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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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d4fd1b83 8Exim version 4.91
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10
11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
23 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
24 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
25 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
26 input.
27
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28JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
29 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
30 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
31 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
32 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
33 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
34 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
35 Main pool for expansions.
36 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
37 active in the testsuite.
38 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
39
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40JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
41 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
42 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
43 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
44 round-robin DNS.
45
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46JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
47 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
48 failure response.
49
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50JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
51 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
52 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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53
54JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
55 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
56 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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61
62JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
63 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
64 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
65 pairs of long lines into single ones.
66
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67PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
68 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
69
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70JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
71 This permits better logging.
72
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73JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
74 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
75 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
76 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
77 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 78 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 79
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80JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
81 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
82 "exiwhat" output.
83
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84PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
85 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
86 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
87
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88JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
89 than 255 are no longer allowed.
90
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91JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
92 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
93 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
94 client, there is no benefit for these.
95 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
96 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
97 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
98 is used (3.2.4 +).
99
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100PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
101 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
102
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103JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
104 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
105 erroneously found still-pending ones.
106
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107JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
108 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
109
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110JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
111 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
112 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
113 signature and again for transmission.
114
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115JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
116 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 117 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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119JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
120 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
121 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
122 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
123 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
124 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
125 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
126
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127JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
128 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
129 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 130 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 131
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132PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
133 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
134 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
135 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
136 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
137 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
138 processing options.
139
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140JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
141 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
142 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
143 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
144 connections.
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146PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
147 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
148 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
149 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
150 versions.
151
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152JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
153 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
154 inaccessible.
155
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156JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
157 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
158 banner-time rejection.
159
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160JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
161 callout/hold.
162
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163PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
164 is the name of a transport.
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165 Fixes bug 2140.
166
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167HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
168
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169JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
170 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
171
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172JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
173 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
174 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
175 during compilation.
176
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177JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
178 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
179 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 180 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 181
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182JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
183 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
184 initial verify call returned a defer.
185
ad1a76fe 186JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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187 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
188
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189JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
190 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
191
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192JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
193 if present. Previously it was ignored.
194
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195JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
196 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
197
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198JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
199 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
200 extensible.
201
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202PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
203 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
204
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205PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
206 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
207 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
208
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209JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
210 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
211 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
212 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
213
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214HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
215 and confused the parent.
216
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217JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
218 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
219
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220JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
221 for log purposes.
222
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223JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
224 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
225 out-of-order delivery.
226
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227JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
228 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
229 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
230 error for the HELO.
231
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232JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
233 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
234 desynchronisation.
235
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236JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
237 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
238 one run was done. Bug 2189.
239
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240JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
241 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
242 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
243 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
244 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
245 message is still "Temporary local problem".
246
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247JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
248 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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249 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
250
251HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
252 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
253 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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255JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
256 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
257 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
258 though a different problem.
259
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9427e879 264JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 265 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 266
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267JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
268
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269PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
270 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
271
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272JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
273 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
274
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275JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
276 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
277 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
278 before acknowledging the chunk.
279
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280PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
281 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
282 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
283
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284JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
285 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
286 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
287 should.
288
289JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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290 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
291 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 293JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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294 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
295
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296JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
297 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
298 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
299 body hash calculated value.
300
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301JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
302 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
303 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
304
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305JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
306
307JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
308 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
309
310JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
311 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
312 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
313
314JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
315 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
316 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
317 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
318 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
319 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
320
321JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
322 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
323 past that check, despite the cost.
324
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325JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
326 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
327 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
328
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329PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
330 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
331 TLS library to consume.
332
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333PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
334
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335PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
336
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337JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
338 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
339 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
340 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
341 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
342 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
343 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
344
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345PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
346
347PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
348
349PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
350 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
351 should be warning-free.
352
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353JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
354
355HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
356 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
357
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358HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
359 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
360 general solution here.
361
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362PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
363 already-broken messages in the queue.
364
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365JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
366
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367JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
368
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373JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
374 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 375
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376JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
377 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
378 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
379
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380JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
381 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
382 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
383 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
384 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
385 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
386 if one fails this test.
387 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
388 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
389
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390JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
391 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
392
23bb6982 393JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 394 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 395
0bd1b1ed 396JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 397 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 398
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399JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
400 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
401
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402JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
403 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
404
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405JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
406
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407JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
408 certificate).
409
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410JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
411 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
412 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
413 connection after a verify cache hit.
414 Do not update it with the verify result either.
415
416JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
417 when routing results in more than one destination address.
418
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419JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
420 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
421 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
422 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
423 when the cutthrough connection is made).
424
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425JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
426 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
427
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428JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
429 Previously they were not counted.
430
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431JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
432 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
433 that needed the lookup.
434
4c04137d 435JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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436 distinguished as "(=".
437
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438JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
439 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
440
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441JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
442
443JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
444 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 445
4c04137d 446JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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447 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
448
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449JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
450 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
451 compatible.
452
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453JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
454 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
455 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
456 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
457
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458JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
459
f59aaaaa 460JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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461 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
462 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 463
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464JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
465 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
466 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
467 be lost.
468
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469JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
470 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
471 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
472 itself :(
473
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474JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
475 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
476 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
477
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478JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
479 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
480 options.
481
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482JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
483
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484PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
485 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
486
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487PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
488 are not in the system include path.
489
ad7fc6eb 490JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 491 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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492 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
493 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 494
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495JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
496 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
497 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
498
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499JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
500
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501HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
502 an incoming connection.
503
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504HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
505 to rspamd.
506
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507HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
508 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 509
87cb4a16 510JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 511 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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513
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517JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
518 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
519 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
520 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 521
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522TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
523 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
524
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525TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
526 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
527 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
528 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
529 outgoing I= field.
530
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531JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
532 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
533 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
534 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
535 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
536 check on the next write.
537
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538HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
539 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
540 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
541 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
542 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
543
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544JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
545 mime_regex ACL conditions.
546
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547JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
548 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
549 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
550
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551JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
552 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
553 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
554 an authenticate fail is not an error.
555
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556HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
557 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
558
4c04137d 559JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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560 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
561
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562JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
563 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
564 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
565 distinct.
566
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567JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
568
569JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
570
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571JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
572
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573JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
574 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
575
98b98887 576JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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577 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
578
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579JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
580
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581JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
582 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
583
584JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
585
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586JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
587 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
588
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589JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
590
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591JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
592 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 593 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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594 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
595 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
596 they will retry in-clear.
597 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
598 at installation time.
599
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600HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
601 with the $config_file variable.
602
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603JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
604 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
605 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
606 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 607 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 608
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609GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
610 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
611 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
612 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
613 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
614
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615JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
616
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617JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
618 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
619 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
620 list order is no longer honoured.
621
4c04137d 622JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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623 for DKIM processing.
624
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625JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
626 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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628JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
629 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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630 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
631 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 632
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633JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
634 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
635
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636JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
637 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
638
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639JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
640 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
641
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642JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
643
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644JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
645 cached by the daemon.
646
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647JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
648 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
649
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650JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
651 keys are given for lookup.
652
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653JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
654 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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655 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
656 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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658JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
659 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
660 server-side so match that on older versions.
661
07c73177 662JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 663 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 664 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 665
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666JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
667 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
668
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669JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
670 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
671 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 672 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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673 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
674 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
675 initial truncated version.
676
ab9152ff 677JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 678
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679JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
680
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681JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
682 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
683
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684JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
685
bc3c7bb7 686HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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688JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
689 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
690 induced overflows.
691
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692JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
693 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
694 stage.
695
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696JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
697 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
698
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699JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
700 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
701 former class.
702
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703JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
704 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
705 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
706
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707JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
708 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
709 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
710 extraction. Accept either.
711
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716JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
717 expanded.
718
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719JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
720
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721JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
722 it.
723
01a4a5c5 724JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 725 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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726 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
727 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
728
cb1d7830 729JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 730 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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731 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
732
610ff438 733JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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734 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
735 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
736 TLS connections
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738JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
739 sites use this now.
740
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741JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
742 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
743 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
744 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
745 have a dsn_lasthop option.
746
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747JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
748 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 749 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 750
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751JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
752
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753JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
754 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
755
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756JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
757 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
758
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759JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
760 /defer_ok option.
761
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762JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
763 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
764
fd4d8871 765JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 766 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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767 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
768
769JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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770 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
771 specify a port-range.
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773JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
774 timeout value per server.
775
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776JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
777 now have the list separator specified.
778
8a512ed5 779JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 780 option values.
8a512ed5 781
82c0c8ea 782JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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783 under OpenSSL.
784
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785JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
786
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787JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
788 rather than the verbs used.
789
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790JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
791 from 255 to 1024 chars.
792
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793JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
794
cfab9d68 795HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 796 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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798JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
799 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
800
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801HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
802 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
803
4c04137d 804JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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806JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
807
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808JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
809 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 810 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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811 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
812
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813JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
814
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815JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
816 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
817
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818JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
819 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
820
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821JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
822
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823JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
824
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825JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
826
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827JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
828 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
829
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830JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
831 added for tls authenticator.
832
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833HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
834
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839TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
840 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
841 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
842 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
843 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
844 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
845 the script parsing/test process like normal.
846
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847TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
848 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
849 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
850 function when detected.
851
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852JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
853 cause callback expansion.
854
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855TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
856 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
857 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
858 instead of bool when processing it.
859
0f06b4f2 860JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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861 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
862
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863JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
864
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865JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
866
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867TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
868
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869TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
870 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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872JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
873 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
874 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
875 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 876 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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877 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
878
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879JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
880 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
881 exceeded it.
882
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883JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
884 version 3.3.6 or later.
885
4c04137d 886JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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887 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
888 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 889 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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890 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
891 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
892 option is defined.
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894TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
895 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
896
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897JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
898 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
899 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
900 matches.
901
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902JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
903 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
904 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
905
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906JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
907 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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908
909JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
910 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
911 syntax errors.
912
3394b36a 913JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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915JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
916 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
917
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918TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
919 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
920 tarball.
921
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922JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
923
4c04137d 924JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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925 Bug 1561.
926
927JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
928 output list separator was used.
929
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933TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
934 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
935 return.
1f0ebb98 936
a612424f 937JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 938 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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940JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
941
942TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 943 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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949TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
950
951 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
952 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
953 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
954 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
955 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
956 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
957
7245734e
TF
958TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
959 utilities have not been installed.
960
fd5dad68
JH
961JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
962 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
963
5428a946
TL
964TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
965 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
966
a3c86431
TL
967TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
968 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
969 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
970 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 971
aa26e137
JH
972JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
973
5a1b8443
WB
974TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
975 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
976
72c9e342
PP
977PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
978 not dns_use_dnssec.
979
76f44207
WB
980JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
981
770747fd
MFM
982TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
983 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
984 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
985
8ddef691 986TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
987 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
988 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
989 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
990 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 991 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 992
b9c2e32f
AR
993JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
994
e45a1c37
JH
995JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
996 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
997
67d81c10
JH
998JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
999 failed delivery.
1000
b1f8e4f8
JH
1001JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1002
511a6c14 1003JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1004
1005JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1006 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1007
51c7471d
JH
1008JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1009 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1010
3695be34
TL
1011TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1012
1e06383a
TL
1013JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1014
76146973
JH
1015JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1016 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1017
1018 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1019 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1020 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1021
8c8b8274
TL
1022TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1023 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1024 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1025 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1026
35aba663
JH
1027JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1028
8c51eead 1029JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1030 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1031 lookup).
8c51eead 1032
deae092e
HS
1033TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1034 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1035 Schlichting.
35aba663 1036
fd3b6a4a 1037JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1038 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1039
8d91c6dc
LT
1040TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1041 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1042
2b4a568d
JH
1043JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1044
d2af03f4
HS
1045TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1046 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1047 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1048
9d1c15ef
JH
1049JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1050 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1051
44662487
JH
1052JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1053 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1054 hosts_request_ocsp.
