DANE: Remove fallback from hosts_try_dane. If TLSA record not retrieved,
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
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24Exim version 4.87
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26JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
27 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
28 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
29 client dropping the TLS connection.
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31TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
32 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
33
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34TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
35 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
36 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
37 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
38 outgoing I= field.
39
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40JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
41 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
42 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
43 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
44 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
45 check on the next write.
46
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47HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
48 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
49 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
50 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
51 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
52
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53JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
54 mime_regex ACL conditions.
55
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56JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
57 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
58 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
59
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60JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
61 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
62 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
63 an authenticate fail is not an error.
64
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65HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
66 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
67
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68JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
69 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
70
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71JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
72 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
73 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
74 distinct.
75
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76JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
77
78JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
79
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80JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
81
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82JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
83 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
84
98b98887 85JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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86 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
87
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88JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
89
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90JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
91 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
92
93JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
94
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95JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
96 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
97
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98JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
99
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100JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
101 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
102 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
103 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
104 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
105 they will retry in-clear.
106 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
107 at installation time.
108
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109HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
110 with the $config_file variable.
111
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112JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
113 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
114 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
115 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
116 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
117
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118GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
119 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
120 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
121 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
122 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
123
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124JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
125
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126JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
127 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
128 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
129 list order is no longer honoured.
130
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131JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
132 for DKIM processing.
133
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134JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
135 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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137JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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139 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
140 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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142JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
143 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
144
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145JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
146 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
147
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148JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
149 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
150
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151JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
152
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153JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
154 cached by the daemon.
155
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156JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
157 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
158
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159JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
160 keys are given for lookup.
161
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162JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
163 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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164 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
165 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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167JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
168 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
169 server-side so match that on older versions.
170
07c73177 171JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 172 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 173 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 174
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175JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
176 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
177
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178JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
179 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
180 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 181 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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182 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
183 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
184 initial truncated version.
185
ab9152ff 186JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 187
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188JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
189
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190JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
191 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
192
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193JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
194
bc3c7bb7 195HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 196
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197JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
198 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
199 induced overflows.
200
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201JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
202 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
203 stage.
204
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205JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
206 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
207
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208JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
209 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
210 former class.
211
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212JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
213 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
214 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
215
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216JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
217 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
218 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
219 extraction. Accept either.
220
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225JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
226 expanded.
227
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228JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
229
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230JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
231 it.
232
01a4a5c5 233JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 234 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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235 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
236 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
237
cb1d7830 238JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 239 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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240 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 242JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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243 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
244 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
245 TLS connections
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247JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
248 sites use this now.
249
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250JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
251 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
252 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
253 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
254 have a dsn_lasthop option.
255
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256JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
257 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 258 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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260JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
261
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262JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
263 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
264
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265JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
266 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
267
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268JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
269 /defer_ok option.
270
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271JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
272 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
273
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dc7b3d36 275 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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276 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
277
278JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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279 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
280 specify a port-range.
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282JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
283 timeout value per server.
284
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285JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
286 now have the list separator specified.
287
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288JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
289 option values.
290
82c0c8ea 291JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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292 under OpenSSL.
293
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294JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
295
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296JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
297 rather than the verbs used.
298
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299JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
300 from 255 to 1024 chars.
301
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302JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
303
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304HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
305 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 306
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307JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
308 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
309
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310HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
311 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
312
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313JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
314
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315JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
316
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317JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
318 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
319 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
320 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
321
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322JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
323
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324JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
325 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
326
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327JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
328 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
329
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330JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
331
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332JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
333
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334JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
335
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336JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
337 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
338
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339JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
340 added for tls authenticator.
341
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342HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
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347TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
348 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
349 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
350 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
351 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
352 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
353 the script parsing/test process like normal.
354
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355TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
356 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
357 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
358 function when detected.
359
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360JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
361 cause callback expansion.
362
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363TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
364 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
365 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
366 instead of bool when processing it.
367
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370
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371JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
372
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373JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
374
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375TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
376
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377TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
378 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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380JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
381 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
382 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
383 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
384 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
385 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
386
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387JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
388 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
389 exceeded it.
390
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391JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
392 version 3.3.6 or later.
393
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394JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
395 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
396 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 397 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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398 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
399 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
400 option is defined.
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402TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
403 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
404
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405JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
406 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
407 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
408 matches.
409
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410JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
411 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
412 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
413
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414JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
415 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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416
417JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
418 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
419 syntax errors.
420
3394b36a 421JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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423JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
424 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
425
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426TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
427 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
428 tarball.
429
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430JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
431
432JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
433 Bug 1561.
434
435JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
436 output list separator was used.
437
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441TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
442 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
443 return.
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445JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
446 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
447
448JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
449
450TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 451 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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457TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
458
459 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
460 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
461 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
462 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
463 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
464 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
465
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466TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
467 utilities have not been installed.
468
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469JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
470 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
471
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472TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
473 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
474
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475TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
476 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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477 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
478 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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480JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
481
5a1b8443
WB
482TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
483 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
484
72c9e342
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485PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
486 not dns_use_dnssec.
487
76f44207
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488JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
489
770747fd
MFM
490TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
491 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
492 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
493
8ddef691 494TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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495 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
496 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
497 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
498 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 499 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 500
b9c2e32f
AR
501JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
502
e45a1c37
JH
503JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
504 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
505
67d81c10
JH
506JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
507 failed delivery.
508
b1f8e4f8
JH
509JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
510
511a6c14 511JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
512
513JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
514 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 515
51c7471d
JH
516JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
517 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
518
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519TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
520
1e06383a
TL
521JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
522
76146973
JH
523JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
524 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
525
526 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
527 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
528 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
529
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530TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
531 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
532 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
533 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 534
35aba663
JH
535JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
536
8c51eead 537JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
538 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
539 lookup).
8c51eead 540
deae092e
HS
541TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
542 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
543 Schlichting.
35aba663 544
fd3b6a4a 545JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 546 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 547
8d91c6dc
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548TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
549 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
550
2b4a568d
JH
551JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
552
d2af03f4
HS
553TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
554 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
555 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
556
9d1c15ef
JH
557JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
558 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
559
44662487
JH
560JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
561 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
562 hosts_request_ocsp.
563
ed3bba5f 564JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 565 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 566 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 567
8ccd00b1
JH
568JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
569
8ded8589
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570TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
571 Christian Aistleitner.
572
f2de3a33
JH
573JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
574
6eb02f88
TL
575TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
576 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
577
00bff6f6
JH
578JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
579 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
580
071c51f7
JH
581JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
582 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
583
a6d4c44e
TF
584TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
585 support and error reporting did not work properly.
586
3ae173e7
ACK
587TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
588 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
589
c13d09b8
TL
590TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
591 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
592 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
593
0df4ab80
JH
594JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
595
66be95e0
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596PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
597 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
598 Jasper Wallace.
599
1bd0d12b
JH
600JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
601
0de7239e
TL
602TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
603 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
604 CVE-2014-2972
605
fd3b6a4a 606
2c422e6f 607Exim version 4.82
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608-----------------
609
610PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
611
12f69989
PP
612PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
613 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
614
54c90be1
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615PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
616 by GnuTLS.
617
1f4a55da
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618PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
619 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
620 routines.
621
13363eba 622PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 623
66645890 624PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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625 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
626 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
627 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
628 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 629
a3fb9793 630PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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631 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
632 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
633 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 634 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 635 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 636
d27f98fe 637TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 638
6822b909
TL
639TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
640
e7568d51
TL
641TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
642 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
643
ae0e32ee 644TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 645 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 646 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
647
648TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 649
e2658fff
TL
650TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
651
83712b39
TL
652TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
653 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
654
976b7e9f
JH
655JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
656
be4a1376
JH
657JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
658
ec4b68e5
PP
659PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
660
d7148a07
NM
661NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
662 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 663
585121e2 664JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 665
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666PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
667 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
668 function.
a5f239e4 669
13d08c90
PP
670PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
671 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
672
bef3ea7f
JH
673JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
674 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
675 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 676
846726c5
JH
677JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
678
3a796370
JH
679JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
680
ea722490 681JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
682 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
683
b1b05573
JH
684JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
685 Bugzilla 884.
686
362145b5
JH
687JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
688 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
689
3c0a92dc
JH
690JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
691 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
692
6d7c6175
PP
693PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
694 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 695 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 696
6f123593
JH
697JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
698 authenticators.
699
c8e2fc1e
JH
700JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
701 for control.
702
005ac57f
PP
703PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
704
3f1df0e3
PP
705PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
706 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
707 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
708 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
709
67bd1ab3
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710TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
711
712 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
713 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
714 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
715 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
716 the retry rules.
717
718 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
719 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
720 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
721
722 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
723 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
724 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
725 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
726
1ddeb334
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727 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
728 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
729 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
730 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
731 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
732 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
733 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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734
735 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
736 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
737
326cdc37
TF
738TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
739
740 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
741
742 Resent-From: f
743
744 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
745 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
746 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
747 username as equal to the username.
748
749 This change corrects that bug.
750
f62514b3
GF
751GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
752 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
753 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
754
eb505532
TF
755TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
756
14c7b357
PP
757PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
758 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
759 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
760 NULL dereference and crash.
761
94eaf700
PP
762JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
763
6f5a440a
PP
764PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
765 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
766 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
767
514ee161
SC
768SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
769
fd98a5c6
JH
770JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
771 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
772 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
773 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
774 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
775 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
776 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
777 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
778 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
779 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
780 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
781
035c7f1e
PP
782PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
783 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
784
ff284120
PP
785PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
786 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
787 Bugzilla 880.
788
26e72755
PP
789PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
790 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
791 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
792 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
793 an empty string is now equivalent.
794
0fbd9bff
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795PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
796 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
797 not performing validation itself.
798
700d22f3
PP
799PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
800 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
801
fcc8e047
JH
802JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
803 Bugzilla 321, 823.
804
7142daca
PP
805TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
806
8c020188
PP
807PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
808 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
809 other false fix of the same issue.
810 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
811 Bugzilla 1363.
812
d13cdd30
PP
813PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
814 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
815
e2fbf4a2
PP
816PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
817 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
818 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
819
f4c1088b
PP
820PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
821 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
822 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
823
c5c2182f
PP
824TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
825
73431ca9
JH
826JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
827
2d07a215
TL
828TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
829 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
830
a30a8861
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831TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
832 Alexander Miroch.
833
33382dd9
TL
834TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
835 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
836 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
837 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
838 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 839
046172e6
TL
840TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
841 the src/util/ subdirectory.
842
581d7bee 843TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 844 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
845 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
846
847TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
848 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
849 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
850 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
851
237b2cf2
TL
852TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
853
9fc5a352
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854TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
855 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
856 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 857
b10e4ec2
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858TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
859
e2cebd74
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860TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
861 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
862 interaction.
863
864TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
865 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
866
2519e60d
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867TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
868 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
869
e78e6ecf 870
4263f395
PP
871Exim version 4.80.1
872-------------------
873
874PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
875 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 876 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 877
ea722490 878
b1770b6e 879Exim version 4.80
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881
882PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
883 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
884 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
885
23c7e742
NM
886NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
887
b322aac8
NM
888NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
889 improved.
