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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5
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8
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9MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
10 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
11 Jan Srzednicki.
12
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13PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
14 issue a MAIL command.
15
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16PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
17
18 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
19
20 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
21 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
22 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
23 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
24 item. This has been fixed.
25
26PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
27 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
28
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29PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
30 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
31
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32PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
33 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
34 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
35
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36SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
37
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38PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
39 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
40 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
41 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
42 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
43
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44MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
45 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
46 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
47
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48PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
49 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
50 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
51 the server_setid option was incorrect.
52
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53PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
54
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55PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
56
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57PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
58 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
59 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
60 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
61 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
62
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63PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
64
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65PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
66 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
67 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
68 values).
69
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70PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
71
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72PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
73
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74PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
75
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76PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
77
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78PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
79
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80PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
81 no_callout_flush is set.
82
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86
87PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
88 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
89
90 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
91 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
92
93 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
94 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
95 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
96
97 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
98 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
99 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
100 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
101 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
102
103
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106
107TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
108 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
109 versions. (#438)
110
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111MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
112 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
113 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
114
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115PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
116 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
117 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
118 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
119 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
120 rather than extend the field.
121
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126TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
127 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
128 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
129 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
130 these files.
131
132TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
133 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
134 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
135
136TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
137 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
138 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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140TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
141 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
142 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
143 in the field name.
144
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145PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
146 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
147 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
148 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
149 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
150 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
151 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
152 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
153 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
154 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
155 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
156
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157PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
158 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
159
160PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
161 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
162 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
163 ignores EPIPE as well.
164
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165PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
166 (quoted-printable decoding).
167
cc2ed8f7 168PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 169 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 170
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171PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
172
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173PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
174
175PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
176
38a0a95f 177PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 178 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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180JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
181 in 4.64-PH/09.
182
183JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
184 miscellaneous code fixes
185
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186PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
187 rejections.
188
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189PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
190 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
191 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
192 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
193 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
194 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
195 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
196 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 197
14aa5a05 198PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 199 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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200 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
201 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
202 function.
203 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
204 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
205 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
206 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
207 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
208 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
209 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
210 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
211 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
212
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213PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
214 decoding.
215
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216PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
217 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
218 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
219 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
220 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
221 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
222 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
223 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
224
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225PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
226 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
227 list.
228
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229PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
230 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
231 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
232 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
233 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
234 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
235 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
236 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
237 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
238 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
239 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
240 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
241 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
242
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243PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
244 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
245 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
246 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
247 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
248 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
249 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
250
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251PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
252 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
253 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
254 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
255 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
256 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
257 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
258 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
259 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
260 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
261
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262PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
263 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
264 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
265 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
266 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
267
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268PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
269 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
270 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
271 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
272 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
273 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
274 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
275
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276PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
277 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
278 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
279 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
280 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
281 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
282 been verified.
283
48da4259 284PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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285 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
286 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
287 and authorization.)
288
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289PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
290 if any retry times were supplied.
291
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292PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
293 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
294 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
295
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296PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
297
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298PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
299
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300PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
301 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
302 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
303 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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304 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
305 before) are ignored.
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307PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
308 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
309
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310PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
311 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
312 committing the later change.]
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313
314PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
315 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
316 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
317 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
318 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
319 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
320 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
321 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
322 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
323
324 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
325 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
326 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
327 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
328 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
329 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
330 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
331 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
332 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
333
334 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
335 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
336 hammering the server.
337
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338PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
339 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
340
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341PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
342
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343PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
344 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
345 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
346
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347PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
348 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
349 one case where this was not true.
350
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351PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
352 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
353 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
354 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
355 fails.
356
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357PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
358 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
359 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
360 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
361 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
362 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
363 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
364 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
365 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
366 smtp transport.
367
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368PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
369 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
370 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
371 same for both kinds of LMTP.
372
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373PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
374 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
375
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376PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
377 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
378 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
379
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380PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
381
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382PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
383
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384PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
385
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386PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
387 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
388 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
389 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
390
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391PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
392 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
393
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394PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
395 be meaningful with "accept".
396
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397SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
398 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
399
400SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
401 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
402 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
403
404SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
405 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
406 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
407 there is data to show.
408 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
409
410SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
411 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
412 as well as the number of messages.
413
414SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
415 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
416 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
417
418SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
419 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
420 have a flag are now skipped.
421
422SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
423 Added the -emptyok flag.
424
425SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
426 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
427
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428JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
429 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
430 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
431
432JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
433 match 4.64-PH/13
434
435JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
436 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
437
438JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
439
440JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
441 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
442
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443PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
444
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445PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
446 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
447 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
448 contravention of the specifications.
449
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450PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
451 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
452 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
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454PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
455 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
456 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
457
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458PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
459
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460MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
461 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
462 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
463 some point in the past.
464
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465PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
466 transport during callout processing was broken.
467
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468PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
469 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
470
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471PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
472 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
473
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474PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
475 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
476
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477PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
478
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482
483SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
484 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
485
486SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
487 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
488 there is data to show.
489 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
490
491SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
492 as the number of messages in eximstats.
493
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494TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
495 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 496
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497TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
498 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 499
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500TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
501 submissions from trusted users.
502
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503TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
504 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
505
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506TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
507 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
508 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
509 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
510 there is now a framework to start from.
511
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512PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
513 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
514 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
515
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516PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
517
4608d683
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518PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
519
b8dc3e4a
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520PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
521
5418e93b
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522PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
523 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
524 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
525
b4a9bda2
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526PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
527 libradius.
528
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529PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
530 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
531 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
532
5547e2c5
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533PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
534 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
535 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
536 its arguments.
537
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538PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
539 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
540 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
541 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
542 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
543
25257489
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544PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
545 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
546
c816d124
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547PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
548
a9ccd69a
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549PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
550 operations in malware.c.
551
75fa1910
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552PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
553 signatures.
554
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555PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
556 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
557 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
558 all.
559
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560PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
561 statements to "add_header".
562
41609df5
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563PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
564 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
565
a5bd321b
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566PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
567 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
568 latter.
569
e85a7ad5 570PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
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571 so that it is now:
572
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573 ${if or { \
574 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
575 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
576 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
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577 }{no}{yes}}
578
e85a7ad5
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579 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
580 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 581
d8fe1c03
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582PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
583 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
584
16282d2b
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585PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
586 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
587 any possible encoding problems.
588
35d40a98
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589PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
590 but not after initializing Perl.
591
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592PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
593 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
594 apparently, which is not desirable.
595
6ec97b1b
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596PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
597 queries.
598
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599JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
600 --not options
601
602JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
603
33d73e3b
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604PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
605 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
606 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
607 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
608
9ecb03f3
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609PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
610 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
611 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
612
084efe8d
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613PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
614 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
615 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
616 0.12.
617
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618PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
619 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
620 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
621 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
622 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
623
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625Exim version 4.62
626-----------------
627
628TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
629 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
630
1cce3af8
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631PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
632 patch).