1055
ed3bba5f 1056JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1057 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1058 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1059
8ccd00b1
JH
1060JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1061
8ded8589
TL
1062TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1063 Christian Aistleitner.
1064
f2de3a33
JH
1065JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1066
6eb02f88
TL
1067TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1068 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1069
00bff6f6
JH
1070JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1071 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1072
071c51f7
JH
1073JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1074 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1075
a6d4c44e
TF
1076TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1077 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1078
3ae173e7
ACK
1079TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1080 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1081
c13d09b8
TL
1082TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1083 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1084 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1085
0df4ab80
JH
1086JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1087
66be95e0
PP
1088PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1089 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1090 Jasper Wallace.
1091
1bd0d12b
JH
1092JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1093
0de7239e
TL
1094TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1095 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1096 CVE-2014-2972
1097
fd3b6a4a 1098
2c422e6f 1099Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1100-----------------
1101
1102PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1103
12f69989
PP
1104PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1105 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1106
54c90be1
PP
1107PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1108 by GnuTLS.
1109
1f4a55da
PP
1110PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1111 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1112 routines.
1113
13363eba 1114PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1115
66645890 1116PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1117 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1118 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1119 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1120 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1121
a3fb9793 1122PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1123 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1124 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1125 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1126 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1127 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1128
d27f98fe 1129TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1130
6822b909
TL
1131TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1132
e7568d51
TL
1133TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1134 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1135
ae0e32ee 1136TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1137 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1138 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1139
1140TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1141
e2658fff
TL
1142TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1143
83712b39
TL
1144TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1145 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1146
976b7e9f
JH
1147JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1148
be4a1376
JH
1149JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1150
ec4b68e5
PP
1151PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1152
d7148a07
NM
1153NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1154 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1155
585121e2 1156JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1157
2519e60d
TL
1158PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1159 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1160 function.
a5f239e4 1161
13d08c90
PP
1162PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1163 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1164
bef3ea7f
JH
1165JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1166 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1167 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1168
846726c5
JH
1169JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1170
3a796370
JH
1171JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1172
ea722490 1173JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1174 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1175
b1b05573
JH
1176JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1177 Bugzilla 884.
1178
362145b5
JH
1179JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1180 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1181
3c0a92dc
JH
1182JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1183 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1184
6d7c6175
PP
1185PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1186 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1187 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1188
6f123593
JH
1189JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1190 authenticators.
1191
c8e2fc1e
JH
1192JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1193 for control.
1194
005ac57f
PP
1195PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1196
3f1df0e3
PP
1197PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1198 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1199 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1200 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1201
67bd1ab3
TF
1202TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1203
1204 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1205 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1206 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1207 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1208 the retry rules.
1209
1210 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1211 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1212 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1213
1214 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1215 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1216 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1217 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1218
1ddeb334
TF
1219 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1220 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1221 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1222 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1223 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1224 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1225 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1226
1227 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1228 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1229
326cdc37
TF
1230TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1231
1232 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1233
1234 Resent-From: f
1235
1236 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1237 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1238 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1239 username as equal to the username.
1240
1241 This change corrects that bug.
1242
f62514b3
GF
1243GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1244 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1245 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1246
eb505532
TF
1247TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1248
14c7b357
PP
1249PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1250 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1251 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1252 NULL dereference and crash.
1253
94eaf700
PP
1254JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1255
6f5a440a
PP
1256PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1257 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1258 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1259
514ee161
SC
1260SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1261
fd98a5c6
JH
1262JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1263 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1264 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1265 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1266 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1267 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1268 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1269 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1270 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1271 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1272 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1273
035c7f1e
PP
1274PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1275 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1276
ff284120
PP
1277PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1278 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1279 Bugzilla 880.
1280
26e72755
PP
1281PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1282 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1283 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1284 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1285 an empty string is now equivalent.
1286
0fbd9bff
PP
1287PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1288 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1289 not performing validation itself.
1290
700d22f3
PP
1291PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1292 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1293
fcc8e047
JH
1294JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1295 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1296
4c04137d 1297TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1298
8c020188
PP
1299PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1300 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1301 other false fix of the same issue.
1302 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1303 Bugzilla 1363.
1304
d13cdd30
PP
1305PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1306 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1307
e2fbf4a2
PP
1308PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1309 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1310 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1311
f4c1088b
PP
1312PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1313 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1314 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1315
c5c2182f
PP
1316TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1317
73431ca9
JH
1318JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1319
2d07a215
TL
1320TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1321 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1322
a30a8861
TL
1323TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1324 Alexander Miroch.
1325
33382dd9
TL
1326TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1327 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1328 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1329 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1330 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1331
046172e6
TL
1332TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1333 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1334
581d7bee 1335TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1336 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1337 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1338
1339TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1340 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1341 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1342 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1343
237b2cf2
TL
1344TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1345
9fc5a352
TL
1346TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1347 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1348 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1349
b10e4ec2
TL
1350TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1351
e2cebd74
TL
1352TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1353 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1354 interaction.
1355
1356TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1357 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1358
2519e60d
TL
1359TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1360 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1361
e78e6ecf 1362
4263f395
PP
1363Exim version 4.80.1
1364-------------------
1365
1366PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1367 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1368 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1369
ea722490 1370
b1770b6e 1371Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1372-----------------
1373
1374PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1375 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1376 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1377
23c7e742
NM
1378NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1379
b322aac8
NM
1380NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1381 improved.
1382
4a891427
NM
1383NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1384
c1e794ba 1385PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1386
97753960
PP
1387PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1388
1389PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1390 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1391
df6303fa
PP
1392PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1393 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1394
7e6a8985
PP
1395PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1396 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1397
f1e05cc7 1398PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1399 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1400 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1401
4c287009
PP
1402PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1403
b98bb9ac
PP
1404PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1405 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1406
4a6a987a
PP
1407PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1408
c45dd180 1409PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1410
7db8d074
PP
1411PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1412 non-compliant senders.
1413 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1414
eae0036b 1415NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1416 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1417 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1418
dec5017e
PP
1419PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1420 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1421 in spool file corruption.
1422
c80c5570
PP
1423PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1424 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1425 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1426 "Got SSL error 2".
1427
076b11e2
PP
1428TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1429 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1430 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1431
5407bfff
JH
1432JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1433 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1434
9e45c72b
PP
1435JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1436
e74376d8
PP
1437PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1438 diagnostics.
1439 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1440
4c04137d 1441PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1442 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1443 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1444
7be682ca
PP
1445PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1446 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1447 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1448 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1449
ef840681
PP
1450PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1451 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1452
5bfb4cdf
PP
1453PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1454 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1455 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1456 resolver implementation change.
1457
c6e95d22
PP
1458PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1459 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1460
9cbad13b
PP
1461PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1462
9ee44efb
PP
1463PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1464
6a6084f8
PP
1465PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1466 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1467
12dd53c7
PP
1468PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1469 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1470
9e45c72b 1471JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1472 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1473
17c76198
PP
1474PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1475 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1476 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1477 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1478 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1479
53947857 1480PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1481
eae0036b 1482PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1483 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1484 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1485
9e45c72b 1486JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1487
7390e768
PP
1488PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1489 read-only, out of scope).
1490 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1491
08488c86
PP
1492PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1493 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1494 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1495 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1496
6475bd82
PP
1497PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1498
81f91683
PP
1499PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1500 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1501 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1502 real issues in debug logging.
1503
5779e6aa
PP
1504PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1505 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1506
3375e053
PP
1507PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1508 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1509 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1510
1511PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1512 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1513 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1514 problems.
3375e053 1515
9d26b8c0
PP
1516PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1517 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1518
57eb9e91 1519PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1520 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1521 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1522 needs to override this, it can.
1523
16880d1a
PP
1524PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1525 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1526 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1527
a799883d
PP
1528PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1529 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1530 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1531 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1532
3ecab157 1533PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1534
0599f9cf 1535
867fcbf5
PP
1536Exim version 4.77
1537-----------------
1538
1539PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1540 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1541
f1a29782
TF
1542TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1543
ab42bd23
TK
1544TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1545 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1546
0ca0cf52
TF
1547TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1548 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1549
921b12ca
TF
1550TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1551 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1552 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1553
1554 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1555 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1556 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1557 not safe for signals.
1558
1559 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1560 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1561 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1562 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1563 exiwhat.
1564
c99ce5c9
TF
1565TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1566
1567 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1568 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1569 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1570 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1571 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1572
1573 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1574 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1575 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1576 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1577 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1578 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1579
1580 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1581 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1582 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1583 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1584
1585 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1586 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1587 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1588 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1589
1590 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1591 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1592 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1593 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1594 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1595 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1596 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1597 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1598 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1599
1600 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1601 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1602 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1603 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1604
1605 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1606 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1607 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1608 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1609 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1610 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1611 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1612 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1613 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1614 details in the main documentation.
1615
3634fc25
TF
1616TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1617
792e8a19
TF
1618TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1619
5901f0ab
TF
1620TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1621 repository when doing development or release builds.
1622
7f2a2a43
PP
1623PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1624 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1625
061b7ebd
PP
1626PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1627 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1628 Bugzilla 97.
1629
e12f8c32
PP
1630PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1631
9e949f00 1632PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1633 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1634
1635PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1636 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1637
555ae6af 1638PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1639 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1640
1641PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1642 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1643
6f7fe114
PP
1644PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1645 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1646
c566dd90
PP
1647PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1648 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1649 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1650 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1651
d6cc7c78 1652PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1653 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1654 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1655
0d0e4455
PP
1656PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1657
3399bb60 1658PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1659
1660PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1661 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1662
0ca0cf52 1663
10906672
PP
1664Exim version 4.76
1665-----------------
1666
1667PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1668
754a0503
PP
1669PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1670 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1671
c0c7b2da
PP
1672PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1673
e97d1f08
PP
1674PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1675
084c1d8c
PP
1676PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1677 Bugzilla 1098.
1678
4e7ee012
PP
1679PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1680 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1681
c8d52a00
PP
1682TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1683 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1684
54e7ce4a
PP
1685PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1686 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1687
5ee6f336
PP
1688PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1689 Bugzilla 1104.
1690
c8d52a00 1691TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1692 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1693
1694TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1695 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1696 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1697 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1698
1699PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1700 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1701
10906672 1702
aa097c4c
NM
1703Exim version 4.75
1704-----------------
1705
4c04137d 1706NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1707 Bugzilla 1073
1708
7f3d9eff
TF
1709TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1710 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1711 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1712
159f52d2
TF
1713TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1714 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1715
0cc9542a
PP
1716PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1717 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1718 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1719
f7274286
PP
1720PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1721 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1722
7b797365
PP
1723PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1724 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1725
caacae52
NM
1726NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1727 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1728
09dcaba9
NM
1729NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1730 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1731
bc19a55b
PP
1732PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1733 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1734
bd4c9759
NM
1735NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1736 Fixes bug 943.
1737
b72aab72
PP
1738PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1739 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1740
2fe76745
PP
1741PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1742 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1743
76aa570c
PP
1744PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1745 SQL string expansion failure details.
1746 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1747
f1e5fef5
PP
1748PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1749 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1750
4d805ee9
PP
1751PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1752 extern declarations in function scope.
1753 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1754
cd59ab18
PP
1755PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1756 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1757 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1758 a kernel bug).
1759
332f5cf3
PP
1760PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1761 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1762
29cfeb94
PP
1763PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1764 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1765
660242ad
PP
1766PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1767 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1768
bc4bc4c5
PP
1769PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1770 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1771
2e64baa9
NM
1772NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1773 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1774 Dennis Davis.
