568
5569 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5570 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5571 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5572 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5573 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5574 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5575 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5576 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5577 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5578 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5579 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5580 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5581 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5582 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5583
5584 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5585 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5586 parameterised it.
5587
5588 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5589 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5590 error should be diagnosed.
5591
5592 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5593 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5594 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5595 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5596 appeared instead of "NULL".
5597
559810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5599 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5600 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5601 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5602 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5603 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5604 proceeds).
5605
5606 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5607 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5608 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5609
5610
5611Exim version 4.21
5612-----------------
5613
5614 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5615 or receiver verification errors.
5616
5617 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5618 name.
5619
5620 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5621 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5622 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5623 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5624
5625 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5626 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5627 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5628 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5629 shouldn't happen again.
5630
5631 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5632 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5633 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5634
5635 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5636 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5637
5638 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5639
5640 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5641 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5642
5643 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5644 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5645 RFC.
5646
564710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5648 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5649 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5650
565111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5652 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5653 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5654 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5655
565612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5657 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5658 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5659 to define what should happen).
5660
566113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5662 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5663 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5664
566514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5666
566715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5668
566916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5670 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5671
567217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5673 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5674 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5675 structure in all cases.
5676
5677 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5678 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5679 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5680 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5681
568218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5683 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5684 domain name.
5685
568619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5687 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5688
568920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5690 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5691
569221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5693 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5694 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5695
569622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5697 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5698 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5699
570023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5701 the book and for uniformity.
5702
570324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5704
570525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5706 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5707 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5708 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5709 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5710 non-existent command as the problem.
5711
571226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5713 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5714 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5715
571627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5717
571828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5719 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5720 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5721
572229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5723 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5724 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5725 timestamps using strftime().
5726
572730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5728 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5729
573032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5731 transport-time rewrites.
5732
573333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5734 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5735 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5736 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5737
573834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5739 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5740
574135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5742 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5743 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5744 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5745 comma and a space.
5746
574736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5748 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5749 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5750 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5751 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5752 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5753 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5754
575537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5756 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5757 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5758 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5759 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5760
576138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5762 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5763 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5764 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5765 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5766 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5767 remaining text gets split now.
5768
576939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5770 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5771 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5772 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5773
577440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5775 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5776 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5777 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5778 $return_path.
5779
578041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5781 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5782 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5783 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5784 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5785 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5786 passed through if needed.
5787
578842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5789 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5790 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5791 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5792 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5793 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5794
579543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5796 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5797 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5798 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5799 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5800
580144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5802 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5803 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5804 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5805 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5806
580745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5808 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5809 noticed.
5810
581146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5812 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5813 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5814 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5815 mayhem of various kinds.
5816
581747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5818 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5819 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5820 the right test for positive values.
5821
582248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5823 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5824 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5825 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5826 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5827 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5828 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5829 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5830 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5831 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5832 envelope.
5833
583449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5835 module.
5836
583750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5838 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5839 forbidding it.
5840
584151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5842 the existing equality matching.
5843
584452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5845 dealing with inode numbers.
5846
584753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5848 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5849 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5850
585154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5852 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5853 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5854 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5855 local_scan().
5856
585755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5858 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5859 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5860 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5861 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5862 relay addresses has also been removed.
5863
586456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5865
586657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5867 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5868 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5869
587058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5871 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5872 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5873 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5874 processing applies to CR:
5875
5876 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5877 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5878
5879 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5880 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5881 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5882 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5883
588459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5885 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5886 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5887
588860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5889 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5890 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5891 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5892 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5893 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5894 arisen.
5895
589661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5897 program routers.
5898
589962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5900 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5901 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5902 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5903 adds:
5904
5905 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5906
5907 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5908
5909 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5910
591163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5912 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5913 not considered personal.
5914
591564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5916
591765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5918
591966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5920
592167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5922 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5923 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5924 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5925 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5926 header lines, and spool format errors.
5927
592868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5929 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5930 for more flexibility.
5931
593269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5933 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5934 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5935
593670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5937 Sabourenkov.
5938
593971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5940 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5941 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5942 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5943 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5944 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5945 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5946 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5947 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5948
594972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5950 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5951 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5952 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5953 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5954 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5955 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5956
595773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5958 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5959 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5960
596174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5962 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5963 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5964 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5965 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5966 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5967 instead of killing the process with assert().
5968
596975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5970 than Unicode encoding.
5971
597276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5973 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5974 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5975 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5976
597777. Added process_log_path.
5978
597978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5980 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5981
598279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5983 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5984
598580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5986 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5987 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5988
598981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5990 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5991 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5992 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5993 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5994 were applied:
5995
5996 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5997 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5998 as invalid.
5999
600082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6001 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6002 they will be used during message reception.
6003
6004
6005Exim version 4.20
6006-----------------
6007
6008The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6009
6010****