890
4a891427
NM
891NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
892
c1e794ba 893PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 894
97753960
PP
895PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
896
897PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
898 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
899
df6303fa
PP
900PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
901 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
902
7e6a8985
PP
903PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
904 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
905
f1e05cc7 906PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
907 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
908 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 909
4c287009
PP
910PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
911
b98bb9ac
PP
912PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
913 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
914
4a6a987a
PP
915PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
916
c45dd180 917PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 918
7db8d074
PP
919PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
920 non-compliant senders.
921 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
922
eae0036b 923NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
924 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
925 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
926
dec5017e
PP
927PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
928 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
929 in spool file corruption.
930
c80c5570
PP
931PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
932 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
933 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
934 "Got SSL error 2".
935
076b11e2
PP
936TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
937 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
938 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
939
5407bfff
JH
940JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
941 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
942
9e45c72b
PP
943JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
944
e74376d8
PP
945PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
946 diagnostics.
947 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
948
da3ad30d
PP
949PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
950 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
951 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
952
7be682ca
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953PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
954 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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955 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
956 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 957
ef840681
PP
958PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
959 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
960
5bfb4cdf
PP
961PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
962 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
963 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
964 resolver implementation change.
965
c6e95d22
PP
966PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
967 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
968
9cbad13b
PP
969PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
970
9ee44efb
PP
971PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
972
6a6084f8
PP
973PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
974 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
975
12dd53c7
PP
976PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
977 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
978
9e45c72b 979JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
980 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
981
17c76198
PP
982PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
983 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
984 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
985 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 986 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 987
53947857 988PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 989
eae0036b 990PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
991 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
992 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 993
9e45c72b 994JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 995
7390e768
PP
996PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
997 read-only, out of scope).
998 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
999
08488c86
PP
1000PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1001 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1002 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1003 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1004
6475bd82
PP
1005PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1006
81f91683
PP
1007PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1008 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1009 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1010 real issues in debug logging.
1011
5779e6aa
PP
1012PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1013 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1014
3375e053
PP
1015PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1016 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1017 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1018
1019PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1020 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1021 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1022 problems.
3375e053 1023
9d26b8c0
PP
1024PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1025 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1026
57eb9e91 1027PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1028 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1029 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1030 needs to override this, it can.
1031
16880d1a
PP
1032PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1033 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1034 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1035
a799883d
PP
1036PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1037 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1038 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1039 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1040
3ecab157 1041PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1042
0599f9cf 1043
867fcbf5
PP
1044Exim version 4.77
1045-----------------
1046
1047PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1048 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1049
f1a29782
TF
1050TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1051
ab42bd23
TK
1052TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1053 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1054
0ca0cf52
TF
1055TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1056 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1057
921b12ca
TF
1058TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1059 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1060 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1061
1062 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1063 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1064 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1065 not safe for signals.
1066
1067 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1068 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1069 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1070 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1071 exiwhat.
1072
c99ce5c9
TF
1073TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1074
1075 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1076 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1077 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1078 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1079 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1080
1081 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1082 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1083 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1084 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1085 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1086 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1087
1088 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1089 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1090 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1091 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1092
1093 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1094 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1095 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1096 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1097
1098 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1099 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1100 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1101 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1102 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1103 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1104 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1105 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1106 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1107
1108 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1109 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1110 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1111 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1112
1113 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1114 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1115 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1116 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1117 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1118 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1119 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1120 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1121 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1122 details in the main documentation.
1123
3634fc25
TF
1124TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1125
792e8a19
TF
1126TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1127
5901f0ab
TF
1128TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1129 repository when doing development or release builds.
1130
7f2a2a43
PP
1131PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1132 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1133
061b7ebd
PP
1134PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1135 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1136 Bugzilla 97.
1137
e12f8c32
PP
1138PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1139
9e949f00 1140PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1141 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1142
1143PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1144 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1145
555ae6af 1146PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1147 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1148
1149PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1150 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1151
6f7fe114
PP
1152PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1153 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1154
c566dd90
PP
1155PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1156 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1157 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1158 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1159
d6cc7c78 1160PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1161 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1162 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1163
0d0e4455
PP
1164PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1165
3399bb60 1166PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1167
1168PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1169 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1170
0ca0cf52 1171
10906672
PP
1172Exim version 4.76
1173-----------------
1174
1175PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1176
754a0503
PP
1177PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1178 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1179
c0c7b2da
PP
1180PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1181
e97d1f08
PP
1182PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1183
084c1d8c
PP
1184PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1185 Bugzilla 1098.
1186
4e7ee012
PP
1187PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1188 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1189
c8d52a00
PP
1190TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1191 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1192
54e7ce4a
PP
1193PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1194 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1195
5ee6f336
PP
1196PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1197 Bugzilla 1104.
1198
c8d52a00 1199TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1200 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1201
1202TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1203 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1204 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1205 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1206
1207PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1208 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1209
10906672 1210
aa097c4c
NM
1211Exim version 4.75
1212-----------------
1213
4c9ef03a 1214NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1215 Bugzilla 1073
1216
7f3d9eff
TF
1217TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1218 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1219 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1220
159f52d2
TF
1221TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1222 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1223
0cc9542a
PP
1224PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1225 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1226 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1227
f7274286
PP
1228PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1229 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1230
7b797365
PP
1231PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1232 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1233
caacae52
NM
1234NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1235 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1236
09dcaba9
NM
1237NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1238 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1239
bc19a55b
PP
1240PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1241 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1242
bd4c9759
NM
1243NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1244 Fixes bug 943.
1245
b72aab72
PP
1246PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1247 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1248
2fe76745
PP
1249PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1250 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1251
76aa570c
PP
1252PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1253 SQL string expansion failure details.
1254 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1255
f1e5fef5
PP
1256PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1257 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1258
4d805ee9
PP
1259PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1260 extern declarations in function scope.
1261 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1262
cd59ab18
PP
1263PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1264 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1265 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1266 a kernel bug).
1267
332f5cf3
PP
1268PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1269 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1270
29cfeb94
PP
1271PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1272 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1273
660242ad
PP
1274PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1275 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1276
bc4bc4c5
PP
1277PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1278 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1279
2e64baa9
NM
1280NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1281 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1282 Dennis Davis.
1283
bddd7526
PP
1284PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1285
6bac1a9a
PP
1286PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1287
552193f0
NM
1288NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1289 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1290
1b587e48
TF
1291TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1292 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1293
aa097c4c 1294
8c07b69f
TF
1295Exim version 4.74
1296-----------------
1297
1298TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1299 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1300
c0ea85ab
TF
1301TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1302 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1303
0761d44e
TF
1304TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1305
0a349494
PP
1306DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1307 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1308 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1309
1310PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1311 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1312 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1313
fea24b2e
PP
1314PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1315 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1316 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1317 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1318
6545de78
PP
1319PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1320 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1321 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1322 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1323
1670ef10
PP
1324PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1325 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1326 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1327 arbitrary files.
1328
c0886197
PP
1329PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1330 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1331
b7487bce
PP
1332PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1333 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1334 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1335 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1336 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1337
8c07b69f 1338
97fd1e48 1339Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1340-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1341
1342PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1343 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1344 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1345
6901c596
PP
1346PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1347 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1348
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1349JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1350
77bb000f
PP
1351PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1352
a29e5231
PP
1353PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1354
ec5a0394 1355PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1356
55c75993
PP
1357PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1358
453a6645 1359PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1360 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1361 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1362 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1363
8544e77a
PP
1364PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1365 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1366 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1367 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1368 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1369
83e029d5
PP
1370PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1371
ed7f7860
PP
1372PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1373
7d9f747b
PP
1374PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1375
4b2241d2
PP
1376PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1377
10385c15
PP
1378PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1379
dbc4b90d
PP
1380PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1381
532be449
PP
1382PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1383
6a8de854 1384PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1385 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1386 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1387
5dc43717
JJ
1388JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1389
1390JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1391 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1392
3346ab01
PP
1393PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1394 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1395
491fab4c
PP
1396PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1397 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1398 Notification from John Horne.
1399
13eb9497
PP
1400PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1401 compatible.
1402
1403PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1404 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1405 it normally works.
1406
7f36d675
DW
1407DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1408 access.
1409
c1d94452
DW
1410DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1411 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1412 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1413
e2f5dc15
DW
1414DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1415 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1416 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1417 configuration file.
1418
cd25e41d
DW
1419DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1420 option (effectively making it always true).
1421
261dc43e
DW
1422DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1423 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1424
fa32850b
DW
1425DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1426 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1427
79d4bc3d
PP
1428PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1429 run-time user, instead of root.
1430
43236f35 1431PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1432 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1433
fb08281f
DW
1434DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1435 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1436 arguments.
3346ab01 1437
74935b98
DW
1438DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1439 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1440 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1441
90b6341f
DW
1442DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1443
57730b52
ML
1444NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1445
66581d1e 1446
465e92cf
JJ
1447Exim version 4.72
1448-----------------
1449
453a6645
PP
1450JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1451 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1452 typos
465e92cf 1453
453a6645
PP
1454JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1455 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1456 (Finput)
edae0343 1457
9bd3e22c
NM
1458NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1459 Patch from Alain Williams
1460
bb576ff7
NM
1461NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1462
5a1a5845
NM
1463NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1464 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1465
981a9fad
NM
1466NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1467 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1468
7fc497ee
NM
1469NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1470
1a41defa
JJ
1471JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1472
a466095c 1473NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1474 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1475
94a6bd0b
NM
1476TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1477
1478TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1479
1480MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1481 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1482 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1483
c1b141a8
NM
1484NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1485 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1486
b26eacf1 1487NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1488 Patch by Simon Arlott
1489
179c5980 1490PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1491 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1492
9bd3e22c 1493
7c6d71af
NM
1494Exim version 4.71
1495-----------------
1496
7d9f747b 1497TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1498
f013fb92
NM
1499NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1500
0eb8eedd
NM
1501NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1502
663ee6d9
NM
1503NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1504
177ebd9b
NM
1505NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1506
7c6d71af 1507
210f147e
NM
1508Exim version 4.70
1509-----------------
1510
cdd3bb85 1511TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1512 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1513
1514TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1515 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1516 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1517
1518TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1519 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1520 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1521
1522TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1523 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1524
210f147e
NM
1525NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1526 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1527 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1528 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1529
deafd5b3
NM
1530NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1531 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1532 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1533
089793a4
TF
1534TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1535
5f16ca82
TF
1536TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1537
dae9d94e 1538NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1539 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1540
7d9f747b 1541NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1542
06864c44
TF
1543TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1544 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1545 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1546 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1547
65a7d8c3 1548NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1549 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1550
23510047 1551TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1552
7d9f747b 1553NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1554
7d8eec3a 1555NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1556 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1557
89dec7b6
TF
1558TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1559 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1560
a99de90c
TF
1561TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1562 that they are available at delivery time.
1563
e2803e40
TF
1564TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1565
7199e1ee
TF
1566TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1567 incoming_port log selectors.