1775
4c04137d 1776PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1777
6bac1a9a
PP
1778PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1779
552193f0
NM
1780NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1781 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1782
1b587e48
TF
1783TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1784 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1785
aa097c4c 1786
8c07b69f
TF
1787Exim version 4.74
1788-----------------
1789
1790TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1791 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1792
c0ea85ab
TF
1793TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1794 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1795
0761d44e
TF
1796TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1797
0a349494
PP
1798DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1799 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1800 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1801
1802PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1803 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1804 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1805
fea24b2e
PP
1806PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1807 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1808 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1809 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1810
6545de78
PP
1811PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1812 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1813 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1814 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1815
1670ef10
PP
1816PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1817 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1818 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1819 arbitrary files.
1820
c0886197
PP
1821PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1822 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1823
b7487bce
PP
1824PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1825 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1826 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1827 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1828 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1829
8c07b69f 1830
97fd1e48 1831Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1832-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1833
1834PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1835 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1836 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1837
6901c596
PP
1838PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1839 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1840
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1841JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1842
77bb000f
PP
1843PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1844
a29e5231
PP
1845PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1846
ec5a0394 1847PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1848
55c75993
PP
1849PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1850
453a6645 1851PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1852 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1853 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1854 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1855
8544e77a
PP
1856PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1857 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1858 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1859 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1860 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1861
83e029d5
PP
1862PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1863
ed7f7860
PP
1864PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1865
7d9f747b
PP
1866PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1867
4b2241d2
PP
1868PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1869
10385c15
PP
1870PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1871
dbc4b90d
PP
1872PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1873
532be449
PP
1874PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1875
6a8de854 1876PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1877 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1878 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1879
5dc43717
JJ
1880JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1881
1882JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1883 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1884
3346ab01
PP
1885PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1886 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1887
491fab4c
PP
1888PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1889 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1890 Notification from John Horne.
1891
13eb9497
PP
1892PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1893 compatible.
1894
1895PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1896 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1897 it normally works.
1898
7f36d675
DW
1899DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1900 access.
1901
c1d94452
DW
1902DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1903 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1904 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1905
e2f5dc15
DW
1906DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1907 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1908 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1909 configuration file.
1910
cd25e41d
DW
1911DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1912 option (effectively making it always true).
1913
261dc43e
DW
1914DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1915 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1916
fa32850b
DW
1917DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1918 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1919
79d4bc3d
PP
1920PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1921 run-time user, instead of root.
1922
43236f35 1923PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1924 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1925
fb08281f
DW
1926DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1927 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1928 arguments.
3346ab01 1929
74935b98
DW
1930DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1931 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1932 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1933
90b6341f
DW
1934DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1935
57730b52
ML
1936NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1937
66581d1e 1938
465e92cf
JJ
1939Exim version 4.72
1940-----------------
1941
453a6645
PP
1942JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1943 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1944 typos
465e92cf 1945
453a6645
PP
1946JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1947 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1948 (Finput)
edae0343 1949
9bd3e22c
NM
1950NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1951 Patch from Alain Williams
1952
bb576ff7
NM
1953NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1954
5a1a5845
NM
1955NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1956 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1957
981a9fad
NM
1958NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1959 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1960
7fc497ee
NM
1961NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1962
1a41defa
JJ
1963JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1964
a466095c 1965NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1966 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1967
94a6bd0b
NM
1968TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1969
1970TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1971
1972MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1973 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1974 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1975
c1b141a8
NM
1976NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1977 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1978
b26eacf1 1979NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1980 Patch by Simon Arlott
1981
179c5980 1982PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1983 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1984
9bd3e22c 1985
7c6d71af
NM
1986Exim version 4.71
1987-----------------
1988
7d9f747b 1989TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1990
f013fb92
NM
1991NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1992
0eb8eedd
NM
1993NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1994
663ee6d9
NM
1995NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1996
177ebd9b
NM
1997NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1998
7c6d71af 1999
210f147e
NM
2000Exim version 4.70
2001-----------------
2002
cdd3bb85 2003TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2004 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2005
2006TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2007 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2008 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2009
2010TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2011 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2012 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2013
2014TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2015 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2016
210f147e
NM
2017NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2018 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2019 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2020 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2021
deafd5b3
NM
2022NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2023 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2024 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2025
089793a4
TF
2026TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2027
5f16ca82
TF
2028TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2029
dae9d94e 2030NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2031 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2032
7d9f747b 2033NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2034
06864c44
TF
2035TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2036 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2037 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2038 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2039
65a7d8c3 2040NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2041 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2042
23510047 2043TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2044
7d9f747b 2045NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2046
7d8eec3a 2047NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2048 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2049
89dec7b6
TF
2050TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2051 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2052
a99de90c
TF
2053TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2054 that they are available at delivery time.
2055
e2803e40
TF
2056TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2057
7199e1ee
TF
2058TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2059 incoming_port log selectors.
2060
e276e04b
TF
2061TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2062 setting expands to an empty string.
2063
ce552449 2064NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2065 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2066
e765a0f1 2067NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2068 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2069
4f054c63 2070NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2071 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2072
7d9f747b
PP
2073NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2074 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2075
7d9f747b
PP
2076NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2077 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2078
b52bc06e 2079NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2080 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2081
447de4b0
NM
2082NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2083
4c69d561 2084NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2085 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2086
d5c39246 2087NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2088 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2089
0b23848a
TK
2090TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2091
8f3414a1 2092NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2093 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2094
fb6f955d
NM
2095NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2096
2097NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2098
7d9f747b
PP
2099NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2100 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2101
7d9f747b
PP
2102NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2103 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2104
7d9f747b
PP
2105NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2106 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2107
7d9f747b
PP
2108NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2109 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2110
7d9f747b
PP
2111NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2112 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2113
7d9f747b
PP
2114NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2115 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2116
7d9f747b
PP
2117NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2118 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2119
7d9f747b 2120NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2121 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2122
7d9f747b 2123NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2124
7d9f747b
PP
2125NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2126 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2127
7d9f747b 2128NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2129
7d9f747b 2130NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2131
7d9f747b 2132NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2133
7d9f747b 2134NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2135
17792b53 2136NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2137 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2138
7d9f747b
PP
2139NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2140 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2141
91576cec 2142NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2143 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2144
7d9f747b
PP
2145NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2146 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2147
7d9f747b 2148NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2149
7d9f747b 2150NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2151
7d9f747b 2152NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2153
7d9f747b 2154NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2155
deafd5b3 2156
47db1125
NM
2157Exim version 4.69
2158-----------------
2159
4b3504d0
TK
2160TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2161 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2162 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2163
2164 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2165 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2166 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2167 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2168 build errors in sieve.c.
2169
81ea09ca
NM
2170NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2171 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2172 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2173
f13cddcb
SC
2174SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2175
7d9f747b 2176NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2177
7d9f747b 2178NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2179
7d9f747b 2180NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2181
2182
eb4c0de6
PH
2183Exim version 4.68
2184-----------------
2185
2186PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2187
6a3bceb1
PH
2188PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2189 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2190 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2191 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2192 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2193 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2194 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2195 for iplsearch lookups.
2196
2197 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2198 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2199 previously such lookups could never work.
2200
4c04137d 2201 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2202 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2203 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2204
2e30fa9d
TK
2205TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2206 version.
2207
0806a9c5
MH
2208MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2209 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2210 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2211 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2212 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2213 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2214
ae276964
TK
2215TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2216 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2217
0f2cbd1b
MH
2218MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2219 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2220 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2221 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2222 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2223 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2224
2b85bce7
PH
2225PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2226 local_scan API.
2227
93655c46
PH
2228PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2229
6c512171
PH
2230PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2231 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2232 encrypted.
2233
2234PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2235 by clients under certain conditions.
2236
aa6dc513
PH
2237PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2238 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2239
a96603a0
PH
2240PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2241
8f240103
PH
2242PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2243 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2244
2245PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2246
d677b2f2
PH
2247PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2248
d52120f2
PH
2249PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2250
64f2600a
PH
2251PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2252 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2253
8669f003
PH
2254PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2255
a4dc33a8
PH
2256PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2257 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2258
d6a60c0f
PH
2259PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2260
8f128379
PH
2261PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2262
8932dffe
PH
2263PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2264 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2265 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2266 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2267
ddea74fa 2268PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2269 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2270 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2271
ddea74fa 2272PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2273 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2274
ddea74fa
PH
2275PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2276
ce9f225c
PH
2277PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2278
19897d52
PH
2279PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2280
bc64a74d
PH
2281PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2282 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2283 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2284
eb4c0de6 2285
b4ed4da0
PH
2286Exim version 4.67
2287-----------------
2288
22ad45c9
MH
2289MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2290 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2291 Jan Srzednicki.
2292
b4ed4da0
PH
2293PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2294 issue a MAIL command.
2295
431b7361
PH
2296PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2297
2298 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2299
2300 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2301 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2302 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2303 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2304 item. This has been fixed.
2305
2306PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2307 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2308
83da1223
PH
2309PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2310 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2311
54fc8428
PH
2312PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2313 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2314 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2315
34c5e8dd
SC
2316SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2317
bbe15da8
PH
2318PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2319 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2320 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2321 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2322 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2323
0e8a9471
MH
2324MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2325 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2326 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2327
f0872424
PH
2328PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2329 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2330 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2331 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2332
b01dd148
PH
2333PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2334
6bf342e1
PH
2335PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2336
273f34d0
PH
2337PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2338 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2339 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2340 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2341 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2342
cf8b11a5
PH
2343PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2344
41c7c167
PH
2345PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2346 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2347 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2348 values).
2349
9c57cbc0
PH
2350PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2351
f3f065bb
PH
2352PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2353
047bdd8c
PH
2354PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2355
0ce9abe6
PH
2356PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2357
0e22dfd1
PH
2358PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2359
4c590bd1
PH
2360PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2361 no_callout_flush is set.
2362
09945f1e
PH
2363PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2364 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2365 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2366 fixed.
2367
c51b8e75
PH
2368PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2369
e28326d8 2370PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2371 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2372 other ACL rejections are.
2373
75b1493f
PH
2374PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2375 with slight modification.
2376
7c5214ec
PH
2377PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2378 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2379
4311097e
PH
2380PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2381 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2382 connection.
2383
29f89cad
PH
2384PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2385 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2386
5e687460
SC
2387SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2388
c3611384
PH
2389PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2390 expansion side effects.
2391
5a11a7b4
PH
2392PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2393 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2394 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2395 be the same.
2396
0e20aff9
MH
2397MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2398 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2399 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2400
ca86f471
PH
2401PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2402 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2403 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2404 were accidentally chopped off.
2405
a14e5636
PH
2406PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2407 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2408 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2409 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2410 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2411 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2412 pipelining has not been advertised.
2413
ec95d1a6
PH
2414PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2415
42855d71
PH
2416PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2417 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2418 This has been fixed.
2419
57c2c631
PH
2420PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2421 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2422 reported on Solaris.
2423
58c01c94
PH
2424PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2425 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2426 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2427 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2428 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2429 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2430 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2431
dee5a20a
PH
2432PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2433 cpus.
2434
d2ee6114
PH
2435PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2436
b2d5182b
PH
2437PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2438
79749a79
PH
2439PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2440 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2441 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2442 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2443 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2444 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2445
c456d9bb
PH
2446PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2447 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2448 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2449 host_all_ignored option.
2450
cd9868ec
PH
2451PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2452 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2453 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2454 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2455 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2456 is what is supposed to happen).
2457
ebeaf996
PH
2458PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2459 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2460 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2461 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2462 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2463 uses the Exim user.
2464
2679d413
PH
2465PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2466 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2467 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2468 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2469 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2470 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2471 users.
2472
84024b72
PH
2473PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2474
8005d38e
SC
2475SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2476 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2477 (Jez Hancock).