633
afb3eaaf
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634PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
635 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
636 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
637 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
638 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
639 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
640 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
641 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
642 451 error is used.
643
e173618b
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644PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
645
dd16e114
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646PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
647 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
648 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
649
f7fd3850
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650PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
651 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
652 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
653 odd errors.
654
d87df92c
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655PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
656 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
657
7e9f683d
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658PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
659 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
660 option (which defaults to 0600).
661
bfad5236
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662PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
663
01c490df
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664PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
665 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
666 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
667 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
668 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
669 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
670 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
671
d6629cdc
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672PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
673
1cce3af8 674
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675Exim version 4.61
676-----------------
677
678PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
679 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
680 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
681 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
682 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
683 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
684 addresses as local.
685
f9daeae0
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686PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
687 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
688
7e66e54d
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689PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
690
c8ea1597
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691PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
692 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
693 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
694 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
695 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
696 grumble.
697
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698PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
699 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
700
47ca6d6c
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701PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
702 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
703 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
704 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
705 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
706
ed0e9820
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707PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
708 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
709 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
710 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
711
eff37e47
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712PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
713 be the same on different OS.
714
1921d2ea
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715PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
716 testing.
717
b3f69ca8
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718JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
719 whether --show-vars was specified or not
720
721JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
722 in 4.61-PH/06
723
424a1c63
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724PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
725 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
726 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
727 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
728 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
729 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
730 bounce message.
731
7a100415
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732PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
733 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
734 when Exim was called.
735
19b9dc85
PH
736PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
737 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
738
309bd837
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739PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
740 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
741 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
742 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
743
59e82a2a
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744PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
745 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
746 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
747 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
748 changes:
749
750 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
751 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
752 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
753
754 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
755 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
756 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
757
9edc04ce
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758PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
759 feature).
760
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761PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
762 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
763 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
764 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
765 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
766 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
767 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
768 values from the SRV records were lost.
769
ea49d0e1
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770PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
771 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
772 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
773
064a94c9
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774PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
775 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
776 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
777
727071f8
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778PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
779 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
780 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
781 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
782 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
783 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
784 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
785 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
786 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 787 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 788
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789PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
790 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
791 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
792
21c28500
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793PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
794 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
795
796PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
797 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
798 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
799 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
800 is given.
801
1688f43b
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802PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
803 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
804 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
805
806PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
807 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
808 PH/23 above applies.
809
9675b384
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810PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
811 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
812 (for which there is an explicit test).
813
6a3f1455
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814PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
815
dac79d3e
PH
816PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
817 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
818 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
819 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
820 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 821
5977a0b3
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822PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
823 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
824 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
825 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
826
c91535f3
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827PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
828 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
829 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
830
0d46a8c8
PH
831PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
832
278c6e6c
PH
833PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
834
2cbb4081
PH
835PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
836 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
837 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
838
3eef829e
PH
839PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
840 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
841 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
842 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
843 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
844
1ab95fa6
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845PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
846 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
847 the message gets confusing).
848
230205fc
PH
849PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
850 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
851 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
852 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
853
75e0e026
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854PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
855 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
856 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
857 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
858 same order.
859
860PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
861 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
862 the different processes.
863
145396a6
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864PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
865
3cd34f13
PH
866PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
867
11121d3d
JJ
868JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
869 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
870
871JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
872 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
873
874JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
875 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
876 messages matching specified criteria.
877
8def5aaf
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878PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
879
929ba01c
PH
880PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
881 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
882
2632889e
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883PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
884 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
885 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
886 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
887 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
888 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
889 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
890 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
891 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
892 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
893
944a9c55
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894PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
895 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
896 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
897
4a23603b
PH
898PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
899
4730f942
PH
900PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
901 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
902 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
903 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
904 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
905 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
906 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
907 the variable.
908
30dba1e6
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909PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
910 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
911
382afc6b
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912PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
913
a86229cf
PH
914PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
915
50c99ba6
PH
916PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
917
d35e429d
PH
918PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
919 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
920 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
921 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
922 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
923 size of the count of files.
924
f90d018c
PH
925PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
926
75def545
PH
927PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
928 used in LMTP mode:
929
930 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
931 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
932 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
933 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
934
935 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
936 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
937 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
938
939PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
940 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
941 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
942 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
943 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
944
c46782ef
PH
945PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
946 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
947
71fafd95
PH
948PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
949 will now be deprecated.
950
2c5db4fd
PH
951PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
952
9cf6b11a
JJ
953JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
954 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
955 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
956
957JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
958 with very large, slow to parse queues
959
960JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
961
962JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
963
898d150f
PH
964PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
965 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
966 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
967 SMTP output lines.
968
46218253
PH
969PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
970 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
971 Sieve code now uses this.
972
e97957bc
PH
973PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
974 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
975
81e509d7
PH
976PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
977 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
978
3d240ff7
PH
979PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
980
b37c4101
PH
981PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
982 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
983 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
984 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
985 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
986
79378e0f
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987PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
988 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
989 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
990 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
991
e49c7bb4
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992PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
993
d114ec46
PH
994PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
995
f3d7df6c
PH
996PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
997 is preferred over IPv4.
998
715ab376
PH
999PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1000 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1001 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1002 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1003 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1004 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1005 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1006
6b31b150
PH
1007PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1008 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1009 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1010
1011PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1012
d515a917
PH
1013PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1014 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1015 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1016 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1017 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1018 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1019 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1020 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1021 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1022 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1023 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1024
9b8fadde
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1025PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1026 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1027 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1028
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1030Exim version 4.60
1031-----------------
1032
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PH
1033PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1034
1035 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1036 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1037
1038 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1039 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1040 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1041
72fdd6ae
PH
1042PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1043
1044 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1045 not a single digit.
1046
1047 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1048 string.
1049
1050 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1051 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1052 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1053 silly things.
1054
1055 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1056 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1057
1058 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1059 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1060
cb741023
PH
1061PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1062 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1063 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1064
f174f16e
PH
1065PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1066 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1067
c25242d7
PH
1068PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1069 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1070
1071 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1072
1073 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1074 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1075 this:
1076
1077 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1078
82c19f95
PH
1079PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1080 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1081 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1082 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1083 identical. For example:
1084
1085 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1086
1087 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1088 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1089 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1090
d7ffbc12
PH
1091PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1092 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1093 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1094 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1095
9f526266
PH
1096PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1097 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1098 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1099 message.
1100
87fcc8b9
PH
1101PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1102
1103 o fixes some comments
1104 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1105 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1106 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1107 and documents the missing references header update
1108
1109 and most important:
1110
1111 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1112 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1113 result)
1114
456682f5
PH
1115PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1116 Electronic Mail") by including:
1117
1118 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1119
1120 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1121 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1122 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1123 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1124 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1125
1126 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1127
1128 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1129
1130 The auto-replied keyword:
1131
1132 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1133 message by an automatic process,
1134
1135 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1136
1137 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1138 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1139
1140 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1141 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1142 other messages.