1568
e276e04b
TF
1569TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1570 setting expands to an empty string.
1571
ce552449 1572NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1573 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1574
e765a0f1 1575NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1576 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1577
4f054c63 1578NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1579 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1580
7d9f747b
PP
1581NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1582 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1583
7d9f747b
PP
1584NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1585 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1586
b52bc06e 1587NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1588 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1589
447de4b0
NM
1590NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1591
4c69d561 1592NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1593 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1594
d5c39246 1595NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1596 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1597
0b23848a
TK
1598TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1599
8f3414a1 1600NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1601 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1602
fb6f955d
NM
1603NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1604
1605NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1606
7d9f747b
PP
1607NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1608 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1609
7d9f747b
PP
1610NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1611 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1612
7d9f747b
PP
1613NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1614 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1615
7d9f747b
PP
1616NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1617 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1618
7d9f747b
PP
1619NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1620 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1621
7d9f747b
PP
1622NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1623 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1624
7d9f747b
PP
1625NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1626 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1627
7d9f747b 1628NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1629 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1630
7d9f747b 1631NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1632
7d9f747b
PP
1633NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1634 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1635
7d9f747b 1636NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1637
7d9f747b 1638NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1639
7d9f747b 1640NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1641
7d9f747b 1642NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1643
17792b53 1644NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1645 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1646
7d9f747b
PP
1647NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1648 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1649
91576cec 1650NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1651 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1652
7d9f747b
PP
1653NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1654 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1655
7d9f747b 1656NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1657
7d9f747b 1658NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1659
7d9f747b 1660NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1661
7d9f747b 1662NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1663
deafd5b3 1664
47db1125
NM
1665Exim version 4.69
1666-----------------
1667
4b3504d0
TK
1668TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1669 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1670 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1671
1672 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1673 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1674 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1675 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1676 build errors in sieve.c.
1677
81ea09ca
NM
1678NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1679 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1680 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1681
f13cddcb
SC
1682SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1683
7d9f747b 1684NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1685
7d9f747b 1686NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1687
7d9f747b 1688NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1689
1690
eb4c0de6
PH
1691Exim version 4.68
1692-----------------
1693
1694PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1695
6a3bceb1
PH
1696PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1697 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1698 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1699 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1700 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1701 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1702 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1703 for iplsearch lookups.
1704
1705 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1706 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1707 previously such lookups could never work.
1708
1709 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1710 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1711 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1712
2e30fa9d
TK
1713TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1714 version.
1715
0806a9c5
MH
1716MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1717 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1718 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1719 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1720 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1721 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1722
ae276964
TK
1723TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1724 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1725
0f2cbd1b
MH
1726MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1727 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1728 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1729 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1730 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1731 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1732
2b85bce7
PH
1733PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1734 local_scan API.
1735
93655c46
PH
1736PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1737
6c512171
PH
1738PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1739 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1740 encrypted.
1741
1742PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1743 by clients under certain conditions.
1744
aa6dc513
PH
1745PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1746 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1747
a96603a0
PH
1748PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1749
8f240103
PH
1750PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1751 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1752
1753PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1754
d677b2f2
PH
1755PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1756
d52120f2
PH
1757PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1758
64f2600a
PH
1759PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1760 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1761
8669f003
PH
1762PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1763
a4dc33a8
PH
1764PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1765 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1766
d6a60c0f
PH
1767PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1768
8f128379
PH
1769PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1770
8932dffe
PH
1771PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1772 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1773 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1774 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1775
ddea74fa 1776PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1777 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1778 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1779
ddea74fa 1780PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1781 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1782
ddea74fa
PH
1783PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1784
ce9f225c
PH
1785PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1786
19897d52
PH
1787PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1788
bc64a74d
PH
1789PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1790 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1791 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1792
eb4c0de6 1793
b4ed4da0
PH
1794Exim version 4.67
1795-----------------
1796
22ad45c9
MH
1797MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1798 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1799 Jan Srzednicki.
1800
b4ed4da0
PH
1801PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1802 issue a MAIL command.
1803
431b7361
PH
1804PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1805
1806 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1807
1808 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1809 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1810 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1811 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1812 item. This has been fixed.
1813
1814PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1815 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1816
83da1223
PH
1817PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1818 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1819
54fc8428
PH
1820PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1821 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1822 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1823
34c5e8dd
SC
1824SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1825
bbe15da8
PH
1826PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1827 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1828 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1829 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1830 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1831
0e8a9471
MH
1832MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1833 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1834 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1835
f0872424
PH
1836PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1837 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1838 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1839 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1840
b01dd148
PH
1841PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1842
6bf342e1
PH
1843PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1844
273f34d0
PH
1845PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1846 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1847 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1848 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1849 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1850
cf8b11a5
PH
1851PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1852
41c7c167
PH
1853PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1854 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1855 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1856 values).
1857
9c57cbc0
PH
1858PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1859
f3f065bb
PH
1860PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1861
047bdd8c
PH
1862PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1863
0ce9abe6
PH
1864PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1865
0e22dfd1
PH
1866PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1867
4c590bd1
PH
1868PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1869 no_callout_flush is set.
1870
09945f1e
PH
1871PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1872 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1873 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1874 fixed.
1875
c51b8e75
PH
1876PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1877
e28326d8
PH
1878PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1879 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1880 other ACL rejections are.
1881
75b1493f
PH
1882PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1883 with slight modification.
1884
7c5214ec
PH
1885PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1886 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1887
4311097e
PH
1888PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1889 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1890 connection.
1891
29f89cad
PH
1892PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1893 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1894
5e687460
SC
1895SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1896
c3611384
PH
1897PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1898 expansion side effects.
1899
5a11a7b4
PH
1900PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1901 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1902 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1903 be the same.
1904
0e20aff9
MH
1905MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1906 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1907 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1908
ca86f471
PH
1909PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1910 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1911 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1912 were accidentally chopped off.
1913
a14e5636
PH
1914PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1915 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1916 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1917 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1918 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1919 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1920 pipelining has not been advertised.
1921
ec95d1a6
PH
1922PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1923
42855d71
PH
1924PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1925 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1926 This has been fixed.
1927
57c2c631
PH
1928PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1929 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1930 reported on Solaris.
1931
58c01c94
PH
1932PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1933 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1934 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1935 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1936 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1937 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1938 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1939
dee5a20a
PH
1940PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1941 cpus.
1942
d2ee6114
PH
1943PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1944
b2d5182b
PH
1945PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1946
79749a79
PH
1947PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1948 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1949 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1950 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1951 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1952 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1953
c456d9bb
PH
1954PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1955 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1956 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1957 host_all_ignored option.
1958
cd9868ec
PH
1959PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1960 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1961 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1962 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1963 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1964 is what is supposed to happen).
1965
ebeaf996
PH
1966PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1967 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1968 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1969 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1970 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1971 uses the Exim user.
1972
2679d413
PH
1973PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1974 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1975 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1976 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1977 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1978 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1979 users.
1980
84024b72
PH
1981PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1982
8005d38e
SC
1983SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1984 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1985 (Jez Hancock).
1986 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1987 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1988
3298c6c6
SC
1989SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1990
a43a27c5
PH
1991PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1992
58eb016e 1993PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1994 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1995 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1996 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1997 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1998 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1999 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2000 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2001 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2002 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2003 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2004
b43a74ea
PH
2005PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2006 advertised in response to EHLO.
2007
b4ed4da0 2008
5dd1517f
PH
2009Exim version 4.66
2010-----------------
2011
2012PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2013 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2014
2015 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2016 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2017
2018 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2019 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2020 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2021
2022 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2023 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2024 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2025 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2026 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2027
2028
93cfa765
TK
2029Exim version 4.65
2030-----------------
2031
2032TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2033 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2034 versions. (#438)
2035
d6066548
MH
2036MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2037 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2038 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2039
4362ff0d
PH
2040PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2041 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2042 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2043 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2044 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2045 rather than extend the field.
2046
93cfa765 2047
944e9e9c
TF
2048Exim version 4.64
2049-----------------
aa41d2de 2050
21d74bd9
TK
2051TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2052 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2053 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2054 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2055 these files.
2056
2057TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2058 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2059 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2060
2061TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2062 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2063 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2064
2065TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2066 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2067 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2068 in the field name.
2069
2b1c6e3a
PH
2070PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2071 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2072 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2073 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2074 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2075 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2076 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2077 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2078 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2079 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2080 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2081
1f872c80
PH
2082PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2083 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2084
2085PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2086 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2087 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2088 ignores EPIPE as well.
2089
d203e649
PH
2090PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2091 (quoted-printable decoding).
2092
cc2ed8f7 2093PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2094 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2095
ddfcd446
PH
2096PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2097
d45b1de8
PH
2098PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2099
2100PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2101
38a0a95f 2102PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2103 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2104
a2405d83
JJ
2105JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2106 in 4.64-PH/09.
2107
2108JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2109 miscellaneous code fixes
2110
6ea85e9a
PH
2111PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2112 rejections.
2113
26da7e20
PH
2114PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2115 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2116 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2117 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2118 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2119 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2120 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2121 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2122
14aa5a05 2123PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2124 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2125 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2126 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2127 function.
2128 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2129 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2130 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2131 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2132 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2133 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2134 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2135 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2136 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2137
ff75a1f7
PH
2138PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2139 decoding.
2140
e6f6568e
PH
2141PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2142 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2143 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2144 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2145 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2146 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2147 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2148 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2149
d6f6e0dc
PH
2150PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2151 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2152 list.
2153
322050c2
PH
2154PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2155 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2156 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2157 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2158 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2159 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2160 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2161 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2162 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2163 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2164 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2165 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2166 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2167
08955dd3
PH
2168PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2169 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2170 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2171 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2172 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2173 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2174 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2175
1eccaa59
PH
2176PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2177 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2178 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2179 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2180 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2181 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2182 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2183 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2184 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2185 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2186
602e59e5
PH
2187PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2188 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2189 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2190 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2191 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2192
411ef850
PH
2193PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2194 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2195 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2196 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2197 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2198 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2199 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2200
7befa435
PH
2201PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2202 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2203 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2204 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2205 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2206 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2207 been verified.
2208
48da4259 2209PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2210 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2211 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2212 and authorization.)
2213
48da4259
PH
2214PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2215 if any retry times were supplied.
2216
d1d5595c
PH
2217PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2218 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2219 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2220
0ef732d9
PH
2221PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2222
328895cc
PH
2223PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2224
fd700877
PH
2225PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2226 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2227 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2228 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2229 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2230 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2231
8dce1a6f
PH
2232PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2233 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2234
17af4a17
PH
2235PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2236 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2237 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2238
2239PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2240 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2241 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2242 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2243 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2244 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2245 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2246 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2247 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2248
2249 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2250 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2251 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2252 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2253 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2254 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2255 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2256 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2257 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2258
2259 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2260 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2261 hammering the server.
2262
c1114884
PH
2263PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2264 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2265
7a0743eb
PH
2266PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2267
0d85fa3f
PH
2268PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2269 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2270 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2271
1bf43b78
PH
2272PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2273 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2274 one case where this was not true.