2478 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2479 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2480
3298c6c6
SC
2481SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2482
a43a27c5
PH
2483PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2484
58eb016e 2485PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2486 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2487 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2488 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2489 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2490 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2491 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2492 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2493 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2494 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2495 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2496
b43a74ea
PH
2497PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2498 advertised in response to EHLO.
2499
b4ed4da0 2500
5dd1517f
PH
2501Exim version 4.66
2502-----------------
2503
2504PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2505 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2506
2507 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2508 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2509
2510 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2511 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2512 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2513
2514 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2515 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2516 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2517 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2518 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2519
2520
93cfa765
TK
2521Exim version 4.65
2522-----------------
2523
2524TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2525 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2526 versions. (#438)
2527
d6066548
MH
2528MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2529 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2530 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2531
4362ff0d
PH
2532PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2533 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2534 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2535 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2536 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2537 rather than extend the field.
2538
93cfa765 2539
944e9e9c
TF
2540Exim version 4.64
2541-----------------
aa41d2de 2542
21d74bd9
TK
2543TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2544 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2545 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2546 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2547 these files.
2548
2549TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2550 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2551 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2552
2553TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2554 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2555 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2556
2557TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2558 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2559 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2560 in the field name.
2561
2b1c6e3a
PH
2562PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2563 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2564 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2565 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2566 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2567 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2568 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2569 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2570 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2571 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2572 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2573
1f872c80
PH
2574PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2575 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2576
2577PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2578 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2579 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2580 ignores EPIPE as well.
2581
d203e649
PH
2582PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2583 (quoted-printable decoding).
2584
cc2ed8f7 2585PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2586 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2587
ddfcd446
PH
2588PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2589
d45b1de8
PH
2590PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2591
2592PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2593
38a0a95f 2594PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2595 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2596
a2405d83
JJ
2597JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2598 in 4.64-PH/09.
2599
2600JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2601 miscellaneous code fixes
2602
6ea85e9a
PH
2603PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2604 rejections.
2605
26da7e20
PH
2606PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2607 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2608 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2609 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2610 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2611 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2612 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2613 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2614
14aa5a05 2615PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2616 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2617 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2618 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2619 function.
2620 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2621 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2622 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2623 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2624 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2625 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2626 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2627 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2628 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2629
ff75a1f7
PH
2630PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2631 decoding.
2632
e6f6568e
PH
2633PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2634 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2635 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2636 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2637 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2638 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2639 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2640 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2641
d6f6e0dc
PH
2642PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2643 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2644 list.
2645
322050c2
PH
2646PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2647 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2648 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2649 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2650 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2651 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2652 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2653 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2654 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2655 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2656 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2657 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2658 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2659
08955dd3
PH
2660PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2661 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2662 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2663 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2664 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2665 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2666 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2667
1eccaa59
PH
2668PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2669 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2670 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2671 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2672 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2673 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2674 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2675 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2676 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2677 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2678
602e59e5
PH
2679PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2680 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2681 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2682 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2683 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2684
411ef850
PH
2685PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2686 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2687 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2688 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2689 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2690 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2691 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2692
7befa435
PH
2693PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2694 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2695 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2696 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2697 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2698 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2699 been verified.
2700
48da4259 2701PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2702 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2703 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2704 and authorization.)
2705
48da4259
PH
2706PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2707 if any retry times were supplied.
2708
d1d5595c
PH
2709PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2710 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2711 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2712
0ef732d9
PH
2713PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2714
328895cc
PH
2715PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2716
fd700877
PH
2717PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2718 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2719 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2720 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2721 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2722 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2723
8dce1a6f
PH
2724PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2725 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2726
17af4a17
PH
2727PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2728 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2729 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2730
2731PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2732 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2733 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2734 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2735 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2736 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2737 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2738 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2739 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2740
2741 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2742 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2743 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2744 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2745 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2746 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2747 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2748 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2749 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2750
2751 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2752 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2753 hammering the server.
2754
c1114884
PH
2755PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2756 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2757
7a0743eb
PH
2758PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2759
0d85fa3f
PH
2760PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2761 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2762 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2763
1bf43b78
PH
2764PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2765 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2766 one case where this was not true.
2767
520de300
PH
2768PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2769 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2770 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2771 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2772 fails.
2773
48c7f9e2
PH
2774PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2775 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2776 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2777 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2778 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2779 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2780 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2781 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2782 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2783 smtp transport.
2784
99ea1c86
PH
2785PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2786 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2787 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2788 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2789
a2042e78
PH
2790PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2791 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2792
4fbcfc2e
PH
2793PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2794 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2795 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2796
aa41d2de
PH
2797PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2798
af561417
PH
2799PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2800
3cc66b45
PH
2801PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2802
194cc0e4
PH
2803PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2804 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2805 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2806 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2807
a401ddaa
PH
2808PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2809 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2810
4e88a19f
PH
2811PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2812 be meaningful with "accept".
2813
d7d7b289
SC
2814SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2815 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2816
2817SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2818 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2819 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2820
2821SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2822 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2823 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2824 there is data to show.
2825 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2826
2827SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2828 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2829 as well as the number of messages.
2830
2831SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2832 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2833 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2834
2835SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2836 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2837 have a flag are now skipped.
2838
2839SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2840 Added the -emptyok flag.
2841
2842SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2843 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2844
0ea2a468
JJ
2845JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2846 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2847 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2848
2849JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2850 match 4.64-PH/13
2851
2852JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2853 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2854
2855JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2856
2857JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2858 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2859
8a10f5a4
PH
2860PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2861
30e18802
PH
2862PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2863 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2864 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2865 contravention of the specifications.
2866
55728a4f
PH
2867PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2868 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2869 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2870
d7837193
PH
2871PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2872 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2873 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2874
87054a31
PH
2875PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2876
ea2c01d2
MH
2877MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2878 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2879 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2880 some point in the past.
2881
e4fa6968
PH
2882PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2883 transport during callout processing was broken.
2884
56f5d9bd
PH
2885PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2886 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2887
922e1c28
PH
2888PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2889 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2890
21eb6e72
PH
2891PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2892 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2893
a0540757
PH
2894PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2895
944e9e9c 2896
478be7b0
SC
2897Exim version 4.63
2898-----------------
2899
2900SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2901 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2902
2903SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2904 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2905 there is data to show.
2906 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2907
2908SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2909 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2910
2b965a65
TF
2911TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2912 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2913
45b91596
PH
2914TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2915 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2916
c59f5781
TF
2917TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2918 submissions from trusted users.
2919
90fc3069
TF
2920TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2921 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2922
6083aca0
TF
2923TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2924 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2925 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2926 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2927 there is now a framework to start from.
2928
765b530f
PH
2929PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2930 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2931 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2932
4e167a8c
PH
2933PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2934
4608d683
PH
2935PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2936
b8dc3e4a
PH
2937PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2938
5418e93b
PH
2939PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2940 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2941 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2942
b4a9bda2
PH
2943PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2944 libradius.
2945
45b91596
PH
2946PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2947 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2948 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2949
5547e2c5
PH
2950PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2951 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2952 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2953 its arguments.
2954
dbcef0ea
PH
2955PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2956 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2957 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2958 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2959 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2960
25257489
PH
2961PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2962 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2963
c816d124
PH
2964PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2965
a9ccd69a
PH
2966PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2967 operations in malware.c.
2968
75fa1910
PH
2969PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2970 signatures.
2971
a7d7aa58
PH
2972PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2973 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2974 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2975 all.
2976
42119b09
PH
2977PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2978 statements to "add_header".
2979
41609df5
PH
2980PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2981 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2982
a5bd321b
PH
2983PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2984 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2985 latter.
2986
e85a7ad5 2987PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2988 so that it is now:
2989
e85a7ad5
PH
2990 ${if or { \
2991 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2992 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2993 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2994 }{no}{yes}}
2995
e85a7ad5
PH
2996 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2997 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2998
d8fe1c03
PH
2999PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3000 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3001
16282d2b
PH
3002PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3003 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3004 any possible encoding problems.
3005
35d40a98
PH
3006PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3007 but not after initializing Perl.
3008
034d99ab
PH
3009PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3010 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3011 apparently, which is not desirable.
3012
6ec97b1b
PH
3013PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3014 queries.
3015
e22ca4ac
JJ
3016JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3017 --not options
3018
3019JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3020
33d73e3b
PH
3021PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3022 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3023 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3024 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3025
9ecb03f3
PH
3026PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3027 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3028 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3029
084efe8d
PH
3030PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3031 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3032 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3033 0.12.
3034
366fc9f0
PH
3035PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3036 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3037 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3038 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3039 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3040
c59f5781 3041
c887c79e
TF
3042Exim version 4.62
3043-----------------
3044
3045TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3046 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3047
1cce3af8
PH
3048PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3049 patch).
3050
afb3eaaf
PH
3051PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3052 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3053 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3054 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3055 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3056 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3057 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3058 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3059 451 error is used.
3060
e173618b
PH
3061PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3062
dd16e114
PH
3063PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3064 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3065 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3066
f7fd3850
PH
3067PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3068 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3069 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3070 odd errors.
3071
d87df92c
PH
3072PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3073 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3074
7e9f683d
PH
3075PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3076 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3077 option (which defaults to 0600).
3078
bfad5236
PH
3079PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3080
01c490df
PH
3081PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3082 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3083 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3084 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3085 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3086 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3087 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3088
d6629cdc
PH
3089PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3090
1cce3af8 3091
214e2000
PH
3092Exim version 4.61
3093-----------------
3094
3095PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3096 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3097 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3098 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3099 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3100 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3101 addresses as local.
3102
f9daeae0
PH
3103PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3104 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3105
7e66e54d
PH
3106PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3107
c8ea1597
PH
3108PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3109 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3110 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3111 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3112 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3113 grumble.
3114
911f6fde
PH
3115PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3116 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3117
47ca6d6c
PH
3118PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3119 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3120 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3121 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3122 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3123
ed0e9820
PH
3124PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3125 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3126 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3127 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3128
eff37e47
PH
3129PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3130 be the same on different OS.
3131
1921d2ea
PH
3132PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3133 testing.
3134
b3f69ca8
JJ
3135JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3136 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3137
3138JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3139 in 4.61-PH/06
3140
424a1c63
PH
3141PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3142 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3143 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3144 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3145 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3146 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3147 bounce message.
3148
7a100415
PH
3149PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3150 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3151 when Exim was called.
3152
19b9dc85
PH
3153PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3154 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3155
309bd837
PH
3156PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3157 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3158 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3159 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3160
59e82a2a
PH
3161PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3162 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3163 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3164 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3165 changes:
3166
3167 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3168 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3169 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3170
3171 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3172 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3173 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3174
9edc04ce
PH
3175PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3176 feature).
3177
1349e1e5
PH
3178PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3179 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3180 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3181 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3182 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3183 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3184 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3185 values from the SRV records were lost.
3186
ea49d0e1
PH
3187PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3188 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3189 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3190
064a94c9
PH
3191PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3192 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3193 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3194
727071f8
PH
3195PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3196 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3197 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3198 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3199 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3200 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3201 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3202 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3203 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3204 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3205
f78eb7c6
PH
3206PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3207 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3208 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3209
21c28500
PH
3210PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3211 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3212
3213PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3214 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3215 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3216 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3217 is given.
3218
1688f43b
PH
3219PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3220 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3221 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3222
3223PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3224 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3225 PH/23 above applies.
3226
9675b384
PH
3227PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3228 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3229 (for which there is an explicit test).
3230
6a3f1455
PH
3231PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3232
dac79d3e
PH
3233PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3234 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3235 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3236 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3237 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3238
5977a0b3
PH
3239PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3240 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3241 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3242 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3243
c91535f3
PH
3244PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3245 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3246 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3247
0d46a8c8
PH
3248PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3249
278c6e6c
PH
3250PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3251
2cbb4081
PH
3252PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3253 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3254 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3255
3eef829e
PH
3256PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3257 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3258 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3259 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3260 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3261
1ab95fa6
PH
3262PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3263 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3264 the message gets confusing).