1143
3e46c1aa
PH
1144PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1145 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1146
49826d12
PH
1147PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1148
eba0c039
PH
1149PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1150 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1151 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1152
a0d6ba8a
PH
1153PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1154 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1155 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1156
f0917727
PH
1157PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1158 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1159 and treats the condition as false.
1160
096fee00
PH
1161PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1162
024bd3c2
PH
1163PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1164 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1165 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1166 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1167 not changing the active code.
1168
1169 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1170 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1171
1172 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1173 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1174
df199fec
PH
1175PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1176 (Bugzilla #53).
1177
d27f1df3
PH
1178PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1179 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1180 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1181 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1182 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1183 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1184 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1185 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1186 the text comparison.
1187
96776534
PH
1188PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1189 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1190 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1191 The same fix has been applied.
1192
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1194Exim version 4.54
1195-----------------
1196
1197PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1198 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1199 It now does.
1200
99a4b039
PH
1201PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1202 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1203
1204PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1205
4b233853
PH
1206PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1207 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1208 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1209 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1210 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1211
8857ccfd
PH
1212TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1213 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1214 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1215 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1216 or /domain=).
1217
433a2980
PH
1218PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1219 testing suite.
1220
3e46c1aa 1221
9a799bc0 1222
e3a311ba
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1223Exim version 4.53
1224-----------------
1225
1226TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1227 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1228
13b685f9
PH
1229PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1230
395ff96d
PH
1231PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1232
5b68f6e4
PH
1233PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1234 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1235 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1236
1ab52c69
PH
1237PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1238 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1239 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1240
b07e6aa3
PH
1241PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1242 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1243 operating systems.
1244
254e032f
PH
1245PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1246 ${stat: expansion item.
1247
3af76a81
PH
1248PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1249 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1250
2548ba04
PH
1251PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1252 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1253 file for comments.
1254
b6c6011d
PH
1255PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1256
cf39cf57
PH
1257PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1258 setting.
1259
f1513293
PH
1260PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1261 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1262
727549a4
PH
1263TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1264
af46795e
PH
1265PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1266 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1267 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1268 the end of the subprocess.
1269
d7b47fd0
PH
1270PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1271 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1272 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1273 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1274 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1275
ee744174
JJ
1276JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1277
b582ab87
PH
1278TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1279
41a13e0a
PH
1280PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1281 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1282
f625cc5a
PH
1283PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1284
1285PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1286
21f7af35
PH
1287PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1288 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1289 HP-UX compiler.
1290
31480e42
PH
1291PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1292
2d280592
PH
1293PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1294 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1295 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1296
7cd1141b
PH
1297PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1298 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1299
1300PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1301 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1302
750af86e
PH
1303PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1304 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1305
1306 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1307 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1308
1309 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1310 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1311 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1312 contributed by a Radius user.
1313
1314PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1315 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1316
4304270b
TK
1317TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1318 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1319
750af86e
PH
1320PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1321 available.
1322
64ffc24f
PH
1323PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1324 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1325 received.
1326
5dd9625b
PH
1327PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1328 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1329 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1330 header lines when this was not necessary.
1331
5591031b
PH
1332PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1333
ba18e66a
PH
1334PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1335 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1336 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1337 exists".
1338
9cec981f
PH
1339PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1340 -bV or -d is used.
1341
aa2b5c79
PH
1342PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1343 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1344 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1345 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1346
48a53b7f
PH
1347PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1348
1c59d63b
PH
1349PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1350
671012da
TK
1351TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1352
1509d3a8
PH
1353PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1354
1355PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1356 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1357 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1358 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1359 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1360 settings.
1361
1362PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1363
2fe1a124
PH
1364PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1365 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1366 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1367 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1368 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1369 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1370 which is clearly wrong.
1371
8800895a
PH
1372PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1373
ccfdb010
PH
1374PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1375 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1376 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1377 subsequently added.
1378
1130bfb0
PH
1379PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1380 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1381
ebcb507f
PH
1382PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1383
c35e155c
PH
1384PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1385 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1386
95d1f782
PH
1387PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1388 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1389
fd6de02e
PH
1390PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1391 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1392
58de37c5
PH
1393PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1394 recipients, not senders.
1395
261cf466
TF
1396TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1397 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1398
3ee512ff
PH
1399PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1400
e08c430f
PH
1401PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1402
bef5a11f
PH
1403PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1404 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1405 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1406 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1407
7546de58
TF
1408TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1409
e5d5a95f
TF
1410TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1411 clock is set back in time.
1412
2e88a017
TF
1413TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1414 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1415
a5f65aa4
TF
1416TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1417 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1418
e7726cbf
PH
1419PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1420 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1421 (see PH/47 above).
1422
a7fdad5b
TF
1423TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1424 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1425 header rewrites.
1426
6af56900
PH
1427PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1428 type ("H").
1429
0925ede6
PH
1430PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1431
66afa403
TF
1432TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1433 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1434 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1435
0154e85a
TF
1436TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1437 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1438 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1439 helo verification defer as a failure.
1440
16f12c76
PH
1441PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1442 actual error message.
1443
bbe902f0 1444
e5a9dba6
PH
1445Exim version 4.52
1446-----------------
1447
1448TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1449
22c3b60b
PH
1450PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1451 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1452 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1453 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1454
06a9b4b5
PH
1455TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1456
c1ac6996
PH
1457PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1458 can still be requested.
1459
9c7a242c
PH
1460PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1461 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1462 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1463 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1464
87ba3f5f
PH
1465TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1466 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1467 circumstances, but probably never did.
1468
1469PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1470 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1471 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1472 in the header line.
1473
29aba418
TF
1474TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1475
fe0dab11
TF
1476TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1477 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1478
11d337a4
TK
1479TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1480
1481TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1482
415c8f3b
PH
1483PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1484 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1485 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1486 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1487 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1488 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1489
958541e9
PH
1490PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1491 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1492 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1493 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1494 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1495 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1496
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1497TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1498 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1499
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1500PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1501 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1502
1cba11c5
SC
1503SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1504 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1505
1506SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1507
1508SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1509
1510SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1511
1512SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1513
1514SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1515
1516SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1517
1005d00e
TK
1518TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1519
1520TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1521 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1522 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1523
1524TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1525 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1526 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1527 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1528
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1529PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1530 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1531 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1532
1533PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1534 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1535 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1536 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1537
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1538PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1539 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1540 to be made).
1541
1542PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1543 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1544 should work with maildirs and everything.
1545
40727bee
TK
1546TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1547 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1548
554d2369
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1549TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1550 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1551
1f922db1
PH
1552PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1553 function for BDB 4.3.
1554
ef213c3b
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1555PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1556
8ac170f3
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1557PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1558 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1559 involved.
1560
b1c749bb
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1561PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1562 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1563 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
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1564 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1565 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1566 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1567
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1568PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1569 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1570 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1571 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1572 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1573 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1574 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1575 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1576
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1577TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1578 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1579 details.