2275
520de300
PH
2276PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2277 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2278 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2279 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2280 fails.
2281
48c7f9e2
PH
2282PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2283 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2284 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2285 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2286 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2287 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2288 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2289 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2290 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2291 smtp transport.
2292
99ea1c86
PH
2293PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2294 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2295 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2296 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2297
a2042e78
PH
2298PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2299 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2300
4fbcfc2e
PH
2301PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2302 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2303 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2304
aa41d2de
PH
2305PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2306
af561417
PH
2307PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2308
3cc66b45
PH
2309PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2310
194cc0e4
PH
2311PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2312 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2313 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2314 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2315
a401ddaa
PH
2316PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2317 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2318
4e88a19f
PH
2319PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2320 be meaningful with "accept".
2321
d7d7b289
SC
2322SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2323 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2324
2325SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2326 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2327 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2328
2329SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2330 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2331 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2332 there is data to show.
2333 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2334
2335SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2336 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2337 as well as the number of messages.
2338
2339SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2340 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2341 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2342
2343SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2344 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2345 have a flag are now skipped.
2346
2347SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2348 Added the -emptyok flag.
2349
2350SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2351 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2352
0ea2a468
JJ
2353JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2354 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2355 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2356
2357JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2358 match 4.64-PH/13
2359
2360JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2361 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2362
2363JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2364
2365JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2366 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2367
8a10f5a4
PH
2368PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2369
30e18802
PH
2370PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2371 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2372 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2373 contravention of the specifications.
2374
55728a4f
PH
2375PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2376 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2377 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2378
d7837193
PH
2379PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2380 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2381 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2382
87054a31
PH
2383PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2384
ea2c01d2
MH
2385MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2386 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2387 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2388 some point in the past.
2389
e4fa6968
PH
2390PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2391 transport during callout processing was broken.
2392
56f5d9bd
PH
2393PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2394 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2395
922e1c28
PH
2396PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2397 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2398
21eb6e72
PH
2399PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2400 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2401
a0540757
PH
2402PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2403
944e9e9c 2404
478be7b0
SC
2405Exim version 4.63
2406-----------------
2407
2408SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2409 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2410
2411SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2412 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2413 there is data to show.
2414 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2415
2416SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2417 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2418
2b965a65
TF
2419TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2420 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2421
45b91596
PH
2422TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2423 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2424
c59f5781
TF
2425TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2426 submissions from trusted users.
2427
90fc3069
TF
2428TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2429 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2430
6083aca0
TF
2431TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2432 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2433 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2434 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2435 there is now a framework to start from.
2436
765b530f
PH
2437PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2438 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2439 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2440
4e167a8c
PH
2441PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2442
4608d683
PH
2443PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2444
b8dc3e4a
PH
2445PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2446
5418e93b
PH
2447PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2448 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2449 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2450
b4a9bda2
PH
2451PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2452 libradius.
2453
45b91596
PH
2454PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2455 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2456 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2457
5547e2c5
PH
2458PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2459 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2460 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2461 its arguments.
2462
dbcef0ea
PH
2463PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2464 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2465 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2466 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2467 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2468
25257489
PH
2469PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2470 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2471
c816d124
PH
2472PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2473
a9ccd69a
PH
2474PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2475 operations in malware.c.
2476
75fa1910
PH
2477PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2478 signatures.
2479
a7d7aa58
PH
2480PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2481 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2482 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2483 all.
2484
42119b09
PH
2485PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2486 statements to "add_header".
2487
41609df5
PH
2488PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2489 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2490
a5bd321b
PH
2491PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2492 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2493 latter.
2494
e85a7ad5 2495PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2496 so that it is now:
2497
e85a7ad5
PH
2498 ${if or { \
2499 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2500 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2501 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2502 }{no}{yes}}
2503
e85a7ad5
PH
2504 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2505 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2506
d8fe1c03
PH
2507PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2508 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2509
16282d2b
PH
2510PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2511 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2512 any possible encoding problems.
2513
35d40a98
PH
2514PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2515 but not after initializing Perl.
2516
034d99ab
PH
2517PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2518 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2519 apparently, which is not desirable.
2520
6ec97b1b
PH
2521PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2522 queries.
2523
e22ca4ac
JJ
2524JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2525 --not options
2526
2527JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2528
33d73e3b
PH
2529PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2530 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2531 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2532 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2533
9ecb03f3
PH
2534PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2535 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2536 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2537
084efe8d
PH
2538PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2539 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2540 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2541 0.12.
2542
366fc9f0
PH
2543PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2544 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2545 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2546 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2547 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2548
c59f5781 2549
c887c79e
TF
2550Exim version 4.62
2551-----------------
2552
2553TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2554 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2555
1cce3af8
PH
2556PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2557 patch).
2558
afb3eaaf
PH
2559PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2560 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2561 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2562 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2563 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2564 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2565 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2566 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2567 451 error is used.
2568
e173618b
PH
2569PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2570
dd16e114
PH
2571PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2572 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2573 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2574
f7fd3850
PH
2575PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2576 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2577 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2578 odd errors.
2579
d87df92c
PH
2580PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2581 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2582
7e9f683d
PH
2583PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2584 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2585 option (which defaults to 0600).
2586
bfad5236
PH
2587PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2588
01c490df
PH
2589PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2590 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2591 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2592 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2593 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2594 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2595 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2596
d6629cdc
PH
2597PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2598
1cce3af8 2599
214e2000
PH
2600Exim version 4.61
2601-----------------
2602
2603PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2604 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2605 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2606 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2607 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2608 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2609 addresses as local.
2610
f9daeae0
PH
2611PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2612 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2613
7e66e54d
PH
2614PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2615
c8ea1597
PH
2616PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2617 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2618 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2619 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2620 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2621 grumble.
2622
911f6fde
PH
2623PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2624 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2625
47ca6d6c
PH
2626PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2627 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2628 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2629 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2630 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2631
ed0e9820
PH
2632PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2633 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2634 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2635 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2636
eff37e47
PH
2637PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2638 be the same on different OS.
2639
1921d2ea
PH
2640PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2641 testing.
2642
b3f69ca8
JJ
2643JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2644 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2645
2646JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2647 in 4.61-PH/06
2648
424a1c63
PH
2649PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2650 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2651 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2652 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2653 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2654 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2655 bounce message.
2656
7a100415
PH
2657PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2658 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2659 when Exim was called.
2660
19b9dc85
PH
2661PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2662 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2663
309bd837
PH
2664PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2665 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2666 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2667 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2668
59e82a2a
PH
2669PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2670 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2671 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2672 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2673 changes:
2674
2675 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2676 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2677 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2678
2679 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2680 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2681 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2682
9edc04ce
PH
2683PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2684 feature).
2685
1349e1e5
PH
2686PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2687 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2688 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2689 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2690 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2691 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2692 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2693 values from the SRV records were lost.
2694
ea49d0e1
PH
2695PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2696 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2697 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2698
064a94c9
PH
2699PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2700 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2701 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2702
727071f8
PH
2703PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2704 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2705 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2706 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2707 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2708 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2709 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2710 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2711 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2712 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2713
f78eb7c6
PH
2714PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2715 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2716 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2717
21c28500
PH
2718PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2719 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2720
2721PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2722 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2723 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2724 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2725 is given.
2726
1688f43b
PH
2727PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2728 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2729 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2730
2731PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2732 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2733 PH/23 above applies.
2734
9675b384
PH
2735PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2736 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2737 (for which there is an explicit test).
2738
6a3f1455
PH
2739PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2740
dac79d3e
PH
2741PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2742 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2743 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2744 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2745 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2746
5977a0b3
PH
2747PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2748 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2749 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2750 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2751
c91535f3
PH
2752PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2753 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2754 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2755
0d46a8c8
PH
2756PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2757
278c6e6c
PH
2758PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2759
2cbb4081
PH
2760PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2761 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2762 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2763
3eef829e
PH
2764PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2765 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2766 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2767 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2768 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2769
1ab95fa6
PH
2770PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2771 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2772 the message gets confusing).
2773
230205fc
PH
2774PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2775 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2776 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2777 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2778
75e0e026
PH
2779PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2780 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2781 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2782 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2783 same order.
2784
2785PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2786 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2787 the different processes.
2788
145396a6
PH
2789PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2790
3cd34f13
PH
2791PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2792
11121d3d
JJ
2793JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2794 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2795
2796JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2797 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2798
2799JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2800 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2801 messages matching specified criteria.
2802
8def5aaf
PH
2803PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2804
929ba01c
PH
2805PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2806 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2807
2632889e
PH
2808PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2809 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2810 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2811 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2812 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2813 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2814 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2815 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2816 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2817 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2818
944a9c55
PH
2819PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2820 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2821 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2822
4a23603b
PH
2823PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2824
4730f942
PH
2825PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2826 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2827 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2828 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2829 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2830 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2831 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2832 the variable.
2833
30dba1e6
PH
2834PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2835 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2836
382afc6b
PH
2837PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2838
a86229cf
PH
2839PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2840
50c99ba6
PH
2841PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2842
d35e429d
PH
2843PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2844 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2845 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2846 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2847 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2848 size of the count of files.
2849
f90d018c
PH
2850PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2851
75def545
PH
2852PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2853 used in LMTP mode:
2854
2855 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2856 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2857 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2858 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2859
2860 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2861 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2862 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2863
2864PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2865 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2866 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2867 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2868 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2869
c46782ef
PH
2870PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2871 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2872
71fafd95
PH
2873PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2874 will now be deprecated.
2875
2c5db4fd
PH
2876PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2877
9cf6b11a
JJ
2878JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2879 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2880 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2881
2882JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2883 with very large, slow to parse queues
2884
2885JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2886
2887JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2888
898d150f
PH
2889PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2890 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2891 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2892 SMTP output lines.
2893
46218253
PH
2894PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2895 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2896 Sieve code now uses this.
2897
e97957bc
PH
2898PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2899 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2900
81e509d7
PH
2901PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2902 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2903
3d240ff7
PH
2904PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2905
b37c4101
PH
2906PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2907 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2908 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2909 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2910 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2911
79378e0f
PH
2912PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2913 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2914 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2915 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2916
e49c7bb4
PH
2917PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2918
d114ec46
PH
2919PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2920
f3d7df6c
PH
2921PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2922 is preferred over IPv4.
2923
715ab376
PH
2924PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2925 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2926 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2927 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2928 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2929 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2930 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2931
6b31b150
PH
2932PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2933 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2934 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2935
2936PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2937
d515a917
PH
2938PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2939 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2940 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2941 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2942 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2943 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2944 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2945 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2946 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2947 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2948 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2949
9b8fadde
PH
2950PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2951 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2952 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2953
214e2000 2954
5de37277
PH
2955Exim version 4.60
2956-----------------
2957
cc38ddbf
PH
2958PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2959
2960 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2961 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2962
2963 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2964 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2965 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2966
72fdd6ae
PH
2967PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2968
2969 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2970 not a single digit.