3265
230205fc
PH
3266PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3267 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3268 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3269 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3270
75e0e026
PH
3271PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3272 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3273 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3274 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3275 same order.
3276
3277PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3278 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3279 the different processes.
3280
145396a6
PH
3281PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3282
3cd34f13
PH
3283PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3284
11121d3d
JJ
3285JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3286 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3287
3288JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3289 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3290
3291JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3292 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3293 messages matching specified criteria.
3294
8def5aaf
PH
3295PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3296
929ba01c
PH
3297PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3298 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3299
2632889e
PH
3300PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3301 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3302 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3303 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3304 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3305 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3306 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3307 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3308 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3309 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3310
944a9c55
PH
3311PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3312 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3313 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3314
4a23603b
PH
3315PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3316
4730f942
PH
3317PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3318 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3319 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3320 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3321 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3322 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3323 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3324 the variable.
3325
30dba1e6
PH
3326PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3327 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3328
382afc6b
PH
3329PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3330
a86229cf
PH
3331PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3332
50c99ba6
PH
3333PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3334
d35e429d
PH
3335PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3336 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3337 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3338 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3339 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3340 size of the count of files.
3341
f90d018c
PH
3342PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3343
75def545
PH
3344PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3345 used in LMTP mode:
3346
3347 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3348 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3349 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3350 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3351
3352 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3353 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3354 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3355
3356PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3357 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3358 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3359 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3360 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3361
c46782ef
PH
3362PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3363 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3364
71fafd95
PH
3365PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3366 will now be deprecated.
3367
2c5db4fd
PH
3368PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3369
9cf6b11a
JJ
3370JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3371 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3372 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3373
3374JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3375 with very large, slow to parse queues
3376
3377JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3378
3379JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3380
898d150f
PH
3381PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3382 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3383 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3384 SMTP output lines.
3385
46218253
PH
3386PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3387 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3388 Sieve code now uses this.
3389
e97957bc
PH
3390PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3391 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3392
81e509d7
PH
3393PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3394 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3395
3d240ff7
PH
3396PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3397
b37c4101
PH
3398PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3399 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3400 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3401 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3402 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3403
79378e0f
PH
3404PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3405 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3406 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3407 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3408
e49c7bb4
PH
3409PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3410
d114ec46
PH
3411PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3412
f3d7df6c
PH
3413PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3414 is preferred over IPv4.
3415
715ab376
PH
3416PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3417 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3418 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3419 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3420 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3421 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3422 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3423
6b31b150
PH
3424PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3425 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3426 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3427
3428PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3429
d515a917
PH
3430PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3431 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3432 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3433 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3434 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3435 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3436 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3437 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3438 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3439 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3440 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3441
9b8fadde
PH
3442PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3443 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3444 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3445
214e2000 3446
5de37277
PH
3447Exim version 4.60
3448-----------------
3449
cc38ddbf
PH
3450PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3451
3452 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3453 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3454
3455 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3456 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3457 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3458
72fdd6ae
PH
3459PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3460
3461 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3462 not a single digit.
3463
3464 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3465 string.
3466
3467 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3468 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3469 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3470 silly things.
3471
3472 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3473 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3474
3475 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3476 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3477
cb741023
PH
3478PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3479 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3480 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3481
f174f16e
PH
3482PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3483 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3484
c25242d7
PH
3485PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3486 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3487
3488 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3489
3490 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3491 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3492 this:
3493
3494 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3495
82c19f95
PH
3496PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3497 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3498 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3499 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3500 identical. For example:
3501
3502 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3503
3504 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3505 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3506 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3507
d7ffbc12
PH
3508PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3509 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3510 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3511 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3512
9f526266
PH
3513PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3514 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3515 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3516 message.
3517
87fcc8b9
PH
3518PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3519
3520 o fixes some comments
3521 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3522 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3523 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3524 and documents the missing references header update
3525
3526 and most important:
3527
3528 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3529 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3530 result)
3531
456682f5
PH
3532PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3533 Electronic Mail") by including:
3534
3535 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3536
3537 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3538 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3539 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3540 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3541 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3542
3543 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3544
3545 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3546
3547 The auto-replied keyword:
3548
3549 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3550 message by an automatic process,
3551
3552 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3553
3554 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3555 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3556
3557 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3558 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3559 other messages.
3560
3e46c1aa
PH
3561PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3562 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3563
49826d12
PH
3564PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3565
eba0c039
PH
3566PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3567 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3568 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3569
a0d6ba8a
PH
3570PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3571 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3572 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3573
f0917727
PH
3574PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3575 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3576 and treats the condition as false.
3577
096fee00
PH
3578PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3579
024bd3c2
PH
3580PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3581 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3582 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3583 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3584 not changing the active code.
3585
3586 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3587 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3588
3589 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3590 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3591
df199fec
PH
3592PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3593 (Bugzilla #53).
3594
d27f1df3
PH
3595PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3596 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3597 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3598 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3599 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3600 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3601 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3602 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3603 the text comparison.
3604
96776534
PH
3605PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3606 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3607 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3608 The same fix has been applied.
3609
5de37277 3610
9a799bc0
PH
3611Exim version 4.54
3612-----------------
3613
3614PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3615 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3616 It now does.
3617
99a4b039
PH
3618PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3619 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3620
3621PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3622
4b233853
PH
3623PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3624 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3625 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3626 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3627 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3628
8857ccfd
PH
3629TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3630 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3631 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3632 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3633 or /domain=).
3634
433a2980
PH
3635PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3636 testing suite.
3637
3e46c1aa 3638
9a799bc0 3639
e3a311ba
TK
3640Exim version 4.53
3641-----------------
3642
3643TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3644 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3645
13b685f9
PH
3646PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3647
395ff96d
PH
3648PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3649
5b68f6e4
PH
3650PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3651 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3652 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3653
1ab52c69
PH
3654PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3655 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3656 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3657
b07e6aa3
PH
3658PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3659 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3660 operating systems.
3661
254e032f
PH
3662PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3663 ${stat: expansion item.
3664
3af76a81
PH
3665PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3666 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3667
2548ba04
PH
3668PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3669 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3670 file for comments.
3671
b6c6011d
PH
3672PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3673
cf39cf57
PH
3674PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3675 setting.
3676
f1513293
PH
3677PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3678 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3679
727549a4
PH
3680TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3681
af46795e
PH
3682PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3683 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3684 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3685 the end of the subprocess.
3686
d7b47fd0
PH
3687PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3688 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3689 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3690 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3691 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3692
ee744174
JJ
3693JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3694
b582ab87
PH
3695TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3696
41a13e0a
PH
3697PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3698 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3699
f625cc5a
PH
3700PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3701
3702PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3703
21f7af35
PH
3704PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3705 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3706 HP-UX compiler.
3707
31480e42
PH
3708PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3709
2d280592
PH
3710PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3711 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3712 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3713
7cd1141b
PH
3714PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3715 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3716
3717PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3718 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3719
750af86e
PH
3720PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3721 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3722
3723 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3724 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3725
3726 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3727 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3728 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3729 contributed by a Radius user.
3730
3731PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3732 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3733
4304270b
TK
3734TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3735 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3736
750af86e
PH
3737PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3738 available.
3739
64ffc24f
PH
3740PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3741 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3742 received.
3743
5dd9625b
PH
3744PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3745 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3746 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3747 header lines when this was not necessary.
3748
5591031b
PH
3749PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3750
ba18e66a
PH
3751PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3752 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3753 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3754 exists".
3755
9cec981f
PH
3756PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3757 -bV or -d is used.
3758
aa2b5c79
PH
3759PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3760 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3761 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3762 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3763
48a53b7f
PH
3764PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3765
1c59d63b
PH
3766PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3767
671012da
TK
3768TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3769
1509d3a8
PH
3770PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3771
3772PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3773 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3774 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3775 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3776 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3777 settings.
3778
3779PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3780
2fe1a124
PH
3781PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3782 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3783 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3784 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3785 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3786 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3787 which is clearly wrong.
3788
8800895a
PH
3789PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3790
ccfdb010
PH
3791PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3792 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3793 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3794 subsequently added.
3795
1130bfb0
PH
3796PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3797 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3798
ebcb507f
PH
3799PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3800
c35e155c
PH
3801PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3802 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3803
95d1f782
PH
3804PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3805 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3806
fd6de02e
PH
3807PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3808 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3809
58de37c5
PH
3810PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3811 recipients, not senders.
3812
261cf466
TF
3813TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3814 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3815
3ee512ff
PH
3816PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3817
e08c430f
PH
3818PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3819
bef5a11f
PH
3820PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3821 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3822 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3823 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3824
7546de58
TF
3825TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3826
e5d5a95f
TF
3827TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3828 clock is set back in time.
3829
2e88a017
TF
3830TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3831 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3832
a5f65aa4
TF
3833TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3834 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3835
e7726cbf
PH
3836PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3837 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3838 (see PH/47 above).
3839
a7fdad5b
TF
3840TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3841 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3842 header rewrites.
3843
6af56900
PH
3844PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3845 type ("H").
3846
0925ede6
PH
3847PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3848
66afa403
TF
3849TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3850 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3851 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3852
0154e85a
TF
3853TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3854 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3855 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3856 helo verification defer as a failure.
3857
16f12c76
PH
3858PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3859 actual error message.
3860
bbe902f0 3861
e5a9dba6
PH
3862Exim version 4.52
3863-----------------
3864
3865TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3866
22c3b60b
PH
3867PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3868 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3869 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3870 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3871
06a9b4b5
PH
3872TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3873
c1ac6996
PH
3874PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3875 can still be requested.
3876
9c7a242c
PH
3877PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3878 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3879 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3880 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3881
87ba3f5f
PH
3882TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3883 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3884 circumstances, but probably never did.
3885
3886PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3887 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3888 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3889 in the header line.
3890
29aba418
TF
3891TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3892
fe0dab11
TF
3893TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3894 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3895
11d337a4
TK
3896TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3897
3898TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3899
415c8f3b
PH
3900PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3901 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3902 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3903 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3904 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3905 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3906
958541e9
PH
3907PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3908 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3909 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3910 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3911 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3912 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3913
c206415f
TK
3914TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3915 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3916
2a4be8f9
PH
3917PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3918 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3919
1cba11c5
SC
3920SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3921 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3922
4c04137d 3923SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3924
3925SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3926
3927SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3928
3929SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3930
3931SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3932
3933SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3934
1005d00e
TK
3935TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3936
3937TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3938 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3939 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3940
3941TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3942 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3943 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3944 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3945
9b4768fa
PH
3946PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3947 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3948 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3949
3950PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3951 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3952 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3953 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3954
0d7eb84a
PH
3955PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3956 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3957 to be made).
3958
3959PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3960 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3961 should work with maildirs and everything.
3962
40727bee
TK
3963TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3964 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3965
554d2369
TF
3966TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3967 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3968
1f922db1
PH
3969PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3970 function for BDB 4.3.
3971
ef213c3b
PH
3972PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3973
8ac170f3
PH
3974PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3975 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3976 involved.
3977
b1c749bb
PH
3978PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3979 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3980 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3981 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3982 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3983 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3984
4aac9b49
PH
3985PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3986 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3987 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3988 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3989 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3990 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3991 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3992 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3993
294520c8
TK
3994TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3995 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3996 details.
3997
5bd022fe
PH
3998PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3999 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4000
90e9ce59
PH
4001PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4002 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4003 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4004 test. It is now used for both.
4005
5ea81592
PH
4006PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4007 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4008 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4009 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4010 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4011 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4012
c6c2dc1d
PH
4013PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4014 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4015 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4016 string_vformat().
4017
fffffe4c
PH
4018PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4019 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4020 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4021
9a26b6b2
PH
4022PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4023 experimental DomainKeys support:
4024
4025 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4026 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4027 the control was given.