1580
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1581PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1582 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1583
90e9ce59
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1584PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1585 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1586 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1587 test. It is now used for both.
1588
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1589PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1590 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1591 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1592 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1593 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1594 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1595
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1596PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1597 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1598 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1599 string_vformat().
1600
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1601PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1602 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1603 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1604
9a26b6b2
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1605PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1606 experimental DomainKeys support:
1607
1608 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1609 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1610 the control was given.
1611
1612 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1613
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1614PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1615
32d668a5
PH
1616PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1617
8187c3f3
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1618PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1619 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1620 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1621 db.h files).
1622
ff790e47 1623PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
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1624 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1625 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1626 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1627 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1628 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1629 course.
ff790e47 1630
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1631PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1632 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1633 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1634 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1635 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1636 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1637
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1638PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1639 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1640 do -d+all out of habit.
1641
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1642PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1643 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1644 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1645
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1646PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1647 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1648 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1649 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1650 record types that Exim uses.
1651
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1652PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1653 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1654 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1655 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1656 non-existent file that was broken.
1657
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TK
1658TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1659 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1660
1661TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1662 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1663 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1664
1665TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1666
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1667PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1668 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1669 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1670 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1671 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1672 same time.
1673
a388bce4
SC
1674SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1675 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1676 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1677 at a slight CPU cost.
1678
1679SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1680 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1681
1682SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1683 by Marc Sherman.
1684
0793e4ed
SC
1685SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1686
c58b88df
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1687PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1688 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1689
e7ad8a65 1690
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PH
1691Exim version 4.51
1692-----------------
1693
1a46a8c5
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1694TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1695 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1696
2f079f46 1697TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
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1698
1699TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1700
1701PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1702 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1703
1704PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1705 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1706 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1707 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1708 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1709 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1710 file.
1711
1712PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1713 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1714 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1715 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1716 these two options.
1717
1718PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1719 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1720 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1721 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1722 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1723 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1724 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1725 address.
1a46a8c5
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1726
1727PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1728 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1729
1730PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1731 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1732 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1733 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1734 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1735 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1736
1737PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1738 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1739 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1740 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1741
1742PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1743 Finch).
1744
1745PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1746 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1747
49c2d5ea
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1748PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1749 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1750 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1751 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1752 message.
49c2d5ea 1753
bf759a8b
PH
1754PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1755
83364d30
PH
1756PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1757 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1758
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1759PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1760 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1761 to what was transported.)
1762
7dbf77c9
PH
1763TF/01 Added $received_time.
1764
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1765PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1766 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1767 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1768 spamd_address settings.
1769
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1770PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1771 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1772 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1773 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1774 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1775
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1776PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1777
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1778PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1779 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1780 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1781 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1782 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1783
8b417f2c
PH
1784PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1785 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1786
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1787PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1788 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1789 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1790 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1791 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1792 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1793 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1794 for failure.
1795
f9b9210e
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1796PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1797 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1798 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1799 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1800 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1801 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1802 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1803 "input=".
1804
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1805PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1806
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1807PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1808 driver and ACL definitions.
1809
acb1b346
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1810PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1811 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1812
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1813PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1814 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1815 understands it better than I do:
1816
1817 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1818 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1819
1820 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1821 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1822 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1823 => three warnings about OTP not working
1824 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1825
1826 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1827 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1828 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1829 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1830 for each call.)
1831 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1832 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1833
1834 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1835 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1836 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1837
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1838PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1839 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1840 specified.
1841
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1842PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1843 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1844 "Linux".
1845
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PH
1846PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1847 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1848 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1849
1850 warn !verify = sender
1851 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1852
1853 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1854 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1855
7e8bec7a
PH
1856PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1857
1858 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1859 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1860
1861 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1862 nomenclature these days.)
1863
e4a89c47
PH
1864PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1865 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1866
5ca2a9a1
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1867PH/30 In these circumstances:
1868 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1869 . First host does not offer TLS;
1870 . First host accepts first address;
1871 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1872 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1873 . Second host accepts second address.
1874 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1875 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1876 address.
7e8bec7a 1877
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PH
1878PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1879 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1880 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1881 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1882 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1883
fed77020
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1884PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1885 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1886
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1887PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1888 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1889
ebb6e6d5
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1890PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1891 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1892 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1893
9c4e8f60
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1894PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1895 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1896 overlooked.
1897
1898PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1899
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1900PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1901 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1902 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1903 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1904 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1905 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1906 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1907
1908 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1909 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1910 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1911 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1912 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1913
1914 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1915 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1916 routed further.
1917
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1918PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1919 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1920 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1921 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1922 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1923 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1924
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1925PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1926
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1927PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1928 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1929 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1930 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1931 printable escape sequences.
1932
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1933PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1934 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1935 body only.
1936
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1937PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1938 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1939 are as follows:
1940
1941 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1942 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1943 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1944 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1945 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1946
1947 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1948 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1949 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1950
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1951PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1952
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1953PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1954 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1955 play with."
1956
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1957PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1958 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1959 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1960 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1961 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1962 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1963 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1964 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1965 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1966 the log output.
1967
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1968PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1969 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1970 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1971 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1972 "make".
1973
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1975A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1976----------------------------------------
1977
1978Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1979changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1980needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1981in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1982that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1983release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1984from 4.43.
1985
1986I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
19874.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1988those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1989historical information.
1990
1991
f7b63901 1992Exim version 4.50
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1993-----------------
1994
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1995 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1996
139059f6 1997 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1998 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 1999
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2000 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2001 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2002 place.
2003
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2004 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2005 filter fails to execute.
2006
b668c215
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2007 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2008 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2009 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2010 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2011 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2012
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2013 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2014
2015 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2016 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2017 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2018 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2019
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2020 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2021 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2022 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2023 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2024 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2025
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2026 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2027
5be20824
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202810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2029
eb2c0248
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203011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2031 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2032 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2033 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2034
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203512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2036 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2037 sender verification.
2038
203913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2040 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2041
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204214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2043
4deaf07d
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204415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2045 connection timeout.
2046
926e1192
PH
204716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2048 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2049
650edc6f
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205017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2051 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2052
2c7db3f5
PH
205318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2054 information about exactly what failed.
2055
3d235903
PH
205619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2057
7c7ad977
PH
205820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2059 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2060 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2061
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206221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2063 It is now set to "smtps".
2064
d4eb88df
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206522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2066 ignore_target_hosts.
2067
206823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2069 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2070 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2071 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2072 "[x.x.x.x]".
2073
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207424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2075 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2076 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2077
207825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2079 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2080 wake it up if nothing else does.
2081
62c0818f
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208226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2083 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2084 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2085 end up negative.
2086
26034054
PH
208727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2088 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2089
af66f652
PH
209028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2091
90af77f4
PH
209229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2093 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2094 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2095 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2096 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2097 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2098 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2099 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2100
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210130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2102 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2103 than one IP address.
2104
5cb8cbc6
PH
210531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2106 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2107 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2108 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2109
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211032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2111 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2112 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2113 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2114 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2115 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2116
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211733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2118 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2119 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2120 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2121
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212234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2123 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2124 respected.