2971
2972 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2973 string.
2974
2975 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2976 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2977 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2978 silly things.
2979
2980 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2981 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2982
2983 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2984 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2985
cb741023
PH
2986PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2987 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2988 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2989
f174f16e
PH
2990PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2991 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2992
c25242d7
PH
2993PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2994 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2995
2996 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2997
2998 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2999 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3000 this:
3001
3002 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3003
82c19f95
PH
3004PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3005 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3006 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3007 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3008 identical. For example:
3009
3010 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3011
3012 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3013 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3014 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3015
d7ffbc12
PH
3016PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3017 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3018 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3019 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3020
9f526266
PH
3021PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3022 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3023 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3024 message.
3025
87fcc8b9
PH
3026PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3027
3028 o fixes some comments
3029 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3030 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3031 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3032 and documents the missing references header update
3033
3034 and most important:
3035
3036 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3037 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3038 result)
3039
456682f5
PH
3040PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3041 Electronic Mail") by including:
3042
3043 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3044
3045 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3046 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3047 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3048 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3049 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3050
3051 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3052
3053 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3054
3055 The auto-replied keyword:
3056
3057 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3058 message by an automatic process,
3059
3060 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3061
3062 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3063 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3064
3065 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3066 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3067 other messages.
3068
3e46c1aa
PH
3069PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3070 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3071
49826d12
PH
3072PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3073
eba0c039
PH
3074PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3075 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3076 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3077
a0d6ba8a
PH
3078PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3079 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3080 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3081
f0917727
PH
3082PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3083 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3084 and treats the condition as false.
3085
096fee00
PH
3086PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3087
024bd3c2
PH
3088PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3089 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3090 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3091 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3092 not changing the active code.
3093
3094 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3095 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3096
3097 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3098 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3099
df199fec
PH
3100PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3101 (Bugzilla #53).
3102
d27f1df3
PH
3103PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3104 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3105 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3106 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3107 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3108 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3109 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3110 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3111 the text comparison.
3112
96776534
PH
3113PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3114 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3115 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3116 The same fix has been applied.
3117
5de37277 3118
9a799bc0
PH
3119Exim version 4.54
3120-----------------
3121
3122PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3123 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3124 It now does.
3125
99a4b039
PH
3126PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3127 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3128
3129PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3130
4b233853
PH
3131PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3132 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3133 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3134 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3135 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3136
8857ccfd
PH
3137TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3138 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3139 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3140 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3141 or /domain=).
3142
433a2980
PH
3143PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3144 testing suite.
3145
3e46c1aa 3146
9a799bc0 3147
e3a311ba
TK
3148Exim version 4.53
3149-----------------
3150
3151TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3152 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3153
13b685f9
PH
3154PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3155
395ff96d
PH
3156PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3157
5b68f6e4
PH
3158PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3159 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3160 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3161
1ab52c69
PH
3162PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3163 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3164 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3165
b07e6aa3
PH
3166PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3167 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3168 operating systems.
3169
254e032f
PH
3170PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3171 ${stat: expansion item.
3172
3af76a81
PH
3173PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3174 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3175
2548ba04
PH
3176PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3177 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3178 file for comments.
3179
b6c6011d
PH
3180PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3181
cf39cf57
PH
3182PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3183 setting.
3184
f1513293
PH
3185PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3186 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3187
727549a4
PH
3188TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3189
af46795e
PH
3190PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3191 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3192 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3193 the end of the subprocess.
3194
d7b47fd0
PH
3195PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3196 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3197 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3198 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3199 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3200
ee744174
JJ
3201JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3202
b582ab87
PH
3203TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3204
41a13e0a
PH
3205PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3206 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3207
f625cc5a
PH
3208PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3209
3210PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3211
21f7af35
PH
3212PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3213 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3214 HP-UX compiler.
3215
31480e42
PH
3216PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3217
2d280592
PH
3218PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3219 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3220 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3221
7cd1141b
PH
3222PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3223 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3224
3225PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3226 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3227
750af86e
PH
3228PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3229 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3230
3231 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3232 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3233
3234 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3235 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3236 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3237 contributed by a Radius user.
3238
3239PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3240 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3241
4304270b
TK
3242TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3243 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3244
750af86e
PH
3245PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3246 available.
3247
64ffc24f
PH
3248PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3249 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3250 received.
3251
5dd9625b
PH
3252PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3253 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3254 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3255 header lines when this was not necessary.
3256
5591031b
PH
3257PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3258
ba18e66a
PH
3259PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3260 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3261 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3262 exists".
3263
9cec981f
PH
3264PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3265 -bV or -d is used.
3266
aa2b5c79
PH
3267PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3268 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3269 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3270 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3271
48a53b7f
PH
3272PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3273
1c59d63b
PH
3274PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3275
671012da
TK
3276TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3277
1509d3a8
PH
3278PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3279
3280PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3281 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3282 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3283 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3284 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3285 settings.
3286
3287PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3288
2fe1a124
PH
3289PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3290 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3291 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3292 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3293 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3294 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3295 which is clearly wrong.
3296
8800895a
PH
3297PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3298
ccfdb010
PH
3299PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3300 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3301 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3302 subsequently added.
3303
1130bfb0
PH
3304PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3305 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3306
ebcb507f
PH
3307PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3308
c35e155c
PH
3309PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3310 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3311
95d1f782
PH
3312PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3313 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3314
fd6de02e
PH
3315PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3316 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3317
58de37c5
PH
3318PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3319 recipients, not senders.
3320
261cf466
TF
3321TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3322 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3323
3ee512ff
PH
3324PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3325
e08c430f
PH
3326PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3327
bef5a11f
PH
3328PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3329 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3330 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3331 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3332
7546de58
TF
3333TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3334
e5d5a95f
TF
3335TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3336 clock is set back in time.
3337
2e88a017
TF
3338TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3339 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3340
a5f65aa4
TF
3341TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3342 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3343
e7726cbf
PH
3344PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3345 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3346 (see PH/47 above).
3347
a7fdad5b
TF
3348TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3349 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3350 header rewrites.
3351
6af56900
PH
3352PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3353 type ("H").
3354
0925ede6
PH
3355PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3356
66afa403
TF
3357TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3358 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3359 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3360
0154e85a
TF
3361TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3362 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3363 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3364 helo verification defer as a failure.
3365
16f12c76
PH
3366PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3367 actual error message.
3368
bbe902f0 3369
e5a9dba6
PH
3370Exim version 4.52
3371-----------------
3372
3373TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3374
22c3b60b
PH
3375PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3376 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3377 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3378 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3379
06a9b4b5
PH
3380TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3381
c1ac6996
PH
3382PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3383 can still be requested.
3384
9c7a242c
PH
3385PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3386 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3387 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3388 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3389
87ba3f5f
PH
3390TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3391 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3392 circumstances, but probably never did.
3393
3394PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3395 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3396 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3397 in the header line.
3398
29aba418
TF
3399TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3400
fe0dab11
TF
3401TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3402 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3403
11d337a4
TK
3404TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3405
3406TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3407
415c8f3b
PH
3408PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3409 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3410 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3411 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3412 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3413 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3414
958541e9
PH
3415PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3416 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3417 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3418 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3419 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3420 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3421
c206415f
TK
3422TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3423 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3424
2a4be8f9
PH
3425PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3426 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3427
1cba11c5
SC
3428SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3429 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3430
3431SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3432
3433SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3434
3435SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3436
3437SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3438
3439SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3440
3441SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3442
1005d00e
TK
3443TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3444
3445TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3446 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3447 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3448
3449TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3450 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3451 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3452 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3453
9b4768fa
PH
3454PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3455 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3456 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3457
3458PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3459 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3460 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3461 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3462
0d7eb84a
PH
3463PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3464 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3465 to be made).
3466
3467PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3468 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3469 should work with maildirs and everything.
3470
40727bee
TK
3471TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3472 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3473
554d2369
TF
3474TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3475 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3476
1f922db1
PH
3477PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3478 function for BDB 4.3.
3479
ef213c3b
PH
3480PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3481
8ac170f3
PH
3482PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3483 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3484 involved.
3485
b1c749bb
PH
3486PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3487 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3488 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3489 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3490 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3491 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3492
4aac9b49
PH
3493PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3494 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3495 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3496 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3497 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3498 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3499 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3500 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3501
294520c8
TK
3502TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3503 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3504 details.
3505
5bd022fe
PH
3506PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3507 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3508
90e9ce59
PH
3509PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3510 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3511 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3512 test. It is now used for both.
3513
5ea81592
PH
3514PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3515 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3516 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3517 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3518 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3519 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3520
c6c2dc1d
PH
3521PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3522 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3523 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3524 string_vformat().
3525
fffffe4c
PH
3526PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3527 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3528 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3529
9a26b6b2
PH
3530PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3531 experimental DomainKeys support:
3532
3533 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3534 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3535 the control was given.
3536
3537 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3538
4aee0225
PH
3539PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3540
32d668a5
PH
3541PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3542
8187c3f3
PH
3543PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3544 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3545 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3546 db.h files).
3547
ff790e47 3548PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3549 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3550 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3551 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3552 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3553 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3554 course.
ff790e47 3555
5417f6d1
PH
3556PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3557 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3558 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3559 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3560 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3561 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3562
59cf8544
PH
3563PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3564 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3565 do -d+all out of habit.
3566
e7ad8a65
PH
3567PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3568 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3569 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3570
ade42478
PH
3571PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3572 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3573 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3574 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3575 record types that Exim uses.
3576
182ad5cf
PH
3577PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3578 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3579 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3580 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3581 non-existent file that was broken.
3582
b0d9fc80
TK
3583TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3584 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3585
3586TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3587 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3588 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3589
3590TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3591
47c7a64a
PH
3592PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3593 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3594 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3595 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3596 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3597 same time.
3598
a388bce4
SC
3599SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3600 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3601 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3602 at a slight CPU cost.
3603
3604SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3605 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3606
3607SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3608 by Marc Sherman.
3609
0793e4ed
SC
3610SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3611
c58b88df
PH
3612PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3613 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3614
e7ad8a65 3615
7982096b
PH
3616Exim version 4.51
3617-----------------
3618
1a46a8c5
PH
3619TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3620 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3621
2f079f46 3622TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3623
3624TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3625
3626PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3627 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3628
3629PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3630 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3631 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3632 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3633 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3634 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3635 file.
3636
3637PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3638 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3639 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3640 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3641 these two options.
3642
3643PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3644 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3645 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3646 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3647 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3648 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3649 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3650 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3651
3652PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3653 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3654
3655PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3656 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3657 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3658 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3659 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3660 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3661
3662PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3663 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3664 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3665 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3666
3667PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3668 Finch).
3669
3670PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3671 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3672
49c2d5ea
PH
3673PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3674 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3675 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3676 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3677 message.
49c2d5ea 3678
bf759a8b
PH
3679PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3680
83364d30
PH
3681PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3682 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3683
7999bbd7
PH
3684PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3685 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3686 to what was transported.)
3687
7dbf77c9
PH
3688TF/01 Added $received_time.