4028
4029 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4030
4aee0225
PH
4031PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4032
32d668a5
PH
4033PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4034
8187c3f3
PH
4035PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4036 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4037 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4038 db.h files).
4039
ff790e47 4040PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4041 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4042 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4043 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4044 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4045 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4046 course.
ff790e47 4047
5417f6d1
PH
4048PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4049 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4050 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4051 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4052 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4053 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4054
59cf8544
PH
4055PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4056 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4057 do -d+all out of habit.
4058
e7ad8a65
PH
4059PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4060 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4061 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4062
ade42478
PH
4063PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4064 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4065 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4066 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4067 record types that Exim uses.
4068
182ad5cf
PH
4069PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4070 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4071 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4072 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4073 non-existent file that was broken.
4074
b0d9fc80
TK
4075TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4076 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4077
4078TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4079 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4080 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4081
4082TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4083
47c7a64a
PH
4084PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4085 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4086 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4087 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4088 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4089 same time.
4090
a388bce4
SC
4091SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4092 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4093 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4094 at a slight CPU cost.
4095
4096SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4097 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4098
4099SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4100 by Marc Sherman.
4101
0793e4ed
SC
4102SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4103
c58b88df
PH
4104PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4105 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4106
e7ad8a65 4107
7982096b
PH
4108Exim version 4.51
4109-----------------
4110
1a46a8c5
PH
4111TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4112 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4113
2f079f46 4114TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4115
4116TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4117
4118PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4119 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4120
4121PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4122 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4123 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4124 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4125 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4126 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4127 file.
4128
4129PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4130 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4131 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4132 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4133 these two options.
4134
4135PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4136 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4137 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4138 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4139 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4140 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4141 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4142 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4143
4144PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4145 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4146
4147PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4148 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4149 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4150 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4151 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4152 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4153
4154PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4155 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4156 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4157 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4158
4159PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4160 Finch).
4161
4162PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4163 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4164
49c2d5ea
PH
4165PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4166 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4167 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4168 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4169 message.
49c2d5ea 4170
bf759a8b
PH
4171PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4172
83364d30
PH
4173PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4174 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4175
7999bbd7
PH
4176PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4177 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4178 to what was transported.)
4179
7dbf77c9
PH
4180TF/01 Added $received_time.
4181
74e0617f
PH
4182PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4183 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4184 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4185 spamd_address settings.
4186
2f079f46
PH
4187PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4188 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4189 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4190 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4191 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4192
8c841523
PH
4193PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4194
7766a4f0
PH
4195PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4196 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4197 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4198 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4199 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4200
8b417f2c
PH
4201PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4202 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4203
901f42cb
PH
4204PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4205 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4206 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4207 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4208 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4209 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4210 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4211 for failure.
4212
f9b9210e
PH
4213PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4214 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4215 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4216 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4217 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4218 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4219 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4220 "input=".
4221
54cdb463
PH
4222PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4223
cf00dad6
PH
4224PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4225 driver and ACL definitions.
4226
acb1b346
PH
4227PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4228 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4229
c5ddb310
PH
4230PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4231 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4232 understands it better than I do:
4233
4234 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4235 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4236
4237 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4238 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4239 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4240 => three warnings about OTP not working
4241 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4242
4243 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4244 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4245 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4246 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4247 for each call.)
4248 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4249 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4250
4251 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4252 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4253 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4254
31619da6
PH
4255PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4256 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4257 specified.
4258
bebaf0fc
PH
4259PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4260 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4261 "Linux".
4262
475fe28a
PH
4263PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4264 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4265 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4266
4267 warn !verify = sender
4268 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4269
4270 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4271 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4272
7e8bec7a
PH
4273PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4274
4275 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4276 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4277
4278 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4279 nomenclature these days.)
4280
e4a89c47
PH
4281PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4282 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4283
5ca2a9a1
PH
4284PH/30 In these circumstances:
4285 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4286 . First host does not offer TLS;
4287 . First host accepts first address;
4288 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4289 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4290 . Second host accepts second address.
4291 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4292 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4293 address.
7e8bec7a 4294
c688b954
PH
4295PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4296 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4297 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4298 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4299 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4300
fed77020
PH
4301PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4302 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4303
7fe1560f
PH
4304PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4305 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4306
ebb6e6d5
PH
4307PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4308 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4309 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4310
9c4e8f60
PH
4311PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4312 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4313 overlooked.
4314
4315PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4316
d7174846
PH
4317PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4318 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4319 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4320 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4321 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4322 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4323 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4324
4325 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4326 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4327 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4328 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4329 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4330
4331 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4332 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4333 routed further.
4334
cfe75fc3
PH
4335PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4336 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4337 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4338 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4339 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4340 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4341
be22d70e
PH
4342PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4343
0612b098
PH
4344PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4345 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4346 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4347 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4348 printable escape sequences.
4349
2e0c1448
PH
4350PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4351 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4352 body only.
4353
447d236c
PH
4354PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4355 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4356 are as follows:
4357
4358 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4359 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4360 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4361 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4362 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4363
4364 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4365 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4366 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4367
d20976dc
PH
4368PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4369
f656d135
PH
4370PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4371 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4372 play with."
4373
2e2a30b4
PH
4374PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4375 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4376 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4377 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4378 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4379 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4380 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4381 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4382 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4383 the log output.
4384
9176e9f0
PH
4385PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4386 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4387 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4388 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4389 "make".
4390
7982096b 4391
bbe902f0
PH
4392A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4393----------------------------------------
4394
4395Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4396changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4397needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4398in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4399that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4400release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4401from 4.43.
4402
4403I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44044.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4405those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4406historical information.
4407
4408
f7b63901 4409Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4410-----------------
4411
5fe762f6
PH
4412 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4413
139059f6 4414 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4415 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4416
7086e875
PH
4417 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4418 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4419 place.
4420
35af9f61
PH
4421 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4422 filter fails to execute.
4423
b668c215
PH
4424 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4425 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4426 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4427 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4428 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4429
a494b1e1
PH
4430 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4431
4432 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4433 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4434 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4435 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4436
c5fcb476
PH
4437 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4438 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4439 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4440 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4441 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4442
69358f02
PH
4443 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4444
5be20824
PH
444510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4446
eb2c0248
PH
444711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4448 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4449 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4450 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4451
2a3eea10
PH
445212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4453 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4454 sender verification.
4455
445613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4457 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4458
23c7ff99
PH
445914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4460
4deaf07d
PH
446115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4462 connection timeout.
4463
926e1192
PH
446416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4465 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4466
650edc6f
PH
446717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4468 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4469
2c7db3f5
PH
447018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4471 information about exactly what failed.
4472
3d235903
PH
447319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4474
7c7ad977
PH
447520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4476 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4477 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4478
981756db
PH
447921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4480 It is now set to "smtps".
4481
d4eb88df
PH
448222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4483 ignore_target_hosts.
4484
448523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4486 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4487 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4488 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4489 "[x.x.x.x]".
4490
7d468ab8
PH
449124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4492 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4493 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4494
449525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4496 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4497 wake it up if nothing else does.
4498
62c0818f
PH
449926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4500 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4501 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4502 end up negative.
4503
26034054
PH
450427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4505 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4506
af66f652
PH
450728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4508
90af77f4
PH
450929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4510 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4511 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4512 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4513 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4514 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4515 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4516 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4517
d8ef3577
PH
451830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4519 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4520 than one IP address.
4521
5cb8cbc6
PH
452231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4523 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4524 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4525 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4526
14702f5b
PH
452732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4528 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4529 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4530 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4531 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4532 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4533
063b1e99
PH
453433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4535 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4536 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4537 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4538
652e1b65
PH
453934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4540 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4541 respected.
4542
6f0c9a4f
PH
454335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4544 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4545 $sender_host_address.
4546
33397d19
PH
454736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4548 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4549 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4550 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4551 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4552 very small.
4553
7bb56e1f
PH
455437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4555
4556 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4557 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4558
ea3bc19b
PH
4559 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4560 just the host names, not the priorities.
4561
4562 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4563 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4564 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4565
ea3bc19b 4566 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4567 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4568
0bcb2a0e
PH
456938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4570 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4571 domain.
4572
2ac0e484
PH
457339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4574
4e1fde53
PH
457540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4576 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4577
de365ded
PH
457841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4579 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4580 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4581
f05da2e8
PH
458242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4583
d6453af2
PH
458443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4585
f7b63901
PH
458644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4587
458845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4589 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4590 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4591 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4592 because the tests only now provoked it.
4593
a444213a
PH
459446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4595 (this can affect the format of dates).
4596
0ec020ea
PH
459747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4598 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4599 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4600 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4601
b1206957
PH
460248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4603
460449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4605 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4606 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4607 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4608
26dd5a95
PH
460950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4610 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4611 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4612
343b2385
PH
461351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4614 autoreply.
4615
1c5466b9
PH
461652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4617 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4618 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4619 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4620 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4621 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4622 is going on).
4623
55ee9ee3
PH
462453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4625 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4626 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4627 the line.
4628
d38f8232
PH
462954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4630 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4631 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4632
4633 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4634 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4635 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4636 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4637 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4638 so I produce this patch..."
4639
3295e65b
PH
4640 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4641 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4642 is not defined.
4643
7102e136
PH
464455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4645 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4646 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4647 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4648 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4649
3ca0ba97
PH
465056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4651
c2bcbe20
PH
465257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4653 long debug lines gets shown.
4654
18ce445d
PH
465558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4656 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4657
1f5b4c3d
PH
465859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4659
4660 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4661 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4662 of $primary_hostname.
4663
b975ba52
PH
466460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4665 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4666 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4667 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4668 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4669 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4670 by change 4.50/55 above.
4671
4672 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4673 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4674 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4675 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4676 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4677 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4678 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4679
468061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4681 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4682 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4683 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4684
17ffcae7
PH
468562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4686 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4687
d95f9fdb
PH
468863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4689 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4690 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4691 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4692 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4693
86b8287f
PH
469464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4695 This has been fixed.
4696
60dc5e56
PH
469765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4698 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4699 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4700 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4701 the caching.)
4702
533244af
PH
470366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4704
a5a28604
PH
470567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4706 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4707 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4708 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4709
7e634d24
PH
471068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4711 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4712
3e11c26b
PH
471369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4714 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4715 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4716
6729cf78
PH
471770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4718 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4719 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4720 message there.
4721
00f00ca5
PH
472271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4723 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4724 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4725
c9bdd01c
PH
472672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4727 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4728 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4729 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4730
d43194df
PH
473173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4732 during host lookups.
4733
fe5b5d0b
PH
473474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4735 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4736
4737 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4738
76a2d7ba
PH
473975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4740 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4741 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4742 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4743 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4744 background.
4745
474676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4747 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4748
04f7d5b9
PH
474977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4750 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4751 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4752
bc60667e
PH
475378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4754
bb6e88ff
PH
475579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4756 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4757 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4758 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4759 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4760 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4761 process earlier.
4762
1e70f85b
PH
476380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4764 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4765 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4766 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4767 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4768
476981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4770 tables).
4771
4e01f9d6
PH
477282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4773
1ee1cef2
PH
477483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4775 "vacation" handling.
4776
6e2b4ccc
PH
477784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4778 OS variants using glibc.
4779
8e669ac1
PH
478085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4781
495ae4b0 4782
bbe902f0
PH
4783----------------------------------------------------
4784See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4785----------------------------------------------------
4786
4787
4788Exim version 4.44
4789-----------------
4790
4791 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4792 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4793 transport
4794
4795 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4796 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4797 place.
4798
4799 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4800 filter fails to execute.
4801
4802 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4803 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4804 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4805 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4806 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4807
4808 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4809 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4810 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4811 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4812
4813 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4814 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4815 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4816 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4817 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4818
4819 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4820
4821 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4822 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4823 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4824 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4825
4826 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4827 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4828 sender verification.