2125
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212635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2127 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2128 $sender_host_address.
2129
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213036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2131 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2132 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2133 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2134 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2135 very small.
2136
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213737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2138
2139 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2140 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2141
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2142 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2143 just the host names, not the priorities.
2144
2145 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
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2146 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2147 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2148
ea3bc19b 2149 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2150 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2151
0bcb2a0e
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215238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2153 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2154 domain.
2155
2ac0e484
PH
215639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2157
4e1fde53
PH
215840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2159 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2160
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216141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2162 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2163 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2164
f05da2e8
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216542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2166
d6453af2
PH
216743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2168
f7b63901
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216944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2170
217145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2172 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2173 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2174 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2175 because the tests only now provoked it.
2176
a444213a
PH
217746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2178 (this can affect the format of dates).
2179
0ec020ea
PH
218047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2181 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2182 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2183 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2184
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218548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2186
218749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2188 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2189 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2190 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2191
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219250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2193 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2194 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2195
343b2385
PH
219651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2197 autoreply.
2198
1c5466b9
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219952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2200 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2201 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2202 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2203 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2204 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2205 is going on).
2206
55ee9ee3
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220753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2208 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2209 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2210 the line.
2211
d38f8232
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221254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2213 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2214 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2215
2216 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2217 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2218 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2219 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2220 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2221 so I produce this patch..."
2222
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2223 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2224 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2225 is not defined.
2226
7102e136
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222755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2228 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
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2229 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2230 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2231 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2232
3ca0ba97
PH
223356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2234
c2bcbe20
PH
223557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2236 long debug lines gets shown.
2237
18ce445d
PH
223858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2239 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2240
1f5b4c3d
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224159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2242
2243 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2244 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2245 of $primary_hostname.
2246
b975ba52
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224760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2248 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2249 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2250 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
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PH
2251 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2252 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2253 by change 4.50/55 above.
2254
2255 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2256 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2257 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2258 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2259 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2260 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2261 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
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2262
226361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2264 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2265 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2266 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2267
17ffcae7
PH
226862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2269 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2270
d95f9fdb
PH
227163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2272 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2273 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2274 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2275 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2276
86b8287f
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227764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2278 This has been fixed.
2279
60dc5e56
PH
228065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2281 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2282 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2283 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2284 the caching.)
2285
533244af
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228666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2287
a5a28604
PH
228867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2289 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2290 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2291 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2292
7e634d24
PH
229368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2294 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2295
3e11c26b
PH
229669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2297 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2298 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2299
6729cf78
PH
230070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2301 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2302 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2303 message there.
2304
00f00ca5
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230571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2306 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2307 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2308
c9bdd01c
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230972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2310 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2311 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2312 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2313
d43194df
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231473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2315 during host lookups.
2316
fe5b5d0b
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231774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2318 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2319
2320 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2321
76a2d7ba
PH
232275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2323 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2324 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2325 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2326 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2327 background.
2328
232976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2330 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2331
04f7d5b9
PH
233277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2333 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2334 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2335
bc60667e
PH
233678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2337
bb6e88ff
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233879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2339 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2340 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2341 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2342 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2343 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2344 process earlier.
2345
1e70f85b
PH
234680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2347 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2348 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2349 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2350 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2351
235281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2353 tables).
2354
4e01f9d6
PH
235582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2356
1ee1cef2
PH
235783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2358 "vacation" handling.
2359
6e2b4ccc
PH
236084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2361 OS variants using glibc.
2362
8e669ac1
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236385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2364
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2366----------------------------------------------------
2367See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2368----------------------------------------------------
2369
2370
2371Exim version 4.44
2372-----------------
2373
2374 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2375 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2376 transport
2377
2378 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2379 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2380 place.
2381
2382 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2383 filter fails to execute.
2384
2385 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2386 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2387 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2388 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2389 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2390
2391 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2392 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2393 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2394 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2395
2396 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2397 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2398 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2399 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2400 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2401
2402 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2403
2404 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2405 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2406 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2407 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2408
2409 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2410 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2411 sender verification.
2412
241310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2414 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2415
241611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2417 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2418
241912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2420 ignore_target_hosts.
2421
242213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2423 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2424 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2425 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2426 "[x.x.x.x]".
2427
242814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2429 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2430 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2431
243215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2433 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2434 wake it up if nothing else does.
2435
243616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2437 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2438 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2439 end up negative.
2440
244117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2442 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2443
ea3a6f44 244418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
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2445
244619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2447 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2448 empty pattern.
2449
245020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2451 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2452 one IP address.
2453
ea3a6f44
NM
245421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2455 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2456 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2457 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2458 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2459 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2460
ea3a6f44
NM
246122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2462 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2463 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2464
246523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2466 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2467 $sender_host_address.
2468
246924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2470
ea3a6f44
NM
247125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2472 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2473 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2474
247526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2476 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2477
ea3a6f44
NM
247827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2479 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2480
ea3a6f44
NM
248128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2482 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2483 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2484 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2485
248629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2487 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2488 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2489
ea3a6f44
NM
249030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2491 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2492 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2493 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2494
ea3a6f44
NM
249531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2496 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2497 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2498
ea3a6f44
NM
249931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2500 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2501
ea3a6f44
NM
250232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2503 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2504 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2505 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2506 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2507 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2508 is going on).
bbe902f0 2509
ea3a6f44
NM
251033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2511 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2512 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2513 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2514 CAN-2005-0021
2515
ea3a6f44
NM
251634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2517 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2518 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2519 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2520 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2521 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2522 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2523
2524 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2525 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2526 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2527 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2528 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2529 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2530 CAN-2005-0021
2531
ea3a6f44
NM
253235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2533 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2534 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2535 CAN-2005-0022
2536
ea3a6f44
NM
253736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2538 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2539 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2540 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2541 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2542
ea3a6f44
NM
254337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2544 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2545 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2546 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2547 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2548
ea3a6f44
NM
254938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2550 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2551 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2552 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2553 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
2554
2555
495ae4b0
PH
2556Exim version 4.43
2557-----------------
2558
2559 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2560 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2561 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2562 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2563 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2564 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2565 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2566
2567 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2568 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2569 the delivery.
2570
2571 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2572
2573 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2574
2575 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2576 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2577 to local_scan().
2578
2579 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2580 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2581 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2582 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2583 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2584
2585 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2586 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2587
2588 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2589
2590 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2591
259210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2593 header_sender only.
2594
259511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2596 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2597
259812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2599 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2600 affecting debugging statements).
2601
260213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2603
260414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2605 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2606 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2607 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2608 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2609 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2610 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2611 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2612 after the received time, and all would be well.
2613
261415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2615 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2616 condition in an expansion string.
2617
261816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2619
262017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2621 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2622 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2623 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2624 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2625 job under whatever limits there are.
2626
262718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2628
262919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2630 space).
2631
263220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2633 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2634 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2635 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2636 return path is set.