3689
74e0617f
PH
3690PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3691 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3692 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3693 spamd_address settings.
3694
2f079f46
PH
3695PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3696 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3697 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3698 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3699 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3700
8c841523
PH
3701PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3702
7766a4f0
PH
3703PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3704 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3705 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3706 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3707 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3708
8b417f2c
PH
3709PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3710 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3711
901f42cb
PH
3712PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3713 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3714 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3715 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3716 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3717 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3718 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3719 for failure.
3720
f9b9210e
PH
3721PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3722 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3723 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3724 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3725 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3726 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3727 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3728 "input=".
3729
54cdb463
PH
3730PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3731
cf00dad6
PH
3732PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3733 driver and ACL definitions.
3734
acb1b346
PH
3735PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3736 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3737
c5ddb310
PH
3738PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3739 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3740 understands it better than I do:
3741
3742 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3743 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3744
3745 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3746 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3747 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3748 => three warnings about OTP not working
3749 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3750
3751 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3752 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3753 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3754 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3755 for each call.)
3756 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3757 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3758
3759 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3760 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3761 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3762
31619da6
PH
3763PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3764 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3765 specified.
3766
bebaf0fc
PH
3767PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3768 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3769 "Linux".
3770
475fe28a
PH
3771PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3772 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3773 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3774
3775 warn !verify = sender
3776 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3777
3778 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3779 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3780
7e8bec7a
PH
3781PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3782
3783 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3784 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3785
3786 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3787 nomenclature these days.)
3788
e4a89c47
PH
3789PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3790 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3791
5ca2a9a1
PH
3792PH/30 In these circumstances:
3793 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3794 . First host does not offer TLS;
3795 . First host accepts first address;
3796 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3797 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3798 . Second host accepts second address.
3799 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3800 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3801 address.
7e8bec7a 3802
c688b954
PH
3803PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3804 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3805 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3806 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3807 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3808
fed77020
PH
3809PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3810 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3811
7fe1560f
PH
3812PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3813 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3814
ebb6e6d5
PH
3815PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3816 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3817 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3818
9c4e8f60
PH
3819PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3820 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3821 overlooked.
3822
3823PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3824
d7174846
PH
3825PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3826 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3827 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3828 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3829 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3830 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3831 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3832
3833 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3834 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3835 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3836 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3837 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3838
3839 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3840 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3841 routed further.
3842
cfe75fc3
PH
3843PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3844 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3845 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3846 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3847 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3848 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3849
be22d70e
PH
3850PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3851
0612b098
PH
3852PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3853 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3854 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3855 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3856 printable escape sequences.
3857
2e0c1448
PH
3858PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3859 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3860 body only.
3861
447d236c
PH
3862PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3863 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3864 are as follows:
3865
3866 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3867 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3868 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3869 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3870 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3871
3872 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3873 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3874 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3875
d20976dc
PH
3876PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3877
f656d135
PH
3878PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3879 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3880 play with."
3881
2e2a30b4
PH
3882PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3883 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3884 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3885 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3886 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3887 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3888 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3889 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3890 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3891 the log output.
3892
9176e9f0
PH
3893PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3894 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3895 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3896 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3897 "make".
3898
7982096b 3899
bbe902f0
PH
3900A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3901----------------------------------------
3902
3903Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3904changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3905needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3906in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3907that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3908release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3909from 4.43.
3910
3911I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39124.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3913those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3914historical information.
3915
3916
f7b63901 3917Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3918-----------------
3919
5fe762f6
PH
3920 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3921
139059f6 3922 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3923 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3924
7086e875
PH
3925 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3926 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3927 place.
3928
35af9f61
PH
3929 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3930 filter fails to execute.
3931
b668c215
PH
3932 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3933 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3934 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3935 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3936 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3937
a494b1e1
PH
3938 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3939
3940 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3941 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3942 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3943 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3944
c5fcb476
PH
3945 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3946 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3947 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3948 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3949 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3950
69358f02
PH
3951 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3952
5be20824
PH
395310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3954
eb2c0248
PH
395511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3956 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3957 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3958 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3959
2a3eea10
PH
396012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3961 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3962 sender verification.
3963
396413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3965 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3966
23c7ff99
PH
396714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3968
4deaf07d
PH
396915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3970 connection timeout.
3971
926e1192
PH
397216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3973 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3974
650edc6f
PH
397517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3976 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3977
2c7db3f5
PH
397818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3979 information about exactly what failed.
3980
3d235903
PH
398119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3982
7c7ad977
PH
398320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3984 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3985 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3986
981756db
PH
398721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3988 It is now set to "smtps".
3989
d4eb88df
PH
399022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3991 ignore_target_hosts.
3992
399323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3994 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3995 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3996 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3997 "[x.x.x.x]".
3998
7d468ab8
PH
399924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4000 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4001 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4002
400325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4004 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4005 wake it up if nothing else does.
4006
62c0818f
PH
400726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4008 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4009 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4010 end up negative.
4011
26034054
PH
401227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4013 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4014
af66f652
PH
401528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4016
90af77f4
PH
401729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4018 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4019 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4020 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4021 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4022 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4023 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4024 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4025
d8ef3577
PH
402630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4027 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4028 than one IP address.
4029
5cb8cbc6
PH
403031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4031 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4032 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4033 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4034
14702f5b
PH
403532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4036 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4037 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4038 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4039 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4040 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4041
063b1e99
PH
404233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4043 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4044 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4045 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4046
652e1b65
PH
404734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4048 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4049 respected.
4050
6f0c9a4f
PH
405135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4052 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4053 $sender_host_address.
4054
33397d19
PH
405536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4056 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4057 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4058 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4059 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4060 very small.
4061
7bb56e1f
PH
406237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4063
4064 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4065 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4066
ea3bc19b
PH
4067 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4068 just the host names, not the priorities.
4069
4070 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4071 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4072 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4073
ea3bc19b 4074 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4075 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4076
0bcb2a0e
PH
407738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4078 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4079 domain.
4080
2ac0e484
PH
408139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4082
4e1fde53
PH
408340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4084 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4085
de365ded
PH
408641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4087 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4088 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4089
f05da2e8
PH
409042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4091
d6453af2
PH
409243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4093
f7b63901
PH
409444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4095
409645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4097 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4098 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4099 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4100 because the tests only now provoked it.
4101
a444213a
PH
410246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4103 (this can affect the format of dates).
4104
0ec020ea
PH
410547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4106 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4107 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4108 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4109
b1206957
PH
411048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4111
411249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4113 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4114 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4115 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4116
26dd5a95
PH
411750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4118 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4119 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4120
343b2385
PH
412151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4122 autoreply.
4123
1c5466b9
PH
412452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4125 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4126 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4127 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4128 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4129 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4130 is going on).
4131
55ee9ee3
PH
413253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4133 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4134 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4135 the line.
4136
d38f8232
PH
413754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4138 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4139 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4140
4141 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4142 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4143 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4144 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4145 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4146 so I produce this patch..."
4147
3295e65b
PH
4148 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4149 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4150 is not defined.
4151
7102e136
PH
415255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4153 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4154 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4155 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4156 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4157
3ca0ba97
PH
415856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4159
c2bcbe20
PH
416057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4161 long debug lines gets shown.
4162
18ce445d
PH
416358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4164 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4165
1f5b4c3d
PH
416659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4167
4168 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4169 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4170 of $primary_hostname.
4171
b975ba52
PH
417260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4173 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4174 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4175 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4176 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4177 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4178 by change 4.50/55 above.
4179
4180 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4181 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4182 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4183 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4184 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4185 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4186 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4187
418861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4189 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4190 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4191 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4192
17ffcae7
PH
419362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4194 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4195
d95f9fdb
PH
419663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4197 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4198 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4199 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4200 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4201
86b8287f
PH
420264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4203 This has been fixed.
4204
60dc5e56
PH
420565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4206 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4207 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4208 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4209 the caching.)
4210
533244af
PH
421166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4212
a5a28604
PH
421367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4214 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4215 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4216 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4217
7e634d24
PH
421868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4219 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4220
3e11c26b
PH
422169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4222 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4223 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4224
6729cf78
PH
422570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4226 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4227 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4228 message there.
4229
00f00ca5
PH
423071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4231 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4232 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4233
c9bdd01c
PH
423472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4235 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4236 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4237 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4238
d43194df
PH
423973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4240 during host lookups.
4241
fe5b5d0b
PH
424274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4243 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4244
4245 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4246
76a2d7ba
PH
424775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4248 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4249 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4250 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4251 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4252 background.
4253
425476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4255 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4256
04f7d5b9
PH
425777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4258 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4259 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4260
bc60667e
PH
426178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4262
bb6e88ff
PH
426379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4264 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4265 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4266 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4267 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4268 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4269 process earlier.
4270
1e70f85b
PH
427180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4272 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4273 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4274 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4275 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4276
427781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4278 tables).
4279
4e01f9d6
PH
428082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4281
1ee1cef2
PH
428283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4283 "vacation" handling.
4284
6e2b4ccc
PH
428584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4286 OS variants using glibc.
4287
8e669ac1
PH
428885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4289
495ae4b0 4290
bbe902f0
PH
4291----------------------------------------------------
4292See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4293----------------------------------------------------
4294
4295
4296Exim version 4.44
4297-----------------
4298
4299 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4300 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4301 transport
4302
4303 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4304 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4305 place.
4306
4307 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4308 filter fails to execute.
4309
4310 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4311 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4312 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4313 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4314 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4315
4316 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4317 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4318 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4319 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4320
4321 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4322 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4323 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4324 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4325 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4326
4327 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4328
4329 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4330 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4331 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4332 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4333
4334 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4335 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4336 sender verification.
4337
433810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4339 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4340
434111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4342 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4343
434412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4345 ignore_target_hosts.
4346
434713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4348 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4349 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4350 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4351 "[x.x.x.x]".
4352
435314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4354 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4355 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4356
435715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4358 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4359 wake it up if nothing else does.
4360
436116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4362 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4363 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4364 end up negative.
4365
436617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4367 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4368
ea3a6f44 436918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4370
437119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4372 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4373 empty pattern.
4374
437520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4376 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4377 one IP address.
4378
ea3a6f44
NM
437921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4380 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4381 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4382 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4383 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4384 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4385
ea3a6f44
NM
438622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4387 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4388 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4389
439023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4391 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4392 $sender_host_address.
4393
439424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4395
ea3a6f44
NM
439625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4397 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4398 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4399
440026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4401 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4402
ea3a6f44
NM
440327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4404 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4405
ea3a6f44
NM
440628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4407 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4408 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4409 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4410
441129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4412 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4413 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4414
ea3a6f44
NM
441530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4416 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4417 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4418 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4419
ea3a6f44
NM
442031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4421 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4422 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4423
ea3a6f44
NM
442431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4425 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4426
ea3a6f44
NM
442732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4428 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4429 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4430 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4431 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4432 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4433 is going on).
bbe902f0 4434
ea3a6f44
NM
443533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4436 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4437 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4438 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4439 CAN-2005-0021
4440
ea3a6f44
NM
444134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4442 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4443 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4444 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4445 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4446 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4447 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4448
4449 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4450 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4451 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4452 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4453 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4454 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4455 CAN-2005-0021
4456
ea3a6f44
NM
445735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4458 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4459 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4460 CAN-2005-0022
4461
ea3a6f44
NM
446236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4463 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4464 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4465 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4466 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4467
ea3a6f44
NM
446837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4469 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4470 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4471 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4472 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4473
ea3a6f44
NM
447438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4475 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4476 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4477 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4478 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4479
4480
495ae4b0
PH
4481Exim version 4.43
4482-----------------
4483
4484 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4485 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4486 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4487 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4488 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4489 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4490 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4491
4492 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4493 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4494 the delivery.