4829
483010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4831 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4832
483311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4834 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4835
483612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4837 ignore_target_hosts.
4838
483913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4840 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4841 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4842 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4843 "[x.x.x.x]".
4844
484514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4846 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4847 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4848
484915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4850 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4851 wake it up if nothing else does.
4852
485316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4854 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4855 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4856 end up negative.
4857
485817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4859 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4860
ea3a6f44 486118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4862
486319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4864 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4865 empty pattern.
4866
486720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4868 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4869 one IP address.
4870
ea3a6f44
NM
487121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4872 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4873 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4874 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4875 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4876 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4877
ea3a6f44
NM
487822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4879 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4880 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4881
488223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4883 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4884 $sender_host_address.
4885
488624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4887
ea3a6f44
NM
488825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4889 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4890 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4891
489226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4893 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4894
ea3a6f44
NM
489527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4896 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4897
ea3a6f44
NM
489828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4899 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4900 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4901 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4902
490329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4904 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4905 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4906
ea3a6f44
NM
490730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4908 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4909 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4910 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4911
ea3a6f44
NM
491231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4913 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4914 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4915
ea3a6f44
NM
491631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4917 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4918
ea3a6f44
NM
491932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4920 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4921 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4922 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4923 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4924 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4925 is going on).
bbe902f0 4926
ea3a6f44
NM
492733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4928 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4929 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4930 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4931 CAN-2005-0021
4932
ea3a6f44
NM
493334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4934 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4935 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4936 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4937 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4938 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4939 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4940
4941 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4942 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4943 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4944 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4945 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4946 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4947 CAN-2005-0021
4948
ea3a6f44
NM
494935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4950 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4951 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4952 CAN-2005-0022
4953
ea3a6f44
NM
495436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4955 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4956 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4957 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4958 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4959
ea3a6f44
NM
496037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4961 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4962 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4963 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4964 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4965
ea3a6f44
NM
496638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4967 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4968 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4969 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4970 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4971
4972
495ae4b0
PH
4973Exim version 4.43
4974-----------------
4975
4976 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4977 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4978 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4979 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4980 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4981 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4982 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4983
4984 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4985 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4986 the delivery.
4987
4988 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4989
4990 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4991
4992 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4993 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4994 to local_scan().
4995
4996 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4997 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4998 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4999 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5000 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5001
5002 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5003 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5004
5005 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5006
5007 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5008
500910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5010 header_sender only.
5011
501211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5013 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5014
501512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5016 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5017 affecting debugging statements).
5018
501913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5020
502114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5022 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5023 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5024 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5025 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5026 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5027 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5028 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5029 after the received time, and all would be well.
5030
503115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5032 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5033 condition in an expansion string.
5034
503516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5036
503717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5038 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5039 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5040 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5041 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5042 job under whatever limits there are.
5043
504418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5045
504619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5047 space).
5048
504920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5050 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5051 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5052 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5053 return path is set.
5054
505521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5056 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5057 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5058 binary data in such strings.
5059
506022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5061
506223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5063 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5064 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5065 failure, which is pointless.
5066
506724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5068
506925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5070
507126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5072 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5073 Sender: header lines.
5074
507527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5076 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5077 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5078
507928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5080 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5081 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5082 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5083 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5084 happens.
5085
508629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5087 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5088 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5089 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5090 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5091
509230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5093 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5094 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5095 1024.
5096
509731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5098 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5099
510032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5101 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5102
510333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5104
510532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5106
510733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5108
510934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5110 syntax error.
5111
511235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5113
511436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5115
511637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5117 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5118 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5119 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5120
512138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5122 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5123
5124
5125Exim version 4.42
5126-----------------
5127
5128 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5129 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5130 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5131 it was not quoted.
5132 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5133 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5134 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5135 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5136 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5137 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5138
5139 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5140 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5141 verification failure".
5142
5143 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5144 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5145 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5146 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5147
5148 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5149 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5150 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5151 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5152 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5153 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5154 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5155 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5156 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5157 treated as a timeout.
5158
5159 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5160 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5161 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5162 not set for Exim filters).
5163
5164 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5165 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5166 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5167
5168 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5169
5170 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5171 try to make them clearer.
5172
5173 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5174 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5175
5176 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5177
5178 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5179
518010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5181 only the Cygwin environment.
5182
518311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5184 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5185 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5186 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5187 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5188
518912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5190 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5191 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5192 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5193 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5194 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5195 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5196
519713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5198 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5199
520014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5201
5202 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5203 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5204 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5205
5206 To: susanne@some.where
5207
5208 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5209 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5210 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5211 of addresses in From: header lines).
5212
5213 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5214 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5215 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5216
5217 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5218 treated as non-personal.
5219
5220 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5221 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5222
522315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5224
522516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5226
522717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5228 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5229 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5230
523118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5232 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5233
523419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5235 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5236 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5237 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5238 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5239 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5240
524120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5242 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5243 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5244 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5245 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5246 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5247 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5248 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5249
5250 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5251
525221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5253 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5254
525522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5256 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5257 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5258
525923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5260 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5261
526224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5263 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5264 rather than long int.
5265
526625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5267
526826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5269
5270
5271Exim version 4.41
5272-----------------
5273
5274 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5275 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5276 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5277 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5278 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5279 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5280
5281
5282Exim version 4.40
5283-----------------
5284
5285 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5286 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5287
5288 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5289 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5290 socklen_t is defined.
5291
5292 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5293 always exist.
5294
5295 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5296 configured.
5297
5298 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5299 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5300 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5301 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5302 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5303
5304 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5305 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5306 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5307 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5308
5309 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5310 of flapping under certain conditions.
5311
5312 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5313 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5314 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5315
5316 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5317
531810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5319
532011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5321 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5322 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5323 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5324
532512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5326 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5327 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5328 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5329 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5330 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5331 preserved with the message after it was received.
5332
533313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5334 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5335 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5336 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5337 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5338 test suite worked just fine.
5339
534014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5341 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5342 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5343
534415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5345 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5346 string.
5347
534816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5349 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5350 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5351 does not fully solve it.
5352
535317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5354 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5355 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5356 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5357 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5358
535918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5360 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5361 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5362
536319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5364 string, for example:
5365
5366 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5367
5368 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5369 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5370 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5371 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5372 the routers could not see them.
5373
537420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5375 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5376
537721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5378 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5379 output).
5380
538122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5382 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5383 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5384 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5385 that needed quoting.
5386
538723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5388 was not being matched caselessly.
5389
539024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5391 backslashes.
5392
539325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5394 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5395 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5396 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5397 when use_sender is false.
5398
539926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5400
540127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5402
540328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5404
540529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5406 the configuration file.
5407
540830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5409 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5410
541131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5412
541332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5414 bytes in the message body.
5415
541633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5417 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5418 delivery.
5419
542034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5421
542235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5423
542436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5425 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5426 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5427 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5428 another IP address.
5429
5430
5431Exim version 4.34
5432-----------------
5433
5434 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5435 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5436
5437 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5438 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5439 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5440 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5441 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5442
5443 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5444 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5445
5446 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5447 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5448 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5449
5450 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5451 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5452 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5453
5454 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5455 for routers.
5456
5457 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5458 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5459 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5460 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5461 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5462 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5463 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5464
5465
5466Exim version 4.33
5467-----------------
5468
5469 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5470 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5471 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5472 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5473 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5474 default (and expected) setting.
5475
5476 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5477 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5478 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5479 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5480
5481 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5482 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5483
5484 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5485 in domain lists.
5486
5487 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5488 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5489 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5490 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5491 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5492 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5493
5494 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5495 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5496 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5497
5498 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5499 part (NOT match_host).
5500
5501 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5502
5503 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5504 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5505 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5506 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5507 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5508 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5509 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5510 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5511 the same named file.
5512
551310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5514 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5515 when Exim is built.
5516
551711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5518 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5519 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5520 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5521 a host name.
5522
552312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5524 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5525 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5526
552713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5528
552914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5530
553115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5532
553316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5534 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5535
553617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5537 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5538 before starting the TLS session.
5539
554018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5541
554219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5543 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5544
554520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5546 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5547 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5548 colon in the middle).
5549
5550
5551Exim version 4.32
5552-----------------
5553
5554 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5555 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5556 multiple configurations are in use.
5557
5558 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5559 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5560 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5561 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5562 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5563 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5564
5565 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5566 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5567
5568 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5569 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5570 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5571
5572 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5573 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5574 occurs.
5575
5576 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5577 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5578
5579 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5580
5581 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5582 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5583
5584 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5585
5586 -prval:sval
5587
5588 is equivalent to
5589
5590 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5591
5592 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5593 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5594 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5595 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5596 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5597
559810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5599 Exim's behaviour:
5600
5601 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5602 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5603 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5604 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5605 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5606 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5607
5608 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5609 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5610 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5611 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5612 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5613 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5614 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5615 string.
5616
5617 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5618 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5619 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5620 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5621 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5622
562311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5624
562512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5626 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5627 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5628
562913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5630
563114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5632 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5633 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5634 information.
5635
563615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5637 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5638
563916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5640 Three changes have been made:
5641
5642 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5643 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5644 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5645 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5646 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5647
5648 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5649 been restored.
5650
5651 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5652 the modified behaviour.
5653
5654
5655Exim version 4.31
5656-----------------
5657
5658 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5659 Larry Rosenman.
5660
5661 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5662 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5663
5664 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5665 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5666 try to track down a specific problem.
5667
5668 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5669 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5670 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5671
5672 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5673 warning.
5674
5675 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5676 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5677 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5678 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5679 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5680 some earlier ones do not.
5681
5682 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5683
5684 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5685 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5686 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5687 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5688 address literals are enabled, of course).
5689
5690 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5691
569210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5693 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5694 by a command such as
5695
5696 exim -f "" ...
5697
5698 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5699
570011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5701
570212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5703 remained set. It is now erased.
5704
570513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5706 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5707
570814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5709 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5710 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5711 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5712 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5713 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5714 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5715 appropriate error code.
5716
571715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5718 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5719 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5720 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5721 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5722 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5723
572416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5725 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5726 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5727
572817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5729 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5730 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5731 terminate the header.
5732
573318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5734 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5735 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5736
573719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5738 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5739 (4.30/29). In particular:
5740
5741 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5742 imposed.
5743
5744 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5745 to write a maildirsize file.
5746
5747 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5748 the transport, the new value overrides.
5749
5750 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5751 count.
5752
575320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5754 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5755 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5756 space or a tab.
5757
575821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5759 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5760 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5761 the fallback hosts.
5762
576322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5764 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5765 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5766
576723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5768 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5769 using a union.
5770
577124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5772 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5773 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5774
577525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5776
577726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5778
577927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5780
578128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5782 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5783 become corrupted.
5784
578529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5786 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5787 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5788 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5789 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5790 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5791 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5792 too great.
5793
579430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5795 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5796 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5797 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5798 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5799 incorrectly.
5800
580131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5802 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5803 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5804 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5805 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5806 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5807 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5808 cached value only when the same options are set.
5809
581032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5811
581233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5813 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5814 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5815 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5816 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5817
581834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5819 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5820 it is clearly obsolete.
5821
582235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5823 transport.
5824
582536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5826 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5827 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5828 times.
5829
583037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5831 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5832 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5833 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5834 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5835
583638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5837 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5838 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5839 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5840
584139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5842
5843 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5844
5845 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5846 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5847 2^31.
5848
584940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5850 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5851 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5852 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5853 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5854 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5855 $localpart_data.
5856
585741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5858 with the -f command-line option.
5859
586042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5861 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5862 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5863 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5864 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5865 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5866
586743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5868 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5869 line.
5870
587144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5872 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5873 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5874 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5875 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5876 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5877 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5878 buffer is too small.