2637
263821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2639 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2640 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2641 binary data in such strings.
2642
264322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2644
264523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2646 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2647 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2648 failure, which is pointless.
2649
265024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2651
265225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2653
265426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2655 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2656 Sender: header lines.
2657
265827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2659 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2660 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2661
266228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2663 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2664 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2665 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2666 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2667 happens.
2668
266929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2670 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2671 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2672 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2673 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2674
267530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2676 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2677 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2678 1024.
2679
268031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2681 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2682
268332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2684 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2685
268633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2687
268832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2689
269033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2691
269234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2693 syntax error.
2694
269535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2696
269736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2698
269937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2700 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2701 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2702 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2703
270438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2705 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2706
2707
2708Exim version 4.42
2709-----------------
2710
2711 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2712 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2713 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2714 it was not quoted.
2715 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2716 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2717 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2718 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2719 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2720 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2721
2722 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2723 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2724 verification failure".
2725
2726 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2727 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2728 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2729 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2730
2731 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2732 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2733 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2734 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2735 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2736 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2737 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2738 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2739 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2740 treated as a timeout.
2741
2742 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2743 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2744 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2745 not set for Exim filters).
2746
2747 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2748 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2749 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2750
2751 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2752
2753 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2754 try to make them clearer.
2755
2756 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2757 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2758
2759 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2760
2761 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2762
276310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2764 only the Cygwin environment.
2765
276611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2767 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2768 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2769 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2770 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2771
277212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2773 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2774 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2775 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2776 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2777 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2778 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2779
278013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2781 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2782
278314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2784
2785 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2786 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2787 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2788
2789 To: susanne@some.where
2790
2791 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2792 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2793 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2794 of addresses in From: header lines).
2795
2796 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2797 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2798 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2799
2800 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2801 treated as non-personal.
2802
2803 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2804 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2805
280615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2807
280816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2809
281017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2811 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2812 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2813
281418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2815 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2816
281719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2818 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2819 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2820 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2821 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2822 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2823
282420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2825 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2826 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2827 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2828 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2829 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2830 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2831 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2832
2833 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2834
283521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2836 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2837
283822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2839 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2840 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2841
284223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2843 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2844
284524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2846 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2847 rather than long int.
2848
284925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2850
285126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2852
2853
2854Exim version 4.41
2855-----------------
2856
2857 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2858 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2859 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2860 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2861 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2862 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2863
2864
2865Exim version 4.40
2866-----------------
2867
2868 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2869 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2870
2871 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2872 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2873 socklen_t is defined.
2874
2875 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2876 always exist.
2877
2878 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2879 configured.
2880
2881 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2882 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2883 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2884 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2885 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2886
2887 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2888 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2889 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2890 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2891
2892 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2893 of flapping under certain conditions.
2894
2895 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2896 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2897 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2898
2899 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2900
290110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2902
290311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2904 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2905 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2906 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2907
290812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2909 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2910 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2911 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2912 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2913 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2914 preserved with the message after it was received.
2915
291613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2917 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2918 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2919 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2920 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2921 test suite worked just fine.
2922
292314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2924 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2925 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2926
292715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2928 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2929 string.
2930
293116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2932 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2933 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2934 does not fully solve it.
2935
293617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2937 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2938 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2939 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2940 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2941
294218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2943 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2944 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2945
294619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2947 string, for example:
2948
2949 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2950
2951 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2952 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2953 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2954 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2955 the routers could not see them.
2956
295720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2958 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2959
296021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2961 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2962 output).
2963
296422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2965 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2966 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2967 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2968 that needed quoting.
2969
297023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2971 was not being matched caselessly.
2972
297324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2974 backslashes.
2975
297625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2977 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2978 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2979 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2980 when use_sender is false.
2981
298226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2983
298427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2985
298628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2987
298829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2989 the configuration file.
2990
299130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2992 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2993
299431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2995
299632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2997 bytes in the message body.
2998
299933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3000 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3001 delivery.
3002
300334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3004
300535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3006
300736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3008 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3009 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3010 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3011 another IP address.
3012
3013
3014Exim version 4.34
3015-----------------
3016
3017 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3018 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3019
3020 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3021 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3022 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3023 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3024 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3025
3026 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3027 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3028
3029 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3030 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3031 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3032
3033 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3034 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3035 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3036
3037 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3038 for routers.
3039
3040 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3041 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3042 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3043 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3044 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3045 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3046 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3047
3048
3049Exim version 4.33
3050-----------------
3051
3052 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3053 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3054 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3055 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3056 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3057 default (and expected) setting.
3058
3059 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3060 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3061 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3062 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3063
3064 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3065 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3066
3067 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3068 in domain lists.
3069
3070 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3071 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3072 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3073 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3074 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3075 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3076
3077 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3078 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3079 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3080
3081 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3082 part (NOT match_host).
3083
3084 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3085
3086 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3087 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3088 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3089 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3090 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3091 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3092 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3093 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3094 the same named file.
3095
309610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3097 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3098 when Exim is built.
3099
310011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3101 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3102 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3103 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3104 a host name.
3105
310612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3107 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3108 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3109
311013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3111
311214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3113
311415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3115
311616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3117 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3118
311917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3120 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3121 before starting the TLS session.
3122
312318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3124
312519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3126 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3127
312820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3129 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3130 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3131 colon in the middle).
3132
3133
3134Exim version 4.32
3135-----------------
3136
3137 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3138 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3139 multiple configurations are in use.
3140
3141 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3142 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3143 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3144 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3145 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3146 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3147
3148 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3149 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3150
3151 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3152 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3153 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3154
3155 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3156 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3157 occurs.
3158
3159 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3160 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3161
3162 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3163
3164 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3165 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3166
3167 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3168
3169 -prval:sval
3170
3171 is equivalent to
3172
3173 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3174
3175 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3176 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3177 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3178 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3179 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3180
318110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3182 Exim's behaviour:
3183
3184 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3185 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3186 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3187 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3188 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3189 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3190
3191 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3192 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3193 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3194 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3195 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3196 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3197 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3198 string.
3199
3200 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3201 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3202 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3203 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3204 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3205
320611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3207
320812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3209 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3210 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3211
321213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3213
321414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3215 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3216 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3217 information.
3218
321915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3220 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3221
322216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3223 Three changes have been made:
3224
3225 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3226 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3227 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3228 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3229 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3230
3231 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3232 been restored.
3233
3234 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3235 the modified behaviour.
3236
3237
3238Exim version 4.31
3239-----------------
3240
3241 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3242 Larry Rosenman.
3243
3244 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3245 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3246
3247 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3248 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3249 try to track down a specific problem.
3250
3251 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3252 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3253 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3254
3255 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3256 warning.
3257
3258 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3259 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3260 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3261 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3262 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3263 some earlier ones do not.
3264
3265 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3266
3267 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3268 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3269 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3270 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3271 address literals are enabled, of course).
3272
3273 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3274
327510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3276 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3277 by a command such as
3278
3279 exim -f "" ...