4495
4496 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4497
4498 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4499
4500 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4501 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4502 to local_scan().
4503
4504 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4505 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4506 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4507 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4508 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4509
4510 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4511 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4512
4513 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4514
4515 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4516
451710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4518 header_sender only.
4519
452011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4521 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4522
452312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4524 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4525 affecting debugging statements).
4526
452713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4528
452914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4530 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4531 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4532 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4533 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4534 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4535 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4536 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4537 after the received time, and all would be well.
4538
453915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4540 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4541 condition in an expansion string.
4542
454316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4544
454517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4546 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4547 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4548 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4549 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4550 job under whatever limits there are.
4551
455218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4553
455419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4555 space).
4556
455720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4558 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4559 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4560 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4561 return path is set.
4562
456321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4564 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4565 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4566 binary data in such strings.
4567
456822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4569
457023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4571 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4572 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4573 failure, which is pointless.
4574
457524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4576
457725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4578
457926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4580 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4581 Sender: header lines.
4582
458327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4584 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4585 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4586
458728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4588 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4589 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4590 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4591 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4592 happens.
4593
459429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4595 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4596 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4597 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4598 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4599
460030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4601 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4602 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4603 1024.
4604
460531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4606 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4607
460832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4609 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4610
461133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4612
461332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4614
461533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4616
461734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4618 syntax error.
4619
462035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4621
462236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4623
462437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4625 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4626 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4627 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4628
462938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4630 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4631
4632
4633Exim version 4.42
4634-----------------
4635
4636 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4637 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4638 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4639 it was not quoted.
4640 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4641 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4642 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4643 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4644 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4645 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4646
4647 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4648 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4649 verification failure".
4650
4651 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4652 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4653 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4654 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4655
4656 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4657 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4658 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4659 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4660 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4661 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4662 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4663 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4664 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4665 treated as a timeout.
4666
4667 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4668 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4669 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4670 not set for Exim filters).
4671
4672 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4673 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4674 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4675
4676 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4677
4678 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4679 try to make them clearer.
4680
4681 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4682 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4683
4684 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4685
4686 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4687
468810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4689 only the Cygwin environment.
4690
469111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4692 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4693 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4694 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4695 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4696
469712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4698 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4699 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4700 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4701 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4702 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4703 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4704
470513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4706 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4707
470814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4709
4710 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4711 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4712 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4713
4714 To: susanne@some.where
4715
4716 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4717 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4718 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4719 of addresses in From: header lines).
4720
4721 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4722 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4723 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4724
4725 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4726 treated as non-personal.
4727
4728 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4729 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4730
473115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4732
473316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4734
473517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4736 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4737 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4738
473918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4740 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4741
474219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4743 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4744 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4745 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4746 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4747 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4748
474920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4750 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4751 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4752 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4753 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4754 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4755 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4756 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4757
4758 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4759
476021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4761 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4762
476322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4764 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4765 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4766
476723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4768 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4769
477024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4771 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4772 rather than long int.
4773
477425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4775
477626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4777
4778
4779Exim version 4.41
4780-----------------
4781
4782 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4783 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4784 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4785 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4786 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4787 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4788
4789
4790Exim version 4.40
4791-----------------
4792
4793 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4794 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4795
4796 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4797 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4798 socklen_t is defined.
4799
4800 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4801 always exist.
4802
4803 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4804 configured.
4805
4806 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4807 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4808 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4809 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4810 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4811
4812 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4813 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4814 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4815 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4816
4817 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4818 of flapping under certain conditions.
4819
4820 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4821 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4822 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4823
4824 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4825
482610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4827
482811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4829 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4830 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4831 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4832
483312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4834 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4835 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4836 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4837 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4838 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4839 preserved with the message after it was received.
4840
484113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4842 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4843 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4844 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4845 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4846 test suite worked just fine.
4847
484814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4849 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4850 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4851
485215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4853 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4854 string.
4855
485616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4857 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4858 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4859 does not fully solve it.
4860
486117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4862 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4863 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4864 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4865 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4866
486718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4868 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4869 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4870
487119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4872 string, for example:
4873
4874 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4875
4876 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4877 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4878 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4879 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4880 the routers could not see them.
4881
488220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4883 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4884
488521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4886 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4887 output).
4888
488922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4890 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4891 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4892 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4893 that needed quoting.
4894
489523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4896 was not being matched caselessly.
4897
489824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4899 backslashes.
4900
490125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4902 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4903 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4904 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4905 when use_sender is false.
4906
490726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4908
490927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4910
491128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4912
491329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4914 the configuration file.
4915
491630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4917 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4918
491931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4920
492132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4922 bytes in the message body.
4923
492433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4925 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4926 delivery.
4927
492834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4929
493035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4931
493236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4933 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4934 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4935 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4936 another IP address.
4937
4938
4939Exim version 4.34
4940-----------------
4941
4942 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4943 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4944
4945 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4946 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4947 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4948 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4949 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4950
4951 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4952 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4953
4954 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4955 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4956 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4957
4958 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4959 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4960 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4961
4962 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4963 for routers.
4964
4965 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4966 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4967 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4968 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4969 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4970 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4971 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4972
4973
4974Exim version 4.33
4975-----------------
4976
4977 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4978 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4979 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4980 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4981 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4982 default (and expected) setting.
4983
4984 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4985 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4986 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4987 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4988
4989 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4990 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4991
4992 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4993 in domain lists.
4994
4995 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4996 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4997 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4998 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4999 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5000 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5001
5002 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5003 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5004 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5005
5006 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5007 part (NOT match_host).
5008
5009 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5010
5011 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5012 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5013 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5014 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5015 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5016 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5017 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5018 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5019 the same named file.
5020
502110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5022 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5023 when Exim is built.
5024
502511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5026 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5027 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5028 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5029 a host name.
5030
503112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5032 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5033 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5034
503513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5036
503714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5038
503915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5040
504116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5042 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5043
504417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5045 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5046 before starting the TLS session.
5047
504818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5049
505019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5051 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5052
505320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5054 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5055 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5056 colon in the middle).
5057
5058
5059Exim version 4.32
5060-----------------
5061
5062 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5063 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5064 multiple configurations are in use.
5065
5066 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5067 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5068 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5069 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5070 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5071 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5072
5073 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5074 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5075
5076 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5077 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5078 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5079
5080 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5081 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5082 occurs.
5083
5084 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5085 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5086
5087 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5088
5089 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5090 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5091
5092 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5093
5094 -prval:sval
5095
5096 is equivalent to
5097
5098 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5099
5100 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5101 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5102 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5103 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5104 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5105
510610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5107 Exim's behaviour:
5108
5109 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5110 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5111 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5112 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5113 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5114 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5115
5116 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5117 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5118 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5119 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5120 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5121 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5122 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5123 string.
5124
5125 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5126 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5127 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5128 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5129 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5130
513111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5132
513312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5134 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5135 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5136
513713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5138
513914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5140 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5141 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5142 information.
5143
514415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5145 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5146
514716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5148 Three changes have been made:
5149
5150 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5151 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5152 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5153 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5154 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5155
5156 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5157 been restored.
5158
5159 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5160 the modified behaviour.
5161
5162
5163Exim version 4.31
5164-----------------
5165
5166 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5167 Larry Rosenman.
5168
5169 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5170 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5171
5172 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5173 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5174 try to track down a specific problem.
5175
5176 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5177 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5178 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5179
5180 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5181 warning.
5182
5183 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5184 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5185 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5186 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5187 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5188 some earlier ones do not.
5189
5190 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5191
5192 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5193 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5194 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5195 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5196 address literals are enabled, of course).
5197
5198 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5199
520010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5201 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5202 by a command such as
5203
5204 exim -f "" ...
5205
5206 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5207
520811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5209
521012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5211 remained set. It is now erased.
5212
521313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5214 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5215
521614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5217 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5218 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5219 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5220 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5221 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5222 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5223 appropriate error code.
5224
522515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5226 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5227 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5228 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5229 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5230 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5231
523216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5233 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5234 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5235
523617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5237 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5238 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5239 terminate the header.
5240
524118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5242 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5243 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5244
524519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5246 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5247 (4.30/29). In particular:
5248
5249 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5250 imposed.
5251
5252 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5253 to write a maildirsize file.
5254
5255 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5256 the transport, the new value overrides.
5257
5258 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5259 count.
5260
526120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5262 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5263 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5264 space or a tab.
5265
526621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5267 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5268 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5269 the fallback hosts.
5270
527122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5272 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5273 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5274
527523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5276 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5277 using a union.
5278
527924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5280 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5281 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5282
528325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5284
528526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5286
528727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5288
528928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5290 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5291 become corrupted.
5292
529329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5294 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5295 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5296 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5297 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5298 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5299 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5300 too great.
5301
530230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5303 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5304 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5305 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5306 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5307 incorrectly.
5308
530931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5310 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5311 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5312 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5313 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5314 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5315 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5316 cached value only when the same options are set.
5317
531832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5319
532033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5321 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5322 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5323 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5324 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5325
532634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5327 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5328 it is clearly obsolete.
5329
533035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5331 transport.
5332
533336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5334 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5335 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5336 times.
5337
533837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5339 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5340 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5341 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5342 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5343
534438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5345 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5346 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5347 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5348
534939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5350
5351 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5352
5353 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5354 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5355 2^31.
5356
535740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5358 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5359 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5360 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5361 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5362 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5363 $localpart_data.
5364
536541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5366 with the -f command-line option.
5367
536842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5369 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5370 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5371 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5372 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5373 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5374
537543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5376 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5377 line.
5378
537944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5380 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5381 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5382 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5383 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5384 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5385 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5386 buffer is too small.
5387
538845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5389 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5390
539146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5392 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5393 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5394 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5395 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5396 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5397 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5398 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5399 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5400
540147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5402 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5403 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5404
540548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5406 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5407 ACL").
5408
540949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5410 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5411 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5412 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5413 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5414
541550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5416 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5417 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5418 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5419 is set.
5420
542151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5422
542352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5424
542553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5426 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5427
542854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5429 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5430 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5431
543255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5433 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5434 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5435 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5436 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5437
543856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5439 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5440 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5441 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5442 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5443 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5444 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5445
544657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5447 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5448 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5449 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5450 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5451 the test of how many are available.
5452
545358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5454 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5455 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5456 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5457 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5458 new message is started.
5459
546059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5461 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5462
546360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5464 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5465
546661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5467 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5468 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5469 is no long logged.