5879
588045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5881 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5882
588346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5884 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5885 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5886 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5887 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5888 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5889 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5890 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5891 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5892
589347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5894 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5895 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5896
589748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5898 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5899 ACL").
5900
590149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5902 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5903 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5904 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5905 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5906
590750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5908 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5909 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5910 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5911 is set.
5912
591351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5914
591552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5916
591753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5918 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5919
592054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5921 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5922 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5923
592455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5925 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5926 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5927 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5928 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5929
593056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5931 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5932 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5933 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5934 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5935 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5936 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5937
593857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5939 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5940 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5941 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5942 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5943 the test of how many are available.
5944
594558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5946 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5947 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5948 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5949 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5950 new message is started.
5951
595259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5953 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5954
595560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5956 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5957
595861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5959 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5960 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5961 is no long logged.
5962
596362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5964 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5965 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5966 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5967 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5968 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5969 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5970
597163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5972 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5973 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5974 interpreted as octal.
5975
597664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5977 setting.
5978
597965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5980 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5981 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5982 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5983 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5984 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5985
598666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5987 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5988 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5989 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5990
5991 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5992 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5993 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5994 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5995
5996 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5997 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5998 is a bug fix.
5999
6000 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6001 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6002
600367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6004
600568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6006 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6007 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6008 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6009
601069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6011 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6012 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6013 supplied", which is not helpful.
6014
601570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6016 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6017 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6018
601971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6020 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6021 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6022 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6023 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6024 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6025 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6026 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6027
602872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6029 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6030 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6031 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6032 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6033
603473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6035 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6036 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6037 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6038 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6039 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6040
604174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6042 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6043 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6044
604575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6046
604776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6048 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6049 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6050 variables.
6051
605277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6053
605478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6055 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6056 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6057 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6058 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6059 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6060 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6061 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6062
606379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6064 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6065 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6066 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6067 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6068
606980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6070 Haardt.
6071
607281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6073 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6074 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6075 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6076 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6077 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6078 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6079 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6080 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6081
6082
6083Exim version 4.30
6084-----------------
6085
6086 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6087 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6088 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6089
6090 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6091 fixed.
6092
6093 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6094 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6095 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6096
6097 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6098 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6099 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6100 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6101 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6102 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6103
6104 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6105 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6106 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6107 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6108 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6109 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6110 the Exim test suite.
6111
6112 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6113 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6114 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6115 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6116
6117 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6118 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6119 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6120 specify it in this variable.
6121
6122 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6123 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6124 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6125 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6126
6127 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6128 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6129 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6130 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6131
6132 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6133 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6134 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6135 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6136 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6137
6138 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6139
614010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6141 they are logged.
6142
614311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6144 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6145 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6146 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6147 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6148
614912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6150 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6151
615213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6153 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6154 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6155 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6156 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6157
615814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6159 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6160
616115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6162 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6163 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6164
616516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6166 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6167
616817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6169 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6170
617118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6172 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6173 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6174
617519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6176 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6177
617820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6179 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6180 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6181 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6182
618321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6184
618522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6186 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6187 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6188 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6189
619023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6191
619224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6193 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6194
619525. Added .include_if_exists.
6196
619726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6198 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6199 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6200 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6201 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6202 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6203
620427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6205
620628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6207 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6208 this.
6209
621029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6211
621230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6213 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6214
6215 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6216 550 Sender verify failed
6217
6218 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6219 the final line of the response.
6220
622131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6222 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6223 all other user lookups.
6224
622532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6226 delivery time.
6227
622833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6229 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6230 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6231 result into an int without checking.
6232
623334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6234 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6235 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6236
623735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6238 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6239 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6240 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6241
624236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6243 correctly.
6244
624537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6246 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6247
624838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6249 to the empty sender.
6250
625139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6252 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6253 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6254 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6255 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6256 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6257 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6258 panic log.
6259
626040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6261 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6262 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6263 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6264 used.
6265
626641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6267 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6268
626942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6270 timestamps.
6271
627243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6273 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6274
627544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6276
627745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6278 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6279 logs.
6280
628146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6282 as soon as it is encountered.
6283
628447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6285
628648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6287 rewritten to "<>".
6288
628949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6290 recognizes a tab character.
6291
629250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6293 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6294 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6295 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6296
629751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6298
629952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6300 crash.
6301
630253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6303
630454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6305
630655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6307 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6308 2822.
6309
631056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6311 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6312 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6313 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6314 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6315
631657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6317 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6318
631958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6320 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6321 list (.included file names were always shown).
6322
632359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6324 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6325 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6326 root at that time.
6327
632860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6329 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6330
633161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6332
633362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6334
633563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6336
633764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6338 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6339 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6340 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6341 failures to open the logs.
6342
634365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6344 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6345 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6346 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6347 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6348 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6349 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6350
6351
6352Exim version 4.24
6353-----------------
6354
6355 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6356 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6357 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6358 change 4.23/1.
6359
6360 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6361 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6362 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6363
6364 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6365 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6366 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6367
6368 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6369 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6370 causing some misleading effects.
6371
6372 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6373 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6374 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6375
6376 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6377 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6378 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6379 queue-runner function directly.
6380
6381
6382Exim version 4.23
6383-----------------
6384
6385 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6386 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6387
6388 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6389 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6390 was always written to the default place.
6391
6392 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6393 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6394 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6395
6396 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6397
6398 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6399
6400 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6401 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6402 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6403
6404 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6405 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6406 must start.
6407
6408 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6409 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6410 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6411
6412 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6413 command line option is disabled.
6414
6415 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6416 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6417
6418 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6419
6420 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6421
6422 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6423 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6424
642510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6426
642711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6428 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6429 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6430 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6431 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6432 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6433
643412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6435 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6436 timeout.
6437
643813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6439 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6440
644114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6442 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6443
644415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6445 received was valid base64.
6446
644716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6448 name of the variable that was being set.
6449
645017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6451
645218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6453 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6454 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6455 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6456 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6457 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6458
645919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6460
646120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6462 nor realm was specified.
6463
646421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6465 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6466 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6467 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6468
646922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6470 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6471 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6472
647323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6474 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6475 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6476
647724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6478 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6479 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6480 some systems use these upper case variants.
6481
648225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6483 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6484 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6485 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6486
648726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6488
648927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6490 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6491
649228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6493 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6494 expansion variable.
6495
649629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6497
649830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6499 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6500 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6501 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6502
650331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6504 using it.
6505
650632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6507 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6508 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6509
651033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6511 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6512
651334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6514 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6515 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6516 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6517
651835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6519 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6520 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6521
652236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6523
652437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6525 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6526 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6527 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6528 aborted.
6529
653038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6531 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6532 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6533
653439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6535
653640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6537 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6538
653941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6540 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6541
654242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6543 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6544 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6545 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6546 when emails are that large.
6547
6548
6549
6550Exim version 4.22
6551-----------------
6552
6553 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6554 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6555
6556 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6557 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6558 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6559
6560 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6561 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6562 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6563
6564 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6565 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6566 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6567 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6568 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6569
6570 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6571 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6572 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6573 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6574 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6575 ever.
6576
6577 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6578 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6579 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6580 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6581 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6582 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6583 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6584 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6585 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6586 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6587 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6588 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6589 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6590 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6591
6592 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6593 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6594 parameterised it.
6595
6596 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6597 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6598 error should be diagnosed.
6599
6600 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6601 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6602 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6603 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6604 appeared instead of "NULL".
6605
660610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6607 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6608 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6609 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6610 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6611 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6612 proceeds).
6613
6614 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6615 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6616 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6617
6618
6619Exim version 4.21
6620-----------------
6621
6622 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6623 or receiver verification errors.
6624
6625 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6626 name.
6627
6628 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6629 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6630 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6631 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6632
6633 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6634 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6635 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6636 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6637 shouldn't happen again.
6638
6639 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6640 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6641 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6642
6643 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6644 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6645
6646 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6647
6648 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6649 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6650
6651 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6652 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6653 RFC.
6654
665510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6656 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6657 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6658
665911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6660 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6661 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6662 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6663
666412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6665 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6666 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6667 to define what should happen).
6668
666913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6670 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6671 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6672
667314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6674
667515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6676
667716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6678 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6679
4c04137d 668017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6681 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6682 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6683 structure in all cases.
6684
6685 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6686 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6687 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6688 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6689
669018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6691 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6692 domain name.
6693
669419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6695 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6696
669720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6698 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6699
670021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6701 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6702 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6703
670422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6705 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6706 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6707
670823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6709 the book and for uniformity.
6710
671124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6712
671325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6714 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6715 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6716 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6717 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6718 non-existent command as the problem.
6719
672026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6721 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6722 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6723
672427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6725
672628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6727 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6728 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6729
673029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6731 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6732 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6733 timestamps using strftime().
6734
673530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6736 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6737
673832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6739 transport-time rewrites.
6740
674133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6742 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6743 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6744 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6745
674634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6747 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6748
674935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6750 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6751 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6752 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6753 comma and a space.
6754
675536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6756 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6757 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6758 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6759 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6760 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6761 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6762
676337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6764 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6765 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6766 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6767 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6768
676938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6770 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6771 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6772 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6773 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6774 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6775 remaining text gets split now.
6776
677739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6778 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6779 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6780 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6781
678240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6783 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6784 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6785 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6786 $return_path.
6787
678841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6789 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6790 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6791 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6792 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6793 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6794 passed through if needed.
6795
679642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6797 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6798 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6799 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6800 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6801 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6802
680343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6804 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6805 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6806 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6807 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6808
680944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6810 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6811 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6812 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6813 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6814
681545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6816 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6817 noticed.
6818
681946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6820 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6821 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6822 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6823 mayhem of various kinds.
6824
682547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6826 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6827 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6828 the right test for positive values.
6829
683048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6831 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6832 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6833 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6834 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6835 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6836 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6837 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6838 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6839 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6840 envelope.
6841
684249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6843 module.
6844
684550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6846 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6847 forbidding it.
6848
684951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6850 the existing equality matching.
6851
685252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6853 dealing with inode numbers.
6854
685553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6856 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6857 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6858
685954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6860 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6861 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6862 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6863 local_scan().
6864
686555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6866 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6867 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6868 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6869 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6870 relay addresses has also been removed.
6871
687256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6873
687457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6875 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6876 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6877
687858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6879 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6880 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6881 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6882 processing applies to CR:
6883
6884 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6885 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6886
6887 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6888 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6889 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6890 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6891
689259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6893 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6894 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6895
689660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6897 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6898 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6899 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6900 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6901 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6902 arisen.
6903
690461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6905 program routers.
6906
690762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6908 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6909 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6910 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6911 adds:
6912
6913 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6914
6915 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6916
6917 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6918
691963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6920 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6921 not considered personal.
6922
692364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6924
692565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6926
692766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6928
692967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6930 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6931 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6932 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6933 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6934 header lines, and spool format errors.
6935
693668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6937 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6938 for more flexibility.
6939
694069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6941 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6942 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6943
694470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6945 Sabourenkov.
6946
694771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6948 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6949 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6950 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6951 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6952 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6953 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6954 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6955 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6956
695772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6958 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6959 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6960 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6961 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6962 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6963 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6964
696573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6966 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6967 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6968
696974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6970 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6971 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6972 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6973 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6974 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6975 instead of killing the process with assert().
6976
697775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6978 than Unicode encoding.
6979
698076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6981 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6982 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6983 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6984
698577. Added process_log_path.
6986
698778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6988 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6989
699079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6991 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6992
699380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6994 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6995 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6996
699781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6998 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6999 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7000 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7001 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7002 were applied:
7003
7004 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7005 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7006 as invalid.
7007
700882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7009 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7010 they will be used during message reception.
7011
7012
7013Exim version 4.20
7014-----------------
7015
7016The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7017
7018****