3280
3281 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3282
328311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3284
328512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3286 remained set. It is now erased.
3287
328813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3289 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3290
329114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3292 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3293 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3294 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3295 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3296 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3297 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3298 appropriate error code.
3299
330015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3301 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3302 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3303 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3304 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3305 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3306
330716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3308 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3309 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3310
331117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3312 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3313 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3314 terminate the header.
3315
331618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3317 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3318 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3319
332019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3321 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3322 (4.30/29). In particular:
3323
3324 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3325 imposed.
3326
3327 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3328 to write a maildirsize file.
3329
3330 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3331 the transport, the new value overrides.
3332
3333 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3334 count.
3335
333620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3337 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3338 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3339 space or a tab.
3340
334121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3342 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3343 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3344 the fallback hosts.
3345
334622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3347 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3348 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3349
335023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3351 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3352 using a union.
3353
335424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3355 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3356 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3357
335825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3359
336026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3361
336227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3363
336428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3365 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3366 become corrupted.
3367
336829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3369 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3370 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3371 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3372 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3373 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3374 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3375 too great.
3376
337730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3378 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3379 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3380 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3381 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3382 incorrectly.
3383
338431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3385 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3386 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3387 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3388 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3389 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3390 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3391 cached value only when the same options are set.
3392
339332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3394
339533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3396 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3397 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3398 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3399 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3400
340134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3402 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3403 it is clearly obsolete.
3404
340535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3406 transport.
3407
340836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3409 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3410 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3411 times.
3412
341337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3414 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3415 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3416 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3417 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3418
341938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3420 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3421 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3422 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3423
342439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3425
3426 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3427
3428 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3429 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3430 2^31.
3431
343240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3433 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3434 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3435 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3436 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3437 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3438 $localpart_data.
3439
344041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3441 with the -f command-line option.
3442
344342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3444 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3445 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3446 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3447 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3448 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3449
345043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3451 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3452 line.
3453
345444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3455 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3456 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3457 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3458 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3459 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3460 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3461 buffer is too small.
3462
346345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3464 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3465
346646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3467 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3468 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3469 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3470 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3471 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3472 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3473 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3474 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3475
347647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3477 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3478 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3479
348048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3481 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3482 ACL").
3483
348449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3485 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3486 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3487 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3488 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3489
349050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3491 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3492 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3493 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3494 is set.
3495
349651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3497
349852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3499
350053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3501 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3502
350354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3504 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3505 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3506
350755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3508 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3509 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3510 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3511 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3512
351356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3514 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3515 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3516 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3517 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3518 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3519 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3520
352157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3522 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3523 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3524 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3525 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3526 the test of how many are available.
3527
352858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3529 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3530 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3531 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3532 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3533 new message is started.
3534
353559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3536 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3537
353860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3539 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3540
354161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3542 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3543 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3544 is no long logged.
3545
354662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3547 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3548 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3549 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3550 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3551 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3552 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3553
355463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3555 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3556 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3557 interpreted as octal.
3558
355964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3560 setting.
3561
356265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3563 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3564 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3565 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3566 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3567 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3568
356966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3570 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3571 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3572 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3573
3574 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3575 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3576 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3577 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3578
3579 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3580 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3581 is a bug fix.
3582
3583 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3584 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3585
358667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3587
358868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3589 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3590 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3591 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3592
359369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3594 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3595 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3596 supplied", which is not helpful.
3597
359870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3599 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3600 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3601
360271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3603 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3604 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3605 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3606 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3607 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3608 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3609 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3610
361172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3612 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3613 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3614 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3615 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3616
361773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3618 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3619 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3620 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3621 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3622 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3623
362474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3625 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3626 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3627
362875. Added write_rejectlog option.
3629
363076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3631 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3632 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3633 variables.
3634
363577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3636
363778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3638 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3639 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3640 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3641 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3642 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3643 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3644 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3645
364679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3647 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3648 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3649 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3650 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3651
365280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3653 Haardt.
3654
365581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3656 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3657 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3658 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3659 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3660 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3661 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3662 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3663 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3664
3665
3666Exim version 4.30
3667-----------------
3668
3669 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3670 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3671 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3672
3673 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3674 fixed.
3675
3676 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3677 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3678 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3679
3680 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3681 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3682 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3683 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3684 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3685 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3686
3687 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3688 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3689 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3690 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3691 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3692 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3693 the Exim test suite.
3694
3695 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3696 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3697 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3698 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3699
3700 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3701 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3702 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3703 specify it in this variable.
3704
3705 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3706 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3707 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3708 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3709
3710 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3711 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3712 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3713 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3714
3715 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3716 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3717 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3718 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3719 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3720
3721 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3722
372310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3724 they are logged.
3725
372611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3727 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3728 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3729 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3730 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3731
373212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3733 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3734
373513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3736 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3737 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3738 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3739 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3740
374114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3742 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3743
374415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3745 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3746 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3747
374816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3749 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3750
375117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3752 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3753
375418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3755 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3756 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3757
375819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3759 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3760
376120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3762 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3763 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3764 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3765
376621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3767
376822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3769 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3770 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3771 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3772
377323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3774
377524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3776 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3777
377825. Added .include_if_exists.
3779
378026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3781 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3782 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3783 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3784 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3785 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3786
378727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3788
378928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3790 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3791 this.
3792
379329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3794
379530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3796 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3797
3798 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3799 550 Sender verify failed
3800
3801 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3802 the final line of the response.
3803
380431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3805 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3806 all other user lookups.
3807
380832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3809 delivery time.
3810
381133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3812 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3813 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3814 result into an int without checking.
3815
381634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3817 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3818 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3819
382035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3821 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3822 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3823 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3824
382536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3826 correctly.
3827
382837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3829 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3830
383138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3832 to the empty sender.
3833
383439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3835 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3836 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3837 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3838 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3839 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3840 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3841 panic log.
3842
384340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3844 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3845 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3846 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3847 used.
3848
384941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3850 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3851
385242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3853 timestamps.
3854
385543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3856 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3857
385844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3859
386045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3861 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3862 logs.
3863
386446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3865 as soon as it is encountered.
3866
386747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3868
386948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3870 rewritten to "<>".
3871
387249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3873 recognizes a tab character.
3874
387550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3876 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3877 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3878 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3879
388051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3881
388252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3883 crash.
3884
388553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3886
388754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3888
388955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3890 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3891 2822.
3892
389356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3894 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3895 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3896 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3897 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3898
389957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3900 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3901
390258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3903 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3904 list (.included file names were always shown).
3905
390659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3907 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3908 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3909 root at that time.
3910
391160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3912 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3913
391461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3915
391662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3917
391863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3919
392064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3921 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3922 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3923 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3924 failures to open the logs.
3925
392665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3927 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3928 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3929 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3930 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3931 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3932 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3933
3934
3935Exim version 4.24
3936-----------------
3937
3938 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3939 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3940 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3941 change 4.23/1.