5470
547162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5472 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5473 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5474 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5475 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5476 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5477 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5478
547963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5480 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5481 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5482 interpreted as octal.
5483
548464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5485 setting.
5486
548765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5488 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5489 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5490 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5491 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5492 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5493
549466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5495 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5496 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5497 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5498
5499 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5500 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5501 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5502 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5503
5504 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5505 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5506 is a bug fix.
5507
5508 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5509 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5510
551167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5512
551368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5514 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5515 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5516 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5517
551869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5519 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5520 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5521 supplied", which is not helpful.
5522
552370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5524 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5525 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5526
552771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5528 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5529 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5530 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5531 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5532 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5533 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5534 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5535
553672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5537 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5538 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5539 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5540 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5541
554273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5543 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5544 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5545 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5546 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5547 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5548
554974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5550 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5551 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5552
555375. Added write_rejectlog option.
5554
555576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5556 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5557 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5558 variables.
5559
556077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5561
556278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5563 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5564 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5565 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5566 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5567 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5568 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5569 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5570
557179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5572 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5573 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5574 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5575 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5576
557780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5578 Haardt.
5579
558081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5581 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5582 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5583 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5584 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5585 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5586 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5587 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5588 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5589
5590
5591Exim version 4.30
5592-----------------
5593
5594 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5595 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5596 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5597
5598 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5599 fixed.
5600
5601 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5602 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5603 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5604
5605 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5606 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5607 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5608 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5609 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5610 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5611
5612 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5613 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5614 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5615 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5616 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5617 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5618 the Exim test suite.
5619
5620 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5621 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5622 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5623 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5624
5625 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5626 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5627 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5628 specify it in this variable.
5629
5630 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5631 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5632 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5633 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5634
5635 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5636 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5637 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5638 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5639
5640 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5641 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5642 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5643 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5644 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5645
5646 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5647
564810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5649 they are logged.
5650
565111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5652 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5653 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5654 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5655 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5656
565712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5658 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5659
566013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5661 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5662 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5663 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5664 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5665
566614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5667 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5668
566915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5670 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5671 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5672
567316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5674 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5675
567617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5677 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5678
567918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5680 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5681 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5682
568319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5684 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5685
568620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5687 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5688 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5689 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5690
569121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5692
569322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5694 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5695 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5696 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5697
569823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5699
570024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5701 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5702
570325. Added .include_if_exists.
5704
570526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5706 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5707 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5708 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5709 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5710 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5711
571227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5713
571428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5715 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5716 this.
5717
571829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5719
572030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5721 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5722
5723 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5724 550 Sender verify failed
5725
5726 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5727 the final line of the response.
5728
572931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5730 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5731 all other user lookups.
5732
573332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5734 delivery time.
5735
573633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5737 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5738 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5739 result into an int without checking.
5740
574134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5742 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5743 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5744
574535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5746 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5747 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5748 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5749
575036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5751 correctly.
5752
575337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5754 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5755
575638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5757 to the empty sender.
5758
575939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5760 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5761 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5762 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5763 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5764 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5765 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5766 panic log.
5767
576840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5769 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5770 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5771 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5772 used.
5773
577441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5775 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5776
577742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5778 timestamps.
5779
578043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5781 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5782
578344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5784
578545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5786 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5787 logs.
5788
578946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5790 as soon as it is encountered.
5791
579247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5793
579448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5795 rewritten to "<>".
5796
579749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5798 recognizes a tab character.
5799
580050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5801 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5802 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5803 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5804
580551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5806
580752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5808 crash.
5809
581053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5811
581254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5813
581455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5815 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5816 2822.
5817
581856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5819 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5820 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5821 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5822 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5823
582457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5825 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5826
582758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5828 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5829 list (.included file names were always shown).
5830
583159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5832 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5833 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5834 root at that time.
5835
583660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5837 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5838
583961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5840
584162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5842
584363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5844
584564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5846 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5847 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5848 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5849 failures to open the logs.
5850
585165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5852 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5853 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5854 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5855 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5856 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5857 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5858
5859
5860Exim version 4.24
5861-----------------
5862
5863 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5864 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5865 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5866 change 4.23/1.
5867
5868 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5869 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5870 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5871
5872 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5873 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5874 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5875
5876 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5877 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5878 causing some misleading effects.
5879
5880 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5881 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5882 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5883
5884 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5885 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5886 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5887 queue-runner function directly.
5888
5889
5890Exim version 4.23
5891-----------------
5892
5893 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5894 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5895
5896 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5897 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5898 was always written to the default place.
5899
5900 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5901 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5902 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5903
5904 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5905
5906 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5907
5908 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5909 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5910 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5911
5912 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5913 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5914 must start.
5915
5916 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5917 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5918 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5919
5920 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5921 command line option is disabled.
5922
5923 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5924 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5925
5926 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5927
5928 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5929
5930 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5931 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5932
593310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5934
593511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5936 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5937 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5938 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5939 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5940 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5941
594212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5943 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5944 timeout.
5945
594613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5947 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5948
594914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5950 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5951
595215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5953 received was valid base64.
5954
595516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5956 name of the variable that was being set.
5957
595817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5959
596018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5961 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5962 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5963 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5964 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5965 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5966
596719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5968
596920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5970 nor realm was specified.
5971
597221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5973 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5974 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5975 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5976
597722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5978 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5979 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5980
598123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5982 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5983 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5984
598524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5986 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5987 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5988 some systems use these upper case variants.
5989
599025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5991 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5992 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5993 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5994
599526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5996
599727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5998 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5999
600028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6001 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6002 expansion variable.
6003
600429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6005
600630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6007 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6008 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6009 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6010
601131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6012 using it.
6013
601432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6015 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6016 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6017
601833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6019 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6020
602134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6022 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6023 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6024 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6025
602635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6027 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6028 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6029
603036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6031
603237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6033 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6034 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6035 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6036 aborted.
6037
603838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6039 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6040 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6041
604239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6043
604440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6045 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6046
604741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6048 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6049
605042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6051 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6052 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6053 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6054 when emails are that large.
6055
6056
6057
6058Exim version 4.22
6059-----------------
6060
6061 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6062 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6063
6064 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6065 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6066 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6067
6068 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6069 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6070 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6071
6072 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6073 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6074 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6075 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6076 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6077
6078 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6079 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6080 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6081 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6082 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6083 ever.
6084
6085 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6086 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6087 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6088 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6089 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6090 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6091 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6092 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6093 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6094 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6095 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6096 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6097 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6098 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6099
6100 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6101 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6102 parameterised it.
6103
6104 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6105 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6106 error should be diagnosed.
6107
6108 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6109 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6110 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6111 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6112 appeared instead of "NULL".
6113
611410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6115 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6116 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6117 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6118 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6119 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6120 proceeds).
6121
6122 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6123 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6124 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6125
6126
6127Exim version 4.21
6128-----------------
6129
6130 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6131 or receiver verification errors.
6132
6133 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6134 name.
6135
6136 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6137 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6138 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6139 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6140
6141 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6142 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6143 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6144 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6145 shouldn't happen again.
6146
6147 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6148 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6149 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6150
6151 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6152 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6153
6154 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6155
6156 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6157 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6158
6159 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6160 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6161 RFC.
6162
616310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6164 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6165 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6166
616711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6168 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6169 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6170 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6171
617212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6173 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6174 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6175 to define what should happen).
6176
617713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6178 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6179 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6180
618114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6182
618315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6184
618516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6186 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6187
618817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6189 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6190 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6191 structure in all cases.
6192
6193 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6194 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6195 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6196 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6197
619818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6199 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6200 domain name.
6201
620219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6203 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6204
620520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6206 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6207
620821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6209 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6210 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6211
621222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6213 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6214 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6215
621623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6217 the book and for uniformity.
6218
621924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6220
622125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6222 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6223 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6224 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6225 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6226 non-existent command as the problem.
6227
622826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6229 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6230 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6231
623227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6233
623428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6235 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6236 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6237
623829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6239 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6240 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6241 timestamps using strftime().
6242
624330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6244 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6245
624632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6247 transport-time rewrites.
6248
624933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6250 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6251 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6252 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6253
625434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6255 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6256
625735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6258 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6259 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6260 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6261 comma and a space.
6262
626336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6264 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6265 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6266 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6267 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6268 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6269 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6270
627137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6272 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6273 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6274 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6275 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6276
627738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6278 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6279 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6280 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6281 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6282 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6283 remaining text gets split now.
6284
628539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6286 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6287 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6288 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6289
629040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6291 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6292 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6293 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6294 $return_path.
6295
629641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6297 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6298 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6299 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6300 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6301 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6302 passed through if needed.
6303
630442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6305 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6306 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6307 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6308 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6309 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6310
631143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6312 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6313 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6314 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6315 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6316
631744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6318 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6319 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6320 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6321 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6322
632345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6324 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6325 noticed.
6326
632746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6328 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6329 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6330 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6331 mayhem of various kinds.
6332
633347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6334 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6335 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6336 the right test for positive values.
6337
633848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6339 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6340 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6341 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6342 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6343 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6344 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6345 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6346 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6347 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6348 envelope.
6349
635049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6351 module.
6352
635350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6354 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6355 forbidding it.
6356
635751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6358 the existing equality matching.
6359
636052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6361 dealing with inode numbers.
6362
636353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6364 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6365 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6366
636754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6368 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6369 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6370 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6371 local_scan().
6372
637355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6374 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6375 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6376 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6377 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6378 relay addresses has also been removed.
6379
638056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6381
638257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6383 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6384 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6385
638658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6387 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6388 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6389 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6390 processing applies to CR:
6391
6392 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6393 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6394
6395 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6396 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6397 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6398 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6399
640059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6401 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6402 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6403
640460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6405 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6406 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6407 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6408 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6409 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6410 arisen.
6411
641261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6413 program routers.
6414
641562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6416 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6417 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6418 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6419 adds:
6420
6421 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6422
6423 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6424
6425 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6426
642763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6428 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6429 not considered personal.
6430
643164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6432
643365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6434
643566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6436
643767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6438 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6439 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6440 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6441 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6442 header lines, and spool format errors.
6443
644468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6445 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6446 for more flexibility.
6447
644869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6449 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6450 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6451
645270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6453 Sabourenkov.
6454
645571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6456 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6457 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6458 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6459 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6460 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6461 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6462 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6463 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6464
646572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6466 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6467 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6468 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6469 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6470 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6471 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6472
647373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6474 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6475 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6476
647774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6478 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6479 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6480 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6481 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6482 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6483 instead of killing the process with assert().
6484
648575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6486 than Unicode encoding.
6487
648876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6489 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6490 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6491 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6492
649377. Added process_log_path.
6494
649578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6496 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6497
649879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6499 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6500
650180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6502 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6503 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6504
650581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6506 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6507 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6508 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6509 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6510 were applied:
6511
6512 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6513 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6514 as invalid.
6515
651682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6517 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6518 they will be used during message reception.
6519
6520
6521Exim version 4.20
6522-----------------
6523
6524The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6525
6526****