3942
3943 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3944 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3945 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3946
3947 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3948 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3949 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3950
3951 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3952 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3953 causing some misleading effects.
3954
3955 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3956 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3957 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3958
3959 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3960 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3961 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3962 queue-runner function directly.
3963
3964
3965Exim version 4.23
3966-----------------
3967
3968 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3969 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3970
3971 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3972 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3973 was always written to the default place.
3974
3975 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3976 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3977 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3978
3979 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3980
3981 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3982
3983 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3984 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3985 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3986
3987 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3988 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3989 must start.
3990
3991 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3992 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3993 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3994
3995 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3996 command line option is disabled.
3997
3998 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3999 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4000
4001 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4002
4003 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4004
4005 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4006 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4007
400810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4009
401011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4011 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4012 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4013 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4014 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4015 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4016
401712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4018 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4019 timeout.
4020
402113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4022 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4023
402414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4025 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4026
402715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4028 received was valid base64.
4029
403016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4031 name of the variable that was being set.
4032
403317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4034
403518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4036 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4037 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4038 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4039 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4040 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4041
404219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4043
404420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4045 nor realm was specified.
4046
404721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4048 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4049 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4050 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4051
405222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4053 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4054 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4055
405623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4057 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4058 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4059
406024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4061 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4062 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4063 some systems use these upper case variants.
4064
406525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4066 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4067 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4068 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4069
407026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4071
407227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4073 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4074
407528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4076 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4077 expansion variable.
4078
407929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4080
408130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4082 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4083 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4084 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4085
408631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4087 using it.
4088
408932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4090 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4091 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4092
409333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4094 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4095
409634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4097 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4098 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4099 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4100
410135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4102 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4103 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4104
410536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4106
410737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4108 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4109 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4110 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4111 aborted.
4112
411338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4114 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4115 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4116
411739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4118
411940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4120 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4121
412241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4123 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4124
412542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4126 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4127 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4128 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4129 when emails are that large.
4130
4131
4132
4133Exim version 4.22
4134-----------------
4135
4136 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4137 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4138
4139 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4140 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4141 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4142
4143 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4144 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4145 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4146
4147 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4148 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4149 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4150 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4151 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4152
4153 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4154 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4155 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4156 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4157 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4158 ever.
4159
4160 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4161 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4162 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4163 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4164 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4165 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4166 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4167 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4168 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4169 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4170 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4171 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4172 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4173 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4174
4175 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4176 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4177 parameterised it.
4178
4179 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4180 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4181 error should be diagnosed.
4182
4183 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4184 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4185 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4186 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4187 appeared instead of "NULL".
4188
418910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4190 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4191 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4192 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4193 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4194 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4195 proceeds).
4196
4197 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4198 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4199 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4200
4201
4202Exim version 4.21
4203-----------------
4204
4205 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4206 or receiver verification errors.
4207
4208 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4209 name.
4210
4211 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4212 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4213 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4214 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4215
4216 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4217 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4218 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4219 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4220 shouldn't happen again.
4221
4222 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4223 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4224 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4225
4226 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4227 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4228
4229 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4230
4231 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4232 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4233
4234 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4235 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4236 RFC.
4237
423810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4239 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4240 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4241
424211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4243 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4244 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4245 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4246
424712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4248 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4249 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4250 to define what should happen).
4251
425213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4253 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4254 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4255
425614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4257
425815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4259
426016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4261 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4262
426317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4264 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4265 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4266 structure in all cases.
4267
4268 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4269 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4270 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4271 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4272
427318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4274 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4275 domain name.
4276
427719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4278 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4279
428020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4281 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4282
428321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4284 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4285 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4286
428722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4288 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4289 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4290
429123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4292 the book and for uniformity.
4293
429424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4295
429625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4297 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4298 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4299 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4300 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4301 non-existent command as the problem.
4302
430326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4304 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4305 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4306
430727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4308
430928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4310 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4311 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4312
431329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4314 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4315 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4316 timestamps using strftime().
4317
431830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4319 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4320
432132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4322 transport-time rewrites.
4323
432433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4325 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4326 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4327 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4328
432934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4330 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4331
433235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4333 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4334 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4335 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4336 comma and a space.
4337
433836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4339 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4340 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4341 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4342 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4343 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4344 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4345
434637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4347 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4348 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4349 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4350 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4351
435238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4353 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4354 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4355 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4356 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4357 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4358 remaining text gets split now.
4359
436039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4361 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4362 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4363 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4364
436540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4366 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4367 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4368 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4369 $return_path.
4370
437141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4372 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4373 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4374 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4375 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4376 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4377 passed through if needed.
4378
437942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4380 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4381 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4382 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4383 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4384 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4385
438643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4387 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4388 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4389 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4390 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4391
439244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4393 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4394 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4395 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4396 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4397
439845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4399 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4400 noticed.
4401
440246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4403 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4404 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4405 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4406 mayhem of various kinds.
4407
440847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4409 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4410 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4411 the right test for positive values.
4412
441348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4414 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4415 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4416 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4417 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4418 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4419 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4420 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4421 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4422 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4423 envelope.
4424
442549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4426 module.
4427
442850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4429 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4430 forbidding it.
4431
443251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4433 the existing equality matching.
4434
443552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4436 dealing with inode numbers.
4437
443853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4439 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4440 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4441
444254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4443 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4444 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4445 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4446 local_scan().
4447
444855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4449 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4450 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4451 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4452 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4453 relay addresses has also been removed.
4454
445556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4456
445757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4458 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4459 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4460
446158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4462 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4463 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4464 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4465 processing applies to CR:
4466
4467 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4468 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4469
4470 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4471 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4472 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4473 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4474
447559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4476 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4477 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4478
447960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4480 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4481 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4482 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4483 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4484 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4485 arisen.
4486
448761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4488 program routers.
4489
449062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4491 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4492 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4493 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4494 adds:
4495
4496 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4497
4498 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4499
4500 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4501
450263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4503 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4504 not considered personal.
4505
450664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4507
450865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4509
451066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4511
451267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4513 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4514 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4515 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4516 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4517 header lines, and spool format errors.
4518
451968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4520 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4521 for more flexibility.
4522
452369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4524 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4525 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4526
452770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4528 Sabourenkov.
4529
453071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4531 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4532 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4533 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4534 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4535 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4536 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4537 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4538 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4539
454072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4541 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4542 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4543 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4544 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4545 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4546 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4547
454873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4549 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4550 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4551
455274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4553 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4554 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4555 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4556 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4557 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4558 instead of killing the process with assert().
4559
456075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4561 than Unicode encoding.
4562
456376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4564 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4565 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4566 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4567
456877. Added process_log_path.
4569
457078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4571 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4572
457379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4574 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4575
457680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4577 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4578 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4579
458081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4581 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4582 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4583 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4584 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4585 were applied:
4586
4587 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4588 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4589 as invalid.
4590
459182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4592 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4593 they will be used during message reception.
4594
4595
4596Exim version 4.20
4597-----------------
4598
4599The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4600
4601****